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Announcement - Register now for TF-Media meeting and GRNET workshop

The Greek Research and Technology Network, GRNET, will host the first TF-Media meeting on 18-19 March 2010, in Athens, Greece. The TF-Media task force meeting will be preceded by a GRNET workshop on academic media casting on 18 March 2010.
Registration for both events is free. There is no registration deadline, but only a limited number of spaces are available for each event.
TF-Media was established under the auspices of TERENA to collect ideas, knowledge and experiences about technical, administrative, and legal aspects of federated multimedia production, management and distribution services on a pan-European scale. Meetings organised by TF-Media enable task force participants to coordinate and/or collaborate on these issues.
TF-Media meeting
The upcoming TF-Media meeting will begin in the afternoon of 18 March with a brief report of recent media-related events, including sessions that took place at the APAN conferenc

Announcement - Applications due for grid application porting school

The South African National Grid is the primary sponsor for The School for Grid Application Porting. Image courtesy of SAGrid.

The School for Grid Application Porting is now accepting applications from students with experience in shell programming.
The event, which is sponsored by the South African National Grid, EGEE II, and GILDA, will take place 15-26 March 2010 in Johannesburg. It will be hosted by University of Johannesburg and University of Witwatersrand.
In scientific research, collaboration, resource sharing, advanced computing facilities and data are enabling the acceleration of discovery, innovation, and efficiency more than ever. The grid computing paradigm is a crucial aspect of today's e-Science, and national infrastructures have been deployed worldwide, with a strong emphasis on usability, interoperability and collaboration. However, development and support of the user communities is just as crucial as tha

Announcement - Call for submissions: TeraGrid ’10

Participants can now submit papers and abstracts for the Science, Technology, Gateways, and Education tracks, and abstracts for all other parts of the TeraGrid’10 conference.
The conference, which will take place 2-5 August 2010 at the Sheraton Station Square Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will showcase the capabilities and achievements of the nation’s largest open-access scientific discovery infrastructure.
Science, Technology, Gateways, Education Track Submissions Work for all Science, Technology, Gateways, and Education tracks not previously published in another venue, presented, or currently under consideration at another conference may be submitted as a paper or abstract. Papers should be no more than eight pages; abstracts should be no more than one page in length. Work previously published in another venue, presented, or currently under consideration at another conference may be submitted as a one-page abstract

Announcement: Abstracts due for Conference on Grid and Visualization Systems

The audience participates at MIPRO 2009. Image courtesy of MIPRO.

Abstract submissions for the Conference on Grid and Visualization Systems, also known as GVS, are due 25 January 2010.
GVS will take place as part of MIPRO 2010, a larger convention focused on information and communication technology, electronics, and microelectronics. MIPRO 2010 will take place 24-28 May 2010 in Opatija (also known as Abbazia), Croatia.
GVS is devoted to presenting and exploring scientific and technological advancements and original innovative applications in the fields of grids and visualization systems.
Grid-related topics include, but are not limited to:

Grid systems
Grid applications
Cluster computing
Parallel Program Development
Web and Grid services
Distributed applications on the WWW
Web Services Applications
Network supported cooperative work
Virtual organizations
e-Science technologies
Multimedia an

Announcement - Call for papers: eChallenges, 27-29 October

eChallenges e-2010 Conference & Exhibition takes place in Warsaw, Poland, 27 - 29 October. This is the twentieth in a series of Annual Conferences supported by the European Commission which regularly attract over 650 delegates from commercial, government, and research organizations around the world to share knowledge and experience, lessons learnt and good practice.
eChallenges is 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 Call for Papers.
eChallenges e-2010 will focus on Applied ICT research topics addressing major societal and economic challenges. The programme will combine strategic keynote presentations, technical and policy papers, case studies, workshops, an exhibition and social activitie

Announcement - Call for papers: First ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing

The ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2010 is the first in a new series of symposia with the aim of bringing together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners interested in cloud computing. This series is co-sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Groups on Management of Data and on Operating Systems. ACM SOCC will be held in conjunction with ACM SIGMOD and ACM SOSP Conferences in alternate years, starting with ACM SIGMOD in 2010.
The scope of SOCC Symposia will be broad and will encompass diverse systems topics such as software as a service, virtualization, and scalable cloud data services. Many facets of systems and data management issues will need to be revisited in the context of cloud computing. Suggested topics for paper submissions include but are not limited to:

Administration and Manageability
Data Privacy
Data Services Architectures
Distributed and Parallel Query Processing
Energy Management
Geogra

Link of the week: GridCast at e-Science Oxford 2009

Attendees chat at the GridPP booth. Photo courtesy of Neason O'Neill, GridPP.

