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Announcement - OSG Storage Forum, 21-22 September

OSG Storage Forum will be held at the University of Chicago 21-22 September 2010.
Discussions will cover scalability, performance and tuning of the storage technologies adopted by T2 and T3 sites. We will also discuss analysis jobs storage requirements.
The storage software developers and expert storage administrators will be invited to share tips on how to improve stability and scalability of deployed storage systems. OSG storage administrators and representatives of various Virtual Organizations are encouraged to share their experiences and discuss common problems.
For more information, please visit the event’s Indico website.

Announcement - XtreemOS Second Summit 2010

XtreemOS Second Summit 2010 will take place in conjunction with EuroPar 2010 30 August 2010 in Ischia-Naples, Italy.
Large-scale distributed systems like grids and clouds provide means for executing complex scientific and business applications. But they often involve installing and interacting with several layers of middleware, a difficult task for inexperienced users. Tools developed for grid use are demanding and complex, especially because they are based on operating systems that are not designed to manage distributed and versatile resources.
XtreemOS can be seen as an alternative to traditional grid middleware, facilitating the use of federated resources for scientific and business communities. XtreemOS provides for users, the vision of a large powerful single workstation environment, but removing the complex resource management issues of a grid environment. When installed on a participating machine, XtreemOS provides for the grid what an opera

Link of the week - GridCast blogs from HealthGrid 2010

Posters on display at HealthGrid 2010.
Image courtesy of Daniela Skrowny.

Last week, HealthGrid 2010 attendees gathered in Orsay, France to discuss the state of the art for integration of grid practices into the fields of biology, medicine, and health. Naturally, GridCast bloggers were there to cover it.
Over the course of the three-day conference, GridCast bloggers posted four videoblogs and six blog posts, including:

Daniela Skrowny, a computational medicine and grid computing researcher, writes about the highlights of a poster session.
Faustin Roman, a grid researcher, closes out the conference by sharing his overall impressions.
HealthGrid’s Executive Director Samuel Keuchkerian writes in response to Joan Dzenowagis’ keynote presentation.

Check it all out at the link of the week!

Announcement - Grid and e-Science, Valencia, Spain, 6-9 July

Image courtesy Grid and e-Science.

The course GRID and e-Science will be held at the Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC) in Valencia, on 6-9 July. This is the 7th edition of the course, organized by the Institute of Physics Cantabria (IFCA) and IFIC.
The course is aimed at students and researchers who want to run applications on GRID-CSIC.
Its objectives are to disseminate the latest advances in distributed computing, grid and cloud computing, in terms of projects, infrastructure and technologies. It is aimed to give students the basic skills to use the grid, its tools and advanced applications. The various components will be discussed in detail, including user-level middleware, and sample applications, and use of grid infrastructure at international level and in production environments.
Emphasis will be placed upon use in real environments — which gives real-life examples of the tools in action, frequent error

Feature - Distributed computing experts gather in Chicago

At OGF29, Mark Morgan demonstrates XCG, a production grid maintained by the Genesis II team at the University of Virginia.
Image courtesy Miriam Boon, iSGTW.

Last week, distributed computing experts from around the world converged on Chicago to attend OGF29 and the ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing 2010 (HPDC).
“It’s been a quite successful HPDC,” said Peter Dinda, the event’s program chair. “In terms of the grid context, it’s good to have it co-located with Open Grid Forum.”
Both events benefited from the co-location, reporting increases in attendance.
Although the conference chairs did not actively seek out programming on the topic of clouds, this emerging technology became a major theme throughout both conferences.
OGF29’s second day featured a status update on the Open Cloud Computing Interface, and cloud technology demonstrations by t

Announcement - GridKa School registration now open

The participants in GridKa School 2010 pose for a group picture. Image courtesy of GridKa School.

