CCT Drills Local High-School Students in High-Performance Computing Boot Camp
CCT is hosting a boot camp for high school students – only, instead of sit-ups, push-ups and running laps, students at this boot camp will get a crash course in the emerging world of high-performance computing. In this camp, which CCT staff developed around the work of Chief Scientist Thomas Sterling, co-inventor of the Beowulf class cluster that today is a building block of the world's supercomputers, students from five area high schools will work with CCT researchers and professors to learn the basics of supercomputing. The High-Performance Computing Boot Camp will take place at LSU from July 30 – Aug. 2. Sterling will instruct 25 students from Tara High School, Istrouma High School, Glen Oaks High School, Baton Rouge High School and LSU's University Lab School in building basic supercomputing clusters, then using them for applications. CCT has invited principals and teachers from each of the five high schools to attend the camp so they can apply high-performance computing to their classroom lessons. At the end of the camp, the students will be able to bring the clusters they've built back to their classrooms to use during the year. As part of the camp activities, CCT will host a reception to honor the students on Aug. 2 at 6 p.m. in the Magnolia Room of the LSU Union. Sterling hopes these kinds of summer activities will encourage more students to pursue science and technology-related careers. “This is just a wonderful contribution to Baton Rouge, to the state and to the high school students,†Sterling said. “Hopefully, when these students graduate high school, they will come back to LSU and become our advanced students.†CCT in the News
Closing the Gap: Economic Evolution
7/22/07 – The Advocate
Two business lessons Louisiana should know by now are that economic development isn't cheap — and the rules can change overnight.
http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/8646116.html
Four state universities jump into high gear on the information superhighway
7/11/07 – Commercial Dispatch
JACKSON - Mississippi's four largest universities have upgraded their Internet connections to enable them to significantly expand their research capabilities and access to information.
http://www.cdispatch.com/articles/2007/07/11/local_news/area_news/area06.txt
Editorial: Queen Bee will stir economy
7/12/07 – Shreveport Times
Research, education and industry in the state will have giant competitive advantages thanks to Louisiana's Queen Bee supercomputer and the associated Louisiana Optical Network Initiative. That good news was highlighted last week in Dresden, Germany, at the International Supercomputing Conference, which placed the state in that rarefied atmosphere of "the world's best."
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070712/OPINION03/707120308/1058/OPINION03
Supercomputing boot camp for high school students
7/19/07 – Business Report/Daily Report
The LSU Center for Computation & Technology will host a high-performance computing "boot camp" for 25 students from five area high schools.
http://www.businessreport.com/archives/daily-report/2007/jul/19/219/
LSU Hosts HPC Boot Camp For High Schoolers
7/20/07 – HPC Wire
BATON ROUGE, July 18 -- The LSU Center for Computation & Technology is hosting a boot camp for high school students only, instead of sit-ups, push-ups and running laps, students at this boot camp will get a crash course in the emerging world of high-performance computing.
