Do you know any students that want to participate in the Supercomputing
Challenge? Or are you interested in consulting to a team?
>From the Supercomputing Challenge:
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Supercomputing Challenge Monday Morning Message, September 8, 2008
Registration
We currently have 75 students and 10 teachers signed up to participate in the
19th Annual Supercomputing Challenge. If you haven't registered yet, please
register at
http://www.challenge.nm.org/registration.shtmlRegistration deadline is September 30th.
Once all team members have registered individually, be sure to register the
team:
https://mode.lanl.k12.nm.us/teamreg_login.phpAbout 20 teams have formed so far.
Look Into The Future
Important dates are available at
http://challenge.nm.org/archive/08-09/dates.shtml.
Please note these dates in your school calendar, your personal calendar, the
calendar on your refrigerator, etc.
Proposals
Teams should be thinking about their projects and preparing a proposal.
See
http://www.challenge.nm.org/proposals for guidelines. Each team should bring
a proposal with them to the Kickoff Conference at the Glorieta Conference
Center, October 26-28.
Cool Link
"Top Secret" Technology Helps U.S. Swimmers Trim Times at Beijing Olympics
http://www.rpi.edu/news/video/wei/Science Link
Agent-Based Computer Models in use by Los Alamos National Laboratory
researchers.
http://www.lanl.gov/news/index.php/fuseaction/1663.article/d/200805/id/13287The Math behind NUMB3RS
On Friday nights at 9:00, catch the hit CBS series NUMB3RS, but first, take a
look at the math behind the show.
http://numb3rs.wolfram.com/417 This Friday
night's show is "Pay to Play".
Hoping your semester is off to a good start, Betsy, Celia and David,
Supercomputing Challenge Consulting,
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