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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

Announcement - NorduGrid in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 3-7 May

The annual NorduGrid conference will take place 3-7 May 2010 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
This series of conferences gathers the user and development communities of the Advanced Resource Connector middleware by NorduGrid. In 2010, the conference is dedicated to ARC’s role in the future EGI infrastructure.
Registration is due 2 May 2010, and will cost 50 Euros.
To learn more, please visit the conference website.

Research Report - Turning the microscope inwards: Studying scientific software ecosystems As an example, this slide displays the logos of all of the software in the Eclipse software ecosystem. Image courtesy of James Howison and James Herbsleb. Almost every workflow that generates scientific results today involves software: from configuration and control of instruments, to statistical analysis, simulation and visualization. This means that creating and maintaining software is a significant activity in scientific laboratories, including science and engineering virtual organizations. Our research group at Carnegie Mellon University is examining scientific software as an ecosystem, seeking to understand the circumstances in which software is created and shared. The goal of this Open Science Grid project is to identify effective practices and provide input to science funding policy. Towards this end, the OSG/CMU Scientific Software Ecosystem Workshop was held 16-17 February 2010 in Los

Announcement - HPC 2010 Advanced Workshop in Cetraro, Italy

Registration is now open for the High Performance Computing, Grids, and Clouds Workshop, which will take place 21-25 June in Cetraro, Italy.
According to the website, the aim of the workshop is to discuss future developments in HPC technologies, and to assess grid and cloud computing technology, with special emphasis on solutions to deployment.
Over the course of the event, over forty invited papers will be presented. Several sessions will focus on grid and cloud computing; invited speakers from different sectors, public and private, will debate the most critical issues related to grid and cloud development strategies for both research and enterprise. More information is available at the conference website.
Although registration is free, the attendance will be limited, so early registration is recommended. To register, fill out the registration form and mail it to [email protected].

Link of the week - eScience and Google Summer of Code

This summer marks the sixth edition of Google Summer of Code. Around 1000 student programmers from around the world will be offered a $5000 stipend to work with one of 152 open source mentor organizations, creating a substantial body of new open source code.
Last week Google announced this year’s list of participating open source projects, and a number of them are closely tied with grids, clouds, or computer-assisted science.
Is your project missing from this list? Email us to have it added!
ASCEND – A software program for solving small to very large mathematical models, including non-linear equations, linear and non-linear optimization problems, and dynamic systems expressed in the form of differential/algebraic equations.
Encyclopedia of Life – A single portal providing information on all 1.9 million known species by aggregating data from thousands of sites using novel informatics tools. Sponsored by the Marine Biol

Announcement - DEISA PRACE Symposium 2010 in Barcelona

DEISA, the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications, and PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, are organizing a second event in High Performance Computing: the DEISA PRACE Symposium 2010.
The symposium will take place 10-12 May in Barcelona, Spain. It will be hosted by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) at the famous Casa Milà, also known as “La Pedrera” (a modernist building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí).
The theme of this symposium is “Advancements in PetaFlop-Computing.” The symposium covers both European and international developments. The event is of major interest to a broad audience: computational scientists, HPC technology experts, government representatives, vendors, and industry partners.
Keynote speakers from across the world will outline their strategic perspectives of High Performance Computing (HPC). During the fir

Announcement - IX DOSAR Workshop, 6-8 April

An aerial view of the Kwa Maritane Bush Lodge, where the event will take place.

Registration for the ninth DOSAR Workshop, which takes place 6-8 April 2010 in Pilanesburg, South Africa, is now open.
The Distributed Organization for Scientific and Academic Research (DOSAR) congregates institutions from the southern US, Latin America, and South Africa that are involved in the development of grid computing technology for major high energy physics experiments.
The DOSAR Workshop series is designed as an instrument to improve the relationship among all groups and exchange information about the latest developments in the various analysis centers.
This workshop will be held at the Kwa Maritane Game Lodge, which is in Pilanesburg, two hours drive from Johannesburg, South Africa. The local organizing committee is the University of Johannesburg.
The workshop will cover:

Shared infrastructure
Storage element - design strategy, topology, file syste

Feature - OSG All Hands Meeting

Attendees visited vendor tables to network and watch demonstrations at the first ever vendor and e-demonstration session to run at an OSG All Hands Meeting.
Image by Miriam Boon.

Last week, 183 researchers and vendors gathered at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois for the Open Science Grid’s annual All Hands Meeting.
In addition to hosting workshops for CMS and ATLAS computing meetings, sessions covered a variety of topics, including security, virtualization, cloud computing, biology applications, reports from European colleagues, and the future of US cyberinfrastructure. This year also marked the first vendor and e-demonstration session.
Several people expressed pleasure at the dynamic discussions that occurred during the panel-style sessions, said Paul Avery, a researcher at the University of Florida and co-chair of the OSG Consortium Council. Kent Blackburn, Avery’s fellow co-chair and a researcher with LIGO Caltech, suggested that the inc

Announcement - Early registration available, TERENA Networking Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania

Vilinius, Lithuania. Image courtesy TERENA.

TERENA invites you to register for this year’s TERENA Networking Conference (TNC 2010), which will take place in Vilnius, Lithuania, from 31 May - 3 June. “Living the network life” is the theme of TNC 2010, including talks about multi-federation and peer-to-peer roaming, ultra high-definition streaming media distribution, user interaction based on new human-machine interface design principles and new innovative tools for distance teaching and e-collaboration.
Take advantage of the early registration rates, available until April 9 midnight. Registration can be done online or using a downloadable form. Back by popular demand this year, students can apply to attend the conference free of charge: a limited number of free registration places will be available for bona fide postgraduate students. Information about all registration options

Image of the Week - ISGC 2010, Taipei, Taiwan

Image courtesy GridTalk

 
It’s hard to get a sense of Asia, but thanks to GridTalk’s GridCast you’re not too far removed from the International Symposium on Grid Computing 2010.Get some feedback from the conference room floor, hear the word on the street via twitter, see podcasts (available soon).Held from 5 March to 13 March, the event promises to showcase grid technologies and connect developers, users and newcomers to distributed computing in Asia. Come along and check out the benefits of grid computing for business and research, now and in the future.Can’t make it? The GridCast team will be there to blog the latest on all that's happening!  

Announcement - CCGrid 2010: Call for research and product demos

The 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid) is now accepting proposals for demonstrations from laboratories or research groups.
Academic, government, or industrial groups are invited to showcase new innovations and technologies in cloud computing, high performance computing, and scientific applications at the CCGrid 2010 conference. CCGrid is an international conference for presenting the latest breakthroughs in cluster, cloud, and grid technologies.
Although demos related to the emerging cloud computing and GPU-based computing areas are of particular interest, demos from all areas within the scope of CCGrid 2010 are welcome. The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

Scientific, engineering, commercial or e-science applications using cloud computing
Middleware
Demonstrable open-challenges
Resource management
Scheduling and load balancing
Programm