http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1673024.html
Pats on the Back
• CCT's work to create the LONI Institute was featured, along with an interview with Ed Seidel, in an economic development article in The Advocate's series on issues facing Louisiana. This series also is being done through WBRZ and LPB to raise attention of Louisiana's most pressing issues. • CCT staff will host a booth at the SIGGRAPH convention Aug. 7-9 to showcase the center's efforts with scientific visualization, tangible and embedded interaction, the Red Stick International Animation Festival and other accomplishments. Lectures This Week:
• The next All CCT meeting is Wednesday, Aug. 15, at 3 p.m. in Johnston 338. Please make every effort to attend. Dr. Pete Kelleher from LSU Intellectual Property will present LSU Intellectual Property policy and procedures. • The CCT Colloquium Series, held each Friday at 3 p.m. in Johnston 338, will return in the fall with Shantenu Jha in charge of the speaker line-up. If you have a speaker wish list, please send it to Shantenu at sjha@cct.lsu.edu. Please Note:
• Firefly Digital had a preliminary meeting with CCT staff last week to begin redesigning www.cct.lsu.edu. If you have any suggestions for the Web site and how the content could be better displayed, please e-mail PR Manager Kristen Sunde at ksunde@cct.lsu.edu. • The Louisiana Small Business Development Center's Technology Center at LSU's E. J. Ourso College of Business and the LSU Libraries will host a second workshop about patents August 4, 2007 from 10:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in Room 230-B of Middleton Library on LSU's campus. The patent workshop is designed for inventors and researchers who need basic information about patents and search techniques. There will be a patent and trademark attorney on hand to answer questions from attendees. Although the workshops are free and open to the public, registration is required and seating is limited. For more information, or to register, visit www.lsbdc.org/events.aspx, e-mail acarrasq@lsu.edu, or call LSU Libraries at 225-578-4680. • A Post-Katrina forum, "Gulf States Alliance: Network Science and Recovery," will take place at the Beau Rivage Hotel in Biloxi, Mississippi on August 19-21, 2007. This forum is sponsored by the National Science Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Programs in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Forum registration is free and includes forum-sponsored meals, and breaks. Space is limited so participants are strongly urged to pre-register in order for forum planners to know in advance how many will be in attendance. The deadline for pre-registration is July 25, 2007. For more information and to register, please visit: http://forum2007.laepscor.org. • 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:
Office of Naval Research: Electronics Technology
July 27 2007 10:00 am
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=9052
Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award
August 01 2007 10:00 am
At Most $ 5,000.00 available
http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/awards/freedom/index.shtml
DISCOVERY CHALLENGE THRUSTS
(DCTs)
August 01 2007 3:00 pm
At Most $ 600,000.00 available
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=13535
NSF Partnerships in Astronomy & Astrophysics Research and Education
NSF PAARE
August 03 2007 5:00 pm
A Portion Of $ 2,000,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07561/nsf07561.htm
NSF Community-based Data Interoperability Networks
INTEROP
August 23 2007 5:00 pm
At Most $ 1,250,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=502112&org=NSF&from=
CCT is hosting a boot camp for high school students – only, instead of sit-ups, push-ups and running laps, students at this boot camp will get a crash course in the emerging world of high-performance computing. In this camp, which CCT staff developed around the work of Chief Scientist Thomas Sterling, co-inventor of the Beowulf class cluster that today is a building block of the world's supercomputers, students from five area high schools will work with CCT researchers and professors to learn the basics of supercomputing. The High-Performance Computing Boot Camp will take place at LSU from July 30 – Aug. 2. Sterling will instruct 25 students from Tara High School, Istrouma High School, Glen Oaks High School, Baton Rouge High School and LSU's University Lab School in building basic supercomputing clusters, then using them for applications. CCT has invited principals and teachers from each of the five high schools to attend the camp so they can apply high-performance computing to their classroom lessons. At the end of the camp, the students will be able to bring the clusters they've built back to their classrooms to use during the year. As part of the camp activities, CCT will host a reception to honor the students on Aug. 2 at 6 p.m. in the Magnolia Room of the LSU Union. Sterling hopes these kinds of summer activities will encourage more students to pursue science and technology-related careers. “This is just a wonderful contribution to Baton Rouge, to the state and to the high school students,†Sterling said. “Hopefully, when these students graduate high school, they will come back to LSU and become our advanced students.†CCT in the News
Closing the Gap: Economic Evolution
7/22/07 – The Advocate
Two business lessons Louisiana should know by now are that economic development isn't cheap — and the rules can change overnight.
http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/8646116.html
Four state universities jump into high gear on the information superhighway
7/11/07 – Commercial Dispatch
JACKSON - Mississippi's four largest universities have upgraded their Internet connections to enable them to significantly expand their research capabilities and access to information.
http://www.cdispatch.com/articles/2007/07/11/local_news/area_news/area06.txt
Editorial: Queen Bee will stir economy
7/12/07 – Shreveport Times
Research, education and industry in the state will have giant competitive advantages thanks to Louisiana's Queen Bee supercomputer and the associated Louisiana Optical Network Initiative. That good news was highlighted last week in Dresden, Germany, at the International Supercomputing Conference, which placed the state in that rarefied atmosphere of "the world's best."
