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Announcement - Abstracts for Symposium on Authentication Technologies for Research and Education due September 15

The Symposium on Authentication Technologies for Research and Education will continue to accept abstracts through 15 September.
The symposium and the accompanying Roundtable on Cloud and Grid Security Standards will take place Monday 4 October on the campus of Texas Tech University.
The symposium will be focused on working solutions in campus security infrastructures that can contribute to solutions for simple but effective provision of strong authentication in research, educational, government and industrial settings. Submissions are invited from members of the identity management and distributed computing security communities.
Talks will be open to the public. Participants will be given adequate time to explain and expand on their idea or project. The audience will include participants familiar with this problem and knowledgeable about working solutions in concept or in pract

Announcement - Gordon Conference 2010 abstracts due 16 September

The Grand Challenges in Data-Intensive Discovery conference (or Gordon Conference for short) will be held 26-28 October 2010 at the San Diego Supercomputer Center on the campus of UC San Diego.
Science has entered a data-intensive era, driven by a deluge of data being generated by digitally based instruments, sensor networks, and simulation devices. Hence, a growing part of the scientific enterprise is associated with analyzing such data, and such analysis places special demands on computer architectures because the associated calculations have frequent I/O accesses, large memory requirements, and often limited parallelism.
In mid 2011, SDSC will deploy a unique data-intensive high performance computing system called Gordon. Gordon will be a peer-reviewed allocated resource on the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid available to any US researcher. It will have a peak speed of 245 Teraflops and feature very large shared memo

Announcement - Call for papers, UCC 2010, Chennai, India

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The International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2010) is now accepting papers for its 14-16 December conference. Among others, topics of interest include utility computing; Infrastructure, Platform, Software, Storage as a Service; novel architectural models for cloud computing; and Data Security, Privacy, and Jurisdiction in the Cloud.
A best will be presented to a paper receiving the highest quality rating from the Program Committee and external reviewers. In addition, a special issue in a high quality international journal will be organized for selected best papers.PAPER SUBMISSIONAuthors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed eight letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (print area of 6-1/2 inches (16.51 cm) wide by 8-7/8

Announcement - Cybera Summit 2010 early-bird registration due

Leonard Brody, one of Canada's leading technology forecasters and business strategists, will be headlining Cybera's annual fall event this year: Summit 2010  – Driving Alberta’s Digital Evolution. Early Bird Registration rates are available until 25 August.
This year's two-day program takes place 21-22 September at The Banff Centre and will focus on the projects, technologies and opportunities driving the evolution of digital-based R&D sectors and economies. “Digital” refers to anything that involves data management, pervasive broadband, network-enabled platforms, cloud and advanced computing, or online/web-integrated resources (ie. Web 2.0). These are the tools that are driving new innovations in business and groundbreaking discoveries in research and development.
Through panel sessions, keynote presentations, demos and networking opportunities, participants will explore a variety of topics

Announcement - PIC2010 deadline extended; now due 30 August

The deadline to submit papers for the 2010 International Conference on Progress in Informatics and Computing ( PIC2010) has been extended to 30 August 2010.
PIC2010 will take place 10-12 December 2010 in Shanghai, China. PIC-2010 provides a forum for researchers and practitioners in academia and industry to discuss the progress, challenges, experiences and trends of the theoretical and application issues in computing science, software technology, information system, to exchange ideas, share knowledge and promote future cooperation. All papers accepted will be published in the IEEE categorized conference proceedings, and will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by Ei Compendex and ISTP.
Submissions of papers describing original work in a wide variety of areas are encouraged. For a list, as well as details on how to submit a paper, check out the call for papers (PDF). For more information about the conference, please visit

Announcement - PRACE awards 320 million compute hours to 10 European research projects

Ten research projects — five from Germany, two from the UK one each from Italy, the Netherlands and Portugal — have been awarded access to the PRACE infrastructure. In total, 321.4 million compute core hours were granted. Sixty-eight applications requesting a total of 1870 million compute hours were received in this call, which was the first opportunity for researchers to apply for PRACE resources. The successful research projects are in the fields of astrophysics, earth sciences, engineering, and plasma and particle physics, including collaborators from 31 universities and research institutes in 12 countries. These projects will have access to JUGENE, IBM BlueGene/P, hosted by the Gauss-Centre for Supercomputing member site in Jülich, Germany, a petascale HPC system that is the fastest computer in Europe available for public research.The following ten projects were granted

