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Announcement - TeraGrid announces new GIG director Matt Heinzel. Image courtesy of TeraGrid  Chicago native Matt Heinzel, former deputy director for TeraGrid's Grid Infrastructure Group (GIG), became the new GIG director on April 2. In this role, he occupies an office at Argonne National Laboratory, not far from the University of Chicago, where TeraGrid coordinates the GIG. “Matt has been serving as the lead administrative officer of the TeraGrid GIG. Appointing him to the position of GIG director was an easy decision for me and a well-deserved promotion for Matt," said Ian Foster, TeraGrid GIG principal investigator. “His dedicated leadership has helped to shape TeraGrid as we know it. I look forward to working with him in this new role.”  Heinzel brings with him many years of technology-related administrative experience. Prior to leading the TeraGrid GIG, he held various senior information technology management positions, including Technical Services Director, Senior Manager of Business Syste

Announcement - BELIEF II and CASPAR Brainstorming workshop on data provenance Titania hotel, Athens, the workshop venue Image courtesy of titania.gr  1st BELIEF II and CASPAR Brainstorming workshopSustainable e-Infrastructures: Challenges in data provenance and authenticityVenue: Athens, GreeceDates: 6-7 April 2009Workshop Web site and registration This first BELIEF II Brainstorming workshop, held in collaboration with CASPAR Project, will tackle the topic of Data Provenance. This was one of the most important outcomes of the 6th eConcertation meeting co-organised by the European Commission - DG INFSO/F3 GÉANT & e-Infrastructure Unit with the support of the BELIEF-II project, which took place last November. The joint BELIEF II & CASPAR Brainstorming workshop will consist of a mixture of presentations and discussions addressing several aspects around Provenance of Scientific Data: Authentication, Annotation, Archiving, etc. The workshop aims to tackle the issues above by bringing together participants from sever

Announcement - Student participation in TeraGrid 2009 Image courtesy of TeraGrid  High school, undergraduate and graduate students are invited to participate in TeraGrid 2009 as volunteers, by submitting posters, and by competing in a programming contest.Venue: Arlington, Virginia Dates: TeraGrid '09: 22-25 June 2009Register as volunteer: by 15 May 2009Submit poster: by 15 April 2009Register a team for programming contest: by 15 April 2009 Contacts:Volunteers:  Jenett TillotsonPosters:  Scott Lathrop or Edee Norman WizieckiProgramming contest: Charlie Peck This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view iThe 2009 TeraGrid conference to be held June 22-25 in Arlington, Virginia, will showcase the capabilities, achievements, and impact of this national network of high-performance computing resources. Students from high school through graduate programs

Announcement - Grid computing school: Emerging grid middleware standards Chapelle de Saint Lambert-des-BoisImage courtesy of Panoramio  Through lectures, hands-on sessions and a selection of focused conferences, this school will give attendees the opportunity to:understand the basics of grid computing,get acquainted with the different mechanisms of gridsbe aware of challenges and scientific perspectives of grid usageuse grid environments and port their own application onto a grid infrastructureSponsors:  CEA, EDF, INRIAVenue: Centre Port-Royal, Saint Lambert-des-Bois (78470) France Dates: Grid computing school: 8-19 June 2009Registration closes: 30 May 2009 Web site Register ContactThis school is designed for computational scientists and end users from any application discipline as well as for computer scientists in the field of distributed systems. Some background in programming and computer science is the only prerequisite.Grid beginners are welcome, as are people already involved in grid projects. Both groups will be

Announcement - UNICORE Summit: call for papers Image courtesy of unicore.eu  Event: UNICORE Summit 2009, to be held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2009 Venue: Delft, The Netherlands Dates: UNICORE Summit: 25 August 2009Submissions due: 9 June, 2009Notifications of acceptance: 21 July 2009Camera ready version due: 4 August 2009Submission information: Format (LNCS)Submit as email attachment to [email protected]   Registration (handled by Euro-Par 2009) and hotel information The UNICORE grid technology provides a seamless, secure and intuitive access to distributed grid resources. UNICORE is a full-grown and well-tested grid middleware system, which today is used in daily production worldwide. Beyond this production usage, the UNICORE technology serves as a solid basis in many European and international projects. In order to foster these ongoing developments, UNICORE is available as open source under BSD licence.The UNICORE Summit is a unique opportunity for grid users, developers, administrators, researchers, and

Announcement - BELIEF launches Zero-In magazine Image courtesy of BELIEF  BELIEF: Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers BELIEF's new Zero-In magazine showcases the research and development activities in the world of e-Infrastructures and is a forum for news, comment and analysis on this exciting new research paradigm.The first edition focuses on Distance Learning as an e-Infrastructures application and is now available on-line. We've also just launched the call for abstracts for the second edition! We welcome your contributions for this next issue whose theme will be Earth Sciences and Astronomy applications.  

