Published October 1, 2003
Published September 26, 2003
Published September 25, 2003
Published September 23, 2003
Published September 23, 2003
Published September 20, 2003
Published September 19, 2003
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $9 million to support 20 projects as part of its ongoing NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI). The projects extend NMI's efforts to develop and distribute production-quality open-source and open-standards middleware and include awards that focus on experimental applications of new middleware capabilities.
Published September 17, 2003
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) will receive more than $14.3 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for ten new projects in the information-technology arena. Twenty-one faculty members and researchers will investigate topics ranging from how to make cryptography easier to use, to the development of better computer simulations of cell physiology.
Published September 17, 2003
The Eighth International Annual Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2004), sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (ACM-SIGACT) will be organized by University of California San Diego, San Diego Supercomputer Center, and the International Society for Computational Biology in San Diego, CA on March 27-31, 2004. The conference will be held at the Westin Hotel Horton Plaza, San Diego.
Published September 16, 2003
"Attempting to track down the results of a particular experiment in an old-fashioned lab notebook is akin to looking up a number in a phone book that has not been alphabetized," said Robert Hulett, head of operations and information technology in the Roche Protein Expression Group, in a recent seminar held at SDSC, called 'Collaborative eR&D Seminar, Electronic Notebooks and Beyond'"
Published September 16, 2003
The ninth Global Grid Forum (GGF9), will be held October 5-9 in Chicago, Illinois. This event will be of great interest to those involved in making the TeraGrid, the NPACI Grid, and other advanced cyberinfrastructure efforts a success. Several NPACI partners are key organizers of the meeting.
Published September 14, 2003
Published September 11, 2003
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UCSD has released version 2.1.2 of the SDSC Storage Resource Broker (SRB) middleware package, which enables scientists to create, manage, and collaborate with flexible, unified "virtual data collections" that may be stored on heterogeneous data resources that are distributed across a network.
Published September 10, 2003
SDSC scientist Kim K. Baldridge will speak at a four-day international symposium titled "Making and breaking chemical bonds in gas and condensed phases: Theory and Applications," to be held at the 226th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in New York City from September 7 to 11.
Published September 4, 2003
Many San Diego-area children now returning to school will benefit from new multimedia technology developed by teachers who attended a summer 2003 computer-technology training camp at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) on the campus of UC San Diego. Twelve elementary, middle school, and high school teachers who work in Borrego Springs, Encinitas, San Diego, San Dieguito Escondido, and San Marcos schools attended the two-week training course in August called TeacherTECH.
Published September 2, 2003
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) will lead an ambitious national effort to produce a detailed understanding of the structure and function of lipids -- cellular fats and oils implicated in a wide range of diseases, including heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease.
Published August 21, 2003
In addition to the supercomputing center in San Diego and one in Pittsburgh, TeraGrid connects two sites in Illinois - the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in downstate Champaign and Argonne National Laboratory, outside of Chicago in Argonne. It also connects to the Center for Advanced Computing Research at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
Published August 20, 2003
Published August 19, 2003
Published August 12, 2003
An algebra tutorial designed by a San Diego high school student and a mathematical game created by a 4th grade math teacher in San Diego were among five projects assisted or developed by the Educational Technology Laboratory at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) that won awards at the 11th annual "SIGKids" competition. The recognition was made as part of SIGGRAPH, the annual national graphics convention, which was held July 27-31 at the San Diego Convention Center and attended by about 25,000 registrants. The juried SIGKids competition was designed to recognize computer visualization projects that promote the development of multisensory interactions, multilingual formats, lifetime learning, and interdisciplinary approaches.
Published August 8, 2003
Reagan Moore, co-director of San Diego Supercomputer Center's (SDSC) Data and Knowledge Systems (DAKS) program, gave a presentation on "Real-life Experiences with Data Grids" at the recent DOE Science Computing Conference in Arlington, Virginia.
Published August 4, 2003
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of <br/>Texas at Austin, a resource partner within the NPACI Grid, <br/>has begun installation of a terascale high-performance computing <br/>cluster. The cluster, to be named Lonestar, will help advance <br/>innovative research in computational science, engineering, <br/>and technology.
