CCT Summer Camp to Focus on High-Performance Computing
Staff at CCT are preparing to host the second summer camp at the center, following the Digital Arts & Technology Camp held last month. From July 30 through Aug. 3, students from five area high schools – Tara High School, Istrouma High School, Glen Oaks High School, Baton Rouge High School and LSU's University Lab School –will attend the first “High-Performance Computing Boot Camp,†also nicknamed “The Beowulf Boot Camp,†to learn basics of supercomputing. The students will work under direction from CCT Chief Scientist Thomas Sterling and learn how to build basic supercomputing clusters, then use them for applications. Sterling will instruct them in hardware and software concepts, and teachers from those high schools are invited to attend and learn. After the camp, the students and teachers can bring the clusters back to their classrooms to use in further lesson plans. CCT in the News
University Develops Supercomputer
07/10/07 – The Reveille
The University will complete the development of the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, or LONI, a supercomputer network that will enhance research and information analysis over a network more than 1,000 times faster than previously thought possible.
http://media.www.lsureveille.com/media/storage/paper868/news/2007/07/10/News/University.Develops.Super.Computer-2922180.shtml
Technology-based Charter School To Open In N.O.
07/06/07 – The Reveille
New Orleans-area middle school students will have another schooling option when the Abramson Science and Technology Charter School opens its doors this September.
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/news/news/301
A European's Take on ISC2007
07/06/07 – HPC Wire
Over 1200 participants from 44 countries attended the 22nd International Supercomputer Conference (ISC) from June 26-29, and 85 exhibitors took part in the associated exhibition in the city of Dresden.
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/news/news/303
LONI Ranks Among World's Top Supercomputers
70/05/07 – The Shreveport Times
BATON ROUGE — Louisiana's supercomputer Queen Bee, the centerpiece of the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, is the 23rd most powerful supercomputer in the world.
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/news/news/300
Major Funding Increase Cheers La Higher Ed.
07/05/07 – The Advocate
Fears were widespread on college campuses after Hurricane Katrina when the state cut $75 million from higher education budgets.
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/news/news/302
Queen Bee Computers
07/03/07 – Bayou Buzz
Louisiana's supercomputer Queen Bee, the centerpiece of the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, or LONI, is the 23rd most powerful supercomputer in the world. The ranking follows the release of the annual Top500 Supercomputer Sites list this week during the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany.
http://www.cct.lsu news/298.edu/news/
Pats on the Back
· Enrique Pazos, Ernst Nils Dorband, Alessandro Nagar, Carlos Palenzuela, Erik Schnetter, and Manuel Tiglio published "How far away is far enough for extracting numerical waveforms, and how much do they depend on the extraction method?" as an invited article for Classical and Quantum Gravity's special issue, "New Frontiers in Numerical Relativity.†· Peter Diener, Ernst Nils Dorband, Erik Schnetter and Manuel Tiglio published "Optimized High-Order Derivative and Dissipation Operators Satisfying Summation by Parts, and Applications in Three-dimensional Multi-block Evolutions"in the Journal of Scientific Computing. · CCT will be represented at the upcoming International Summer School on Grid Computing 2007 by several CCT students and instructor Shantenu Jha. · Staff at the CCT Annex wish to commend Mayank Tyagi for being a good citizen – during one of last week's heavy rainstorms, an elderly gentleman who has a disability and walks with a cane missed the bus and was stranded, drenched, at Paw Prints across the street. Mayank noticed the situation, brought him a dry T-shirt and an umbrella, then went to get his own car in the rain so he could drive the gentleman where he needed to go. Lectures This Week: · The next All CCT meeting is Wednesday, July 18, at 3 p.m. in Johnston 338. Please make every effort to attend. · 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: · The LSU Visual Identity Program went into effect on June 30. The CCT logos that comply with this policy have been posted on the CCT Internal site for access. Please use these logos on all printed and published materials. · Starting in October 2007, the H-C3 Initiative (Human-Centric Communication Cluster) at the Technische Universität Berlin offers15 places in the Masters Program of the Integrated Graduate Program in Human-Centric Communication (IGP H-C3). For more information about the program and the admission procedure (including online registration) see: http://www.h-c3.org/index_en.html. The deadline for sending in applications for admission to the program is no later than July 23, 2007. · 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. · LSU's Trek the MRT employee wellness challenge began three weeks ago. If you are participating, please remember to record your steps daily and report your weekly totals to your team captain. · 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: NSF Division of Molecular & Cellular Biosciences
NSF MCB
July 12 2007 5 p.m. http://www.nsf.gov/bio/mcb/about.jspSupport%20is%20provided%20for%20basic%20research%20and%20related%20activities%20that
Center of Excellence for the Study of Natural Disasters, Coastal Infrastructure and Emergency Management
July 15 2007 10:00 am
At Most $ 3,000,000.00 available
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=12467
NSF Faculty Early Career Development
(CAREER) Program (CISE)
NSF CAREER
July 17 2007 10:00 am
At Least $ 400,000.00 available
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=2441
RFP -- Electronic Warfare Technology
July 20 2007 10:00 am
http://www2.fbo.gov/spg/DON/ONR/ONR/ONRBAA07-010/listing.html
Staff at CCT are preparing to host the second summer camp at the center, following the Digital Arts & Technology Camp held last month. From July 30 through Aug. 3, students from five area high schools – Tara High School, Istrouma High School, Glen Oaks High School, Baton Rouge High School and LSU's University Lab School –will attend the first “High-Performance Computing Boot Camp,†also nicknamed “The Beowulf Boot Camp,†to learn basics of supercomputing. The students will work under direction from CCT Chief Scientist Thomas Sterling and learn how to build basic supercomputing clusters, then use them for applications. Sterling will instruct them in hardware and software concepts, and teachers from those high schools are invited to attend and learn. After the camp, the students and teachers can bring the clusters back to their classrooms to use in further lesson plans. CCT in the News
University Develops Supercomputer
07/10/07 – The Reveille
The University will complete the development of the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, or LONI, a supercomputer network that will enhance research and information analysis over a network more than 1,000 times faster than previously thought possible.
