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June 20, 2007
iSGTW Announcement - Open Science Grid Users' Meeting: 26 and 27 July

Announcement - Open Science Grid Users’ Meeting: 26 and 27 July An early morning view of Fermilab’s Wilson Hall from across Swan Lake.Image courtesy of Fermilab The Open Science Grid Users’ Meeting will be held at Fermilab, Batavia, U.S., on the 26th and 27th of July, 2007. The meeting is aimed at OSG users who: • are responsible for or develop applications that run on OSG;• are Virtual Organization managers or their delegates;• are involved in any aspect of VO-specific infrastructure for OSG use, for example: workflow, meta-scheduling or portal management.Also welcomed are prospective users of the OSG in any capacity, those interested in discussing grid-related issues and their solutions, and those who would like to hear about others’ issues and how they may have been solved.The emphasis in this meeting will be on sharing issues and ideas and discussing current and future needs across the users of and participants in OSG. The goal is to help each other and have ideas on how to help new entr

June 13, 2007
iSGTW Announcement - EGEE '07 registration opens

Announcement - EGEE '07 registration opens The perfect place for a grid conference, Budapest itself is divided into a grid, with each of its 23 districts referred to by a roman numeral.Image courtesy of budapest.com Enabling Grids for E-Science has opened its books to take early bird registrations for EGEE '07, one of the major international grid events of the year.Register now to be part of what organizers are predicting will be the largest EGEE conference yet. Held in Budapest from 1-5 October 2007, EGEE '07 is expected to attract more than 600 key players from the international grid community, including users, decision makers, resource providers, developers, governments and businesses. The main theme of the conference this year is communication and building bridges between science and business, users and infrastructures, countries, scientific disciplines and projects. Early bird prices are available until 30 June 2007.

June 13, 2007
iSGTW Announcement - School's in: EGRIS-2 calls for applications

Announcement - School’s in: EGRIS-2 calls for applications EGRIS-2 will be held at a mountain resort in Mérida, in the center of the Venezuelan Andes. Mérida's hospitality has earned it a reputation as the City of Gentlemen.Image courtesy of Hotel El SerranoPull out your books and pack your bags. The second E-Infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Grid School, to be held in Mérida, Venezuela, is now calling for applications.ECRIS-2 will be held from 30 July to 10 August 2007, and aims to create the necessary environment in Latin America for porting new applications to the EELA Grid Infrastructure. Proposals for applications to the school are welcome from researchers, technical industries, research laboratories, and academic universes.EGRIS-2 builds on the success of EGRIS-1, which was held in Brazil in December 2006.Proposals for EGRIS-2 must be submitted by 15 June 2007.

June 6, 2007
iSGTW Announcement - Call for papers, posters and demos: eScience 2007, Bangalore

Announcement - Call for Papers, Posters and Demos: eScience 2007, Bangalore A city of many colours, Bangalore is known as India's Silicon Valley, but has also earned a reputation as the Garden City.Stock image from sxc.huApply now to have your paper, poster or research demonstration considered for presentation at the 3rd Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, to be held December 10-13 in Bangalore, India.Papers are due July 15, 2007. Poster and demo proposals are due September 23, 2007.e-Science 2007 will present the results of the latest e-Science and grid-related research, as well as product/tool developments and highlights from related activities from around the world.

June 6, 2007
iSGTW Announcement - Open Grid Forum sets October dates for OGF21

Announcement - Open Grid Forum Sets October Dates for OGF21 Seattle sells more sunglasses per capita than any other major city in the US. But you'll be so busy at the conference you'll only see Seattle by night.Image courtesy of www.dyangochavez.com The Open Grid Forum has once again invited the global grid community to gather together to develop grid standards, showcase real-world applications, and discuss practical challenges to grid application and infrastructure deployment. OGF21 will be held from October 15-19 in Seattle, Washington, United States.The program will feature the launch of the OGF “Bring your own Grid” program, where selected organizations can share their adoption and deployment challenges in the context of grid experts and vendors and seek advice on solutions that enable them to increase the value gained from their grid deployments. Registration and information on applying to “Bring your own Grid” will be available soon.

May 30, 2007
iSGTW Announcement - BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference

Announcement - Register now for the BELIEF-EELA e-Infrastructures Conference Sun and surf in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, site of the next BELIEF-EELA conference.Stock image from sxc.hu BELIEF-EELA seeks to strengthen e-Infrastructure links between Europe and Latin America. This conference, to be held June 25-28 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, gives an opportunity for businesses and researchers to demonstrate grid computing and e-infrastructure achievements, share knowledge and discuss the direction of future collaboration between Latin America and Europe. Online registrations are accepted till June 18, after this date attendees must register on site at the conference. A key theme of the conference is ensuring that these e-Infrastructures become a sustainable reality for research between the continents, whether in business or academic fields. View the program and register online.

