Tour of the San Diego Supercomputer Center
April 16, 1999
Welcome to CS 575 Students from San Diego State U.
Dr. Kris Stewart
Education Center on Computational Science & Engineering
EC/CSE
Enhancing Undergraduate Curricula with High Performance Computing Tools
and Technologies for the California State University System and the National
Education Community
What is the mission of the EC/CSE?
Foster the incorporation of high performance research tools for scientific
investigation into the undergraduate curriculum to better prepare learners
for post-Baccalaureate activities where
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collaborative, interdisciplinary teams,
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sophisticated computer tools, and
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effective communication among the team members and with others
Demos and tours today
- M.I.C.E. John Moreland, SDSC
Visualization expert and co-author of the
VRML Sourcebook, will give us a demonstration of
MICE in the NT Education Lab. This uses Java3D to collaborative
manipulate VRML renderings from the Protein Data Base (
PDB) along
with the collaboration infrastructure of the
ICE
Service.
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SDSC Tour
April 99 PowerPoint Slides
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VRML course from
SIGGRAPH 98 by Dave Nadeau, anothe co-author of the
VRML Sourcebook will be downloaded to the SGIs
in Room 279 and you've be invited to explore viewing VRML scenes
on a computing/graphics platform powerful enough to do them
justice.
Obtaining a "local copy" of the notes
- Log on to an SGI machine in SDSC #279
- Access Nadeau's page above and download the Zip Archive
(7 MB) to have examples local on your machine
- Expand the Zip archive with Unix tool unzip
- Fire up a browser, netscape&
- File/Open - browse for the file on your SGI machine
Of particular interest are the
Examples
- Terrain
- Morphing snake
San Diego Bay Project
- San Diego Bay
- Models of the bay
Microsoft's Terraserver
will be good to view from the SGI lab due to the fast Internet
connection at SDSC (OC12 [624MB/s] while SDSC has a shared
T3 [4.65MB/s])
The Grand Plan:
National Science Foundation's Division of Advanced Scientific Computing
made five year awards supporting two High Performance Computing (HPC) Centers
in San Diego (www.npaci.edu, NPACI)
and Champaign-Urbana, Illinois,
(alliance.ncsa.uiuc.edu, NCSA),
to build the national infrastructure in HPC through partnerships. The
cooperative partnership of the educators from both teams has resulted
in the
PACI-EOT
HANDOUTS
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Computational Resources at SDSC & NPACI
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TeleManufacturing Facilty [we got lucky and an image was being created]
- enVision Magazine V15#1,
Earth System Science, Prog. Tools and Environ., SDSC Research
- enVisions Magazine V14#4,
Neuroscience, Interaction Environments, Biology
- enVision Magazine V14#2,
Engineering, Program Tools & Environments, Geosciences
- enVision Magazine V13#1
[really V14#1] Molecular Sciences, Data-Intensive Computing, Solar System.
Especially note
EC/CSE at San Diego State University
Gather/Scatter V11#4 Gather/Scatter Magazine: Science Partners,
Picture of Kris with STEP teachers
