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Announcement - HD videoconference, Internet2 Meeting, DUSEL

Inspecting the neutrino detector under construction in the Homestake gold mine in 1965. Image courtesy Sanford Underground Laboratory at Homestake

WHAT: Internet2’s 2010 Spring Member Meeting will transport participants nearly a mile underground to explore America’s newest networking frontier. The live high-definition videoconference will show how the former Homestake gold mine in South Dakota — once the deepest mine in North America — is being transformed into a high-tech national Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL).
The HD videoconference will connect the meeting’s hotel ballroom audience to the so-called “4850 Level” — the construction site 4,850 feet deep inside the Sanford Underground Laboratory at Homestake — and to Pierre, South Dakota, where the state’s governor will offer his perspectives on the unique history and scientific import

Announcement - ISC 2010 student volunteer apps due

Student volunteers pose for the camera at a previous ISC. Image courtesy of ISC'10.

Student volunteer applications for International Supercomputing Conference 2010 are due tomorrow.
Volunteers will receive free registration for every aspect of the conference, free meals during conference hours, and free hotel accommodations (for out-of-town volunteers only). They will also receive a copy of the conference proceedings and an ISC’10 shirt.
In return, volunteers will be asked to work a minimum of 25 hours total either before and/or during the conference. Duties before the conference (from 27-30 May 2010) will include such tasks as technical support to ISCnet Network Team, arranging the conference area, and other similar tasks. Duties during the conference (30 May – 3 June 2010) will include such tasks as monitoring entrance to sessions, assisting with registration, running microphones to audience members for questions, checki

Announcement - Research call to DOE National Labs due 3 May

The US Department of Energy is soliciting proposals from DOE National Laboratories in four key areas, some of which will require computing expertise. Proposals for this Research Call are due 3 May 2010 at 11:59:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
Each three-year award will go to a single National Lab (the “lead lab”) to organize and coordinate all activities required to execute the scope of work. The lead lab will be expected to provide these services to DOE through combinations of its own staff and collaborators selected by the lead lab in consultation with DOE.
Paraphrased quotes regarding the computational component of some, but not all of the research areas, are highlighted below.
Area of Interest 1: Interregional Electricity Reliability Issue Assessment and Analysis
The changing composition of the generation fleet and the loads comprising the US electric power system requires detailed review, assessment, and analysis to ant

Announcement - HPC 2010 Advanced Workshop in Cetraro, Italy

Registration is now open for the High Performance Computing, Grids, and Clouds Workshop, which will take place 21-25 June in Cetraro, Italy.
According to the website, the aim of the workshop is to discuss future developments in HPC technologies, and to assess grid and cloud computing technology, with special emphasis on solutions to deployment.
Over the course of the event, over forty invited papers will be presented. Several sessions will focus on grid and cloud computing; invited speakers from different sectors, public and private, will debate the most critical issues related to grid and cloud development strategies for both research and enterprise. More information is available at the conference website.
Although registration is free, the attendance will be limited, so early registration is recommended. To register, fill out the registration form and mail it to lugran@unical.it.

Announcement - Register for virtual conference CLOUD LAB '10

It’s not too late to register for CLOUD LAB ’10, a virtual conference organized by Cloud Slam Event.
The conference will take place 19-23 April at a computer near you, thanks to web conferencing technology. The conference site states:

...the CLOUD LAB™ Conference series is a global cloud computing event, covering the latest trends and innovations in the world of cloud computing. Conference panels, workshops, and tutorials are selected to bring the latest information to you.

Over the course of the five-day event, nine speakers will give keynotes, including NASA Ames CIO Chris Kemp, and Hal Stern, senior vice president of global systems engineering at Sun. Multiple streams of paper presentations and panels will simultaneously air live; afterwards, registrants will be able to review recordings of the presentations and peruse copies of slides and papers.
Registration is now open. For more information, please v

Announcement - DEISA PRACE Symposium 2010 in Barcelona

DEISA, the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications, and PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, are organizing a second event in High Performance Computing: the DEISA PRACE Symposium 2010.
The symposium will take place 10-12 May in Barcelona, Spain. It will be hosted by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) at the famous Casa Milà, also known as “La Pedrera” (a modernist building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí).
The theme of this symposium is “Advancements in PetaFlop-Computing.” The symposium covers both European and international developments. The event is of major interest to a broad audience: computational scientists, HPC technology experts, government representatives, vendors, and industry partners.
Keynote speakers from across the world will outline their strategic perspectives of High Performance Computing (HPC). During the fir

