NCSA's mission is to empower the nation's science and engineering researchers, allowing them to tackle critical problems that once seemed intractable. Highlights of NCSA's SC06 exhibit will include: MAEviz: A Cyberenvironment for Earthquake Mitigation, Monday, Nov. 13, 7-8 p.m. Cyberinfrastructure provides a powerful way to deliver expertise that can reduce delays in bringing new techniques and data to bear on real-world issues. MAEviz, a network-centric hazard risk management cyberenvironment, is under development by the Mid-America Earthquake Center, NCSA, and the University of Michigan. It combines portal, rich-client, grid, workflow, and provenance capabilities to enable systems-level analysis, the coordination of decisions across organizations, and dynamic enhancements of the cyberenvironment itself with the latest data and algorithms from researchers. NCSA's Commitment to Petascale Science, Monday, Nov. 13, 8-9 p.m. Petascale computing is now a realizable goal that will impact all scientific and engineering applications. Reaching the full potential of petascale science demands that we tackle challenging problems of both hardware and software as we develop and deploy new computing systems and scale science and engineering applications to use them to their full advantage. NCSA Chief Technology Officer Rob Pennington will describe the challenges of petascale science and the commitment, expertise, and experience the University of Illinois and NCSA bring to bear in meeting these challenges. NCSA will also host a birds-of-a-feather session on The Pathway to Petascale Science from 5:30-7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 14 in Rooms 24-25. NCSA's Vision for the Future of Cyberinfrastructure, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 10-10:45 a.m. NCSA Director Thom Dunning will discuss how NCSA will advance computational science and engineering: Cyberenvironments will enable researchers to fully exploit available resources -- including computing systems, data stores, instruments, and analysis and visualization tools -- and to extend their collaborations into virtual labs that transcend geographic boundaries; tailored cyber-resources ensure that computing, data, and networking resources meet researchers’ needs and that timely, optimal results can be obtained; innovative systems research will determine the pathway to petascale performance, impacting all scientific and engineering applications; and education and training efforts will ensure that the next generation of scientists and engineers is prepared to leverage the power of cyberinfrastructure. Artful visualizations of scientific data on high-definition displays, ongoing. NCSA’s renowned visualization team, led by Donna Cox, will present mono and stereo images produced from oceanography and cosmology data, including phenomena from the flow of the ocean in Monterey Bay to the formation of the Milky Way. Other presentations will focus on biomedical computing, cyberenvironments in domains from astronomy to the environment, and research into innovative computing systems, such as the Cell processor. Demonstrations will run from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 13; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 14 and Wednesday, Nov. 15; and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 16. For a full schedule, stop by the NCSA booth or go to its Web site.
