LONI to Welcome First TeraGrid Users February 1
Beginning Friday, February 1, the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, or LONI, will integrate its centerpiece supercomputer, Queen Bee, into the TeraGrid, a nationwide, National Science Foundation-funded research infrastructure that incorporates high-performance computing resources across the country.
The National Science Foundation, or NSF, selected LONI in September to become a TeraGrid partner as a new resource provider, and Louisiana officially joined TeraGrid Oct. 1, 2007. LONI will contribute one half of Queen Bee’s computational cycles to support the national research community.
In exchange, NSF is providing $2.2 million in funding for additional support of the machine and the new set of users, and funding for additional network connections from LONI to the rest of the TeraGrid. This partnership will give LONI researchers an easier path to make use of additional national supercomputing capabilities through the TeraGrid.
“This partnership further demonstrates the major impact that LONI is having in advancing Louisiana’s stature in the national research community,” said LONI Management Council chairman Les Guice.
CCT, a LONI partner through the Louisiana Board of Regents, has done the work necessary to integrate Queen Bee with the TeraGrid. The initial national TeraGrid users will begin using Queen Bee February 1.
“The TeraGrid partnership helps support our local supercomputing resources while contributing to a backbone of national cyberinfrastructure, and it helps our Louisiana users make use of other national resources,” said Daniel S. Katz, Director for Cyberinfrastructure at the CCT, who oversaw the integration.
LONI is one of only 11 nationwide NSF-selected TeraGrid partners. The others are Indiana University, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the National Institute for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Purdue University, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Texas Advanced Computing Center, and the University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory.
CCT in the News:
Louisiana State University Team Receives Grant to Create CyberTools
1/23/08 - Supercomputing Online
http://www.supercomputingonline.com/article.php?sid=15040
Universities Win $9-Million to Create High-Speed Computing Tool
1/23/08 – Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/?id=2689&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Optical Technology Aids in Internet Collaboration
1/24/08 – The Daily Reveille
http://media.www.lsureveille.com/media/storage/paper868/news/2008/1/24/Entertainment/Optical.Technology.Aids.In.Internet.Collaboration-3165807.shtml
Louisiana Research Team Receives $9M to Develop Cyber Tools
1/23/08-Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/?id=2689&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Pats On The Back:
• The CCT-led SAGA document has been accepted by the OGF as a specification. For more information, visit http://www.ogf.org/UnderstandingGrids/grid_specsum.php
Upcoming Lectures:
• Please note there will not be a Colloquium lecture this Friday, Feb. 1 because of the Mardi Gras Conference.
• Eloisa Bentivegna, Penn State University, a candidate for a postdoc position at the CCT, will give a talk titled "Probing the Binary Black Hole Merger Regime with Scalar Perturbations" Tuesday, Jan. 29 at 2 p.m. in 338 Johnston Hall.
• Wei Zhu, New York University, a candidate for CCT/Math joint-faculty position, will give his lecture “Modeling and Simulation of Liquid Crystal Elastomers” Tuesday, Jan. 29 at 3:40 p.m. in Johnston 338.
• Xiaoliang Wan, Brown University, a candidate for CCT/Math joint-faculty position, will speak on the topic “Polynomial Chaos and Uncertainty Quantification” Thursday, Jan. 31 at 3:40 p.m. in Johnston 338.
Please Note:
• The University will be closed next Tuesday, Feb. 5, for the Mardi Gras holiday. Students are on break from classes Monday through Wednesday of that week.
• The 15th annual Mardi Gras Conference will take place Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2008 at the Hilton in downtown Baton Rouge. Daniel S. Katz, Ph.D., is hosting this year’s conference. Please see www.mardigrasconference.org for more information.
• The Red Stick International Animation festival is currently looking for preliminary judges for the festival. If you wish to be on this year's jury, go to http://www.redstickfestival.org/judging/register. If you were on the jury last year, your login is still valid. Contact Steve Beck at sdbeck@cct.lsu.edu if you have any questions. The Red Stick International Animation Festival will take place from April 16-19 in downtown Baton Rouge.
• Anyone organizing a lecture should first check with Karen Jones for available dates to avoid having multiple lectures on the same day. Also, coordinate with your Focus Area lead so that CCT can get the best attendance possible. There may be open slots in one of the standard lecture series that needs to be filled.
• CCT will host the Finite Element Circus and Rodeo March 5-8 on campus. Please contact Dr. Susanne Brenner if you have questions or would like to participate.
• Dr. Brenner also is organizing the Workshop on Automating the Development of Scientific Computing Software at CCT March 5-7. Please contact her to participate. Web site: http://www.cct.lsu.edu/scientificomputing
• If you have any news for the CCT Weekly, please e-mail PR Manager Kristen Sunde directly at ksunde@cct.lsu.edu.
Upcoming Grant Deadlines:
NSF Dear Colleague Letter: The Fundamental Research Supplements for I/UCRCs
February 6, 2008 5:00 p.m.
At most $150,000.00 available.
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07012/nsf07012.jsp
NSF Broadening Participation Research Initiation Grants in Engineering
NSF BRIGE
February 8, 2008 5:00 p.m.
A Portion Of $5,000,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07589/nsf07589.htm
NSF Emerging Models and Technologies for Computation (EMT)
NSF EMT
March 13, 2008 5:00 p.m.
A Portion Of $16,000,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08517/nsf08517.htm
Publish Date:
01-29-2008
