Access Grid Toolkit Tutorial Available

released 10.03.03

Contact

Kathryn L. Kelley External Relations, Ohio Supercomputer Center kkelley@osc.edu 614.292.6067

COLUMBUS, OH — Would you like to know more about the Access Grid Toolkit 2.x? Want to see what the Virtual Venues Client looks like? The Access Grid Training Project (AGTP) has created a tutorial that provides a broad overview to help you understand features of the latest Access Grid Toolkit.

"I thought this tutorial did an excellent job of pointing out the new features of AG2, as well as the differences between AG1 and the functionality of AG2," said Cindy Sievers of Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The AGTP is sponsored in part by the Alliance's Partners for Advanced Computational Services (PACS) and the Scientific Workspaces of the Future (SWoF) expedition. Member institutions include Boston University, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC).

This is the eighth Access Grid tutorial created by the AGTP, and while other tutorials delineate version-specific information, this is the first tutorial that focuses primarily on this latest release of the toolkit.

Boston University, through the Center for Computational Science and the Scientific Computing and Visualization Group, is a regional leader in applications of parallel supercomputing, visualization, and networking. As a partner of the National Science Foundation-sponsored National Computational Science Alliance, the University's roles include: working with other partners to develop technologies needed to build an advanced distributed computing environment; coordinating education and outreach activities for the Alliance; as well as the establishment of MARINER, a regional center of high performance computing resources under the Alliance Partners for Advanced Computational Service. The University's scientific computing facilities include a cluster of IBM pSeries 690 Regatta supercomputers, an IBM SP, an SGI Origin2000 cluster, a Linux cluster, an Access Grid Conference Facility and a computer graphics laboratory, featuring an Immersadesk and the University-built high-resolution, passive-stereo Deep Vision Display Wall. For more information, see http://scv.bu.edu/ and http://ccs.bu.edu/.

NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) is a national high-performance computing center that develops and deploys cutting-edge computing, networking and information technologies. Located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, NCSA is funded by the National Science Foundation. Additional support comes from the state of Illinois, the University of Illinois, private sector partners and other federal agencies. For more information, see http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/.

OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center) is Ohio's high performance computing and networking center. Established in 1987 by the Ohio Board of Regents, the Center provides scientific computing, networking, educational outreach, and information technology resources to state and national high performance computing and networking groups. OSC empowers its academic, industrial, and government partners to make Ohio the education and technology state of the future. For more information, go to http://www.osc.edu/.