Established in 2003, the International GridKa School is one of the leading summer schools for grid computing and e-science. This year's event is scheduled for 6-10 September in Karlsruhe, Germany.
The school cooperates with the Helmholtz Alliance 'Physics on the Terascale'. In addition, it is associated with EGI/NGI. GridKa School offers a broad range of topics, which are chosen from the realm of these projects and beyond.
Because of its parallel hands-on sessions, GridKa School targets different groups of people involved in grid computing:

grid novices, advanced users and administrators,
scientists and other users of grid,
graduate students, PhD students and post-docs involved in grid computing.

The advanced talks and presentations give an up-to-date overview on important and interesting grid and cloud computing subjects. About h

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Grace Hopper conference registration opens

Registration is now open for the 10th annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference, which will be held 28 September – 2 October 2010 at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Georgia. The full program for the event is also now available.
The world's largest gathering of women in computing in industry, academia, and government, the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) is now a five day technical conference designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. Over 600 speakers will include leading researchers and industry experts discussing 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. Co-presented by the Anita Borg Institute and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the conference has expanded this year to feature more than 110 session

Announcement - Applications for OSG HTC Summer School due

This photo shows the Madison skyline, where the summer school will take place.
Photo courtesy of Dori.

Applications are due 2 June for Open Science Grid’s new summer school on High Throughput Computing, taking place in Madison, Wisconsin, 19-22 July 2010.
Students will learn to use high-throughput computing systems - at their own campuses or using the national Open Science Grid - to run large-scale computing applications that are at the heart of today’s cutting-edge science. Through lectures, discussions, and lots of hands-on activities with experienced OSG staff, students will learn how HTC systems work, how to run and manage lots of jobs and huge datasets to implement a scientific computing workflow, and where to turn for more information and help.
The school is ideal for graduate students in computer science or other sciences where large-scale computing is a vital part of the research process, but any qualifi

Announcement - GRID 2010 registration open

The international conference "Distributed Computing and Grid Technologies in Science and Education" (GRID 2010) is now accepting online registration.
The event will take place at the Laboratory of Information Technologies of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research from 28 June to 3 July 2010. This year’s conference is devoted to the 80th anniversary of the birth of N.N. Govorun (1930-1989), a prominent researcher and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
GRID 2010 is the fourth in a series of conferences on distributed computing and grid technologies held in Dubna every two years. Over 100 reports were presented at the third conference in 2008, which was attended by more than 200 participants from 20 countries.
Over the last few years, distributed computing and grid technology has gone beyond scientific applications, finding increasing use in education, industry, and business. Cloud computing has also attracted a great dea

Announcement - CloudCom 2010 accepting papers

This striking image pictures the interior of the Indianapolis Public Library. CloudCom 2010 will take place at an as yet unspecified venue in Indianapolis, Indiana. CC by 2.0, courtesy of Serge Melki.

The organizing committee for the IEEE Computer Society 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2010) is now accepting papers and workshop proposals.
CloudCom 2010 will take place 30 November through 3 December 2010, at University Place Conference Center on the campus of IUPUI. Conference keynotes will be presented by Ian Foster, distinguished fellow and associate division director in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory and by Kai Hwang, professor of electrical engineering and computer science and director of the Internet and Grid Computing Laboratory at the University of California.
The deadline for paper submission is 1 July 2010. A detailed list of topics to b

Announcement - RSVP to attend Blue Waters presentation

Robert Wilhelmson, pictured above, will present on the Blue Waters supercomputer on 18 May 2010 at Argonne. Image courtesy of Robert Wilhelmson.

The Computation Institute is now accepting RSVPs for an 18 May presentation about the Blue Waters petascale computer.
Blue Waters is likely to be the most powerful supercomputer available for open scientific research when it comes online in 2011 at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. The Blue Waters project includes NCSA, the University of Illinois, IBM, NSF, and the Great Lakes Consortium, of which the University of Chicago and Argonne are members.
Robert Wilhelmson, chief scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and professor of atmospheric sciences at UIUC, will be giving the presentation. Wilhelmson will provide an overview of the Blue Waters project and its purposes along with some of the challenges that must be overcome to enable applications to ef