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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / OCTOBER 13, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 41
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Applications:
TeraGrid TUTORIAL TO BE FEATURED
AT SC2003
Among the 28 tutorials planned for SC2003 is "Applications in the TeraGrid
Environment," featuring experts from the San Diego Supercomputing Center,
Argonne National Laboratory, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, and the
Center for Advanced Computing Research at the California Institute of
Technology in Pasadena.
TeraGrid is a multi-year effort funded by the National Science Foundation
to
build and deploy the world's largest, fastest distributed infrastructure for
open scientific research. When completed, the TeraGrid will include 20
teraflops of computing power, facilities capable of managing and storing
nearly 1 petabyte of data, high-resolution visualization environments, and
toolkits for Grid computing. These components will be tightly integrated and
connected through a network that will operate at 40 gigabits per second -- the
fastest research network on the planet.
The TeraGrid tutorial, scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Nov. 17, will
include an overview of the TeraGrid environment and configuration and
descriptions of available services. Attendees will learn to manage a Grid
identity and work through several usage scenarios by building and launching
sample jobs. Several working applications will be used as examples to
illustrate these capabilities. Attendees are expected to be familiar with
Fortran or C programming, MPI, and basic Unix environments. The software
foundation is based on the NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI) and programming
techniques learned in this tutorial will be applicable in many Grid
communities.
There will be a limited number of laptops provided for the hands-on portion
of
the tutorial, assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Attendees may
participate in the hands-on portion of the tutorial using their own laptops,
but there will be no support available to debug problems with attendee
laptops. Information on laptop software and configuration requirements is
available at mithril.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SC03/Tutorial_M2/.
For information on other SC2003 tutorials, see
www.sc-conference.org/sc2003/tech_tutorials.php. Advance registration
for SC Tutotials and the Technical Program ends Oct. 10. Online registration
is available at www.sc-conference.org/sc2003/registration.html.
For more on the TeraGrid project, see www.teragrid.org.
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