The LSU Life Sciences Access Grid node has become part of the Global Quality Assurance Program for Access Grid nodes. This program was built by Jason Bell at CQU in Australia to provide and maintain a high standard of communication between Access Grid node sites and presented at previous Access Grid Retreats. An increasing number of nodes are meeting or requiring this level of quality assurance or "QA". Nodes in Australia, Canada, and England, with several others around the world have met this requirement. LSU is the first in the U.S. to do this.

Anyone meeting with a site that has been QA'd will know they are meeting with a site that meets a high level of quality without wasting time troubleshooting networking, audio, and operational issues. In addition, this node is able to begin QA'ing other nodes in the state of Louisiana. A list of available testers are listed here: http://www.accessgrid.org/qatesters

Information about the QA process is available here: http://www.accessgrid.org/qa-program

The list of registered Access Grid nodes on the Access Grid website here: http://www.accessgrid.org/nodes, nodes that are QA'd are checked in red. LSU's Life Sciences node, listed here, was the first in the state to be built in 2002 with the help of funding from then LSU Capital (now CCT), the LSU College of Basic Sciences, and funding from NIH IDeA program is gratefully acknowledged on this website.

There will be a Matlab seminar hosted by Louisiana Tech University on October 14th on the Access Grid. Attached is the announcement poster to spread to word to those who my be interested.

Potential Access Grid sites are listed on the Registered Louisiana Access Grid List. Please contact your Access Grid site with the following reservation information if you wish to join. The Access Grid information needed to make reservations is on agschedule.ncsa.uiuc.edu/meetingdetails.asp?MID=24312. You should contact your site to be sure it will be reserved for your attendance.

The first HPC trainings session of the fall semester will be held in Frey 307 at LSU in Baton Rouge on Tuesday, September 16th from 9:00am to noon. Another training session will be held in Frey 307 on Thurday, September 18th from 9:30am to 12:30pm. Both training sessions will be available on the access grid but registration is still required.

HPC training is having an Introduction to Gnuplot training on June 4 from 9:30am to 11:30am in 338 Johnston Hall at LSU and on the access grid: https://agschedule.ncsa.uiuc.edu/meetingdetails.asp?MID=23191. For more information or to reserve please visit: http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training .

Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences
E. Antonio Chiocca, M.D., Ph.D.
Chairman and Dardinger Family Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery
The Ohio State University Medical Center

“The Host Response to Viral Oncolysis”
Thursday, March 13, 2008 @ 3:30 p.m.
Room 1211 (SVM Auditorium)
School of Veterinary Medicine

Access Grid information: https://agschedule.ncsa.uiuc.edu:443/meetingdetails.asp?MID=22520

from the hpc users list and duplicate posting on teragrid list.

Dear HPC Users:

We are very happy to announce that HPC @ LSU will have a High Performance Computing Workshop to be held in Frey 307 at LSU in Baton Rouge on March 11 & 12. This workshop will be also held on the Access Grid so that TeraGrid and LONI users on remote sites may attend.

HPC @ LSU continues to have training available. The registration process does have a field to input you'd like to participate via the Access Grid. If you're at a remote site I'd encourage you to register early (at least a week) so that they know to setup for it if possible.

http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/tutorials/index.php or just go to the link on the sidebar under Bioinformatic Resources.

LBRN has been utilizing the Access Grid since December of 2002 for enhancing communication among its partner institutions in the state of Louisiana. LBRN has been utilized for advice and information for new Access Grid nodes across the state, other states, and in several other countries due to its success at this. Non-partner sites are starting up Access Grid nodes across the state and LBRN provides a state wide Access Grid venue server to enable these sites as well as other LBRN sites to collaborate in this way. In addition, with LONI making multicast reliable across the state, our progress and usage of this tool has expanded to higher quality video streams to enhance the "Access Grid Experience" with DV and HDV video to existing Access Grid sites.

Information regarding the Louisiana Access Grid Network is linked here to provide information such as Louisiana site lists, listserv information, best practices, advice and current events and past events and a gallery of photos to show the use of the tool for our program (and others). Some of these are forthcoming, but well under way. The initial pages with lists, protocols and best practices are available now.

Conference Theme:
Looking at Learning Anew: Capitalizing on the Digital Environment

on the campus of Louisiana State University and A&M College Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Monday- April 24, 2006

HPC@LSU and Apple Present: High Performance Computing for University Research

Access Grid info: https://agschedule.ncsa.uiuc.edu:443/meetingdetails.asp?MID=14248

HPC Event Contact information: http://lbrn.lsu.edu/portal/staticpages/index.php?page=HPCContact

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 • 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. • 206/207 Frey Computing Services Building • Louisiana State University Baton Rouge

The NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is providing an Access Grid meeting on the Broadening Participation in Computer Science (BPC) program.
The Access Grid presentation will be held on March 15, 2006, at 3:30pm EST.
See http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf06540.