Ginger Armbrust Named Lowell and Frankie Wakefield Professor

http://faculty.washington.edu/mcduff/from_the_director/2008/06/ginger-armbrust-named-lowell-a.html

Dean Arthur Nowell named Professor Ginger Armbrust as a Lowell and Frankie Wakefield Professor of Ocean and Fishery Sciences. She and her oceanography colleagues Professors Ger van den Engh, Gabrielle Rocap and Bob Morris moved recently to be co-located with faculty from several other departments focussing UW's work in environmental genomics. In the same ways that genome sciences have advanced our understanding of human health, these researchers work toward new insights into how oceanic ecosystems respond to environmental change. Their brand new laboratory is located in Benjamin Hall Interdisciplinary Research Building on the southwest fringe of campus. One highlight of this state-of-the-art facility is an advanced computing visualization system, the OptIPortal: a 63 megapixel display that catalyzes understanding of massive sets of data and is connected to a cooperative center at UC San Diego via the National LambdaRail.

Optical Upgrade RFP Issued

NLR has issued an RFP from qualified providers for optical equipment installation, test and turn-up and de-installation services. This will support NLR's soon-to-be-announced network upgrade beginning in 2008. Interested providers should contact Grover Browning, NLR's Engineering Director, via email at gcbrown@iu.edu. Proposals must be received by July 3, 2008.

Schools Close On Linking to Network: LambdaRail about 100 times faster than commercial Internet

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2008/06/06/3485620.htm

(Albuquerque Journal (NM) (KRT) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Jun. 6--Two New Mexico universities are close to tapping into LambdaRail, the high-speed nationwide data network that's about 100 times faster than the commercial Internet.

HealthGrid 2008 Papers Online

http://tinyurl.com/6j558p

HealthGrid is an interdisciplinary community of computer scientists, physicians, medical educators and students, epidemiologists, bioinformatics and medical informatics experts, military medicine specialists, security and policy makers, economists and futurists.

The conference program included a number of high-profile keynote presentations, complemented by a set of refereed papers.

Chicago firm to sell untapped fiber bandwidth

http://tinyurl.com/6b8vby

A Chicago-based company has bought half of a high-powered fiber-optic network and will sell that capacity to businesses, giving them access to technology that used to be the exclusive property of academic researchers.

Darkstrand Inc. will announce [did announce] Thursday its purchase of half of National LambdaRail, a 5-year-old network that spans 12,000 miles and is owned by a consortium of universities. Financial terms were not disclosed.

SC08 Technical Paper Abstracts Due April 4

The SC08 Technical Papers program is the premier forum for disseminating innovative and important advances in high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis from academic, government and corporate institutions around the world. Submissions on all aspects of applications, architecture, grids, networks, performance, storage systems, and system software are encouraged. Submissions that relate high-performance computing to the two SC08 Technology Thrusts - Energy and Biomedical Informatics - are also encouraged. A two-part submission process is again being used this year. Submissions will be rigorously reviewed by the Papers Committee with technical soundness and timeliness as the predominant acceptance criteria. Awards will be given for Best Paper and Best Student Paper. For more information visit: http://sc08.supercomputing.org/?pg=papers.html

Abstracts Due: Friday, April 4, 2008
Papers Due: Monday, April 14, 2008

Questions: papers@info.supercomputing.org
SC08 submissions site : https://submissions.supercomputing.org/
For more information: http://sc08.supercomputing.org/?pg=papers.html

Why Connect to NLR and the Regional Optical Networks

Why Connect

• Your research and/or education needs demand cost-effective networking
• Your research and/or education needs demand high performance networks that enable collaboration with colleagues globally
• Your research and/or education needs demand that you remove the boundaries of the laboratory and give colleagues an opportunity to participate remotely
• You want to attract high-caliber research and/or education faculty with state-of-the-art network connectivity

How to Connect

For almost all of the NLR services, NLR provides the national backbone, or wide-area network component, of an end-to-end service with an NLR Member or Associate organization providing or coordinating the regional component and an individual institution the local component.

While NLR does not provide the regional components of its service, it is able to facilitate the entire connection either through providing contacts for each end site or through providing the coordination necessary to implement the entire path.

In addition, the NLR members list shows the administrative and technical contact information for each of the NLR Members, including the RONs. These contacts can provide additional technical and cost information for the regional components of the services.

NLR staff, in cooperation with RONs, will assist researchers in developing preliminary costs for their proposals. Researchers can send costing requests to ess@nlr.net.