AG Success Stories

[Ivan R. Judson]

TeraGyroid -- SC03 Gordon Bell Winner, SC Global presentation, done using
AccessGrid.

Weekly teragrid mgmt meetings and working group meetings are help via the
AccessGrid.

1100+ certificates issued by ANL since January, 2003.

AG Townhalls draw on average 8-10 sites per month, have been expanded to two
meetings. The additional meeting is timed to allow participation from
Asia-Pacific.

Virtual Seminar on Genomics and Bioinformatics
URL: http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/virtual-genomics/blalock_seminar.htm
Meeting starts at 11:00 (connect at 10:00 for testing) Microarrays and Brain
Aging: A Statistical Approach Eric Blalock Research Assistant Professor,
University of Kentucky, USA Inferences from microarray data are often
impaired by small sample sizes and uncertain relationships to functional
endpoints. Here, we were interested in finding genes that both changed with
age and were associated with age-related cognitive decline. 

GGFs were AG Enabled

GlobusWorld KeyNotes AG Enabled

Kentucky still runs it's weekly CCS Wednesday seminar series via the AG

Art on the Grid group holds monthly meetings to discuss art, digital media
and how they can use the Grid.

>From WPI:

On Thursday March 20, 2003, the Goddard Collaborative held its monthly
meeting at the WPI Access Grid Facility where they met with members of
Internet 2. The meeting offered the opportunity for interpersonal
interaction between the members of the Collaborative and administrators
familiar with the proposal process required for membership in Internet 2,
while providing the Collaborative members the chance to experience first
hand the capabilities of the Access Grid. 

On February 25, 2003, a group of WPI faculty, staff and students attended
one of the NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) Seminars
via the Access Grid. The Seminar, titled Security Software for Linux
Clusters, presented by Neil Gorsuch of NCSA, described security aspects of
computer clusters and included a demonstration of pfilter which provides a
means of building effective firewalls. 

On Friday February 14, 2003, the capabilities of the Access Grid were
demonstrated to the WPI Trustee Technology Committee. As part of this
demonstration Professor John Sullivan held a meeting with his colleague
Marvin Doyley, Ph.D of Dartmouth College. In this portion of the
presentation, Professor Sullivan demonstrated the use of VNC to share data
visualization of reconstructed MRI data and the automatically generated
finite element meshes created from the MRI images. After this meeting, we
were joined by Professor Don Morton of the University of Montana, and Brian
Gleason of Insors, who gave an overview of their experiences with the Access
Grid. The Trustees were able to discuss the technology with the other
participants and thus enjoy the Access Grid experience themselves. 

SC Global meetings are attended regularly by WPI staff involved on the
committee for planning this portion of the SC 2003 Technical Program. 

On January 29, 2003, faculty and graduate students attended a seminar from
the University of Kentucky. The seminar, titled "Numerical Approximations of
Fluid-Solid Interaction Problems" was presented by Prof. Xiaobing Feng,
University of Tennessee. The Access Grid allowed our faculty the chance to
see and hear the speaker, the questions and discussion following the
presentation, and ask questions of their own. 

>From LANL:

Wednesdays 2:00-3:00pm MST
Protein Production & Characterization Facility meeting
Meeting with Los Alamos National Laboratory B division and Argonne National
Lab regarding the partnership on the PPCF.
Denise Dalmas, LANL contact
ddalmas at lanl.gov, 667-2690

Fridays 12:00 noon - 1:30pm MST
GTL Expt Facility Workgroup
Meeting w/ ORNL, ANL, PNNL, LBL, BNL and LANL B division
Jim Brainard, LANL contact
jbrainard at lanl.gov, 667-2726

Tuesdays and Thursdays
4:00 - 5:00pm MST
Jim Morel, instructor
"Numerical Methods for Radiation Transport"
Graduate level class being offered by the Chem and Nuclear Engr. Department
at UNM, taught by Jim Morel at LANL. It will be the first of a three
semester series and deals with basic radiation transport theory and
associated numerical methods for neutron transport, charged-particle
transport, infrared transport, and thermal radiation transport in the
stellar regime. 

16-19 Sep. 2003 - 3rd Virtual Conference on Genomics and Bioinformatics -
Link to the official site - Link to information pertaining to the KU
production of this event 
4-7 Aug. 2003 - Joint Techs Meeting - Official website is located here 
13 Jan. 2003 - Internet2 Virtual Briefing Virtual Performance Events: The
Bing Technical Environment 
6 Dec 2002 - Internet Theatrical Performance in conjuction with NYU 

>From BU:


BU Graduate interviews to China:
http://www.bu.edu/bridge/archive/2003/03-28/virtual.html

>From Tilson/Ubuff:

Colloquium Series 2002-2003

December 1: InfoTech Niagara - CCR tour and discussion - Power Computing
with the University at Buffalo

October 29: Access Grid workshop -Using MPI (Globus version) on the Alliance
Grid Testbed 

October 16: Steve Wallach, Chiaro Networks presents: "Moore's Law, A Time
for Reflection and Refraction - Petaflops in 2009/10" 

September 16-19: Access Grid session, 2003 Virtual Conference on Genomics &
Bioinformatics

September 10: Access Grid session, Natural Laws: Voices for 7 Generations: A
special nation-to-nation discussion originating in Sweden

September 9: Access Grid session, OSCAR 2.5 Install Workshop

August 14-15: Access Grid session,  Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of
Geophysical Mass Flows

July 1-2: Access Grid session, Workshop on Globus Toolkit and Grid
Administration for Linux

June 30 - July 11: Summer High School Workshop in Computational Science

June 23: Access Grid session, Cyberinfrastructure Town Hall Meeting

June 19-20: Dr. Jeffrey Tilson will present a workshop about the access grid
at NYSERNet's semi-annual NYSERTech conference in Rochester, NY.

May 12 - 17: Workshop on Advanced Methods in X-ray Diffraction Analysis -
The XD programming package. 

April 23: Access Grid session, Towards Forward and Inverse Earthquake
Modeling on Petaflops Computers

April 20: Access Grid session, Visualization Training Lectures

April 9: Access Grid session, SP Training Lectures 

March 12: Vector NTI & Genomax Workshops sponsored by Bioinformatics at CCR.


March 11: Annual CCR All-Hands Meeting 9am-5pm, Knox 14 

March 4-7: Access Grid session, Global Grid Forum 

February 25: Dr. Jeffrey L. Tilson, will present "The Access Grid" at the
annual WNY Partnership for Regional Internetworking (WNYPRI) meeting.

February 25: Access Grid session, Security Software for Linux Clusters

February 20: Access Grid session, Numerical Methods in Computational
Mechanics: Advances and Challenges 

February 19: Dr. Edward J. Maginn, Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of Notre Dame, will present a seminar entitled "In Search of
Environmentally Benign Solvents: Are Ionic Liquids the Right Solution?"
This seminar will take place at 3:30 PM in 206 Furnas Hall, North Campus.
This seminar is part of the 2002-2003 Colloquium Series. 

February 19: Access Grid session, Internet2 Briefing: End-to-End Performance
Measurement System

February 3-5: Access Grid session, ESCC/Internet2 Workshop

January 30: Access Grid session, Virtual-genomics seminar: Application of
Arabidopsis microarrays to study dormancy and growth in leafy spurge and
other poorly characterized plant species.

January 28: Access Grid session, Maui Consortium Phase II Meeting - Future
Developments of the Maui Scheduling System

January 27: Access Grid session, CCR Cluster Workshop - Hands-on workshop to
train school teachers on building Beowulf clusters