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September 30, 2009
Announcement - Eighth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing now accepting papers

Announcement - Eighth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing now accepting papers

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The paper submission deadline for the Eighth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5 2010) is 23 October 2009.
This year the conference will take place 25-28 January 2010 in La Jolla, California, a suburb of San Diego. According to their website, “C5 is an international forum for presenting ongoing work as well as new work currently under development and for discussing future needs and directions in creative computing and multimedia authoring environments. We welcome equally the submission of theoretical and technical papers, practitioner/experience reports and papers that bridge the gap between theory and practice.”
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Collaboration & Communication
Technology-Human Interaction
Visualization
Virtual Worlds
Social Network

September 30, 2009
Announcement - Visualization Challenge entries due 6 October

Announcement - eResearch Australasia Visualization Challenge entries due 6 October

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This year, entrants in the eResearch Australasia Visualization Challenge will submit visualizations of financial markets in order to make a bid for the A$5000 prize for the winning entry.
Entries, which are due 6 October, will include a static image or video that showcases each entrant’s visualization of a financial market data set provided by the contest organizers. These must be accompanied by an explanation of the visualization design and the analysis or modeling techniques used, along with an explanation of major insights the entrant gained by participating in the Challenge, and a discussion of potential educational applications of the visualization.
The winning entry, which will be chosen by an international interdisciplinary panel of judges, will be chosen based on the following criteria:

Truthfulness of the data representation
How well the visual

September 23, 2009
ICPADS09 advance registration deadline

Advanced registration deadline for ICPADS09

The Shenzhen skyline. Image courtesy of IEEE ICPADS 2009.

Advanced registration for the Fifteenth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS09) closes on 1 October, after which prices will rise by over $100.
This year the event will take place in Shenzhen, China, 8-11 December 2009.
According to the event's website, ICPADS 2009 provides an international forum for scientists, engineers, and users to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and latest research results on all aspects of parallel and distributed systems.
Keynote speakers include Kai Hwang from the University of Southern California, Xiaodong Zhang from the Ohio State University, Sajal K. Das from the University of Texas at Arlington, and Denis Caromel from INRIA Sophia Antipolis-CNRS.
 
 
 

September 23, 2009
SEE-GRID-SCI User Forum 2009: Abstract deadline

SEE-GRID-SCI User Forum 2009: Abstract deadline

Logo courtesy of SEE-GRID-SCI User Forum 2009.

Abstract submissions are due on September 30 for the SEE-GRID-SCI User Forum 2009 (that stands for South-East European Grid eInfrastructure for regional eScience).
The event will take place 9-10 December 2009 at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey. The event will focus on parallel and distributed computing, with a focus on seismology, meteorology, environmental protection, and other research fields in the earth sciences.
Topics of interest for submissions include, but are not limited to:

Featured topic: earth sciences and the grid, with a main focus on grid applications related to seismology, meteorology and environmental protection
Advanced grid applications and workflows
Grid architecture, systems and middleware
Grid resource management
Distributed information management
Distributed storage systems
Formal models for grid computing
Parallel and distributed programming languages

September 2, 2009
Announcement - Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research workshop deadlines approach

Announcement – Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research workshop deadlines approach

Registration and abstract submission deadlines for the next Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research workshop (ACAT) are fast approaching.
The workshop is scheduled to take place 22-27 February 2010 in Jaipur, India, a five hour drive from New Delhi. This year’s slogan is, “Beyond the cutting edge in computing.” There will be a fair amount of discussion of distributed computing – on the event website’s front page, they mention the potential clouds have to change the way we do science.

“…all levels of virtualisation imagined till now seem to be possible via Clouds, and possibly many more. Information Technology has been the working backbone of the Global Village, and now, in more than one sense, it is becoming itself the Global Village. Between these two, the gap between the need for adapting applications to exploit

September 2, 2009
Announcement - Fifth International Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering now accepting abstracts

Announcement – Fifth International Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering now accepting abstracts

The Fifth International Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering (CWE2010) is now accepting abstracts for posters and oral presentations.
CWE2010, which will take place 23-27 May in Chapel Hill, NC, “will provide a platform for discussing and exchanging the latest information associated with the application of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations to wind engineering problems and the tremendous advances in CFD technology in the past several years,” according to the event’s website.
The theme for 2010 is computational wind engineering applications for homeland and societal security. Four related plenary sessions are planned on the following topics:

