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Announcement - CITSA 2009 new submission deadline: 10 December 2008 Image courtesy of www.iiis2009.org   December 10th, 2008 is the new deadline for papers/abstracts submissions and Invited Sessions Proposals for The 6th International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications: CITSA 2009 Conference venue: Orlando, Florida, USAImportant dates:Submission deadline: 10 December 2008 Conference: 10-13 July 2009 Authors Notification: January 14th, 2009Camera ready, full papers: February 4th, 2009Conference Web site  Submit paper or invited session proposal  Submission and review details CITSA 2009 is an International Multi-Conference being organized with the purpose of providing researchers, practitioners, developers, consultants, and end-users of computerized, communications and/or control systems and technologies, as well as their industrial and social applications in the private and the public sectors, an opportunity to join in a common place sharing experience and knowledg

Announcement - Call for session proposals for joint program: EGEE, OGF and OGF-Europe Dieter Kranzlmueller, EGI Strategic Director speaking at OGF23 (Barcelona, Spain, June 2008). The EGEE User Forum/OGF25 & OGF-Europe’s 2nd International Event builds on a series of highly successful events in Europe, such as OGF20/EGEE User Forum (Manchester, UK, May 2007) and OGF23 which together helped connect over 1500 people from all over the world. Image courtesy of Sergio Andreozzi, INFN  Event: EGEE User Forum /OGF25 & OGF-Europe’s 2nd International EventDate: 2-6 March 2009Venue: Le Ciminiere, Catania, Sicily, ItalySubmission: http://www.gridforum.org/OGF25/cfp.phpSubmission deadline: 15 December 2008Notification: 15 January 2009See Call for abstracts: the 4th EGEE user forum for more information about the event.Session proposals are open for but not limited to:Digital Libraries and Cultural HeritageDigital Media and Digital RepositoriesCollaborative Working EnvironmentsFuture Emerging TechnologiesGreen ITGrids &

Announcement - PRACE hosts scientific workshop during ICT 2008 Image courtesy of PRACE  Scientific Computing in the Petascale Regime: a European HPC Infrastructure PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, is arranging a scientific computing workshop in Lyon on 26 November, to be held in parallel with ICT 2008.The themes of the scientific workshop are applications, architectures and training needs for petascale computing. Participants will receive first-hand information outlining the current status of the PRACE project, including its progress with hardware infrastructure, software applications and training.The workshop will include a networking session at ICT 2008, an evening session and dinner. This is a unique opportunity for additional information sharing and discussions.Both the networking session and the PRACE workshop are designed for European scientists who are likely to benefit from the use of a Europe-wide supercomputing infrastructure.Participation in the first PRACE scientific workshop and dinner is f

Announcement - OnTheMove federated conference, Mexico, 9-14 Nov Image courtesy of starlab.vub.ac.be  Dates: 9-14 November 2008Location: Monterrey, MexicoWeb page Registration OnTheMove (OTM) returns to the North American continent co-locating five related and complementary conferences: DOA: infrastructure, ODBASE: meaning of data, CoopIS: application in organizations, GADA: grid computing, high-performance and distributed applications, IS: information security. All five conferences share the scientific study of the distributed, conceptual and ubiquitous aspects of modern computing systems, and share the resulting application-pull created by the Web. For DOA'08, the primary emphasis will be on the distributed objects underlying the required archtitectures; ODBASE'08 concentrates on the knowledge bases and methods required for enabling semantical use; CoopIS'08 will report on the state of the art on interaction of such technology and methods within an enterprise or networked organization; and for GADA'08, the fo

Announcement - AAF Shibboleth Rollout Workshop, Oct-Nov 2008 Image courtesy of MAMS.  You are invited to free 2-day AAF Shibboleth Workshops in October/November. The workshops will provide technical information and guidance for participants to join the Shibboleth-based MAMS Testbed Federation and preparation for transition to the Australian Access Federation (AAF). The workshop will highlight tools and processes to help participants prepare for deploying Shibboleth for the AAF.When: during October and November 2008Where: various locations throughout Australia (see below)Web site: http://federation.org.au/rollout RSVP  1 week before workshop to Bruc Liong ([email protected] )Locations and Dates:October 13 - 14, Sydney, Macquarie UniversityOctober 16 - 17, Canberra, Australian National UniversityOctober 20 - 21, Queensland, University of QueenslandOctober 27 - 28, Perth, Curtin UniversityNovember 3 - 4, Adelaide, University of South AustraliaNovember 13 - 14, Melbourne, Monash UniversityThe first day of the workshop w

Announcement - NOBUGS 2008, Sydney, Australia, 3-5 November Image courtesy of nbi.ansto.gov.au  New Opportunities for Better User Group Software (NOBUGS) 2008 The next New Opportunities for Better User Group Software meeting will be held in Sydney November 3-5. The aim of the NOBUGS series of conferences is to foster collaboration for developers of computer techniques in scientific instrumentation, especially as employed at large scale user facilities. The conference seeks to improve the user's scientific productivity by focusing on the interaction between the experimenter and the facilities' infrastructures, apparatus, and data.The 7th NOBUGS Conference will feature four themes:Collaborative software development chair: Brent Fultz, CalTechData management chair: Robert McGreevy, ISISData acquisition chair: Mark Knnecke, PSIGrid portals for users chair: Steve Miller, SNSDates (early bird registration, abstract submission and application for student funding are past):Mid-Sept. Selection for presentation29 September Acco