May 30, 2007
iSGTW Announcement - TACC Summer Supercomputing Institute

Announcement - TACC Summer Supercomputing InstituteCampus of the University of Texas at Austin, U.S.Image courtesy of sxc.huThe Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin, U.S. will host a five-day Summer Supercomputing Institute from August 13-17. The Institute will give researchers an intensive introduction to using TACC’s computing resources, including high performance computing systems, visualization systems and advanced display environments, massive storage systems and grid computing technologies.“Advanced computing technologies are crucial for addressing many of the most challenging problems in science, and are increasingly important in business, healthcare and other applications,” TACC Director Jay Boisseau said. “As supercomputing becomes fundamental to advances in so many areas of science and society, it’s increasingly important to train the research and industry workforces with the skills to utilize these technologies effectively.”TACC is accepting applications

May 16, 2007
iSGTW Announcement - HPDC seeks Hot Topics

Announcement - HPDC 2007 seeks “Hot Topics”Know something hot?Stock image from sxc.huThe Sixteenth IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing is searching for “Hot Topics.” This symposium is a forum for the latest findings on the design and use of parallel and distributed systems for high end computing, collaboration and data analysis. A special segment of the program, the “Hot Topics” session, is devoted to emerging, exciting ideas that might not be ready for publication in the traditional technical track. This session seeks work-in-progress reports and ideas that are promising but speculative. Submissions are welcomed in aspects of high-performance distributed computing, grids, and global computing ensembles. Submissions will be peer-reviewed based on originality and potential impact. Submissions should not exceed two pages, excluding bibliography, and should be sent as a PDF attachment to [email protected]. Notification of acceptance will be sent on June 1. For more i

May 16, 2007
iSGTW Announcement - Multi-threading and Parallelism Workshop at CERN

Announcement - Multi-Threading and Parallelism Workshop at CERNImage courtesy of openlabAs researchers reach the limits of processor performance improvements by frequency scaling, it is clear that the future of computing lies in the skillful use of parallel and multi-core architectures. A free workshop at CERN, led by experts from Intel, will help programmers navigate the intricacies of parallel programming and learn about the most efficient solutions to common multi-threading problems. This event, to be held May 31–June 1, will include a hands-on lab. Registration is based on a first-come first-served basis by sending e-mail to [email protected]. 30 seats are available for the first day and 20 seats for the second day. When registering, indicate which days you would like to attend. Go to CERN openlab Web pages for details. .

May 9, 2007
iSGTW Announcement - Joint EGEE-SEEGrid School

Announcement - Apply now for the Joint EGEE and SEE-GRID Summer School on Grid Application SupportThe 2007 EGEE and SEE-GRID summer school will be held in Budapest, Hungary.Stock image from sxc.huThe joint EGEE and SEE-GRID Summer School on Grid Application Support is accepting applications. The summer school, to be held June 25-30 in Budapest, Hungary, is open for anyone interested in the use of EGEE and SEE-GRID tools, technologies and infrastructures. The school’s goal is to enable end-users to apply the EGEE middleware to operate applications on top of inter-organizational IT infrastructures. The school gives an opportunity to learn the usage of grid systems without low-level technical details. During dedicated sessions the attendees’ own applications can be ported onto EGEE and SEE-GRID. The summer school will be conducted in English—no simultaneous translation will be available.The registration deadline is June 10. To learn more and register online visit the school’s Web site.

May 9, 2007
iSGTW Announcement - New TeraGrid Director

Announcement - TeraGrid Apppoints New DirectorDane Skow, new director of TeraGrid.Image courtesy of Katie YurkewiczDane Skow became TeraGrid’s new director on May 1. Skow had been deputy director of the TeraGrid’s Grid Infrastructure Group, a joint appointment with Argonne National Laboratory and The University of Chicago since 2005. Skow’s leadership in the grid community started during the 22 years he spent at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, first as part of the Particle Physics Data Grid. He later served on the Open Science Grid Council and Global Grid Forum Steering Committee.A profile of Dane Skow appeared in Science Grid this Week in 2005.

May 2, 2007
iSGTW Announcement - APAC 07: Call for Papers

Announcement - APAC 07: Call for PapersAPAC 07 will be held October 8–12 in Perth, Western Australia.Image courtesy of Jenny RolloThe Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing conference and exhibition is currently accepting papers relating to advanced computing, grid applications and e-research. Papers can cover experiences with building advanced computing and grid infrastructure and with using this infrastructure to support scientific and industrial applications. Papers might report on experimental and theoretical results, case studies and technology demonstrations.Papers are encouraged to take advantage of the computing and communications infrastructure that will be available at APAC 07. The exhibition area will have high-speed Internet connectivity to AARNet for demonstrations involving remote computing systems and facilities.Originality, technical excellence and relevance to the APAC 07 conference will be the key acceptance criteria for papers. All submitted technical papers will undergo a formal review process. The p

May 2, 2007
iSGTW Announcement - Register now for the DEISA Symposium

Announcement - Register now for the DEISA SymposiumThe 2007 DEISA Symposium will be held at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Munich, Germany.Image courtesy of DEISAThis year, the DEISA Symposium—Towards Peteascale Computing in Europe, focuses on the initiatives and strategies being deployed to enhance the outreach of high performance computing in Europe. The conference, to be held May 21–22 at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Munich, Germany, will feature thirteen speakers from Europe, Japan and the United States. Their presentations will cover high-performance computing strategies in the U.S., Japan, and Europe; existing HPC related e-Infrastructures; technological issues in petascale computing; and scientific cases for petascale computing in Europe.Organizers request that participants register, however there is no registration fee. More information and online registration is available at the DEISA Web site. The registration will close on May 7.

March 28, 2007
iSGTW Announcement - iSGTW Tags

Announcement - iSGTW TagsAll iSGTW articles and “Of the Week” features are now tagged. We hope these tags will make it easier for our readers to search for content tailored to their interests. Click on a tag link at the bottom of a piece to find a list of other iSGTW items in the same category. Newest articles appear at the top of the list.