APRIL 5, 2005--The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) have launched a Cyberinfrastructure Seminar Series for those interested in learning more about cyberinfrastructure and how it enables emerging multi-disciplinary research environments and advanced science and engineering applications.

The monthly seminars will be offered live at the presenting sites and remotely via the Access Grid. Key topics of interest to the cyberinfrastructure community will be presented such as grid computing, data mining, data storage, visualization, and exemplar cyberinfrastructure applications.

The first seminar will be 1 to 2:30 p.m. (CDT) April 15 in Room 3414 of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. This seminar will feature an overview of cyberinfrastructure given by NCSA Director Thom Dunning and SDSC Director Fran Berman. This overview will describe the National Science Foundation's vision for a national cyberinfrastructure, its current status, plans for the future, and the joint effort of NCSA and SDSC in NSF's Cyberinfrastructure Program. For more information on attending this seminar, see the Seminar Announcement

This seminar series is being coordinated by NCSA and SDSC under the Cyberinfrastructure Partnership (CIP), a cooperative effort of NCSA and SDSC to define, create, and deploy a national cyberinfrastructure for science and engineering research.

NCSA. (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) is a national high-performance computing center that develops and deploys cutting-edge computing, networking and information technologies. Located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, NCSA is funded by the National Science Foundation. Additional support comes from the state of Illinois, the University of Illinois, private sector partners and other federal agencies. For more information, see http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/.

In 2005, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) celebrates two decades of enabling international science and engineering discoveries through advances in computational science and high performance computing. Continuing this legacy into the era of cyberinfrastructure, SDSC is a strategic resource to science, industry, and academia, offering leadership in data management, grid computing, bioinformatics, geoinformatics, high-performance computing, and other science and engineering disciplines. SDSC is an organized research unit of the University of California, San Diego with a staff of more than 400 scientists, software developers and support personnel, primarily funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). For more information, see http://www.sdsc.edu/.