ACADEMIA

The data-intensive computing driving cutting-edge science will be featured at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) exhibit at SC2005, the annual conference of high performance computing November 13-17 at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle. Visitors to the SDSC booth #1838 can get a glimpse of how the center's focus on data is enabling discoveries that have the potential to change our world. Dr. Fran Berman, Director of the Center, will deliver the keynote speech to educators from around the country at the SC05 Education Program. Dr. Berman will focus on information technology as an enabler for modern science and engineering research and education. She will be speaking on Monday, November 14 from 9 - 10:30 a.m. in room 3AB of the conference center. SDSC's leadership and expertise in data technologies will be detailed in a series of one-hour demonstrations and presentations held Tuesday, November 15 through Thursday, November 17. Demonstrations are scheduled from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday. Presentation highlights include the following: * Researchers from a PRAGMA project team will demonstrate the analysis of the Avian flu genome using a system developed for distributed proteome annotation. The system utilizes a computational data grid developed by PRAGMA partners in the international testbed. * Reagan Moore, head of the Knowledge Storage Resource Broker (SRB) Lab, will detail the Terashake Project, a visual simulation showing peak velocities of surface ground motion for earthquake waves of a 7.7 earthquake on the San Andreas fault in Southern California. Two additional demonstrations will detail how this 240 Terabyte seismic visualization was created and the latest findings by the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC), who sponsored the original program. * Jerry Rowley, director of the Advanced Database Projects Lab, will discuss how the center worked with the Red Cross and others to develop an amalgamated survivor lists for victims of Hurricane Katrina * Greg Quinn, project lead, will introduce the Collaboration Notebook, a new online data management application funded by Microsoft Research. Other demonstrations and presentations include an overview of the newly launched Synthesis Center and Data Central sites, the Integration of Digital Library Technology with SRB, scalable installation with Rocks software and the TeraGrid Cyberinfrastructure. For more information or a schedule of presentations, visit SDSC booth #1838 or contact Ashley Wood at 760-207-3795.