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CCT to Demonstrate Innovative Research at Supercomputing 2007
Researchers from LSU’s Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, will showcase the University’s high-performance computing research during the annual Supercomputing Conference in Reno, Nev. CCT will host a demonstration booth at the conference, which lasts Nov. 12-15, to showcase different projects underway that use the advanced cyberinfrastructure available on campus. 
“This conference is an opportunity for us to showcase LSU’s research to our peer centers around the world and to industries that can benefit from high-performance computing,” said CCT Director Ed Seidel. CCT will highlight Louisiana’s ongoing process to join the TeraGrid through the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, or LONI. TeraGrid is a nationwide, National Science Foundation-funded research infrastructure that incorporates high-performance computing resources at nine sites across the country. LONI will contribute one half of the computational cycles from its centerpiece supercomputer, Queen Bee, to support a national research community. CCT also will demonstrate large-scale computing applications of the Cactus Computational Toolkit. Cactus is an open-source, modular, portable, programming environment for collaborative high-performance computing, and the Cactus research group at CCT is developing applications that could be used for petascale computers. The Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Committee’s Cybertools project will be featured at Supercomputing 2007. CyberTools is a National Science Foundation project that will create advanced information services, data management and a storage environment to support Louisiana’s research base for advanced collaboration in science and engineering. LSU is a member of the EPSCoR Committee, and University researchers will develop the CyberTools in conjunction with faculty at the partner universities. Other projects CCT will present at Supercomputing 2007 include a CCT in Second Life demonstration; an overview of computer science Professor Tevfik Kosar’s PetaShare project, a National Science Foundation-sponsored effort to build a distributed data archival, analysis and visualization infrastructure for data-intensive, collaborative research; and a discussion about computer science Professor Thomas Sterling’s spring 2007 semester high-performance computing course, which marked the first use of high-definition video broadcast via high-speed, fiber optic networks for distributed classroom instruction in the United States.
“This conference is an opportunity for us to showcase LSU’s research to our peer centers around the world and to industries that can benefit from high-performance computing,” said CCT Director Ed Seidel. CCT will highlight Louisiana’s ongoing process to join the TeraGrid through the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, or LONI. TeraGrid is a nationwide, National Science Foundation-funded research infrastructure that incorporates high-performance computing resources at nine sites across the country. LONI will contribute one half of the computational cycles from its centerpiece supercomputer, Queen Bee, to support a national research community. CCT also will demonstrate large-scale computing applications of the Cactus Computational Toolkit. Cactus is an open-source, modular, portable, programming environment for collaborative high-performance computing, and the Cactus research group at CCT is developing applications that could be used for petascale computers. The Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Committee’s Cybertools project will be featured at Supercomputing 2007. CyberTools is a National Science Foundation project that will create advanced information services, data management and a storage environment to support Louisiana’s research base for advanced collaboration in science and engineering. LSU is a member of the EPSCoR Committee, and University researchers will develop the CyberTools in conjunction with faculty at the partner universities. Other projects CCT will present at Supercomputing 2007 include a CCT in Second Life demonstration; an overview of computer science Professor Tevfik Kosar’s PetaShare project, a National Science Foundation-sponsored effort to build a distributed data archival, analysis and visualization infrastructure for data-intensive, collaborative research; and a discussion about computer science Professor Thomas Sterling’s spring 2007 semester high-performance computing course, which marked the first use of high-definition video broadcast via high-speed, fiber optic networks for distributed classroom instruction in the United States.