Applying Computational Wind Engineering to Practice: Perspectives from the Political, Academic, Corporate, and Public Sector Community
Trends in High Performance Computing for Wind Engineering
Development,

August 19, 2009
Announcement - NGS Innovation Forum '09, London, UK

Announcement - NGS Innovation Forum '09, London, UK

If you’d like to learn more about the United Kingdom’s National Grid Service, you’ll have the chance this October at the NGS Innovation Forum ’09.
NGS provides both grid and cloud computing resources and support to academics involved in research based in the UK. At Innovation Forum ’09, you’ll have the opportunity to learn more about NGS – including how to get started using it.
The event website states:

The first day is aimed primarily at researchers and will give an introduction to the NGS along with presentations by current NGS users demonstrating how the NGS has helped their research and the benefits they have gained. There will also be plenty of opportunity for networking and gathering feedback from delegates through a variety of breakout sessions covering topics such as research communities, data handling, user support, software licensing and site integration with the NGS. Further suggestio

August 5, 2009
Announcement - Grid Computing Environment 2009 Workshop call for papers

Announcement - Grid Computing Environment 2009 Workshop call for papers

If you’re thinking of submitting a paper for the Grid Computing Environment Workshop, there’s still time before the 13 September deadline.
GCE09 will be taking place Friday, 20 November during SuperComputing 2009 in Portland, Oregon. The workshop will consist of 30-minute presentations of peer-reviews papers, which will later be published via the Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library website.
The workshop website states:
“Web technologies evolve rapidly, and trends such as cloud computing are changing the way many scientific users expect to interact with resources. Academic clouds are being created using open source cloud technologies. Important web standards such as Open Social and OAuth are changing the way Web portals are build, shared, and secured. It is the goal of the GCE workshop series to provide venue for researchers to present pioneering, peer-reviewed work on these and othe

August 5, 2009
Announcement - Research3 workshop paper submissions due 21 August

Announcement - Research3 workshop paper submissions due 21 August

A workshop covering the impact and influence of Web 2.0 on e-Research will take place on 13 October 2009 at Open Grid Forum 27 as part of the Summit09 conference in Banff, Alberta.
The event website states, “This workshop aims to assess, evaluate and explore the emerging Web 2.0-based services and applications that are up-and-coming, and being used for development purposes.”
Topics covered will include:

Infrastructure and Services

The use and development of Cloud-based services,
Using RESTful services for communication,
The applications of mash-ups and using other Web 2.0 technologies,
Web 2.0 security versus existing security,
Using virtualisation technologies for application and services,
Compare and contrast existing services with emerging Web 2.0 technologies,
Combining the Semantic Web with Web 2.0.

Applications

Using data and services mash-ups,
The development

August 5, 2009
Announcement - SLA in Grids Workshop paper submissions due 8 August

Announcement - Service Level Agreements in Grids Workshop paper submissions due 8 August

There are only a few days left to submit a paper for the Service Level Agreements in Grids Workshop taking place at Summit 09 in Banff, Canada.
The workshop will address mechanisms for reaching an agreement “on the objectives and the quality” of the service a grid provides its users. Topics of interest include:

Areas benefiting from SLAs
Languages to express SLAs (e.g. SLOs, BLOs, QoS, Guarantees, Penalties)
Protocols to conclude and negotiate SLAs
Technologies for management and observation of SLAs
Static vs. Dynamic SLAs
Business models & Grid economy
Negotiation and agreement protocols and strategies
Validation techniques for SLA parameters
Comparison and matchmaking of SLA and policy descriptions
Managing user expectations via SLAs
Multi-party SLAs and SLA chaining
SLA-based resource discovery, co-scheduling and resource reservation
Registry Services and repositories fo

July 22, 2009
Announcement - Register for the 7th International GridKa School

Announcement - Register for the 7th International GridKa School

A presentation at last year's GridKa School

Attendees engage in some leisure time at GridKa School 2008

A group photo of the "graduates" of GridKa School 2008

This summer, researchers and administrators of all levels have the opportunity to learn more about grid computing and e-Science at the seventh annual GridKa School.
The one-week event, which takes place 31 August through 4 September, is organized by the Steinbuch Centre for Computing at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, together with the project "Sustainable Grid Infrastructure" (a part of the D-Grid initiative), the HGF Alliance "Physics at the Terascale," and the project 'Enabling Grids for E-Science.' Participants will have the chance to learn about the sponsoring projects, among others.
About half of the school consists of hands-on tutorials and workshops, giving participants the opportunity to gain actual exp

