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Announcement - ParaPLoP 2010 accepting papers

Parallel programming enthusiasts are invited to submit papers for ParaPLoP 2010, a PLoP-style workshop on parallel programming patterns to be held 30 March-1 April in Carefree, Arizona. ParaPLoP 2010 also offers an opportunity for authors to participate in developing OPL – Our Pattern Language.
The Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers at Illinois and Berkeley have been collaborating to develop OPL, a pattern language for parallel programming. OPL covers the entire process of developing a parallel program which begins with patterns for software architecture and for problem domains that often require parallelization. It continues with patterns for parallel algorithm design, for common structures for implementing parallel algorithms, and low-level patterns for controlling concurrent execution. The project is more ambitious than Design Patterns and has the potential to make an even bigger impact. The collaborators are looking for peopl

Announcement - Call for papers: Frontiers of GPU, Multi- and Many-Core Systems Workshop

The Frontiers of GPU, Multi- and Many-Core Systems Workshop, which will take place at CCGrid 2010, is now accepting paper submissions. CCGrid 2010 will take place 17-20 May 2010 in Melbourne, Australia.
The call for papers states:

“Multi- and many-core microprocessors are being deployed in a broad spectrum of applications including Clusters, Clouds and Grids. Both conventional multi- and many-core processors, such as Intel Nehalem and IBM Power7 processors, and unconventional many-core processors, such as NVIDIA Tesla and AMD FireStream GPUs, hold the promise of increasing performance through parallelism. However, GPU approaches in parallelism are distinctly different from those of conventional multi- and many-core processors, which raises new challenges: For example, how do we optimize applications for conventional multi- and many-core processors? How do we reengineer applications to take advant

Announcement - NVIDIA GPU fellowships

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The NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program is now accepting applications for fellowships for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Up to 10 fellowships will be awarded.
Applications must be received by close of business on 3 February 2010 to be considered.
The NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program provides funding to Ph.D. students who are researching topics that will lead to major advances in the graphics and digital media industry, and are investigating innovative ways of leveraging the power of the GPU. We select students each year who have the talent, aptitude and initiative to work closely with us early in their careers. Recipients not only receive crucial funding for their research, but are able to conduct groundbreaking work with access to NVIDIA products, technology and some of the most gifted minds in the field.
For more information, or to submit an application, please visit the NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program's homepage.

Announcement - Webinar on Digital Elevation Models

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The free webinar "Introduction to Digital Elevation Models" is scheduled to run on 12 November 2009 at:

9:00 a.m. PST
10:00 a.m. MST
11:00 a.m. CST
12:00 p.m. EST
5:00 p.m. GMT

The webinar is sponsored by Intermap Technologies and the ASPRS Student Advisory Council.
The website states:
"As the fields of digital mapping and geospatial analysis continue to grow, the use of 3D data is becoming more widespread. One of the most common types of 3D data is a digital elevation model, or DEM. In this Webinar, we'll talk about what DEMs are and how they differ from other types of spatial data. We'll also look at some of the sources of DEM data, their quality, and how they are generated. Lastly, we'll look at examples of how you can use DEMs in sophisticated geospatial analysis to solve real-world problems."
For more information about this webinar, or to register, pl

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

Announcement – e-Science registration deadline extended to 15 October

The registration deadline for the Fifth IEEE International Conference on e-Science has been extended until 15 October; late registrants will be charged substantative late fees ranging from £60 to £100 depending on the type of membership.
The conference, which will take place in Oxford, UK on 7-9 December 2009, will cover a wide variety of topics, including:

Arts, Humanities and e-Social Science
Bioinformatics and Health
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Climate & Earth Sciences
Research Tools, Workflow and systems
Digital Repositories and Data Management
eScience Practice and Education

For more information about the conference, visit the conference website. To learn more about registration, please visit the registration information page. To register, please visit the registration page.

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

NCSA signs onto Facebook

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All the cool kids are on Facebook, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, based at the University of Illinois, is no exception.
NCSA's Facebook fan page came online in mid-July. The page, which so far has 124 fans, is host to regular updates, job posts, videos, a photo gallery and some links.
 

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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

Announcement – New program offers funding for up to 11 postdoctoral fellows

In a bid to stimulate research in computational science and engineering, Argonne National Laboratory has announced the launch of the Computational Postdoctoral Fellowship program.
According to the announcement, fellows will develop and implement advanced computational approaches aimed at scaling applications for high-end computing systems, and conduct large-scale simulations in their scientific discipline. Towards that end, they will have access to the resources of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, including a 557-teraflop IBM Blue Gene/P system, and Jazz, a teraflop-class computing cluster.
The program welcomes proposals for research in a wide variety of science and engineering disciplines, including biology, chemistry, earth science, engineering, materials science, nuclear energy, physics, and energy science.
To apply, candidates who have completed their doctoral requirements should send their Curr

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

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