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The power of the Grid is changing the face of research, collaboration, and education. The Alliance Chautauqua 2000 technology conferences will showcase Grid power -- including its ability to link powerful computers to a virtual machine room and bring people together in virtual workspaces. Plan to attend and learn first-hand about emerging Grid technologies, capability computing, cluster computing, remote collaboration, and a wide range of other new technologies. Sponsored by the National Computational Science Alliance, this year's first Chautauqua meetings will be held in Columbus, Ohio by OSC and CIC.

Chautauqua 2000 will showcase Alliance technologies and innovations as well as feature demonstrations from researchers who are using advanced computing and visualization as research tools. Sessions will include:

• "The Vision of Scientific Computing for the 21st Century," by Larry Smarr, director of the Alliance and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois.
• "Emerging Grid Technologies," by Rick Stevens, director of Mathematics and Computer Science at Argonne National Laboratory.
• "The Truth about Clusters," a panel featuring cluster computing researchers from across the country.
"A Great Lakes Application: Real-time Forecasts of Water Basin Storm Impacts and Severe Weather Modeling," presented by Keith Bedford, The Ohio State University. Examples of how advanced technology is aiding the research efforts of scientists from the Alliance, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), and the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).

This year's tutorials include:

• Accessing Alliance and NPACI Resources - A Guided Tour of Alliance Resources - Getting Accounts and Allocations - The User Portal - Accessing NPACI Resources
• Parallel Programming with OpenMP

• Parallel Programming with MPI
• Distance Learning Software - DL software tools demo
• Multi-level Parallel Programming on Clusters
• Teaching Parallel Computing in the Undergraduate Curriculum