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Announcement - Internet2 Issues Call for IDEA Award Nominations

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2010 Internet2 Driving Exemplary Applications (IDEA) Award.
Open to established or new applications, the IDEA Award was created in 2006 to recognize and encourage innovative applications of advanced network technology that have made—or promise to make—the most significant impact on the research and education community. The award also presents an important opportunity for the Internet2 community to recognize members who are changing the way we think about the possibilities and uses of advanced networking.
The judging committee, made up of representatives from Internet2 councils and working groups, expects an especially strong pool of applicants this year.
“IDEA Award winners represent advanced networking at its best, demonstrating in very real ways the promise of advanced networking, not just for the research and education community, but for the public at large,&rdquo

Announcement - Registration open for Collaborations Workshop

Collaboration increasingly lies at the heart of successful research. To help develop new collaborations, the Collaborations Workshop will bring together researchers, funding body representatives and technology experts in Edinburgh on 10-11 March 2010.
The focus of the Collaborations Workshop is e-Research: the harnessing of computer technology for research. Expect to hear about how to exploit the latest technologies, maximize funding possibilities and how researchers from all disciplines have benefited by sharing expertise and experience. In addition, David Flanders, the JISC’s programme manager of the Information Environment, will present a personal view on managing projects. At last year’s workshop, a similar mix of expertise led to a number of new collaborations, some of which have already become funded projects.
The Collaborations Workshop is organized by OMII-UK, an e-Research organization which is funded by the UK Research Cou

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 - Call for papers, CLADE, deadline 1 March, Chicago

Under the ‘El’ in Chicago.
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Papers are now being accepted for CLADE (Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments); the deadline is 1 March for this Chicago, Illinois, event.
Subjects to be covered at CLADE are applicable to science, engineering, medicine, business, economics, education, and other disciplines. They  include recent results on large scale  innovative applications that use distributed heterogeneous and dynamic computing environments.
Topics of interest will illustrate advances in:

Large-scale distributed applications, both computation- and data-centric
Application-specific portals in distributed environments
Distributed problem-solving environments
Distributed, collaborative science applications
Large, distributed data analysis
Applications with heterogeneous spatial and temporal characteristics
Distr

Announcement - Gumboots for the Data Deluge workshop, 12 Feb, Melbourne, Australia

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Places are still available (but not a lot) for “Gumboots for the Data Deluge: Defining and describing collections for the Australian Research Data Commons.”
This half-day workshop will be held in association with VALA 2010 in Melbourne on Friday, 12 February 2010.
Background: The notion of defining and describing data collections for Research Data Australia is a new and challenging one, and part of the task of creating an Australia Research Data Commons that will enable data sharing and re-use of valuable research data collections.
ANDS is building Research Data Australia as a set of interlinked, user-friendly web pages to display this rich descriptive information (metadata), harvested from a range of trusted online sources and held in a federation of online registries.
This workshop is designed to introduce the concepts and practices behind definin

Announcement - Register now for Security Jam, to be held 4-9 Feb (on-line event)

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The European Commission and NATO are joining together as co-sponsors of a worldwide online brainstorm — the Security Jam — with the aim of producing recommendations on how to make our world a safer place.
To be held online from 4 February to 9 February, this event will feature topics such as: Climate Change, Crisis Management, Afghanistan, Human Rights, Piracy, and Development. This format will allow stakeholders direct access to a broad level of input from NGOs, security & defence practitioners, political and military figures, think tanks, academics and journalists.
Several thousand participants will debate online over the 5-day period. And, as an online session, it allows participants to log in and log out at their convenience, from anywhere in the world, once they’re registered.
Security Jam is organized by a number of think-tanks, including t

Announcement: Be an iSGTW columnist!

This could be you!  Image courtesy of Umut Kemal.

iSGTW is looking for people who want to contribute as Back to Basics columnists.
Back to Basics columns will explain basic concepts related to grids, clouds, supercomputers, and scientific computing for readers who are new to eScience. Contributions can be original, or if there is an existing piece to which you have the rights, we can adapt it for iSGTW.
A contributor’s bio will run with each column, including a link to the contributor’s institution or company. This is a great way to raise your profile as an expert, contribute to the eScience community, and gain some goodwill and publicity for your place of work.
To see what the columns will look like, check out this week’s Back to Basics column, Why go parallel? by Darin Ohashi.
If you are interested in contributing, please send us an email.

Announcement - Invitation to comment on e-IRG Roadmap 2009 draft

The latest version of the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) Roadmap has been released and has entered the public consultation phase. The document invites policy makers, service providers, and user communities to join in the discussion concerning the future of European e-Infrastructures.
The importance of e-Infrastructures for European research, innovation, and competitiveness is now almost universally acknowledged. Sustainable and integrated networking, grid, data, high performance, and commodity computing services will become essential tools for 40 million users in research and academia in Europe. The ongoing expansion of the e-Infrastructures user communities is already producing new and updated requirements for the common e-Infrastructures. The link between leading-edge research activities and the e-Infrastructures supporting them has been identified as an area where considerable socioeconomic benefits can be realise

Announcement - Last chance to apply for computational time on TeraGrid, (midnight January 15, submitter’s local time)

Scientists, engineers, and other U.S. researchers may apply until January 15, 2010 (12:00 midnight local time) for the next quarterly review of requests for free allocations of high-performance computer time, advanced user support, and storage resources that are available through the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Cyberinfrastructure’s (OCI) TeraGrid. To apply for an allocation of any size, please visit TeraGrid’s online submission system.
Each quarter, a panel of computational experts known as the TeraGrid Resource Allocations Committee (TRAC) evaluates requests primarily on the appropriateness and technical aspects of using TeraGrid resources. Applications received by the January 15 deadline will be considered at the March 2010 TRAC meeting, and awards will be available for the one-year period from April 1, 2010 through March 31, 2011. TeraGri

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 - Journal of Grid Computing: Special Issue on Clouds and Grids

The Journal of Grid Computing is now accepting paper submissions for a special issue on clouds and grids.
The issue will be dedicated to recent advances in cloud computing that could simplify and optimize the use and operation of existing distributed computing infrastructures in science and engineering. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished work describing current research and novel ideas in the area of cloud computing and its application to grid and cluster computing. Additional information about this special issue can be found at the journal website.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Experiences, performance and reliability running scientific applications in clouds
Grid, Cluster and data-intensive computing in clouds
Limitations of cloud services and technologies for capability and capacity computing
Impact of virtualization on the performance of memory, CPU and I/O intensive,