SCIENCE

Taking Your Science to the Next Level: On the Path to Petascale Computing -- SDSC will host its 12th Annual Summer Institute in the week of July 17-21, 2006. This year, the Summer Institute will focus on common limitations faced by our high-end users. The week long program includes lectures and hands-on laboratory sessions led by experts from SDSC’s staff as well as other institutions who will introduce researchers to technologies that can help them reach their goals faster and more efficiently. The sessions will cover topics including: * How to efficiently write out huge volume of data * How to organize and visualize the results * How to scale to the largest number of processors * How to tackle problems requiring large amounts of memory A more detailed agenda and the application form will be posted soon at its web site. Free accommodations in UCSD student housing will be available to all student attendees, and meals will be provided for all. Travel stipends will be available for qualified, matriculating graduate and undergraduate students at U.S. colleges and Universities.