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 NCSA's Help Desk is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year: Past Training EventsTo see more recent past events, go to the Training Calendar and conduct an advanced search for the dates of interest. August 2006
Cyberinfrastructure Seminar Series
Enabling Minority Serving Institutes
to be Cyberinfrastructure Resource Providers June 2006
Cyberinfrastructure Seminar Series May 2006
Cyberinfrastructure Seminar Series April 2006
Cyberinfrastructure Seminar Series
Intel Cluster OpenMP Workshop March 2006
Cyberinfrastructure Seminar Series February 2006
Cyberinfrastructure Seminar Series January 2006 Cyberinfrastructure Seminar Series December 2005 Cyberinfrastructure Seminar Series November 2005 SC05 -
Gateway to Discovery October 2005
GridChem: An Application-Oriented Computational Grid
Abaqus Workshop September 2005
Cyberinfrastructure Seminar Series
The Linux Cluster Institute Workshop August 2005
Cyberinfrastructure Seminar Series July 2005
Reconfigurable Systems Summer Institute The National Virtual Observatory and Big Computing in Astronomy
(Cyberinfrastructure Seminar Series) June 2005
"Hands-On" Workshop on Computational Biophysics
Introduction to NLADR
(Cyberinfrastructure Seminar Series) May 2005
Integrating HDF with the SRB (Cyberinfrastructure Seminar Series)
"Hands-On" Workshop on Computational Biophysics April 2005 Cyberinfrastructure Overview
(Cyberinfrastructure Seminar Series)
GridChem Conference, NCSA
LCI International Conference on Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution 2005
5th Annual Access Grid Retreat November 2004
Workshop on Computational Biophysics September 2004 The
Linux Cluster Institute Workshop April 2004 Communicating Effectively Over the Access Grid Shared Applications for Access Grid Toolkit 2.x February 2004 The
Linux Cluster Institute Workshop January 2004 Intermediate
IBM pSeries Workshop October 2003 What is NLANR?
(NCSA Seminar Series) Using MPI (Globus
Version) on the Alliance Grid Testbed Introduction
to MPI (Message Passing Interface) Introduction
to Egg & Malti September 2003 Transition Workshop
from the Regatta to the IBM p690 HDF
and HDF-EOS Workshop VII OSCAR 2.5 Install
Workshop (NCSA Seminar Series) August 2003 BetaWiz: A
Wizard Tool for Web Developers (NCSA Seminar
Series)
Tutorial on the Grid Application Toolkit
(NCSA Seminar Series) How-to Install a
Personal Interface to the Grid (PIG) on your Laptop
(NCSA Seminar Series) July 2003 Virtual Reality
– What is it and how can you use it? (NCSA
Seminar Series) Performance
of Codes on NCSA Resources (NCSA Seminar
Series) Globus
and Grid Administration on Linux June 2003 Voice Interface
for elVIAS (NCSA Seminar Series) Transition
Workshop from the SGI Origin to the IBM p690 Setting up and Using a Personal Interface to the Grid
(PIG) (NCSA Seminar Series) D2K Basic Two Day Workshop This workshop will describe the features of a new version of D2K, called D2K Basic, released by the Automated Learning Group at NCSA. D2K Basic contains a set of modules to load data from files & databases, some common transformations, algorithms for clustering, rule association, decision trees, neural networks, naive bayes, plus a few other techniques and visualizations. The release is available from alg.ncsa.uiuc.edu. Open Portal Interface Envionment -- A Hands-on Workshop
(NCSA Seminar Series) OPIE is an advanced portal system that allows powerful new ways to use the web. The system is completely customizable by the individual user and can incorporate any existing web page. It provides a common environment where various web resources can work together and interact. OPIE can be customized for a business, academic website, or a personal one. No HTML or programming skills are required to use OPIE. For more information, please refer to the OPIE website. April 2003 Digital Library Components (NCSA
Seminar Series) Joe Futrelle of the Digital Libraries Group at NCSA will give a presentation on software components that enable digital information to be used across and within communities. These configurable tools, such as Components for Constructing Open Archives and the NEESgrid data and metadata services, allow data providers and users to format, publish, index, and search data and metadata. NEESgrid is the System Integration component of the National Science Foundation's George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES). NEES is a national-scale effort to develop a collaboratory for earthquake engineering simulation, including remote access to physical test equipment, data, and computational earthquake simulation. For more information, see http://dlt.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ or View Slide Presentation. SGML/XML Document Authentication across (i) Meaning-Preserving
Changes (ii) Changes in Context (NCSA Seminar
