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Link of the week - GPU computing webcast

Image courtesy of Moi Cody.

A week from today, a free webcast sponsored by Scientific Computing and Dell Inc. will explore the use of GPU technologies in advanced computing contexts.
The announcement states:
The dramatic increase in more standardized capability, coupled with the delivery of exceptional performance envelopes, all within a lower cost band, positions GPU technologies at the forefront of the next wave of broad architecture adoption. GPU technologies have made tremendous advancements in overall capability, programming and toolkits, providing a much more compelling performance architecture model for complex and computationally intense environments – where performance and speed of delivery are the make or break points to competitive advantage or evolutionary breakthroughs and innovation.
Join Scientific Computing and a diverse panel of experts to discuss the many benefits of GPU technologies as performance accelerators for c

Announcement - Registration open for 2nd ERINA4Africa Workshop

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The 2nd ERINA4Africa workshop will be held at Kumbali Lodge, Lilongwe, Malawi, 6-7 October 2010 with sponsorship from the European Union under the EU FP7 project ERINA4Africa.
The event will provide participants with the opportunity to discover e-Infrastructures and their applications and to network with those interested in application development.
The second (optional) day of this workshop will feature demonstrations and presentations of potential e-Infrastructure applications.
The detailed programme is available here.
Participation is free of charge but limited to 30 participants. Register Now!
Context
e-Infrastructures enable research environments in which researchers globally collaborate and have shared access to scientific facilities (data, communications, computing and instruments).
The coming of the first fibre cables to East Africa in 2009 presented enhanced opportunities for enhan

Link of the Week - GPU Technology Conference

This photograph was taken at the 2009 GPU Technology Conference.
Image courtesy nVIDIA.

Last week, computing expert Greg Pfister told us why he thinks that cheap GPU-based supercomputing is coming to an end. And as iSGTW readers from around the world read that article, other computing experts gathered in San Jose for the GPU Technology Conference, an event with a very different underlying perspective.
Sponsored by nVIDIA, the GTC offered separate streams for researchers, developers, and industry.
NVIDIA created daily video recaps for the three-day event. The source aside, they are a quick and convenient way to find out about some of the most interesting presentations from the event.
You can go directly to video one, two, and three to watch them, or read more about the conference by browsing VizWorld posts tagged as “gtc” at our link of the week.

Announcement - Free HPC event, 30 September

The event will take place in Long Beach, California, pictured above.Image courtesy of Jon Sullivan, under Creative Commons license.

You are invited to attend a free day-long event on high performance computing technology in Long Beach, California, USA on 30 September 2010.
The event, which is sponsored by nVIDIA, Intel, HP, Mellanox Technologies, Adaptive Technologies, and CB Technologies, will take place from 8:30am to 3:00pm.
Agenda:

"CPU Processing" - Intel
"Accelerating HPC with GPU Computing" - Nvidia, Dale Southard
"Paving the Road to Exascale Computing" - Mellanox,
"Managing HPC with intelligent policies/HP Cloud" - Adaptive Computing
"Parallel File Storage Solutions" - DataDirect Networks
"HPC CHARACTERIZATION AND OPTIMIZATION" - Hewlett-Packard Company

 Confirmed Speakers:

HP, Logan Sankaran, System Tuning and Application Optimization for HPC
Nvidia, Dale Southard
Mellanox, Gilad Shainer, Sr. Director of HPC an

Announcement - Abstracts for Symposium on Authentication Technologies for Research and Education due September 15

The Symposium on Authentication Technologies for Research and Education will continue to accept abstracts through 15 September.
The symposium and the accompanying Roundtable on Cloud and Grid Security Standards will take place Monday 4 October on the campus of Texas Tech University.
The symposium will be focused on working solutions in campus security infrastructures that can contribute to solutions for simple but effective provision of strong authentication in research, educational, government and industrial settings. Submissions are invited from members of the identity management and distributed computing security communities.
Talks will be open to the public. Participants will be given adequate time to explain and expand on their idea or project. The audience will include participants familiar with this problem and knowledgeable about working solutions in concept or in pract

Announcement - Gordon Conference 2010 abstracts due 16 September

The Grand Challenges in Data-Intensive Discovery conference (or Gordon Conference for short) will be held 26-28 October 2010 at the San Diego Supercomputer Center on the campus of UC San Diego.
Science has entered a data-intensive era, driven by a deluge of data being generated by digitally based instruments, sensor networks, and simulation devices. Hence, a growing part of the scientific enterprise is associated with analyzing such data, and such analysis places special demands on computer architectures because the associated calculations have frequent I/O accesses, large memory requirements, and often limited parallelism.
In mid 2011, SDSC will deploy a unique data-intensive high performance computing system called Gordon. Gordon will be a peer-reviewed allocated resource on the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid available to any US researcher. It will have a peak speed of 245 Teraflops and feature very large shared memo

