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.

University of New Mexico, Sandia National Laboratories Sign MOU to Attract Top Students and Improve Research Opportunities

http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/002732.html

UNM President David J. Schmidly and Sandia National Laboratories President Tom Hunter have signed a memorandum of understanding to increase cooperation between the two institutions.

“This MOU brings together two of the greatest gems we have in New Mexico, to partner with one another in a mutually beneficial way – a way that will strengthen UNM, a way that will strengthen Sandia Labs and a way that will be better for all of New Mexico,” said Schmidly.

The partners will work to enhance the opportunities for top students from UNM to find placement at Sandia, and to assure that the university is viewed as one of the most competitive suppliers of top talent to Sandia.

Working together, they will help to secure external funding for research projects in computing and information infrastructure that include LambdaRail, a new, high-speed version of the Internet.

Other highlighted areas include informatics (an emerging area of information research with a wealth of applications in data-rich fields like biology, ecology, climate science and homeland defense), and cognition (targeting rapid advances in health sciences and national security).

Another part of the MOU is the creation of the Institute for Science and Engineering Studies (ISES) that will support joint recruiting and appointments and facilitate shared access to laboratory facilities and intellectual property agreements.

NLR NOC Weekly Reports

Were you ever curious about what is really going on in the operational guts of NLR? The NLR NOC creates three weekly reports that cover the network layers: 1 (WaveNet), 2 (FrameNet) and 3 (PacketNet). You can find information on what happened that week plus upcoming maintenance windows. Allow yourself a geeky moment and surround yourself with the warmth of network operations data at: http://noc.nlr.net/nlr/support/weekly-reporting.html

CineGrid Receives CENIC 2008 Innovations in Networking Award for World’s First 4K-over-IP Live Performance Transmission from Amsterdam to San Diego

http://www.cinegrid.org/news/cenic_award_mar08.php

The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives (CENIC), which operates CalREN, the California Research and Education Network, honored CineGrid, the one year old international research consortium for networked media arts, with a CENIC 2008 Innovations in Networking Award at its annual conference in Oakland, Calif.

The CENIC award recognized CineGrid’s contribution to “Experimental/Developmental Applications” through its ground-breaking efforts in June 2007 to successfully organize and produce the first successful demonstration of trans-Atlantic streaming over photonic IP networks of 4K digital motion pictures. The transmission carried four times the resolution of today’s consumer high-definition TV with 5.1 surround sound, live from the Holland Festival in Amsterdam to a 4K theater at the University of California, San Diego.

ARIN Survey on IPv6 Use

[Ed: Please encourage your institution to participate in this survey if possible.]

The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), in cooperation with the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), is conducting a survey to gather data regarding the current and future use of IPv6 throughout the ARIN Region. For a complete list of countries go to:

http://www.arin.net/community/ARINcountries.html

The survey will open on 10 March and remain available until noon ET on 24 March. The results of the survey will be presented and discussed at the ARIN XXI Public Policy and Members Meeting to be held in Denver 6-9 April 2008, and the survey data will support ongoing research.

Please take a few moments to complete the survey located at:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=2x5j2OlJl0cq44iYfQadrw_3d_3d

Caltech Researchers to Receive An Award

http://www.pasadenanow.com/_News/publish/article_2189.html

Caltech researchers will be rewarded for better connecting physicists worldwide

Lead project scientist Harvey Newman, professor of physics at Caltech, Julian Bunn of the Caltech Center for Advanced Computing Research, and their international team of researchers will receive a trophy for Innovations in Networking at a ceremony in Oakland on March 11, said a Caltech spokesperson.

The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California will reward the Caltech researchers for better connecting physicists worldwide, said Caltech spokesperson Elisabeth Nadin.