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Announcement - Crossing boundaries: Computational science, Vol I & II available

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A selection of papers presented at the UK e-Science All Hands conference in Edinburgh on 8-11 September 2008 is now available from the Royal Society as a double issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.
Entitled “Crossing boundaries: computational science, e-Science and global e-Infrastructure I and II” and printed in two volumes, the books contain papers on everything in computation from the use the grid in archaeology to Monte Carlo radiotherapy calculations.
Further information about the content of the issue is available on-line here.
The volumes were compiled and edited by Peter Coveney and Malcolm Atkinson, who are affiliated with the UK’s National Grid Service.
A discounted price is available by directly contacting Debbie Vaughan at the Royal

Announcement - Register now, OGF27, Banff, Canada

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Open Grid Forum 27 (OGF27) will be held as part of the week-long event, Summit 09: Partnerships in CI Development. OGF27 sessions will take place throughout the week of October 12 - 16.
Summit 09 is a culmination of three events that will explore the areas of grid, high performance computing, cloud computing, Web 2.0, business development, computational research, advanced networks, and other emerging cyberinfrastructures.The week-long summit will bring together an international gathering of developers, suppliers, users and others who push the capabilities of the above-mentioned technologies. Presented as three conferences in one, this event will be one of the largest in North America to explore the tools that are changing the ways we investigate, integrate and innovate our business and research practices.The summit will take place October 12 – 16, 2009 in Banff, AB at The Banff Center

Announcement - Deadline extended, abstract submission, 10 July, AHM 2009

The venue for AHM 2009 is the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. Image courtesy National e-Science Center.

The deadline for submission of abstracts to the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2009 in Oxford has been extended to 10 July. 
Authors can expect to be informed of the outcome by 26 August 2009.
The UK e-Science AHM2008 is the principal e-Science meeting in the UK and brings together researchers from all disciplines, computer scientists and developers to meet and exchange ideas. For further information and to submit an abstract please go to our call for abstracts. For any other inquiries please email [email protected]

Announcement - Latin American conference on high performance computing: CLCAR 2009

Choroní Beach, near Maracay, Venezuela
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Event: CLCAR 2009
Venue: Choroní, Aragua State, Venezuela
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Conference: 21-25 September 2009Paper submission: pastPoster submissions due: 20 June

Official languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish
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CLCAR, first held in 2007, will be a forum to share experiences, to review the state of advanced computing in Latin America, and to assimilate the knowledge and practices of researchers in other regions of the world. The CLCAR 2009 agenda is divided into workshops (September 21-22), conferences, oral presentations and poster discussions (September 23-25).CLCAR invites students, scientists and researchers in high performance computing, high throughput computing, parallel and distributed systems, e-science and applications to meet

Announcement - WorldComp 2009, Las Vegas, 13-16 July

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Event: The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing
Venue: Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.
Dates: 13-16 July 2009
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Ian Foster, of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, known as the "father of grid computing", will deliver one of the keynote lectures at WORLDCOMP'09.  Other keynote speakers include Eric Drexler, CTA of Nanorex, Inc., the "father of nanotechnology", and Brian Athey, of the Departments of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School.
WORLDCOMP'09 assembles a spectrum of affiliated research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of computer sci

Announcement - LambdaRail wins contract for US networking to support the LHC

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National LambdaRail, (NLR) the cutting-edge network for advanced research and innovation owned by the U.S. research and education community, announced on 28 May that it was selected to provide ultra high- performance, fiber-optic circuits as part of the network infrastructure to support the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the U.S.
(The implementation, operation and management of this U.S./CERN network infrastructure, called USLHCNet, is jointly overseen by CERN and the California Institute of Technology, or Caltech. The contract was awarded by Caltech through major funding from the  U.S. Department of Energy.)
To contribute effectively to the LHC physics program, U.S. researchers need an extremely high-capacity network, capable of moving up to 100 Petabytes of data per year and that can operate at 99.9+% availability.
NLR will provide tw

Announcement - Call for papers, Cloud Computing Conference, 1 June deadline, Beijing, China

Cloudcom is being organized by the Beijing Jiaotong University, and co-organized by Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and Sun Yat-sen University. Image courtesy  