Announcement - Call for papers, UCC 2010, Chennai, India

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The International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2010) is now accepting papers for its 14-16 December conference. Among others, topics of interest include utility computing; Infrastructure, Platform, Software, Storage as a Service; novel architectural models for cloud computing; and Data Security, Privacy, and Jurisdiction in the Cloud.
A best will be presented to a paper receiving the highest quality rating from the Program Committee and external reviewers. In addition, a special issue in a high quality international journal will be organized for selected best papers.PAPER SUBMISSIONAuthors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed eight letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (print area of 6-1/2 inches (16.51 cm) wide by 8-7/8

Feature - OSG and TeraGrid join forces for ExTENCI

Image courtesy of Jayanta Behera.

Last week marked the kick-off for ExTENCI, the first major technical collaboration between TeraGrid and Open Science Grid.
“The idea is to have Open Science Grid and TeraGrid work together on a joint project as an experiment,” explained Paul Avery, the principle investigator for ExTENCI (which stands for Extending Science Through Enhanced National CyberInfrastructure). Although the two infrastructures have worked together to agree on principles and attend each others’ meetings, ExTENCI marks the first time that they will work together, sharing milestones and goals.
In order to make the partnership possible, the National Science Foundation’s Office of Cyberinfrastructure and Math and Physics Directorate each awarded ExTENCI approximately one million U.S. dollars over two years, for a grand total of just over two million U.S. dollars.
The limitations imposed by a small budget

Announcement - Cybera Summit 2010 early-bird registration due

Leonard Brody, one of Canada's leading technology forecasters and business strategists, will be headlining Cybera's annual fall event this year: Summit 2010  – Driving Alberta’s Digital Evolution. Early Bird Registration rates are available until 25 August.
This year's two-day program takes place 21-22 September at The Banff Centre and will focus on the projects, technologies and opportunities driving the evolution of digital-based R&D sectors and economies. “Digital” refers to anything that involves data management, pervasive broadband, network-enabled platforms, cloud and advanced computing, or online/web-integrated resources (ie. Web 2.0). These are the tools that are driving new innovations in business and groundbreaking discoveries in research and development.
Through panel sessions, keynote presentations, demos and networking opportunities, participants will explore a variety of topics

Announcement - PIC2010 deadline extended; now due 30 August

The deadline to submit papers for the 2010 International Conference on Progress in Informatics and Computing ( PIC2010) has been extended to 30 August 2010.
PIC2010 will take place 10-12 December 2010 in Shanghai, China. PIC-2010 provides a forum for researchers and practitioners in academia and industry to discuss the progress, challenges, experiences and trends of the theoretical and application issues in computing science, software technology, information system, to exchange ideas, share knowledge and promote future cooperation. All papers accepted will be published in the IEEE categorized conference proceedings, and will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by Ei Compendex and ISTP.
Submissions of papers describing original work in a wide variety of areas are encouraged. For a list, as well as details on how to submit a paper, check out the call for papers (PDF). For more information about the conference, please visit

Link of the Week - TeraGrid ’10 Proceedings

People mingle as they browse the research projects on display at the TeraGrid ’10 poster session. Image courtesy of Miriam Boon, iSGTW.

Earlier this month, researchers and computer experts gathered in Pittsburgh for TeraGrid ’10, the annual conference organized and sponsored by TeraGrid.
Not everyone could attend, of course, so it’s a good thing that the proceedings are now available online at this week’s link of the week.
The conference included a wide variety of programming, including tracks dedicated to science, technology, science gateways, and EOT (education, outreach and training). A poster session and visualization showcase featured posters and visualizations related to computational biology, molecular dynamics, computational chemistry, signal processing, computer science, computational fluid dynamics, computational multi-body dynamics, computational materials (nano-composites), grid computing

Announcement - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium call for papers

The IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium is now accepting abstracts for its 25th annual conference, which will take place 16-20 May 2011 in Anchorage, Alaska.
Anchorage, home to moose, bears, birds and whales, is strategically located at almost equal flying distance from Europe, Asia and the Eastern USA. Embraced by six mountain ranges, with views of Mount McKinley in Denali National Park, and warmed by a maritime climate, Anchorage offers year-round adventure, recreation, and sporting events. It is a fitting destination for IPDPS to mark a quarter century of tracking developments in computer science. To celebrate the 25th year of IPDPS, plan to come early and stay late and also enjoy a modern city surrounded by spectacular wilderness.
IPDPS is an international forum for engineers and scientists from around the world to present their latest research findings in all aspects