Announcement - New Center for Study of Human Origins Opens in San DiegoUC San Diego , Salk Institute Celebrate Grand Opening of Virtual CenterA multidisciplinary group of researchers at UC San Diego, along with colleagues at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, have established a center to formally explore the origins of humanity and the many facets of what makes us human.Called CARTA for the Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny, the center stems from a 10 year effort coordinated by the UC San Diego Project for Explaining the Origin of Humans (which is the definition of “anthropogeny”).  That group, composed of experts from throughout the world, has organized multi-disciplinary meetings and symposia. Those efforts will now be converted into a larger and more public research program that also will facilitate graduate and undergraduate education.CARTA is based on an effort that has already been underway for about 10 years. Its goals are essentially scholarly, and range from unde

Announcement - Digital geography in a Web 2.0 worldDigital Geography in a Web 2.0 World Monday, 15 September 2008, 10am - 5pm Urbis Museum, Manchester, UKModern Web technologies and approaches have resulted in great changes for geography and geographers.  New research has been made possible by these new technologies.Interest in geography is great—200 million people have downloaded Google Earth—and things like Google Maps and route planners are now taken for granted.How are academics using these new technologies? How are these geographic tools being used by social scientists in general?At this free event we will examine these questions.  We expect it to be of particular interest to geographers, social scientists, academics, policy makers and students.  Attendees will learn about tools the National Centre for eSocial Science (NCeSS) is developing and how the social science community is embracing them.   We'll show urban simulations based on land use transport modeling, but run entirely throu

Announcement - IEEE IPDPS 2009 Call for Papers Image courtesy of ipdps.org  International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2009 Monday, 25 May to Friday, 29 MayRome, Italywww.ipdps.org Call for papers: submissions due 3 October 2008 Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that present original unpublished research in all areas of parallel and distributed processing, including the development of experimental or commercial systems. Work focusing on emerging technologies is especially welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:Parallel and distributed algorithms, focusing on issues such as: stability, scalability, and fault-tolerance of algorithms and data structures for parallel and distributed systems, communication and synchronization protocols, network algorithms, and scheduling and load balancing.Applications of parallel and distributed computing, including web applications, peer-to-peer computing, grid computing, scientific applications, and mobile computing. Papers focusing o

Announcement - Call for papers: Journal of Grid Computing A completed run of the RLM (relocatable local weather forecasting model), which operates as a native Globus application and also is able to interoperate with UNICORE using the broker and other interoperability features developed in the Eurogrid and GRIP projects. Image courtesy of Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) and Southampton (Soton).   Special issue on Grid InteroperabilityThe Journal of Grid Computing will publish a special issue on Grid Interoperability. Interoperability of world-wide grid and e-Science infrastructures and technologies is a major requirement to make the grid a success story like the World Wide Web.Grid computing has now reached the phase when production level resources are available for users to run compute-intensive applications and to access large distributed data collections. Unfortunately, current grid resources are provided as non-interoperable “grid islands” most of them are not accessible from other Grids because different gri

Link of the Week - It's you, the reader! Image courtesy of Kriss Szkurlatowski, sxc.hu What our readers told us in the survey The link of the week this week is  . . . iSGTW, and the subject is you, the readers.Over ten percent of you responded to our 9-question readership survey–double the rate of our previous surveys–and your responses revealed some things we expected. And some things we didn’t.For instance, we found that most subscribers read it once per week, scientists and information technology professionals account for 76% of our readers, nearly half  (48%) are involved with the EGEE project; and the vast majority of our readers (85%) are male.  Most fall between the ages of 31 and 40.But between the survey and some other analytical tools, we also found that while people overwhelmingly prefer articles that are about the same length as now, they also do like longer, in-depth articles on occasion. Despite some glitches with the survey software (thanks to everyone who noticed the improperly

  Announcement - ACM/IEEE HPC Ph.D. Fellowship Program accepting nominations Image courtesy of SC08  The ACM/IEEE Computer Society High Performance Computing (HPC) Ph.D. Fellowship Program is now accepting nominations for its second annual competition. Deadline for submissions: Friday, September 8, 2008.The ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellowship Program honors exceptional Ph.D. students throughout the world with the focus areas of High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. HPC covers the areas of computational sciences, computational engineering, and computer science using the most powerful computers available at a given time. The ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellowship Program also supports the sponsors' long-standing commitment to workforce diversity and encourages nominations of women, minorities and all who contribute to diversity.Fellowships are awarded with a certificate and a stipend of at least $5,000 (US) for one academic year. All ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellows are invited to attend at least one SC con