APPLICATIONS

Indiana University announces the availability of travel scholarships for students to attend the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing in order to present technical posters based on use of the TeraGrid. Up to four travel scholarships will be awarded. The Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing conference will be held October 14-17, in Orlando, Florida. The conference poster submission deadline is June 22. Students interested in the TeraGrid should also consider submitting a poster for inclusion in the TeraGrid 07 conference (posters for TG07 are accepted through May 4; details for that conference are at at its Web site). Students interested in applying for support to present a poster at the Tapia conference are strongly encouraged to contact Indiana University as soon as possible via email to researchtechnologies@iu.edu. Please contact your faculty advisor as well. Students should generally have a local faculty advisor for their research project and to serve as sponsor for a TeraGrid allocation. We welcome applications from students who use advanced scientific applications directly from the Unix shell prompt and students who make use of Science Gateways. Students who participated in the WxChallenge and used IU's Big Red supercomputer via the LEAD gateway are particularly invited to participate. If more than four students apply and have posters accepted, priority will be based on scientific merit and the mode of use of the TeraGrid (first priority for projects that make use of IU TeraGrid resources and at least one other resource that is part of the TeraGrid in a distributed computing application; second priority to students that make use of one of IU's TeraGrid-accessible resources; third priority will go to students who use any TeraGrid resource at all). Judging will be done by IU computer scientists, information technologists, and leaders drawn from the TeraGrid. Students who receive support to present posters at the Tapia conference will be invited to visit Indiana University and present a seminar talk about their work at Indiana University. Students will also be encouraged to apply for summer support doing research projects at Indiana University during the summer of 2008. Students who have a grid computing project ongoing and are interested in migrating that application to IU's Big Red system are encouraged to contact us via email, and to consider attending the TeraGrid 07 conference held 4-8 June in Madison, Wisconsin. At TG07, Indiana University will be offering a tutorial titled “Introduction to IU's Big Red PowerPC Cluster and IU storage resources via the TeraGrid” (see its Web site for more details). IU programming experts will be available after the tutorial to work with students on porting codes to run via the TeraGrid on IU's Big Red system. For more information or to apply for a scholarship, please send email to: researchtechnologies@iu.edu - Plan for future years - IU hopes to offer travel support annually for students using IU TeraGrid resources, and in particular plans to expand this program to include the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing along with the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing. If participation is not possible for you this year, please contact us at researchtechnologies@iu.edu and let's start working toward next year! - Support for this program - This program is led by the Research Technologies division of University Information Technology Services, Office of the Vice President for Information Technology and CIO and is made possible by financial support from several subunits of Indiana University, including: the Research Technologies division; IU School of Informatics; and the Pervasive Technology Labs at Indiana University. The Pervasive Technology Labs at Indiana University and the IU School of Informatics have been aided and are supported in part through a major grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc. Support for Indiana University’s participation in the TeraGrid has been provided by the National Science Foundation through grants 0338618, 0504075, and 0451237.