Volume 14 Number 4 October - December 1998

Application Thrust:
NEUROSCIENCE

Neuroscience Thrust Area Providing Access to Exploding Amount of Brain Data

Road Maps for Understanding the Human Brain

Making and Testing Neuron Models

Technology Thrust:
INTERACTION ENVIRONMENTS

Visualization Tools to Guide Scientists Through Their Simulation Results

Collaborating Amidst the Molecules

User Research:
BIOLOGY

RCSB to Apply Bioinformatics Expertise to Extending Capabilities of Protein Data Bank

AMBER and NPACI: A Strategic Application Collaboration for Molecular Dynamics

The Back Cover:
Improving Strategies for Recovering Oil

From the Director

Meeting the Demand for HPC Resources

Education, Outreach, and Training

"Learning on Demand" Spotlights Best Practices for Education Research

Promoting Universal Design and Disability Access

News and Calendar

Online: News about the NPACI and SDSC Community

1998 NPACI Parallel Computing Institute Coaches New Users on Partnership Resources

SDSC Doubles Size of Sun Enterprise Server 10000 to Evaluate HiPPI Performance

SDSC Upgrades HPSS Hardware and Software for Increased Performance and Stability

Tera Computer Announces Delivery of MTX Operating System to SDSC

UC San Diego and Johns Hopkins Receive Major Bioengineering Awards

SDSC Storage Resource Broker Installed at All 11 NPACI Data Resource Partners

Computational Science and the Nobel Prize for Chemistry