Last week saw computational scientists, technologists and researchers congregate at the Kassam Stadium, Oxford for the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2009 and the 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science.
The conference was an opportunity for participants to share, discuss and advance the exciting research that has grown out of the e-Science programme as well as to highlight related activities from around the world.
Conversation and debate at the conference were lively but for those who missed out, the week's events were discussed and documented over at the GridCast blog.
Posts ranged from discussions on user engagement, classical art databases and, of course, the rainy British weather. As one of the key conference themes, there were many examples of e-science for the humanities, with the opening talk of the week given by Helen Bailey of the e-Dance p

Announcement - EGEE User Forum abstracts deadline extended

It’s not too late to submit an abstract for the 5th EGEE User Forum, thanks to the new extended deadline of 14 December 2009.
Abstracts on the following general topics are welcome:

Planned or on-going scientific work and results obtained using distributed computing technologies,
Data-intensive and data-oriented distributed applications,
Experiences from application porting and deployment of existing software in distributed computing environments,
Software services exploiting and/or extending grid middleware (gLite, ARC, UNICORE etc),
Programming environments,
End-user environments, scientific gateways and portal technologies,
Emerging technologies within the European distributed computing infrastructures (cloud, virtualization etc), National and international activities and collaborations for share and exploitation of e-Infrastructures,
Support services and tools for user communities.

Abstracts can be submitted at

Announcement - Stream Computing Workshop

Pictured here, Stockholm at night. Photo courtesy of venteco at www.sxc.hu.

Registration is now open for a free Stream Computing Workshop which will take place 7-10 December at KTH in Stockholm, Sweden.
The event is jointly sponsored by the Stockholm Stream Computing Center and PRACE. Contributions from AMD, NVIDIA, Stockholm Univeristy and Synvective have been confirmed.
“The workshop will offer an introduction to Open CL and stream/GPU programming. It will consist of lectures and hands-on experiences in using OpenCL on state-of-the-art stream processors It will also offer lectures on stream processor architectures and programming tools for stream processors and multi-core systems. Lectures reporting on successful use of stream processors in scientific applications will also be offered. The workshop is suitable for scientist and graduate students with interest in exploiting stream processing for applications. It requires good programming

Announcement of the week - iSGTW goes interactive at SuperComputing 2009

With approximately 11 000 people in attendance, SuperComputing 2009 is the place to be 14-20 November. In fact, there’s so much going on that even those who are in attendance couldn’t possibly see or do everything.
That’s why we’re setting up SC09@iSGTW, your one-stop site for information on SuperComputing 2009. People who want to follow the conference from home will have access to our Twitter feed and blog posts via SC09@iSGTW. For those who are attending the event, we’ll have a schedule of the hottest events – including opportunities to interact with iSGTW staff and partners.
SC09@iSGTW will go live on 14 November. In the meantime, here’s an advance look at what we have in store for you:

Follow our team Twitter account, @isgtw, for pint-sized live updates on the conference.
Whether you use Twitter or not, you can follow our updates during major conference hours using our

Announcement - IPDPS 2010, 19-23 April, Atlanta, USA

For five days in April, Atlanta, Georgia will be host to the 24th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium.
According to the website, “IPDPS is an international forum for engineers and scientists from around the world to present their latest research findings in all aspects of parallel computation. In addition to technical sessions of submitted paper presentations, the meeting offers workshops, tutorials, and commercial presentations and exhibits.”
The event will take place 19-23 April at the Downtown Sheraton Atlanta. Although the call for papers has already closed, a number of workshops will take place at the conference, most of which are accepting abstracts or papers through the end of November. These include:

Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop
Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop
Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models & Supportive Environments
Workshop on Nature Inspired D