Announcement - eChallenges 21-23 October 2009: Call for papers Image courtesy of eChallenges 2009  eChallenges e-2009 Conference & Exhibition This is the nineteenth in a series of Annual eChallenges Conferences, supported by the European Commission, that regularly attracts over 650 delegates from leading commercial, government and research organizations around the world to share knowledge and experience, lessons learned and good practice.Conference dates: 21 - 23 October 2009Conference location: Istanbul, TurkeyCall for Papers  Submission deadline for Extended Abstracts: 27 February 2009Acceptance decision: 31 March 2009Submission of full paper: 30 April 2009 Registration About the program We are now inviting extended abstracts (1,200 - 1,500 words) for technical papers, visionary papers, business and government case studies. Proposals to arrange 90 minute workshop sessions are also welcome. Related themes and suggestions for papers and sessions are outlined in the eChallenges e-2009 will focus on Applied ICT rese

Announcement - EGI policy board endorses blueprint for sustainable grid Image courtesy of EGI  The European Grid Initiative (EGI) Policy Board, which consists of representatives of National Grid Initiatives from 39 countries, has endorsed the EGI Blueprint. This document details the implementation of the EGI Organization’s activities and the first phases of the development of a sustainable grid infrastructure in Europe.The EGI Blueprint document is a proposal designed to determine how to establish this long-term sustainable grid infrastructure. It presents a vision of the transition towards the new EGI model and includes the relevant requirements for the implementation, operation, user interaction with, and management of the corresponding infrastructure, as well as the preliminary budget outline.At the Prague meeting, on 20 January, 2009, the EGI Policy Board acknowledged the significant progress that has been made in the production of the final EGI Blueprint version. This document took into account the extensive feedba

Announcement - Deadline to apply for time on TeraGrid: 15 Jan Image courtesy of TeraGrid   Last chance—hurry! Scientists, engineers, and other U.S. researchers have until January 15, 2009 (12:00 midnight local times) to apply for allocations of high-performance computer time and storage resources that are available through the TeraGrid for the allocation period of: April 1, 2009, through March 31, 2010 A simpler application process is now in effect.  Awards of any size can now be submitted to any of the four quarterly allocations review meetings via POPS, the system for TeraGrid allocation requests. Start-up and education staff allocation requests are handled separately.  More information  

Announcement - PRACE award 2009: Call for papers by 1 February Image courtesy of PRACE  The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) will award a prize to the best scientific paper by a European student or young scientist in one of the following areas:Algorithms or implementations that can expose scalability on many thousands of processorsA breakthrough in science achieved with massively parallel high performance computing resourcesNovel approaches to evaluate the performance of applications on massively parallel architectures.The winner chosen by the International Supercomputing Conference ISC’09 Award Committee will receive a PRACE sponsorship for participation in a training event or a conference relevant to petascale computing.ISC’09 will take place in Hamburg, Germany, 23-26 June 2009. An exceptional line-up of speakers, a world-class HPC show and great networking opportunities will draw some 1 500 participants.The authors of the ISC and PRACE award-winning papers will have the opportunity to giv

Announcement - PRACE Winter school on petascale computing, Athens, Greece Image courtesy of PRACE  Event: Winter School on Petascale ComputingDates: 10-13 February 2009 Venue: Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE Academy) in Athens, GreeceSponsor:  PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in EuropeHosted by:  Greek Research and Technology Network with the contribution of the Aristotle University of Thessalonik Web site Registration Researchers and students from Europe and beyond are invited to receive advanced training in programming models and optimization techniques, MPI/OpenMP and hybrid programming and profiling. The first three days of the Winter School will focus on gaining a thorough understanding of these HPC (High Performance Computing) topics during morning lectures followed by hands-on training in the afternoon. The last day will be dedicated to a novel multiprocessor architecture, with all-day parallel lectures and hands-on training. Participation is limited to 40.  For details and co

Announcement - 2nd International winter school in grid computing Curl up with your computer at home this winter. Image courtesy of akvis.com  The 2nd International Winter School in Grid Computing (IWSGC’09) will bring together world experts and enthusiastic students. Important Dates:Applications open: 24 November 2008Applications close: 12 January 2009 School Dates: 16 February – 30 March 2009 (20 hours/week)Pre-course exercises open: 15 December 2008 – 22 January 2009 Venue: OnlineTarget audience: researchers from any country who have recently started or are about to start working on grid projectsContacts: [email protected] School Web site Sponsors: EGEE, OSG, OGF IWSGC’09 will examine the conceptual and practical underpinnings of today’s grids. Experts will provide practical exercises, discuss the challenges of building and sustaining e-Infrastructure, report its rapid influence on the way we research, design and make decisions. They will share their vision of the developments and challeng