CCT Exhibits at SC 07 in Reno
CCT faculty, staff and students hosted a redesigned booth during the Supercomputing 2007 Conference Nov. 11-16 in Reno, Nevada to showcase their latest research projects. CCT hosted guest talks from Phil Bogden (SCOOP), Dane Skow (TeraGrid), Jason Leigh (EVL/video game class) and Gary Crane (SURA Grid) at its booth. In addition to demos and lectures, CCT gave away playing cards that featured illustrations from different CCT research projects. A special giveaway was four 16 GB iPods that each featured 10 lectures and the accompanying slides from Professor Thomas Sterling's CSC 7600 course that premiered in the Spring 2007 semester. CCT staff drew names to randomly select iPod winners throughout the conference. This year's SC had a record-breaking attendance rate, with nearly 10,000 people registering.
Pats On The Back:
• Congratulations to Karen Jones, who won the 2007 Staff Outstanding Service Award from the LSU Foundation. Karen will be honored Wed., Nov. 28 at the LSU Faculty Club.
• CCT physicists Jorge Pullin and Ravi Rau will participate in the The LSU School of Art Gallery’s presentation of Modern Physics and the Mystery of Reality. The exhibit will run from Sat., Nov. 17 through Sat., Dec. 15 at the Alfred C. Glassell Jr. Exhibition Gallery at the Shaw Center for the Arts.
• The Argonne National Laboratory/Virginia Tech team that won the SC 07 Storage Challenge last week used CCT’s systems as part of its computation.
• Congratulations to Dan Katz who will be the Program Co-Chair for the International Symposium on Grid computing, high-performance and Distributed Applications (GADA ’08), 2008.
Upcoming Lectures:
• Daniel Huttenlocher of Cornell University will be speaking on “Computational Social Science: Large-Scale Studies of Wikis, Blogs, Social Networking Sites,” as a part of the CCT Distinguished Lecture series. The lecture will take place Nov. 30 in the Life Sciences Building Annex room A101 Auditorium at 2:00.
• Renato J. Figueiredo from the University of Florida will be lecturing on “Wide-area Overlays of Virtual Workstations (WOW): Simplifying Development of Distributed Systems Through Virtualization and Self-organization,” as a part of the Colloquium Series on Dec. 7 at 2:00 in Johnston 338.
• Shantenu Jha is in charge of the speaker line-up. If you have a speaker wish list or concerns with the lecture time change, please send it to Shantenu at sjha@cct.lsu.edu.
Please Note:
• The University is closed Thursday, Nov. 22, and Friday, Nov. 23 for the Thanksgiving holiday. Classes and business resume Monday, Nov. 26.
• Payment for the CCT Holiday lunch at Mike Anderson’s is due Thursday, Nov. 28 for those wanting to participate. Prices for a meal are $13.60 or $16.77 (if you want dessert). Please turn all money into Debra Waters.
• If you have any news for the CCT Weekly, please e-mail PR Manager Kristen Sunde directly at ksunde@cct.lsu.edu.
Upcoming Grant Deadlines:
JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants
November 29 2007 10:00 am
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07586/nsf07586.htm
Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Programs Phase I Solicitation FY-2008 (SBIR/STTR)
NSF SBIR/STTR
December 04 2007 5:00 pm
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07586/nsf07586.htm
ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers
NSF ADVANCE
December 06 2007 5:00 pm
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07582/nsf07582.htm
Publish Date:
11-20-2007
