CHEMISTRY

The Cornell Theory Center (CTC) will offer “Introduction to .NET and Web Services” for the first time in 2005. Scheduled for February 10-11, 2005, the workshop will be presented at 55 Broad Street, New York, New York, and will be given by CTC consultants, analysts, senior research associates, and systems programmers. For more information and to register for the workshop, visit www.tc.cornell.edu/services/edu/events/winhpc/ . “We have found that there is a growing interest in understanding the advantages an organization can gain by incorporating the .NET framework and Web Services into business operations,” said CTC Director Thomas Coleman. “CTC’s workshops help universities and businesses implement high-performance computing to most effectively meet their computational needs.” The new workshop is designed for representatives of companies, universities, and government agencies who are interested in learning about the next generation of distributed computing, which involves .NET and Web Services. “.NET and Web Services make sense when you have inherently parallel computations that you’d like to perform using everyday applications like Microsoft Excel as well as custom applications,” said CTC Chief Technical Officer David Lifka. “Some of the main advantages of using Web Services include integrated security and development tools from MS, code reuse, and self-documenting code. Web services also provide interoperability advantages, because they’re based on open standards such as SOAP, XML, and HTTP.” The Introduction to .NET and Web Services workshop will cover the following: • Setting Up and Running Network Load Balancing (NLB) • Writing and Installing a Web Service and Client • Adding an Excel Front-End to a Web Service CTC will also offer the “Windows High-Performance Computing Technical Training” workshop in February 2005. This workshop, on February 8-9, 2005, also at 55 Broad Street, New York, New York, is designed for those who need to learn how to use and set-up a Windows cluster for high-performance computing. Discussions will explore parallel computing using a message passing interface. The model covered in this workshop reflects traditional supercomputing where processes run on multiple computers and need to exchange information to complete a computation. Because of this communication requirement, the computers need to know with which computers they can talk. This model, which uses dedicated computers, is ideal for computationally intense calculations that may take hours to complete. To register for one or both workshops, visit http://www.tc.cornell.edu/services/edu/events/winhpc/. For questions concerning registration, hotel, or travel, please contact Judy Miller at 212.363.2915 or judym@tc.cornell.edu. All other questions, including workshop content, may be directed to Susan Mehringer at 607.254.8777 or susan@tc.cornell.edu.