Series) Detecting tampering with documents is an important part of information security. Unfortunately no document authentication system actually does document authentication -- they all do, in effect, bitstream authentication. Because the bitstream-to-document relation is many-to-many, not one-to-one, this both over- and under- reports possible tampering, seriously damaging information protection efforts. Obviously the solution is to extract the document from the bitstream and compare documents, not bitstreams. But until recently it was not clear how to do this, having no formal way to represent document semantics. SGML and XML provide a machine-readable syntax for descriptive markup languages, but no rigorous way to express the meaning of those languages. For over two years the BECHAMEL project has been working on this problem. We have now have a prototype formalization language and an environment (in object-oriented Prolog) for using logic-based methods to interrogate document abstractions. This work is based on the foundational theories of digital documents, and can support and enhance many document-related activities -- document authentication is just one of these. The BECHAMEL Project is lead by Michael Sperberg-McQueen (W3C/MIT), and hosted here at the UIUC GSLIS Electronic Publishing Research Group. March 2003 A Knowledge Center Approach to Sharing Across Organizations
(NCSA Seminar Series) The presenters will discuss the Knowledge Center, an effort to meet the learning and knowledge needs of students, workers, and scientists at all levels. The knowledge center has tightly integrated components that include; 1) a knowledge base (dynamic knowledge repository), that provides database storage for learning and knowledge objects while it continuously crawls the Internet in search of domain-specific information, 2) a pedagogically sound e-Learning delivery system tailored for maximum flexibility and user-friendliness, 3) a sophisticated collaboration system that includes tools ranging from simple text chat to multi-point video with application sharing, and 4) a knowledge exchange network to assist users in efficiently locating experts and fellow peers in an effort to answer important questions. The knowledge center is currently being deployed in a variety of settings. For more information, see http://learning.ncsa.uiuc.edu ChemViz; an Environment for Learning Chemical Concepts
(NCSA Seminar
Series) David Bergandine will give a presentation of the tools and databases that comprise a software application, ChemViz, a set of scientific visualization tools and curriculum materials designed to make computational chemistry accessible to high school and college teachers and students. ChemViz allows teachers and students to use computational tools to learn about chemistry without understanding how the computational tools work. It is easily adopted for regular current research for scientists. The concepts that can be explored, such as bonds, electronic orbitals, and densities, are difficult to grasp without visualizations. For more information, visit http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/TechFocus/Projects/NCSA/ChemViz.html February 2003 Security Software for Linux Clusters(NCSA Seminar
Series) Neil Gorsuch, Research Programmer with the Division of Computational Science Directorate at NCSA, will describe security aspects to protect computer clusters. He will demonstrate a tool, pfilter, that allows easy building of effective firewalls. At the end of this presentation, a Linux user will be able to use pfilter effectively. For more information, go to http://pfilter.sourceforge.net/ Intermediate MPI Programming This intermediate MPI workshop will consist of 4 weekly three-hour sessions held each Thursday from February 6th through the 27th. The instruction originates at the Ohio Supercomputing Center and will be presented over the Access Grid. Participants should have some experience with parallel programming using MPI. Homework assignments will be given but are optional. To register or for more information go to http://alliance.osc.edu/impi/ January 2003 Biology Workbench (NCSA Seminar
Series) Biology Workbench is a computational interface and environment that permits anyone with a web browser to readily use bioinformatics for research, teaching, or learning. Biology Workbench provides a general architecture to integrate databases, tools, computer programs, or other predefined objects. It enables simultaneous search across several databases for a single object and thus serves as an operating system interface for seamless computing across platforms. The theory behind Biology Workbench and demonstrations of how it can be used will be presented in this seminar. For more information, see http://peptide.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ Disability and Accessibility Issues in Web Design(NCSA
