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CHAMPAIGN, IL — Among the 28 tutorials planned for SC2003 is "Applications in the TeraGrid Environment," led by NCSA's John Towns and featuring experts from the San Diego Supercomputer Center, Argonne National Laboratory, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, and the Center for Advanced Computing Research at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. TeraGrid is a multi-year effort funded by the National Science Foundation to build and deploy the world's largest, fastest distributed infrastructure for open scientific research. When completed, the TeraGrid will include 20 teraflops of computing power, facilities capable of managing and storing nearly 1 petabyte of data, high-resolution visualization environments, and toolkits for grid computing. These components will be tightly integrated and connected through a network that will operate at 40 gigabits per second—the fastest research network on the planet. The TeraGrid tutorial, scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Nov. 17, will include an overview of the TeraGrid environment and configuration and descriptions of available services. Attendees will learn to manage a grid identity and work through several usage scenarios by building and launching sample jobs. Several working applications will be used as examples to illustrate these capabilities. Attendees are expected to be familiar with Fortran or C programming, MPI, and basic Unix environments. The software foundation is based on the NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI) and programming techniques learned in this tutorial will be applicable in many grid communities. There will be a limited number of laptops provided for the hands-on portion of the tutorial, assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Attendees may participate in the hands-on portion of the tutorial using their own laptops, but there will be no support available to debug problems with attendee laptops. Information on laptop software and configuration requirements is available at http://mithril.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SC03/Tutorial_M2/. For information on other SC2003 tutorials, see http://www.sc-conference.org/sc2003/tech_tutorials.php. Advance registration for SC Tutorials and the Technical Program ends Oct. 10. Online registration is available at http://www.sc-conference.org/sc2003/registration.html. For more on the TeraGrid project, see http://www.teragrid.org/.