July 15, 2009
Announcement - Register now, OGF27, Banff, Canada

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

July 15, 2009
Link - Live, from Brazil

Link of the Week -  BELIEF, live from Brazil

São Paulo, Brazil, host to the BELIEF-II conference, at night. Image courtesy Yan Boechat, stock.xchng

So, you are at the BELIEF-II conference in Brazil, and you want to find out about the different projects and initiatives involving researchers from across the world?
Want to know more about how BELIEF-II, also known as “Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers - Phase II,” relates to South America?
Or hear about how their achievements and findings are deployed among the manifold research organizations?
Learn about collaborating and bringing together new ideas, initiatives and technology in the search for concrete advanced results within the world of e-Infrastructures?
What about how to say “I would like a coffee” in Portuguese?
(“Gostaria de um café.”)
Meet the bloggers, then tune in to the blogs on the GridCast website.
And while you’re

July 8, 2009
Announcement - Deadline extended, abstract submission, 10 July, AHM 2009

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]

 

July 8, 2009
News of the Week - HealthGrid roundup

News of the Week - HealthGrid roundup

Brandenburg Gate. Image courtesy stock.xchng 

 

Last week, Berlin hosted the 7th HealthGrid conference, from 29 June – 1 July. The feeling pervading the event was that the HealthGrid community had progressed a long way — and yet for grids to reach their full promise in the area of health care, a lot of work remains.“I first participated in the conference three years ago in 2006,” said Xin Zhou, a conference presenter and maintainer of the grid infrastructure inside the University of Geneva Hospital. He added, “Back then, we were talking about ‘the plan.’ Many people then presented what they were going to do; now they are presenting the applications. This represents real progress in the research domain and shows movement towards practice.”Simple intuitive interfaces, appealing to non-specialist users, were an oft-called for commodity. In a demonstration of just such an interface, Tobi

June 17, 2009
Announcement - Latinamerican Conference on High Performance Computing 2009

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
Dates:

Conference: 21-25 September 2009Paper submission: pastPoster submissions due: 20 June

Official languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish
Conference Web site
Registration 
Contact

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

June 17, 2009
Announcement - Symbolic and numeric algorithms for scientific computing, 26-29 September

Announcement - 2nd call for papers: Symbolic and numeric algorithms for scientific computing, 26-29 September

Timisoara, Romania, Bega River
Image courtesy of Vlad Radian

 

Event: 11th International Symposium on symbolic and numeric algorithms for scientific computing (SYNASC 2009)
Venue: Timisoara, Romania
Dates:

Symposium: 26-29 September 2009 Paper submission deadline (extended): 21 JuneNotification of acceptance: 15 AugustRegistration deadline: 1 SeptemberFinal paper: 15 September

Symposium Web site
Paper submission
Workshops
Tutorials

SYNASC aims to stimulate the interaction between the two scientific communities of symbolic and numeric computing, with the purpose of exhibiting interesting applications of these areas both in theory and in practice.  The choice of this topic  is motivated by the belief of the organizers that dialogue between the two communities is necessary in order to make significant progress in making the computer a truly i

June 17, 2009
Announcement - WorldComp 2009

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
Meeting Web site
Registration 
Contact
Conferences

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

June 3, 2009
Announcement - IEEE eScience conference: eHumanities track

Announcement - Call for papers: eScience Conference, eHumanities Track

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Event: IEEE eScience Conference: eHumanities Track
Venue: Oxford, UK
Dates:

Conference: 9-11 December 2009 Paper submission deadline: 31 JulyNotification of acceptance: 1 SeptemberFinal submission, camera-ready: 18 September

Paper submission guidelines
Contact

This event will focus on applications and infrastructures for re-usability, integration and interoperability of research data for e-Humanities, addressing such issues as the interoperability of existing tools to enable more complex workflows, and shared virtual research environments for typical work environments of Humanities scholars.
Several large existing initiatives are facing the huge problem of fragmentation and heterogeneity in research in the Humanities, which has repercussions on formats and encodings for datasets, the ways of analyzing phenomena and the traditions of scholarly discourse. This e-

May 20, 2009
Announcement - 2009 caBIG Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

