Past Events

On Thursday March 20, 2003, the Goddard Collaborative held its monthly meeting at the WPI Access Grid Facility where they met with members of Internet 2. The meeting offered the opportunity for interpersonal interaction between the members of the Collaborative and administrators familiar with the proposal process required for membership in Internet 2, while providing the Collaborative members the chance to experience first hand the capabilities of the Access Grid.
On February 25, 2003, a group of WPI faculty, staff and students attended one of the NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) Seminars via the Access Grid. The Seminar, titled Security Software for Linux Clusters, presented by Neil Gorsuch of NCSA, described security aspects of computer clusters and included a demonstration of pfilter which provides a means of building effective firewalls.
On Friday February 14, 2003, the capabilities of the Access Grid were demonstrated to the WPI Trustee Technology Committee. As part of this demonstration Professor John Sullivan held a meeting with his colleague Marvin Doyley, Ph.D of Dartmouth College. In this portion of the presentation, Professor Sullivan demonstrated the use of VNC to share data visualization of reconstructed MRI data and the automatically generated finite element meshes created from the MRI images. After this meeting, we were joined by Professor Don Morton of the University of Montana, and Brian Gleason of Insors, who gave an overview of their experiences with the Access Grid. The Trustees were able to discuss the technology with the other participants and thus enjoy the Access Grid experience themselves.
SC Global meetings are attended regularly by WPI staff involved on the committee for planning this portion of the SC 2003 Technical Program.
On January 29, 2003, faculty and graduate students attended a seminar from the University of Kentucky. The seminar, titled "Numerical Approximations of Fluid-Solid Interaction Problems" was presented by Prof. Xiaobing Feng, University of Tennessee. The Access Grid allowed our faculty the chance to see and hear the speaker, the questions and discussion following the presentation, and ask questions of their own.

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