The first HPC trainings session of the fall semester will be held in Frey 307 at LSU in Baton Rouge on Thursday, September 4th from 9:30am to 12:30pm. This training session will also be available on the access grid but registration is still required.

The following grant opportunity postings were made on the Grants.gov Find Opportunities service:

HHS
Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health
Exploratory Collaborations with National Centers for Biomedical Computing (R21)
Modification 1
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=true&oppId=17962

HHS
Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health
Collaborations with National Centers for Biomedical Computing (R01) Grant
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=true&oppId=17963

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.

NEW! As an experiment, with encouragement from NSF, TeraGrid would like to make up to 10% of the computer resources allocable at each panel available for use by NIH-funded academic researchers. Starting with submissions to the September 2007 MRAC and LRAC meetings, PIs will notice updates in POPS to help us collect information about their supporting grants for this experiment.