Dear All,
Beyon Einstein is covered (along with the 15th GridPP Collaboration
Meeting) this week. See
http://www.interactions.org/sgtw/
Cheers, Tony
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Tony Doyle, GridPP Project Leader Telephone: +44-141-330 5899
Rm 478, Kelvin Building Telefax: +44-141-330 5881
Dept of Physics and Astronomy EMail: [log in to unmask]
University of Glasgow Web: http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~doyle
G12 8QQ, UK Video - IP: 194.36.1.33
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Calendar/Meetings
December 2005
18-21, 2005 International Conference on High Performance Computing
<http://www.hipc.org>, Goa, India
January 2006
9-11, SURA Cyberinfrastructure Workshop Series: Life Sciences Grid
Application Workshop
<http://www1.sura.org/6000/6000_UpcomingEvents.html>, Richmond, VA
9-13, SEEK Early Career Faculty Training
<http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/Wiki.jsp?page=SEEKPostdoctoralAndNewFacultyTrainingJanuary9132006>,
Albuquerque, New Mexico
11-12, 15th GridPP Collaboration Meeting
<http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/gridpp15/>, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,
Oxfordshire, UK
Full Calendar <http://www.interactions.org/sgtw/pages/calendar.html>
Image of the Week
<http://www.interactions.org/sgtw/2005/1221/images/ctio_4m_500.jpg>
CTIO 4-meter telescope. (Click on image for larger version.)
Image credit NOAO/AURA/NSF
The Dark Energy Survey <https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/the-project>
collaboration will use the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
<http://www.ctio.noao.edu/>'s 4-meter telescope, located in Chile, to
discover the nature of dark energy. This mysterious substance, which
causes the expansion of the universe to accelerate rather than slow
down, will be studied using a new, large (0.5 gigapixel) camera
installed on the telescope. The flood of data generated by the survey
will be stored, managed, shared, mined and visualized using
cyberinfrastructure developed by a collaboration of scientists from the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the University of
Illinois, Fermilab and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory.
Link of the Week
Mt. Etna Sonifications
<http://grid.ct.infn.it/etnasound/page4/page8/page8.html>
Visit this site to hear sonifications of the seismic activity of Mt.
Etna, a volcano located in Sicily, and to learn more about grid-enabled
sonification. Data sonification is the representation of data by means
of sound, and it can provide a quick and effective data analysis and
interpretation tool in various fields. This researcher uses the INFNGrid
to turn seismograms into sounds. To hear a more musical version of the
sonifications, play the "Etna seismograms sonified with MIDI mapping"
version near the bottom of the page.
PDF Version for Printing
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Feature Story
World Wide Webcast
Features Grids
On Thursday, December 1, more than 13,000 people from over 100 countries
tuned into a live webcast celebrating the World Year of Physics and
Albert Einstein. The Beyond Einstein webcast, organized by CERN,
included segments on subjects ranging from time travel to neutrinos to
grid technology, transmitted from around the globe and headlined by
Nobel laureates, physics visionaries and computing pioneers.
Webcast viewers tuned in to see "THE GRID," a panel discussion broadcast
from Imperial College London and hosted by BBC reporter Gareth Mitchell.
Bob Jones, project leader of Enabling Grids for E-SciencE, Carl
Kesselman from the Information Sciences Institute, Neil Geddes from the
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Bruce Allen from Einstein@Home
discussed definitions of grid computing, how high-energy physicists are
using it, distributed computing projects accessible to individuals and
their personal computers, and the future of the Grid. Panelists also
answered questions emailed from viewers as far away as Malaysia.
Later in the program, grid-generated musical entertainment provided a
break from the science. In "GRID sonifications," Domenico Vicinanza from
Italy demonstrated music composed using the INFNGrid. Data is
represented by sound in a sonification, and Vicinanza turned the first
few sentences of one of Einstein's papers, as well as the seismic
activity of the Mt. Etna volcano, into music using grid computing.
The Beyond Einstein webcast is archived and can be viewed online
<http://beyond-einstein.web.cern.ch/beyond-einstein/>.
--Katie Yurkewicz
GridPort Software Empowers Users
<http://www.interactions.org/sgtw/2005/1221/images/gp_arch_700.jpg>
One section of the GridPort v4.0 architecture.
Grid computing technologies provide important capabilities such as more
efficient utilization of existing resources, aggregation to have more
power at once, and coordination of resources to automate workflows.
However, grid computing tools can have a steep learning curve. To lower
the barrier of entry for grid computing novices, simple interfaces can
greatly simplify the use of these tools.
The GridPort Toolkit, a collaborative software project developed under
the leadership of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), presents a
consistent, streamlined set of portal interfaces for using grid
technologies and services. GridPort augments these grid technologies
with rich, customizable Web interfaces for displaying resource
information, job scheduling and file/data management--all in a
lightweight, modular, easy-to-use package.
"The GridPort team and its collaborators have made it easier for people
to use vast amounts of computational power, storage capacity and
visualization and rendering capabilities to be effective in knowledge
discovery," says Jay Boisseau, director of TACC.
Full article <http://www.interactions.org/sgtw/2005/1221/gridport_more.html>
From the Editor
This will be 2005's last issue of Science Grid This Week. SGTW will
return Wednesday, January 11 after a two-week vacation. Happy Holidays!
Workshop Encourages Collaborative Grid Deployment
<http://www.interactions.org/sgtw/2005/1221/images/sura_group_700.jpg>
A group of collaborators--previous and potential--heads to dinner.
Image credit: Jerry Perez, Texas Tech University
The Second Southeastern Universities Research Association
Cyberinfrastructure workshop, Grid Application Planning &
Implementation, was held December 6-8 at the Texas Advanced Computing
Center in Austin. The SURA workshop emphasized collaborative grid
development and deployment, and was open to those wishing to learn how
to apply grid technology to advance scientific and other applications.
Participants included grid and application developers, users from
various communities, grid technology implementers and industry partners.
The workshop raised awareness of the diverse set of projects and
initiatives that are helping to mature grid technologies while
encouraging collaboration across different areas of grid and application
deployment. Presenters provided insight into grid-enabling specific
applications, identified resources for building and operating a grid,
and described several specific grid implementations, including the Open
Science Grid, the Distributed Organization of Scientific and Academic
Research, the University of Texas at Austin's UTGrid and the University
of Michigan's MGRID. The workshop also included a preview of the Grid
Technology Cookbook currently under development by SURA, the Open
Science Grid and IT consultant Mary Trauner.
Full article
<http://www.interactions.org/sgtw/2005/1221/sura_workshop_more.html>
Grids in the News
A bright outlook for global weather forecasting
Innovations Report, December 19, 2005
A group of national weather centres across Europe are harnessing the
power of GÉANT2, Europe's next generation high-speed research and
education network, to create a global weather forecasting system that
allow meteorologists to make more accurate and timely predictions quicker.
Read More...
<http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/environment_sciences/report-53100.html>
Colleges boosting bandwidth
Indianapolis Star, December 16, 2005
By Will Higgins
Several years ago, Purdue University research scientist Chris Hoffman
wanted to learn precisely what happened when the hijacked airplane
struck the Pentagon on Sept. 11.
Read More...
<http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051216/NEWS01/512160484>
How to analyse a Big Bang of data
Education Guardian, December 15, 2005
By Kim Thomas
"Everybody comes through the door whistling in the morning," Sverre
Jarp, chief technical officer at CERN, tells me over coffee.
Read More...
<http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,,1667971,00.html>
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