Seminar Series) Designing more flexible, re-presentable, and re-purposable Web technologies is important not just for providing accessibility for people with disabilities but also for allowing better access from mobile technologies, web tools, and intelligent agent software and systems. Gregg Vanderheiden co-chairs the W3C Web content accessibility working group and will share with participants insights into what makes Web pages and Web technologies more usable or less-usable to a wide range of users including those with disabilities, older users, and mobile users. He will also briefly discuss the benefits of such techniques for future intelligent web agents and technologies. For more information, see http://trace.wisc.edu/world/. October 2002 BioCoRE: A Biological Collaborative Research Environment(NCSA
Seminar Series) BioCoRE is a freely available web-based collaborative environment designed to enhance the biomedical research process and promote training. By using a standard web-browser (on a desktop machine or handheld device) scientists create projects and invite collaborators to join. All project data is secure and can be shared only by the specific project team. Researchers use BioCoRE to submit jobs to supercomputers or other remote sites, view molecules together across distances and easily create input files for supercomputer runs. BioCoRE features a synchronous and asynchronous chat, a project-wide "bookmarks" file that enables the sharing of weblinks as well as a web-based filesystem that is accessible to the BioCoRE project members. This filesystem is used to share files of interest and to simplify publication preparations via a seamless transport of document files among project members. Summary pages within BioCoRE regularly inform the project team of the project status, including individual tasks of each team member. BioCoRE sessions are automatically recorded and can be reviewed later by the project leader and the other team members. This seminar will introduce and demonstrate the use of BioCoRE. For more information on BioCoRE go to http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/biocore. D2K, a Tool for Data Mining (NCSA Seminar Series) D2K (Data to Knolwedge) is a JAVA application that facilitates a process of software system creation in the simplest, most efficient way possible. D2K is a system capable of executing a collection of software modules in a predetermined order, where the results of one module enables execution of the next module(s). This seminar will present an overview of the features of D2K. For more information on D2K, go to http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Divisions/DMV/ALG/ or View Slide Presentation. September 2002 Using HDF5 in High Performance Computing Environments(NCSA
Seminar Series) This is the second part of a two-part presentation on HDF (Hierarchical Data Format). This session is tailored to those with an interest in the performance of HDF on high performance systems, including those with a need to tune their HDF application for better performance. Participants who have had some exposure to MPI and MPI-IO is helpful but not required. For more information on HDF, go to http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/. Applying Visual Communication Principles to Web Design
(NCSA Seminar Series) In order for a Web site to be "usable", it must be understandable. It needs to communicate, and communicate effectively. When a visitor comes to a Web site they have only the visual presentation (the interface) to "tell" them what the site has to offer, and how they can make use of it. As a result, we must rely on visual communication principles to tell our audience: about the behavior, structure, and purpose of our Web sites. The better at communicating we are, the easier it is for our audience to understand our messages and intentions, and the easier it is for them to use and appreciate our Web sites. Luke Wroblewski is the author of a book entitled "Site-seeing: A visual approach to web usability". The book, published by Wiley Inc. in July, is available at bookstores nationwide and through Amazon.com. Unlike most books about Web usability, Luke's book emphasizes the contributions of visual communication technique, including visual organization principles and creating a unified look-and-feel for a website. The book also addresses technical issues that affect website usability. For more information, go to: http://www.lukew.com/folio/writings/site_seeing.html and http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/News/HN/02HN/020731.html#Newbook. Introduction to the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF)
(NCSA Seminar Series) This is the first part of a two-part presentation on HDF (Hierarchical Data Format). This session is tailored to those who would like a basic knowledge of HDF, what it is for, who uses it, and how it is used. Participants should have some understanding of the problems and goals associated with data management and I/O in scientific computing. For more information on HDF, go to http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/. |
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