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Podcasting from beam day In the control room of ATLAS, where there was a champagne toast shortly after the first beam successfully completed its 27 kilometer circuit.Image courtesy of iSGTW, GridTalk and GridCast. Today is the big day for all the sites involved in the superconducting supercollider. Click here, on the image at right, or on the GridCast page, to see the final moments in the control rooms, as the clock ticks away toward the startup.  (All times in the subtitles are approximate.)

Announcement - EGEE 2008 Business Track Networking at the STFC/EGEE Workshop on Distributed Computing, London, May 2008. Image courtesy of EGEE  Driving Grid Adoption, Fostering IT InnovationEGEE ’08 Business Track22-23 September 2008 Istanbul, TurkeyThe EGEE ’08 Business Track is the third in a successful series of dedicated sessions designed to bring the benefits of grid and related technologies to the attention of businesses that have not yet looked at these for their innovation.The Business Track will connect grid experts, end users and IT innovators to explore new opportunities for the adoption of distributed computing by engaging with EGEE through set processes designed to promote industrial involvement and collaborative developments. “The Business Track offers a prime opportunity to learn from an expert panel of developers and users, showcase success stories and pave the ground for future collaborative developments supported by EGEE’s Business Programme”, says Bob Jones, EGEE Project Direc

  Image of the week - One view of the LHC (Click on this link or the photo above to get the rotating, 360-degree, panoramic view, with natural sound.)One view of the Large Hadron Collider To give an idea of the enormity of the project at CERN, Peter McCready took a series of panoramic views of each of the  experiments. Last week, we showed ALICE, here's a view of one portion of the LHC. McCready creates these images using digital cameras mounted atop a customized tripod apparatus that allows him to take wrap-around images of up to a complete 360 rotation. Each image requires more than one hundred separate, individual photoraphs to be shot, which are then stitched together to form one seamless spherical image. The completed photo takes up 40MP. Image courtesy of Peter McCready    

Image of the week - Back to the Big Bang Image courtesy of Neason O'Neill Last week the Royal Society held its annual Summer Science exhibition in central London. With 23 science exhbitis, two art exhibits and two history of science exhibits, several thousand visitors got the chance to meet and talk to the researchers behind the best of the UK’s science and technology research.This year the Large Hadron Collider and the grid were on display with the “Back to the Big Bang? At the Large Hadron Collider” exhibit organised by the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council.Full details of all the science on display this year is available on the exhibition’s Web site http://www.summerscience.org.uk/. Next year’s Summer Science Exhibition will take place from Tuesday 30 June to Saturday 4 July 2009.. 

  Announcement - First Call for Papers: The 4th CISSE International Conference, December 08 Sponsored by the University of Bridgeport.Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and Communications Society (Connecticut Section). Image courtesy of CISSE  The Fourth International Joint Conferences on  Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (CISSE 2008) December 5-13, 2008via the InternetCISSE 2008 provides a virtual forum for presentation and discussion of the state-of the-art research on computers, information and systems sciences and engineering. CISSE is the World's first Engineering/Computing and Systems Research E-Conference.The virtual conference will be conducted through the Internet using web-conferencing tools, made available by the conference.Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers electronically in Microsoft Word format through the conference Web site.  Accepted papers must be presented in the virtual conference by one of the authors. CISSE 2008 is compos

  Image of the week - Letting off steam Everyone needs a little release now and then, even at OGF23, where members of the BEinGrid project took time out one afternoon to demonstrate their skills at tae kwon do in a conference room, while grid-releated slides flickered in the background. Photographer Sergio Andreozzi declined to participate—but did take pictures, which he then put on his blog and on the GridTalk website as a GridCast and as a slide show. (Hint: if you click through them really fast, they look like a slow-motion sequence in a Jackie Chan movie.) Image courtesy of Sergio Andreozzi, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), CNAF    

