AG Demonstrations at SC00

[Don Morton]

"Daniel A. Reed" wrote:
> 
> At 02:01 PM 9/13/2000 -0500, Rick Stevens wrote:
> >I'd like to get some ideas for AG demonstrations at SC00.

> >5. Live BOFs on the Grid..
> >
> >If you have ideas and suggestions please email them to this list.. we
> >would like to finalize on
> >the AG Demo plans next week.


Hi, Guy Robinson (Arctic Region Supercomputing Center) and myself
are running a BOF on Wednesday night related to issues in training
and development activities on clusters.  We'd be happy to do
an additional 30-or-so minute segment making use of the AG at
SC2000.  We're both looking at getting AGN's at our sites in
the next several months, and this would be an interesting 
activity.

A copy of the BOF proposal is attached.

Cheers,

Don Morton
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   Don Morton                     http://www.cs.umt.edu/u/morton/
   Department of Computer Science       The University of Montana
   Missoula, MT 59812 | Voice (406) 243-4975 | Fax (406) 243-5139
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Title: Promoting High-Performance Computing Literacy 

Organisers:

        Don Morton, The University of Montana
        Guy Robinson, Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
        Bill Youngblood???, North Carolina Supercomputer Center
        Borries Demeler, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio

Many academic and private organisations have potential
interest in high-performance computing, but lack the
physical and intellectual infrastructure to adequately 
enter this realm.  Collaborators at the Arctic Region 
Supercomputing Center, the North Carolina Supercomputer
Center, the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at
San Antonio, and The University of Montana are launching a
promotional programme, targeted at researchers in various scientific
disciplines who may not otherwise have immediate access
to HPC resources.  This programme will emphasise training
and development at a grassroots level, on low-cost cluster
architectures with a primary goal of helping researchers
"get started" in high-performance computing.  It is important
that these activities take place in a "portable" manner so that
researchers may seamlessly move their activities from clusters
to supercomputers, and vice versa.  The organisers of this
programme request your presence at this initial BOF, so that
we can better understand what you, the researchers, need
from us in order to effectively accomplish these goals.