The deadline for submissions to the First International Conference on Cloud Computing is June 1.
The conference itself is to be held on 1-4 December in Beijing, China.
“Cloud” is a common metaphor for an Internet accessible infrastructure (e.g. data storage and computing hardware) which is hidden from users. Cloud computing makes data truly mobile and a user can simply access a chosen cloud with any internet accessible device. IT-related capabilities are provided as services, accessible without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying technology. Thus, many mature technologies are used as components in cloud computing, but still there are many unresolved and open problems. This

Announcement - Parallel Programming and Cluster Computing, 9-15 August, Norman, OK, U.S.

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Registration is open for Parallel Programming & Cluster Computing, to be held at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK, from 9-15 August.
This workshop will focus on techniques and tools for parallel computing. Much of it will concentrate on distributed parallelism (MPI); in addition, shared memory parallelism (OpenMP), instruction level parallelism, Graphics Processing Unit parallelism and hybrid shared/distributed parallelism are also explored.
Participants will learn about developing, debugging, profiling and tuning of parallel applications across a variety of architectures, using tools from a variety of sources, including GNU, Intel, TotalView, and the Bootable Cluster CD. The material is designed for undergraduate faculty from a variety of disciplines who would like to add parallel computing to their undergraduate teach

Announcement - Call for participation: 5th International Conference on e-Social Science

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The National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS) is organising this conference in collaboration with the German Social Science Infrastructure Services (GESIS).
Venue: Maternushaus, Cologne, Germany
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Meeting: 24 - 26 June 2009 Deadline for booking hotel rooms reserved for Registration deadline: 17 June

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The annual International Conference on e-Social Science brings together leading representatives of the social science, e-Infrastructure, cyberinfrastructure and e-Research communities in order to improve mutual awareness and promote coordinated activities to accelerate research, development and deployment of powerful, new methods and tools for the social sciences and beyond.Keynotes speakers for the conference:

Ian Foster: Director of the Computation Institute

Announcement - Call for participation: eResearch Australia, Sydney, November 09

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Event: eResearch Australia: No boundaries
Venue: Novotel Manly Pacific, Sydney, Australia
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Abstract submissions due (for presentations, BoFs, workshops): 29 JunePoster abstracts due: 21 SeptemberConference: 9-13 NovemberRegistration: (not yet available)

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Researchers, practitioners, and educators from diverse disciplines are invited to participate in eResearch Australasia 2009. This year's theme is No boundaries. What challenges are raised by a world with no boundaries? What potential can we unlock?The conference features speakers and demonstrations from the Australian and international eResearch community and provides:

A catalyst for innovation and collaboration by bringing together researchers, practitioners, and educators from diverse disciplines
A forum to support the development, enhan

Announcement - Register for tutorials at ICCS09, 24 May, Baton Rouge

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Event: Free tutorials at the Ninth annual International Conference on  Computational Science (ICCS 2009)
Hosted by: The Louisiana State University Center for Computation & Technology (CCT)
Venue: Hilton Capitol Center, Baton Rouge, LA, U.S.
Dates:

Tutorials: Sunday, 24 May 2009Conference: 25-27 May 2009

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ICCS 2009 brings together scientific researchers from around  the world to discuss the latest high-performance computing  developments and breakthroughs. The tutorials are free, but participants must register for them in advance. Tutorial attendees do not need to  pay full-conference registration to attend. Participants who plan to  attend ICCS 2009 do not need to pay any additional fees to attend the  tutorial sessions, but should register for them ahead of time.The ICCS 2009 t

Announcement - DOE accepting proposals until July 1 for use of supercomputing resources through INCITE program

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced April 16 it is accepting proposals for a program to support high-impact scientific advances through the use of some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers located at DOE national laboratories.  Approximately 1.3 billion supercomputer processor-hours will be awarded in 2010 through the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program for large-scale, computationally intensive projects addressing some of the toughest challenges in science and engineering.“The INCITE program is instrumental in driving America’s leadership in science, which is vital for our economic prosperity, energy security and global competitiveness,” said Michael Strayer, DOE Associate Director of Science for Advanced Scientific Computing Research.  &ldqu