Feature - Optical network key to next-generation e-research Larry Smarr at TeraGrid 2008. Image courtesy of Shandra Williams, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. At the TeraGrid '08 conference, UC San Diego’s Larry Smarr urges university campuses to remove network bottlenecks to supercomputer users.“All the pieces are in place for a revolution in the usability of remote high-performance computers to advance science across many disciplines,” says Larry Smarr, director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). Imagine scientists all over the world analyzing a complex dataset while interacting as if they were physically in the same room—it’s coming.“The last ten years have established the state, regional, national and global optical networks needed for this revolution, but the bottleneck is on the user’s campus,” says Smarr. He urges campuses to invest in local ‘data freeway’ systems —switche

Announcement - The 2008 International Conference on Grid Computing and Applications, Las Vegas, NV Image courtesy of GCA 2008The 2008 International Conference on Grid Computing and Applications (GCA'08) is held simultaneously with a number of other joint conferences as part of WORLDCOMP'08 (The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing). WORLDCOMP'08 is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. Location and dates: 14-17 July 2008Monte Carlo ResortLas Vegas, Nevada Topics of interest regarding grid computing include, but are not limited to, the following:Software integration technologies in grid systemsSoftware engineering support for grid computingPolicy requirements and implicationsEvolution of grid standardsGrid technology and securityGrid computing virtual organization and policyGrid computing securityGrid information servicesGrid middleware and toolkitsGrid monitoring, management, and organization toolsUse

  Announcement - Digital Repositories: Interoperability Using Grid Technologies, June 5, Barcelona Image courtesy of OGF The OGF-Europe Community Outreach Seminar, 5 June 2008, within OGF23 in Barcelona, Spain, will explore Digital Repositories (DR) from diverse perspectives, bringing valuable insight into domain requirements, user case studies and best practices. Special emphasis will be placed on interoperability and standardisation.Researchers increasingly depend on open access to information. DR enables access to the new knowledge base and encourages use of scientific content in a standardised, open way. Government agencies show signs of increased adoption, and the Humanities, in addition to Science, the early adopter, are starting to plug into such repositories. What is more, these new tools facilitate public appreciation and understanding of scientific and research advances. Seminar highlights:State-of-the-art and future visions with perspectives from government, research and industry. User case studies from specific do

  Advance registration closes May 17 for ISC conference, June, Dresden International Supercomputing Conference 2008.Image courtesy of ISC '08 Advance registration for the 2008 International Supercomputing Conference, to be held June 17-20 in the International Congress Center in Dresden, will close Saturday, 17 May 2008.  Late and onsite registration are still available. Advance Registration: March 01, 2008 – May 17, 2008Late Registration: May 18, 2008 - June 16, 2008Onsite Registration: from June 17, 2008The current list of ISC ’08 exhibitors can be found at: www.isc08.org/exhibitors. To learn more about the conference program,please visit http://www.isc08.org/.Also see information on the types of Visitor Passes available.

Announcement - Call for participation: eScience 2008, December, U.S. The eScience 2008 conference will bring together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers and users of eScience applications and enabling information technologies.Image courtesy of eScience 2008Submissions are invited for the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing 2008 eScience Conference, to be held 7-12 December 2008 in Indiana, U.S. Papers and proposals for tutorials; posters, exhibits, demos; workshops and special sessions are welcomed. Registration will open 1 July 2008.The eScience 2008 conference will bring together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers and users of eScience applications and enabling information technologies. Topics of interestTopics for proposed papers and sessions should be related to eScience, grid and cloud computing. Submission deadlinesPapers and proposals for tutorials are due 20 July 2008. The deadline for proposals for posters,

Announcement - Registration open: Open Science Grid Users’ Meeting, June, U.S. The Open Science Grid is a national, distributed computing grid for data-intensive research. This image was taken at the OSG All-Hands meeting, held 3-6 March 2008. The next Open Science Grid Users’ Meeting will be held from 16-17 June 2008.Image courtesy of OSGRegistration is open for the Open Science Grid Users’ Meeting to be held at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, U.S., from 16-17 June 2008. The registration deadline is 9 May 2008. A tentative conference program is available and will continue to be updated in the coming weeks.This meeting is aimed mainly at users or prospective users of the Open Science Grid who:are responsible for development, maintenance or operation of applications that run on the OSG infrastructure, orare involved in any aspect of VO-specific infrastructure for OSG use, for example: workflow, meta-scheduling or portal management, orare users or prospective users of the OSG in any capacity and are