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Albuquerque, NM -- The Linux Clusters Institute is offering its seventh workshop at the NCSA on the campus of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, from March 24 – 28, 2003. These highly successful workshops are intensive, hands-on sessions for computational scientists, engineers, and cluster system administrators. Registration is limited and will close on February 24. A registration form is available from the "Register" link on the LCI home page at: http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/. The LCI provides advanced technical training for those interested in deploying high-performance Linux computing clusters. The group was founded by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the High Performance Computing, Education and Research Center (HPCERC) at the University of New Mexico, and the Advanced Computing Technology Center (ACTC) at IBM Research. The LCI includes some of the world's foremost specialists in building and deploying Linux clusters at NCSA, HPCERC, and IBM. The workshops enable computational scientists and engineers to develop applications that achieve maximum performance and scalability on Linux clusters of all sizes. System administrators learn about issues related to the administration of Linux clusters supporting secure and reliable, high-performance computing. Prospective users of Linux clusters will find the workshops a detailed and informative introduction to the process of acquiring, configuring, and using Linux clusters. LCI technical materials highlight the information that scientific application developers and system administrators need but cannot easily find elsewhere. Each workshop spans a full week and consists of two modules: Two days covering systems administration/management issues. Three days devoted to scientific/technical application development and optimization. At selected LCI workshops, special topics are introduced. Visualization using Linux and Linux Clusters will be covered during the workshop at NCSA. The visualization session will include the advantages of visualization, equipment and software requirements, how to set up a lab, and software installation. Also discussed will be problems encountered with visualization ? what to look for and corrective measures. Workshops have a limited number of participants per module. Those interested in attending the workshop are advised to register for the workshop and reserve a hotel room before February 24, 2003. Workshop reservations and additional information are available at: http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/. "real information in real time for high-performance computing" The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a leader in developing and deploying cutting-edge high- performance computing, networking, and information technologies. NCSA is a partner in the TeraGrid project, a National Science Foundation initiative to build and deploy the world's largest, fastest, most comprehensive, distributed infrastructure for open scientific research. NCSA also leads the National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance), a partnership to prototype an advanced computational infrastructure for the 21st century that includes more than 50 academic, government, and industry research partners. The NSF Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) program funds the Alliance. In addition to the NSF, NCSA receives support from the state of Illinois, the University of Illinois, private sector partners, and other federal agencies. For more information, see http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ The High Performance Computing, Education and Research Center (HPCERC) at the University of New Mexico (UNM) is a leading academic site for Linux-based high-performance computing and scientific programming. Research scientists form across the U.S. use HPCERC resources as part of their research programs. Within UNM, HPCERC assists over 20 associated faculty and their students from the Colleges of Arts and Science, Engineering, Fine Arts, and the School of Medicine, in their research and teaching programs. Further information regarding HPCERC and its activities can be found at http://www.hpcerc.unm.edu/ The Advanced Computing Technology Center (ACTC) is an organization based at IBM's T. J. Watson Research facility in Yorktown Heights, NY. It is an organization of highly skilled computational scientists from a broad range of scientific disciplines. Their mission is to further the advancement of computational science through tools and applications research, and to accelerate the transfer of technology and information into the HPC community. Further information regarding the ATTC and its activities can be found at http://www.research.ibm.com/actc/