SDSC News Releases: 2003

• SDSC Education Department Efforts Recognized in SIGKids Awards

  An algebra tutorial designed by a San Diego high school student and a mathematical game created by a 4th grade math teacher in San Diego were among five projects assisted or developed by the Educational Technology Laboratory at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) that won awards at the 11th annual "SIGKids" competition. The recognition was made as part of SIGGRAPH, the annual national graphics convention, which was held July 27-31 at the San Diego Convention Center and attended by about 25,000 registrants. The juried SIGKids competition was designed to recognize computer visualization projects that promote the development of multisensory interactions, multilingual formats, lifetime learning, and interdisciplinary approaches.

  Published August 8, 2003

• SDSC's Reagan Moore Gives Presentation at Department of Energy Science Computing Conference

  Reagan Moore, co-director of San Diego Supercomputer Center's (SDSC) Data and Knowledge Systems (DAKS) program, gave a presentation on "Real-life Experiences with Data Grids" at the recent DOE Science Computing Conference in Arlington, Virginia.

  Published August 4, 2003

• A Big Texas "Howdy" to Lonestar!

  The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of <br/>Texas at Austin, a resource partner within the NPACI Grid, <br/>has begun installation of a terascale high-performance computing <br/>cluster. The cluster, to be named Lonestar, will help advance <br/>innovative research in computational science, engineering, <br/>and technology.

  Published August 1, 2003

• GlobusWORLD 2004: Call for Participation

  GlobusWORLD 2004 will be held January 20-23, 2004, at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, California. The event comprises three full days of extensive and intensive training and information on Grid computing. The theme of the conference will be the Globus Toolkit, the open-source solution for Grid computing that is a key element of NPACKage and the TeraGrid.

  Published July 30, 2003

• SDSC Visualization Veteran Mike Bailey to Teach at SIGGRAPH

  SDSC's Director of Visualization Mike Bailey will be a busy man at this year's SIGGRAPH computer graphics convention. As he has done in previous years, Bailey will teach the day-long "Introduction to Computer Graphics" course, which is one of the most popular attractions of the conference. Bailey also will be one of four computer visualization experts to teach a second, half-day course, "3D Hardcopy: Converting Virtual Reality to Physical Models."

  Published July 30, 2003

• SDSC Releases Version 1.0 of SKIDLkit Data Mining Toolkit

  The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego has released the initial version of the SKIDLkit data mining toolkit, giving scientific users a user-friendly set of advanced data mining capabilities. In developing SKIDLkit, researchers in the SDSC Knowledge and Information Discovery Lab (SKIDL) focused on end-to-end applications in close collaboration with discipline scientists in Earth systems science, medical science, and monitoring the safety of civil infrastructure such as highway bridges.

  Published July 30, 2003

• HPWREN Provides Data Connectivity for Remote Wildfire Operations Site

  Published July 28, 2003

• SDSC Visualization Veteran Mike Bailey to Teach at SIGGRAPH

  SDSC's Director of Visualization Mike Bailey will be a busy man at this year's SIGGRAPH computer graphics convention. As he has done in previous years, Bailey will teach the day-long "Introduction to Computer Graphics" course, which is one of the most popular attractions of the conference. Bailey also will be one of four computer visualization experts to teach a second, half-day course, "3D Hardcopy: Converting Virtual Reality to Physical Models," which draws on his work with rapid prototyping systems in SDSC's Design Visualization Laboratory (http://dvl.sdsc.edu/)

  Published July 23, 2003

• SDSC's Chaitan Baru Gives Invited Talk on GEON Cyberinfrastructure at HPDC-12

  SDSC's Chaitan Baru, codirector of SDSC's Data and Knowledge Systems (DAKS) program, gave an invited talk at the Twelfth IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) meeting, held in conjunction with the Global Grid Forum (GGF) in Seattle.

  Published July 21, 2003

• Globus Project Releases First Major Software Implementation of Grid Services Architecture

  This week's official release of the Globus Toolkit, 3.0 (GT3) is a milestone in the evolution of Grid computing, which lets people share computing power, databases, and other tools securely online across corporate, institutional, and geographic boundaries without sacrificing local autonomy. GT3 is the first full-scale implementation of Grid software compliant with the Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) version 1.0, a new specification that the Globus Project played a key role in defining.