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070712/OPINION03/707120308/1058/OPINION03
Supercomputing boot camp for high school students
7/19/07 – Business Report/Daily Report
The LSU Center for Computation & Technology will host a high-performance computing "boot camp" for 25 students from five area high schools.
http://www.businessreport.com/archives/daily-report/2007/jul/19/219/
LSU Hosts HPC Boot Camp For High Schoolers
7/20/07 – HPC Wire
BATON ROUGE, July 18 -- The LSU Center for Computation & Technology is hosting a boot camp for high school students only, instead of sit-ups, push-ups and running laps, students at this boot camp will get a crash course in the emerging world of high-performance computing.
http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1673024.html
Pats on the Back
• CCT's work to create the LONI Institute was featured, along with an interview with Ed Seidel, in an economic development article in The Advocate's series on issues facing Louisiana. This series also is being done through WBRZ and LPB to raise attention of Louisiana's most pressing issues. • CCT staff will host a booth at the SIGGRAPH convention Aug. 7-9 to showcase the center's efforts with scientific visualization, tangible and embedded interaction, the Red Stick International Animation Festival and other accomplishments. Lectures This Week:
• The next All CCT meeting is Wednesday, Aug. 15, at 3 p.m. in Johnston 338. Please make every effort to attend. Dr. Pete Kelleher from LSU Intellectual Property will present LSU Intellectual Property policy and procedures. • The CCT Colloquium Series, held each Friday at 3 p.m. in Johnston 338, will return in the fall with Shantenu Jha in charge of the speaker line-up. If you have a speaker wish list, please send it to Shantenu at sjha@cct.lsu.edu. Please Note:
• Firefly Digital had a preliminary meeting with CCT staff last week to begin redesigning www.cct.lsu.edu. If you have any suggestions for the Web site and how the content could be better displayed, please e-mail PR Manager Kristen Sunde at ksunde@cct.lsu.edu. • The Louisiana Small Business Development Center's Technology Center at LSU's E. J. Ourso College of Business and the LSU Libraries will host a second workshop about patents August 4, 2007 from 10:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in Room 230-B of Middleton Library on LSU's campus. The patent workshop is designed for inventors and researchers who need basic information about patents and search techniques. There will be a patent and trademark attorney on hand to answer questions from attendees. Although the workshops are free and open to the public, registration is required and seating is limited. For more information, or to register, visit www.lsbdc.org/events.aspx, e-mail acarrasq@lsu.edu, or call LSU Libraries at 225-578-4680. • A Post-Katrina forum, "Gulf States Alliance: Network Science and Recovery," will take place at the Beau Rivage Hotel in Biloxi, Mississippi on August 19-21, 2007. This forum is sponsored by the National Science Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Programs in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Forum registration is free and includes forum-sponsored meals, and breaks. Space is limited so participants are strongly urged to pre-register in order for forum planners to know in advance how many will be in attendance. The deadline for pre-registration is July 25, 2007. For more information and to register, please visit: http://forum2007.laepscor.org. • 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:
Office of Naval Research: Electronics Technology
July 27 2007 10:00 am
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=9052
Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award
August 01 2007 10:00 am
At Most $ 5,000.00 available
http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/awards/freedom/index.shtml
DISCOVERY CHALLENGE THRUSTS
(DCTs)
August 01 2007 3:00 pm
At Most $ 600,000.00 available
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=13535
NSF Partnerships in Astronomy & Astrophysics Research and Education
NSF PAARE
August 03 2007 5:00 pm
A Portion Of $ 2,000,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07561/nsf07561.htm
NSF Community-based Data Interoperability Networks
INTEROP
August 23 2007 5:00 pm
At Most $ 1,250,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=502112&org=NSF&from=
Publish Date:
07-24-2007
