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The NSF EPSCoR RII Symposium took place on Monday, May 11, 2009 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The symposium featured four 'anchor' presentations on CyberTools/Science Driver interactions, a poster competition, an outreach/education session, and plenty of opportunities for networking. Find the Symposium's presentations and posters here.
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May 11, 2009
The NSF EPSCoR RII Symposium took place on Monday, May 11, 2009 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The symposium featured four 'anchor' presentations on CyberTools/Science Driver interactions, a poster competition, an outreach/education session, and plenty of opportunities for networking. Download presentations and posters.
Aug. 22, 2008
The Louisiana Cyberinfrastructure and Science Drivers Symposium took place on Friday, August 22, 2008 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The symposium included presentations from RII project participants, CyberTools WorkPackages demonstrations, and a graduate student poster competition. Download presentations and posters. Here are pictures and a few more details on the meeting.
Dec. 18, 2007
A calendar for activities related to the NSF EPSCoR RII project has been set up. If you would like to add any events to the calendar, please contact Ms. Rachel Cruthirds(rachel.cruthirds AT la.gov) with the event title, date, time, a brief description, and a contact person for the event. This is the calendar link: http://www.selsc.net/epscor/cal/month.php
Dec. 06, 2007
An RSS Feed for CyberTools-related events has been created. It will be updated very often, so it should be used as a reliable source of information for all people involved with CyberTools. This is the link: http://cybertools.loni.org/feed.xml. You can also click on the RSS icon that you can find on every page in the Latest News box, or in the far right of the URL bar for this website:
Oct. 31, 2007
On October 18th, the first All-hands Meeting for the NSF RII award took place in Baton Rouge. As members of the RII Advisory Board, Ron Hutchins, Jordan Konisky, and Vince McCoy were present. Two of the LONI Institute fellows attended the meeting as well. You can download presentations of Drs. Allen, Cortez, Gaver, Khonsari, and Seidel. Here are pictures and a few more details on the meeting.
Sept. 28, 2007
NSF RII Project Funded: The NSF EPSCoR project, of which CyberTools is a key component, is funded by NSF. The project, which officially starts Oct 1st 2007, will run for three years with a budget of $9M from NSF and $3M from the Louisiana Board of Regents.
Sept. 24, 2007
The CyberTools website is officially launched! The website is hosted by LONI at http://cybertools.loni.org. The initial design was created by Ana Buleu, and the initial content by Ana Buleu and Gabrielle Allen. The CyberTools logo was designed by Ana Buleu, Gabrielle Allen and David Gallop.
Summer 2007
The first CyberTools planning meeting for Work Package 4 was held at CCT in Baton Rouge.
October, 2006
What is CyberTools? CyberTools forms a core part of the Louisiana proposal to the NSF EPSCOR research infrastructure solicitation. If awarded, the proposal titled "Louisiana's Research Infrastructure Improvement Strategy" will fund a variety of scientific research and educational programs along with CyberTools research and development over a three year period.
July, 2006
Motivation: CyberTools is created in response to a solicitation from the Louisiana Board of Regents for proposals for the NSF EPSCOR RII solicitation, motivated by the need for application enabling cyberinfrastructure to leverage the state's 100TF compute resources and 40Gbps backbone, and to take advantage of existing expertise in computational science and distributed computing.

Past Events


Jan. 18, 2008
Talk: SPRUCE: An Infrastructure For Emergency, On-Demand, Urgent Computing from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm in Johnston Hall 338. The speaker is Pete Beckman from the University Of Chicago Computation Institute. He is a Chief Architect at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. SPRUCE is one of the software components for CyberTools and Pete Beckman leads this project at ANL. For a biography of the speaker and an abstract of the talk, please visit: http://www.cct.lsu.edu/events/talks/305