Announcement - Call for papers: Special journal issue

The Elsevier Science's journal Future Generation Computer Systems, which has the subtitle: "The International Journal of Grid Computing: Theory, Methods and Application" is now accepting paper submissions for a special issue on volunteer computing and desktop grids.
Desktop grids and volunteer computing systems (DGVCS') utilize the free resources available in intranet or internet environments for supporting large-scale computation and storage. For over a decade, GVCS' have been among the largest and most powerful distributed computing systems in the world, offering a high return on investment for applications from a wide range of scientific domains. These include computational biology, climate prediction, and high-energy physics. While DGVCS' sustain up to petaflops of computing power from hundreds of thousands to millions of resources, fully leveraging the platform's computational power is still a major challenge because of the immense

Announcement - IX DOSAR Workshop, 6-8 April

An aerial view of the Kwa Maritane Bush Lodge, where the event will take place.

Registration for the ninth DOSAR Workshop, which takes place 6-8 April 2010 in Pilanesburg, South Africa, is now open.
The Distributed Organization for Scientific and Academic Research (DOSAR) congregates institutions from the southern US, Latin America, and South Africa that are involved in the development of grid computing technology for major high energy physics experiments.
The DOSAR Workshop series is designed as an instrument to improve the relationship among all groups and exchange information about the latest developments in the various analysis centers.
This workshop will be held at the Kwa Maritane Game Lodge, which is in Pilanesburg, two hours drive from Johannesburg, South Africa. The local organizing committee is the University of Johannesburg.
The workshop will cover:

Shared infrastructure
Storage element - design strategy, topology, file syste

Announcement - Applications open for CSC 2010 in Uxbridge, UK

Applications are now being accepted, for the CERN School of Computing 2010, to be held in in Uxbridge, UK, from 23 August to 3 September 2010
Have you ever asked yourself:

How do I bridge Grids and Clouds using virtualization technology?
Is it possible to simplify LHC physics analysis using virtual machine?
Why I am the only one who can authenticate using my grid certificate despite it containing only public available information?
How can reliable storage services be built from unreliable hardware?
Why are tapes still used in high energy physics data storage?
How can I write code for tomorrow’s hardware, today?
How do I see your software with attacker's eyes?
Can you hack you own code?
What's so special about High Energy Physic's data format?
What are the key statistical methods used in physics data analysis?

All the answers at CSC2010
Organized by CERN in collaboration with Brunel University the pro

Announcement - Submissions now accepted, SC10 Technical Program, New Orleans, Louisiana

Supercomputing 10 (SC10) is now accepting submissions for its technical program. The 23rd annual conference in the series, SC10 will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana from November 13–19, 2010. Over 11,000 attendees from industry, academia and government are anticipated.
This year, the technical program encourages participants to focus on one of three thrust areas to be featured prominently at the conference: climate simulation, heterogeneous computing and data-intensive computing.
Climate simulation spotlights the tremendous importance of research in global climate change, including HPC-based climate simulation techniques which help scientists understand global warming, climate change and other environmental processes.
SC10’s other thrusts highlight important emerging HPC technologies. Heterogeneous computing covers the technological and research advances in software that are required fo

Announcement - Grace Hopper call for participation

The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference is now accepting proposals.
The conference, which will take place 28 September – 2 October 2010, is part of a conference series designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. Presenters are leaders in their respective fields, representing industrial, academic and government communities. Leading researchers present their current work, while special sessions focus on the role of women in today's technology fields, including computer science, information technology, research and engineering.
Past Grace Hopper Celebrations have resulted in collaborative proposals, networking, mentoring, and increased visibility for the contributions of women in computing.
Key Deadlines:

The deadline to submit proposals is 16 March 2010.
Notifications on the submission status will be sent out by 18 May 2010.

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Announcement - Internet2 Issues Call for 2010 Richard Rose Award Nominees

Internet2 is now accepting nominations for the 2010 Richard Rose Award. The annual award, established in 2009, recognizes outstanding individual efforts aimed at extending the benefits of advanced networking to the broadest education community. The award will be presented at the Internet2 Spring 2010 Member Meeting in Arlington, Virginia to be held 26-28 April 2010. Nominations will be accepted until 15 March 2010.
The Rose Award celebrates educators or technologists who have had a demonstrable impact on the K20 community through the bringing together of diverse communities around common goals and projects, and have accumulated a record of community accomplishments. The award also presents an important opportunity to recognize the achievements of leaders across all educational sectors who are working hard to ensure that students of all ages and locations have access to the most advanced networking resources available.