Newsflash - The grid makes it into The Economist

Paris, France. Photo courtesy ICHEP

The latest issue of The Economist had this to say about the biennial International Conference on High Energy Physics, or ICHEP, held in Paris, France, on 22-28 July:“More striking still is the speed with which the raw data are being processed. The freshest batch emerged from the LHC on July 18th and were molded into meaningful results by July 21st, in time for the Paris conference. Not long ago this process would have taken weeks, says Fabiola Gianotti, the spokeswoman for ATLAS, one of the four main LHC experiments. One reason is the development of the grid . . .”When ISGTW asked Markus Schulz of CERN for more about what it was like in the pre-grid era, he said: “In the early days of LEP (the Large Electron Positron collider), it was a matter of weeks for the data to be sent out to sites for analysis. Steve O’Neale used to take tapes, put them in a box, label them, and ship t

Announcement - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium call for papers

The IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium is now accepting abstracts for its 25th annual conference, which will take place 16-20 May 2011 in Anchorage, Alaska.
Anchorage, home to moose, bears, birds and whales, is strategically located at almost equal flying distance from Europe, Asia and the Eastern USA. Embraced by six mountain ranges, with views of Mount McKinley in Denali National Park, and warmed by a maritime climate, Anchorage offers year-round adventure, recreation, and sporting events. It is a fitting destination for IPDPS to mark a quarter century of tracking developments in computer science. To celebrate the 25th year of IPDPS, plan to come early and stay late and also enjoy a modern city surrounded by spectacular wilderness.
IPDPS is an international forum for engineers and scientists from around the world to present their latest research findings in all aspects

Announcement - Citizen CyberScience Summit, 2-3 September, London

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Register now, to participate in the Citizen Cyberscience Summit, which will occur in London, England, on 2-3 September.
This a chance for scientists and citizens to learn about the latest breakthroughs in citizen cyberscience. It will be an opportunity to brainstorm about how new technologies can enhance citizen cyberscience. A goal of the summit is to draft a citizen cyberscience manifesto, involving all the stakeholders in the field.Who should come?
• Scientists, aspiring and established, amateur and professional, online or in the field.
• Citizens who care about the impact of science on society, and of society on science.Who is speaking?
Confirmed speakers include:
• David Anderson, director of the SETI@home project, Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley.
• George Dyson, historian and philosopher of science and author of Darwin Among The Machines.
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Announcement - GStat 2.0, What's happening in your Grid?

Visualize your grid with the GStat web portal. Whether you are interested in a specific site, a whole region or an individual Virtual Organization, different views are available that show the related information from the grid information system.
The information can be exported using CSV, XML, JSON, KML or even by copying it to the clipboard, making it simple to import data into other applications. An easy-to-use LDAP browser is also integrated, which can help you to navigate the information system.Whether you are a user, a developer, a site administrator or a infrastructure manager, GStat can help you find out what is happening in your grid.
GStat 2.0 was released April 2010. It was developed in collaboration between Academia Sinica and the Grid Technology Group at CERN. A production instance is available, so why not try it out? For more information or to provide feedback, just email us.

Announcement - An apology to our readers

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Last week, many of our readers received an email from Nature Network. We wanted to invite all of our readers to join the discussion we were hosting on Nature Network about the ins and outs of resources. Since then, it has become clear that the invitation issued by Nature Networks was in violation of iSGTW's privacy policy. We apologize, and will ensure that such a mistake will not happen again.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected].

Announcement - LiveChat a smashing success, new column launched

Submit a question to our new “Ask an Expert” column, and you too could look as enlightened as this man. Image courtesy brainloc

Over the course of last week’s one-hour live chat, over 60 of you tuned in to learn about what makes a resource and project a match made in heaven. You had a lot to say, too, submitting a total of 75 comments, questions, and insights. Some of you even made new friends, exchanging contact information.
You can still read the chat log on our website – and indeed, about twenty already have. But we also followed up with a question and answer session over at Nature Network.
What next? We’d love to do another live chat at some point, and as always, we welcome suggestions on topics and experts. But today, we have an exciting announcement to make. We are launching a new column which will appear periodically within iSGTW: “Ask an Expert”
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