Published August 1, 2003
GlobusWORLD 2004 will be held January 20-23, 2004, at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, California. The event comprises three full days of extensive and intensive training and information on Grid computing. The theme of the conference will be the Globus Toolkit, the open-source solution for Grid computing that is a key element of NPACKage and the TeraGrid.
Published July 30, 2003
SDSC's Director of Visualization Mike Bailey will be a busy man at this year's SIGGRAPH computer graphics convention. As he has done in previous years, Bailey will teach the day-long "Introduction to Computer Graphics" course, which is one of the most popular attractions of the conference. Bailey also will be one of four computer visualization experts to teach a second, half-day course, "3D Hardcopy: Converting Virtual Reality to Physical Models."
Published July 30, 2003
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego has released the initial version of the SKIDLkit data mining toolkit, giving scientific users a user-friendly set of advanced data mining capabilities. In developing SKIDLkit, researchers in the SDSC Knowledge and Information Discovery Lab (SKIDL) focused on end-to-end applications in close collaboration with discipline scientists in Earth systems science, medical science, and monitoring the safety of civil infrastructure such as highway bridges.
Published July 30, 2003
Published July 28, 2003
SDSC's Director of Visualization Mike Bailey will be a busy man at this year's SIGGRAPH computer graphics convention. As he has done in previous years, Bailey will teach the day-long "Introduction to Computer Graphics" course, which is one of the most popular attractions of the conference. Bailey also will be one of four computer visualization experts to teach a second, half-day course, "3D Hardcopy: Converting Virtual Reality to Physical Models," which draws on his work with rapid prototyping systems in SDSC's Design Visualization Laboratory (http://dvl.sdsc.edu/)
Published July 23, 2003
SDSC's Chaitan Baru, codirector of SDSC's Data and Knowledge Systems (DAKS) program, gave an invited talk at the Twelfth IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) meeting, held in conjunction with the Global Grid Forum (GGF) in Seattle.
Published July 21, 2003
This week's official release of the Globus Toolkit, 3.0 (GT3) is a milestone in the evolution of Grid computing, which lets people share computing power, databases, and other tools securely online across corporate, institutional, and geographic boundaries without sacrificing local autonomy. GT3 is the first full-scale implementation of Grid software compliant with the Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) version 1.0, a new specification that the Globus Project played a key role in defining.
Published July 17, 2003
Published July 17, 2003
Published July 15, 2003
For the past several years, the HPWREN team has been collaborating with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department. Initially, the Sheriff's Department provided the HPWREN team access to several of their remote communications sites throughout the county, which greatly helped with the buildout of the HPWREN backbone network.
Published July 11, 2003
Published July 11, 2003
The SC2003 conference on high-performance networking and computing is seeking poster presentations reporting late-breaking experimental or theoretical results, innovative designs, and case studies related to high-performance networking and computing.
Published July 11, 2003
Published July 11, 2003
Published June 26, 2003
Published June 25, 2003
Published June 24, 2003
Published June 23, 2003
Published June 20, 2003
Published June 20, 2003
Published June 19, 2003
Published June 19, 2003
Published June 19, 2003
Published June 19, 2003
Judges recently named the two winners of the 2003 Computational Science Olympics, with the two top student entries from San Diego State University (SDSU) focused on a frighteningly topical subject matter: bioterrorism. One of the two student groups that tied for first place simulated the spread of anthrax through a 100-story building. The other group investigated the effectiveness of smallpox inoculation programs against a bioterror attack on a population of 100,000 people, a small city approximately the size of Bismarck, North Dakota.
Published June 19, 2003
Published June 16, 2003
Published June 13, 2003
Published June 12, 2003
Published June 11, 2003
Published May 29, 2003
Published April 8, 2003
Published March 10, 2003
Published February 27, 2003
Published February 19, 2003
Published February 12, 2003
Published January 24, 2003
Scientists at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UCSD analyzing traffic to one of the 13 Domain Name System (DNS) "root" servers at the heart of the Internet found that the server spends the majority of its time dealing with unnecessary queries.
Published January 23, 2003
Published January 16, 2003