The NCSA CSM Digest Tuesday, April 17, 2001 Volume 2, Number 2 EDITOR David O'Neal oneal@ncsa.uiuc.edu IN THIS ISSUE News Briefs ................. Alliance All-Hands Meeting Grid on the Go Workshop Fascinating Magic Dan Reed Awarded 2001 Gutgsell Professorship PSC Directors Talk About New Terascale System OSC Hosts Successful MPI Course Over Access Grid Events ...................... 42nd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures Conference 10th AIAA/NAL/NASDA/ISAS International Space Planes IUGREEE Spring 2001 Workshop Global Air and Space 2001 Forum NASTC 2001 Conference DoD HPCMP Users Group Conference 2001 Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution Training .................... Porting Vector Codes to OpenMP (NAVO) Advanced Programming with AVS/Express (ERDC) CFD Meshing Using Gridgen (ARL) MPI Case Studies and Coding Workshop (ERDC) HLA for Modeling and Simulation (ERDC) Visualization Toolkit Workshop (ASC) Recent Group Publications ... K. J. Hsia, G. Thiagarajan, and Y. Huang Employment Opportunities .... Graduate Assistant, Champaign, Illinois NEWS BRIEFS Alliance All-Hands Meeting to deal with integration of emerging technologies and longer-term issues such as strategic directions and applications of the future. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/CommGroup/2001Meeting/alliance-agenda.html Grid on the Go workshop to focus on the uses of wireless devices and their intersection with digital infrastructure (Grid) research. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/CommGroup/2001Meeting/wireless-agenda.html Using the Alliance's Condor flock at the University of Wisconsin, researchers simulate the physics that may take place inside tomorrow's most powerful particle colliders. http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/CoverStories/higgs/ Dan Reed, director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the National Computational Science Alliance, receives the UIUC Gutgsell Professorship. http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Headlines/01Headlines/010410.Reed.html HPCwire recently interviewed Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Scientific Directors Michael Levine and Ralph Roskies about the characteristics and capabilities of the Terascale Computing System. http://www.psc.edu/publicinfo/web_briefs/2001/hpcwire-04-13-2001.html Over one hundred people participated in a two-day Message Passing Interface (MPI) workshop presented by Ohio Supercomputing Center via the Access Grid. http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Headlines/01Headlines/010410.OSC.html EVENTS 42nd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, Seattle, Washington, April 16-19, 2001. http://www.aiaa.org/calendar/index4.cfm?id=44 AIAA/NAL/NASDA/ISAS 10th International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference, Kyoto, Japan, April 24-27, 2001. http://www.aiaa.org/calendar/index4.cfm?id=96 Industry, University, Government Roundtable for Enhancing Engineering Education (IUGREEE) Spring 2001 Workshop, Los Angeles, California, April 29-May 1, 2001. http://www.eng.iastate.edu/iugreee/ Global Air and Space 2001 International Business Forum and Exhibition, AIAA Annual Business Meeting, Arlington, Virginia, May 7-9, 2001. http://www.aiaa.org/calendar/index4.cfm?id=95 NASTC 2001, National Aerospace Systems & Technology Conference, Dayton, Ohio, May 15-17, 2001. http://www.nastc-conf.com/ DoD HPCMP Users Group Conference 2001, Beau Rivage Resort, Biloxi, Mississippi, June 18-21, 2001. http://www.hpcmo.hpc.mil/Htdocs/UGC/UGC01/ Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution, National Computational Science Alliance, Urbana, Illinois, June 25-27, 2001. http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Headlines/01Headlines/010213.LinuxConf.html For a more complete listing of upcoming conferences, symposia, and workshops, visit our Events Calendar. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/EP/CSM/dsc/conferences.html TRAINING Porting Vector Codes to OpenMP, NAVO MSRC, PET Training Facility, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, April 24-26, 2001. http://www.navo.hpc.mil/cgi-bin/pet/Scheds/Descripts/108.cgi Advanced Programming with AVS/Express, ERDC MSRC, ITL Building 8000, Room 1055, Vicksburg, Mississippi, May 1-3, 2001. http://www.wes.hpc.mil/training/schedule/course_info/avs-2-01.htm CFD Meshing Using Gridgen, ARL MSRC, HEAT Center, Room 119, Aberdeen, Maryland, May 14-16, 2001. http://www.arl.hpc.mil/PET/training/CFD07.html MPI Case Studies and Coding Workshop, ERDC MSRC, ITL Building 8000, Room 1055, Vicksburg, Mississippi, May 23-25, 2001. http://www.wes.hpc.mil/training/schedule/course_info/mpi-1-01.htm High Level Architecture (HLA) for Modeling and Simulation, ERDC MSRC, ITL Building 8000, Room 1205, Vicksburg, Mississippi, June 5-7, 2001. http://www.wes.hpc.mil/training/schedule/course_info/hla-1-01.htm Visualization Toolkit Workshop, ASC MSRC, Building 676, Classroom 105, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, June 8, 2001. http://www.asc.hpc.mil/education/training/vis09_9Mar01.html For more complete listings of training and workshop offerings, visit our Training Schedules and Distance Learning page. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/EP/CSM/courses/ RECENT GROUP PUBLICATIONS K. 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