Announcement - 2009 caBIG® Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

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Event: caBIG® 2009: Solving basic and clinical research challenges in cancer and beyond
Venue: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, D.C., U.S.
Dates:

Meeting: 20-22 July 2009 Deadline for booking hotel rooms at discounted rate: 19 JuneAbstract submissions due: 29 May

Meeting Web site
Registration 
Preliminary program

Attendees will hear how caBIG® is accelerating biomedical research through interoperable tools, infrastructure, standards, and policies that enable data-sharing and collaborations that transcend institutional, geographical, and disciplinary boundaries. The meeting will feature:

Case studies and best practices in clinical trials management, in vivo imaging, molecular analysis, tissue banking and pathology, and data-sharing and security
Tips on implementing, adapting, and customizing caBIG® tools and infrastructure
Presentations o

May 6, 2009
iSGTW Announcement - Call for participation: eResearch Australia, 9-13 Nov

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

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Event: eResearch Australia: No boundaries
Venue: Novotel Manly Pacific, Sydney, Australia
Dates:

Abstract submissions due (for presentations, BoFs, workshops): 29 JunePoster abstracts due: 21 SeptemberConference: 9-13 NovemberRegistration: (not yet available)

Meeting Web site
Call for participation
Contact

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

May 6, 2009
iSGTW Announcement - Call for workshop proposals for Summit 09, Banff, CA

Announcement - Call for workshop proposals: Summit 09: Partnerships in CI Development

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Event: Summit 09: Partnerships in CI DevelopmentThree events in one:

Open Grid Forum 27
IEEE Grid 2009
Cybera/CANARIE Summit

Venue: Banff, Alberta, Canada
Dates:

Summit: 12-16 October 2009 Proposal deadline Peer-reviewed (past): 4 MayProposal deadline Non-peer-reviewed: 31 JulyRegistration opens: 4 May

Summit Web site
Registration
Contact
Program

Summit 09 is accepting session and workshop proposals on innovative work and ideas from academia, industry and government regarding, challenges, opportunities, lessons learned and future directions around topics related to advanced computing and cyberinfrastructure.Topics include:

cloud computing
HPC/grid resource providers
service-oriented networks
network-enabled platforms and virtual organizations
social networking, web 2.0
green IT
other emerging cyberinfrastructure

 

May 6, 2009
iSGTW Announcement - Free Tutorials at Intl conference on computational science

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

Meeting Web site
Tutorial Registration

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

April 22, 2009
iSGTW Announcement - Workshop on large scale computations on grids

Announcement - Second call for papers with extended deadline: LaSCoG,  Wroclaw, Poland

Old town square, Wroclaw, Poland
Image courtesy of Jerry Modrak, Bilderberg/Peter Arnold, Inc. 

 

Event: 5th Workshop on Large Scale Computations on Grids 2009 (LaSCoG'09) held in conjunction with the 7th international conference on parallel processing and applied mathematics (PRAM 2009)
Venue: Wroclaw, Poland
Dates:

Extended submission deadline: 30 April 2009Workshop: 13-16 September 2009Paper acceptance : 31 MayCamera-ready papers: 31 October

Workshop Web site

Computational grids are collections of distributed, possibly heterogeneous resources which can be used as ensembles to execute large-scale applications. While the vision of the global computational grid is extremely appealing,  there remains a lot of work on all levels to achieve it. In this context, the LaSCoG workshop is envisioned as a forum  to promote exchange of ideas and results aimed at add

April 8, 2009
iSGTW Announcement - Call for posters: TERENA networking conference 2009

Announcement - Call for posters: TERENA networking conference 2009 Málaga, Spain Image courtesy of ercim.lcc.uma.es   Proposals for poster presentations for this year's TERENA Networking Conference are cordially requested by the Program Committee.Conference venue: University of Málaga, Málaga, SpainConference dates: 8-11 June 2009Early registration ends: 10 April Poster proposal submission deadline: 24 April Poster proposal submission: send 100-250 word abstract to [email protected]. Please include your full name, address and affiliation.Conference Web site and registration Poster presentations on all subjects relevant to the spirit and objectives of the conference are welcome: to present, discuss and learn about the latest developments in networking technology for the research and education community and their use by the community. Selected posters will be displayed in an area close to the parallel sessions and also on the conference website.The full preliminary programme is now available.&