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H   H  PPP    CCC                           UK  NATIONAL  HPC  SERVICE
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HHHHH  PPP   C      x  x                    EPCC and CCLRC Daresbury
H   H  P     C   C   xx                     Laboratory are members of
H   H  P      CCC   x  x                    the HPC-UK partnership

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HPCx User Mailing 110                                  6 November 2006
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Contents

** Demonstrations of the Application Hosting Environment (AHE) at SC06

** SC06 - Supercomputing in Tampa - "Powerful beyond imagination"


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Greetings--

DEMONSTRATIONS OF THE APPLICATION HOSTING ENVIRONMENT (AHE) AT SC06

In association with the RealityGrid project, there will be a range of
demonstrations of the Application Hosting Environment (AHE) at SC06.
These will take place on the stands of UK e-Science, HPCx, the US
TeraGrid and several TeraGrid affiliates.

AHE provides a single, easy-to-use interface to access many
computational resources on a national and international scale,
facilitating interaction of HPCx with low and high end machines on a
global scale.  We are hoping to include demonstrations of
interoperability between Globus based grids (including the UK National
Grid Service and the TeraGrid) and Unicore based ones (including the
European DEISA grid).  During this period, we shall be performing a
large number of scientific computations, including studies of cubic
meosphases using the lattice-Boltzmann method, clay nanomaterials and
HIV/AIDS drug infection studies based on molecular dynamics.

In order to support these demonstrations, EPSRC has authorised us to
reserve a parcel of 256 processors in the capacity region from 16:00
(UK time) on Monday 12 November to the same time on Friday November
17.  As there are currently 800 processors in this region, this should
not seriously affect other users' work; there may be some increase in
waiting times for jobs using less than 256 processors.

AHE is featured in the forthcoming issue of Capability Computing.  It
is available to download from www.realitygrid.org/AHE/ and, shortly,
from the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (www.omii.ac.uk).


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SC06 - SUPERCOMPUTING IN TAMPA - "POWERFUL BEYOND IMAGINATION"

SC06, "the premier international conference on high performance
computing, networking, storage and analysis", will take place in
Tampa, FL, USA over November 11 - 17.

For details go to the website at http://sc06.supercomputing.org/  It
says:

 This year the conference will take its inspiration from Albert
 Einstein who said "Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and
 stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant;
 together they are powerful beyond imagination."

 Following the traditions set with the first SC conference in 1988,
 exciting technical and educational programs, workshops, tutorials,
 exhibits, demonstrations and many other activities await attendees.
 SC06 is the one place where attendees can see tomorrow's technology
 being used to solve world-class challenge problems today.

HPCx will be there - come and see us at booths 209/213.