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Dear Academic Associates Representative, I am writing to personally invite you to this year's NPACI All Hands Meeting, March 6 - 9 at SDSC. We would like to have a special meeting on Wednesday, March 6 to review the Academic Associates Program. This will be the first of what is hoped to be an annual meeting of the Academic Associates, as part of our efforts to reinvigorate the Associates program. Travel to this meeting (airline or car) and the $50 registration for the All Hands meeting will be paid by SDSC. Unfortunately we cannot cover hotel expenses. I sincerely apologize for the short notice on this, but there is a February 8 deadline for conference-rate hotel reservations. Next year we'll improve on the advance notice for this meeting. Details on hotels and the AHM meeting agenda can be found at http://www.npaci.edu/ahm2002. This will be the first of what is hoped to be an annual meeting of the Academic Associates, as part of our efforts to reinvigorate the Associates program. Under this program, UC campuses have access to a total of 750,00 SDSC Blue Horizon hours. This is a highly sought after resource. Less than half of the proposals requesting compute resources through the national peer-review process are awarded. The peer-review allocation process is described at http://www.sdsc.edu/us/allocations. We want UC researchers to make the best use of the facilities at SDSC. Examples of recent work include: - Nobel Prize-winning professor F. Sherwood Rowland's group at UCI has been using the computer access to refine calculations of atmospheric ozone depletion - Professor Klaus E. Schauser at UCSB, is teaching "Parallel Scientific Computing" using the SDSC IBM Blue Horizon and Sun Ultra In addition to being an NSF-funded National Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering, SDSC is also part of the winning consortium that will field the NSF-sponsored TeraGrid, a $53 million dollar multi-year effort to build and deploy the world's largest, fastest, most comprehensive, distributed infrastructure for open scientific research. When completed, the TeraGrid will include 13.6 teraflops of Linux cluster computing power distributed at the four TeraGrid sites, facilities capable of managing and storing more than 450 terabytes of data, high-resolution visualization environments, and toolkits for grid computing. These components will be tightly integrated and connected through a network that will initially operate at 40 gigabits per second. More details on the time and location of our Associates meeting on March 6 will follow. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please contact me. Nancy Wilkins-Diehr
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