http://media.www.lsureveille.com/media/storage/paper868/news/2007/07/10/News/University.Develops.Super.Computer-2922180.shtml
Technology-based Charter School To Open In N.O.
07/06/07 – The Reveille
New Orleans-area middle school students will have another schooling option when the Abramson Science and Technology Charter School opens its doors this September.
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/news/news/301
A European's Take on ISC2007
07/06/07 – HPC Wire
Over 1200 participants from 44 countries attended the 22nd International Supercomputer Conference (ISC) from June 26-29, and 85 exhibitors took part in the associated exhibition in the city of Dresden.
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/news/news/303
LONI Ranks Among World's Top Supercomputers
70/05/07 – The Shreveport Times
BATON ROUGE — Louisiana's supercomputer Queen Bee, the centerpiece of the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, is the 23rd most powerful supercomputer in the world.
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/news/news/300
Major Funding Increase Cheers La Higher Ed.
07/05/07 – The Advocate
Fears were widespread on college campuses after Hurricane Katrina when the state cut $75 million from higher education budgets.
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/news/news/302
Queen Bee Computers
07/03/07 – Bayou Buzz
Louisiana's supercomputer Queen Bee, the centerpiece of the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, or LONI, is the 23rd most powerful supercomputer in the world. The ranking follows the release of the annual Top500 Supercomputer Sites list this week during the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany.
http://www.cct.lsu news/298.edu/news/
Pats on the Back
· Enrique Pazos, Ernst Nils Dorband, Alessandro Nagar, Carlos Palenzuela, Erik Schnetter, and Manuel Tiglio published "How far away is far enough for extracting numerical waveforms, and how much do they depend on the extraction method?" as an invited article for Classical and Quantum Gravity's special issue, "New Frontiers in Numerical Relativity.†· Peter Diener, Ernst Nils Dorband, Erik Schnetter and Manuel Tiglio published "Optimized High-Order Derivative and Dissipation Operators Satisfying Summation by Parts, and Applications in Three-dimensional Multi-block Evolutions"in the Journal of Scientific Computing. · CCT will be represented at the upcoming International Summer School on Grid Computing 2007 by several CCT students and instructor Shantenu Jha. · Staff at the CCT Annex wish to commend Mayank Tyagi for being a good citizen – during one of last week's heavy rainstorms, an elderly gentleman who has a disability and walks with a cane missed the bus and was stranded, drenched, at Paw Prints across the street. Mayank noticed the situation, brought him a dry T-shirt and an umbrella, then went to get his own car in the rain so he could drive the gentleman where he needed to go. Lectures This Week: · The next All CCT meeting is Wednesday, July 18, at 3 p.m. in Johnston 338. Please make every effort to attend. · 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: · The LSU Visual Identity Program went into effect on June 30. The CCT logos that comply with this policy have been posted on the CCT Internal site for access. Please use these logos on all printed and published materials. · Starting in October 2007, the H-C3 Initiative (Human-Centric Communication Cluster) at the Technische Universität Berlin offers15 places in the Masters Program of the Integrated Graduate Program in Human-Centric Communication (IGP H-C3). For more information about the program and the admission procedure (including online registration) see: http://www.h-c3.org/index_en.html. The deadline for sending in applications for admission to the program is no later than July 23, 2007. · 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. · LSU's Trek the MRT employee wellness challenge began three weeks ago. If you are participating, please remember to record your steps daily and report your weekly totals to your team captain. · 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: NSF Division of Molecular & Cellular Biosciences
NSF MCB
July 12 2007 5 p.m. http://www.nsf.gov/bio/mcb/about.jspSupport%20is%20provided%20for%20basic%20research%20and%20related%20activities%20that
Center of Excellence for the Study of Natural Disasters, Coastal Infrastructure and Emergency Management
July 15 2007 10:00 am
At Most $ 3,000,000.00 available
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=12467
NSF Faculty Early Career Development
(CAREER) Program (CISE)
NSF CAREER
July 17 2007 10:00 am
At Least $ 400,000.00 available
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=2441
RFP -- Electronic Warfare Technology
July 20 2007 10:00 am
http://www2.fbo.gov/spg/DON/ONR/ONR/ONRBAA07-010/listing.html
Publish Date:
07-10-2007
