INDUSTRY

The first annual TeraGrid Conference - TeraGrid '06, Advancing Scientific Discovery - to be held in Indianapolis, Ind., June 12-15, is calling for presentations, demonstrations, posters, and birds-of-a-feather. All interested individuals and organizations are invited to participate. Attendees will include scientists, researchers, faculty, postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students, high school teachers, representatives from federal agencies, business and industry representatives involved in grid computing products and services, and TeraGrid resource providers. The Conference is also calling for student entries in two competitions, the TeraGrid CI-Impact Student Contest and the TeraGrid Student Research Competition. The TeraGrid is an open scientific infrastructure funded by the National Science Foundation. It combines leadership-class resources at sites nationwide to create an integrated, persistent computational resource. TeraGrid provides more than 100 teraflops of computing power and nearly 2 petabytes of rotating storage, numerous scientific data collections, data analysis tools, scientific gateways and user portals, and visualization resources, all interconnected via a high-speed gigabits/second national network. Full details are available at its Web site.