The NCSA CSM Digest        Monday, June 18, 2001        Volume 2, Number 3

EDITOR
  David O'Neal
  oneal@ncsa.uiuc.edu

IN THIS ISSUE

  News Briefs ................. University Consortium Wins $108M DoD Contract
                                More on the DoD HPCMP PET Contract Awards
                                University of Hawaii Wins AFRL Contract
                                Qwest Communications Receives NASA Contract
                                Spotlight on Science: Weathering the Substorm

  Events ...................... DoD HPCMP Users Group Conference 2001
                                Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution
                                AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference
                                ASME 2001 Design Engineering Technical Conferences

  Training .................... Introduction To ANSYS, Parts I and II (ARL)
                                ICEM Workshop (ASC)
                                JAVA Programming for Scientific Applications (ASC)

  Recent Group Publications ... J. Hsia and G. Thiagarajan
                                H. Hilton

  Employment Opportunities .... NCSA Human Resources

NEWS BRIEFS

  The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) announces that a $108 million
  contract has been awarded to a consortium of institutions led by
  Dr. Joe Thompson, Mississippi State University.
     http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/News/Access/Releases/010530.DoD.html

  More on the contracts awarded by the General Services Administration
  to provide Programming Environment and Training (PET) services to the
  High Performance Computing Modernization Program user community
     http://www.hpcmo.hpc.mil/Htdocs/PET/06042001_pet_pr.html

  The Air Force Research Laboratory announces that the University of
  Hawaii has been awarded the contract to operate and manage the Maui
  Supercomputing Center.
     http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/News/Access/Releases/010611.MHPCC.html

  Qwest Communications announces the receipt of a five-year contract
  award valued up to $25 million to provide a host of broadband Internet
  communications services for the NASA Research and Education Network.
     http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/News/Access/Briefs/010605.NREN.html

  Realistic views of the earth's magnetosphere during substorms are key
  in understanding complex "space weather" systems.
     http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/News/Access/Stories/substorms/index.html

EVENTS

  DoD HPCMP Users Group Conference 2001, Beau Rivage Resort, Biloxi,
  Mississippi, June 18-21, 2001.
    http://www.hpcmo.hpc.mil/Htdocs/UGC/UGC01/index.html

  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

  37th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, Salt
  Lake City, Utah, July 8-11, 2001.
     http://www.aiaa.org/calendar/index.hfm?cal=0

  ASME 2001 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Pittsburgh,
  Pennsylvania, September 9-12, 2001.
     http://hpme16.me.cmu.edu/DETC2001/

  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

  Introduction To ANSYS, Parts I and II, ARL MSRC, Room 119, HEAT Center,
  Aberdeen, Maryland, July 16-20, 2001.
     http://www.arl.hpc.mil/PET/training/CSM11.html

  ICEM Workshop, ASC MSRC, Room 105, Building 676, Wright-Patterson Air Force
  Base, Ohio, July 23-27, 2001.
     http://www.asc.hpc.mil/education/training/cfd26_23Jul01.htm

  JAVA Programming for Scientific Applications, ASC MSRC, Room 105, Building
  676, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, August 21-22, 2001.
     http://www.asc.hpc.mil/education/training/pgm30_21Aug01.htm

  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

  J. HSIA and G. THIAGARAJAN, "Crack Propagation Simulation with
  ABAQUS/Explicit and VIB Model," Seminar presentation, Army Research
  Laboratory, Aberdeen, Maryland, June 8, 2001.
     http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/EP/CSM/presentations/ARL_Visit_Jun01/index.html

  H. HILTON, "Analytical & Computational Simulations of Static & Dynamic
  for Linear Viscoelastic Constitutive Relation Characterizations,"
  L'Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, May 31, 2001.
     http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/EP/CSM/presentations/Nancy_May01/index.html

  For a more complete listing of articles by NCSA CSM staff,
  visit our Publications page.
     http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/EP/CSM/publications/

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

  For a complete listing of current employment opportunities at NCSA,
  visit the NCSA Human Resources page.
     http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SRC/HRmain.html

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