  Published July 17, 2003

• New Palomar Observatory CCD Camera Utilizes HPWREN Backbone for Near-Real-Time Data Transfer

  Published July 17, 2003

• SDSC's Reagan Moore Gives Presentations at Global Grid Forum

  Published July 15, 2003

• San Diego Sheriff's Department Connects to HPWREN for Collaborative Evaluations of Emergency Data Communications Network Models

  For the past several years, the HPWREN team has been collaborating with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department. Initially, the Sheriff's Department provided the HPWREN team access to several of their remote communications sites throughout the county, which greatly helped with the buildout of the HPWREN backbone network.

  Published July 11, 2003

• SC2003 Bandwidth Challenge Deadline Approaches

  Published July 11, 2003

• SC2003 Deadline for Submitting Posters Is Thursday, July 31

  The SC2003 conference on high-performance networking and computing is seeking poster presentations reporting late-breaking experimental or theoretical results, innovative designs, and case studies related to high-performance networking and computing.

  Published July 11, 2003

• Third International Workshop on HPC for Climate, Weather, and Ocean to be Held at TACC October 8-10, 2003

  Published July 11, 2003

• SDSC Partners with IBM to Offer Advanced Training in DB2

  Published June 26, 2003

• Summer Computing Institute at SDSC to Emphasize Data-Intensive and Grid Computing (August 18-22, 2003)

  Published June 25, 2003

• SDSC Researchers Present Tutorials on Data Grid Management Systems and BIRN at ACM SIGMOD

  Published June 24, 2003

• Dogan Seber Joins the San Diego Supercomputer Center as Director of the DAKS Geoinformatics Lab and GEON Project Manager

  Published June 23, 2003

• SDSC Releases Version 2.1 of the Storage Resource Broker Data Management Middleware

  Published June 20, 2003

• NSF to Hold Town Hall Meeting on Management for Cyberinfrastructure

  Published June 20, 2003

• Internet2 to Present Virtual Briefing on Network Security - June 26, 2003

  Published June 19, 2003

• Start-up Happy to Roll Out Router after Tech Implosion

  Published June 19, 2003

• New Information Available From the Protein Data Bank Web Site

  Published June 19, 2003

• San Diego Regional Info Watch Meeting June 23 at SDSC

  Published June 19, 2003

• NPACI Computational Science Olympians Simulate Anthrax and Smallpox Attacks

  Judges recently named the two winners of the 2003 Computational Science Olympics, with the two top student entries from San Diego State University (SDSU) focused on a frighteningly topical subject matter: bioterrorism. One of the two student groups that tied for first place simulated the spread of anthrax through a 100-story building. The other group investigated the effectiveness of smallpox inoculation programs against a bioterror attack on a population of 100,000 people, a small city approximately the size of Bismarck, North Dakota.

  Published June 19, 2003

• Innovative Grid Applications Highlighted at Fourth PRAGMA Workshop in Melbourne, Australia

  Published June 16, 2003

• Seattle Slew: SDSC Speakers at HPDC-12 and GGF-8

  Published June 13, 2003

• NPACI-Supported Computational Physics Program Celebrates Its First Graduate

  Published June 12, 2003

• TeraGrid Project Begins Accepting Computing Proposals

  Published June 11, 2003

• High-Tech Collaboration Helps Taiwan Fight SARS

  Published May 29, 2003

• San Diego Supercomputer Center Director Appointed to Endowed Chair in UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering

  Published April 8, 2003

• San Diego Supercomputer Center Releases New Version of Widely Used Data Management Software

  Published March 10, 2003

• Eighth Annual Maria Goeppert-Mayer Symposium Set for March 1 at UCSD

  Published February 27, 2003

• Faculty Art Show Images

  Published February 19, 2003

• SDSC Selected as a National Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center

  Published February 12, 2003

• Town Hall Meeting to Discuss President Bush's National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace

  Published January 24, 2003

• San Diego Supercomputer Center Researchers Find Unnecessary Traffic Saturating a Key Internet "Root" Server

  Scientists at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UCSD analyzing traffic to one of the 13 Domain Name System (DNS) "root" servers at the heart of the Internet found that the server spends the majority of its time dealing with unnecessary queries.

  Published January 23, 2003

• Francine Berman Appointed to California Council on Science and Technology

  Published January 16, 2003