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Announcement - Citizen CyberScience Summit, 2-3 September, London

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Register now, to participate in the Citizen Cyberscience Summit, which will occur in London, England, on 2-3 September.
This a chance for scientists and citizens to learn about the latest breakthroughs in citizen cyberscience. It will be an opportunity to brainstorm about how new technologies can enhance citizen cyberscience. A goal of the summit is to draft a citizen cyberscience manifesto, involving all the stakeholders in the field.Who should come?
• Scientists, aspiring and established, amateur and professional, online or in the field.
• Citizens who care about the impact of science on society, and of society on science.Who is speaking?
Confirmed speakers include:
• David Anderson, director of the SETI@home project, Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley.
• George Dyson, historian and philosopher of science and author of Darwin Among The Machines.
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Announcement - ICT 2010 registration is open

This year, ICT 2010 will take place 27-29 September in Brussels.
This biennial event serves as a gathering point for researchers, business people, investors, and high level policy makers in the field of digital innovation. ICT 2010 will focus on policy priorities such as Europe's Digital Agenda and the next financial programme of the European Union for funding research and innovation in ICT.
At ICT 2010:

Discover latest research trends in information and communication technologies
Identify European priorities for 2.8 billion Euros research funding in ICT (2011-2012)
Meet potential research and business partners at dozens of networking sessions
Venture through the 5000 m² exhibition of Europe's latest cutting edge ICT research

Confirmed speakers & VIPs:

Neelie KROES, European Commissioner for Digital Agenda
H.R.H. Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant, Prince of Belgium
Hans VESTBERG, CEO of Ericsson
Jim HAGERMANN SNABE, Co-CEO

Announcement - OSG Site Administrator's Workshop

The next OSG site administrator's workshop will be held at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee 10-11 August.
The workshop will overlap with the CMS Tier 3 workshop, which takes place 11-12 August in the same location. The focus will be on upgrading OSG CE's and SE's with the OSG 1.2 production release. The focus is on practical, hands-on issues relating to OSG site administration.
Please visit the twiki page to see reference material and tutorials that will be used during the session.
Click here for the planning page on the Twiki. 

Feature - Chat live with experts today

Welcome to iSGTW’s live chat page, where experts discussed everything you ever wanted to know about matching resources with projects but didn’t have a chance to ask.
The live chat is over, but we invite you to join our panelists at Nature Network over the next week or so to continue the discussion and ask more questions. You can also see the archived chat by clicking on the button below, entitled “Chat Log.”

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Next week: Chat live with experts about computational resources

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What makes a grid perfect for one project, but a cloud better for another? When is a high-performance computer wasteful overkill, or a small cluster underpowered?
To answer these questions, iSGTW has invited experts from around the world to join us on Wednesday, 14 July 2010 at 10:30 a.m. CDT/4:30 p.m. CEST for a one-hour live chat - and you’re invited.
Can’t make it to the chat? No problem. For a week following the chat, an even larger host of experts will join us in our online forums to answer questions. To volunteer to serve as an expert, please email us at [email protected].
We’ll be announcing the identity of our experts throughout the week by adding them to this page. But in the meantime, we’d like to offer you a preview of some of the experts you can expect to hear from next week.

Steven Newhouse
Director, European Grid Initiative
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Announcement - Call for abstracts, NGS Innovation Forum, Oxfordshire, UK, deadline 10 September

Abstracts are now being accepted for the National Grid Service (NGS) Innovation forum, with a deadline of September 10. All abstracts will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee for the event who include NGS staff, researchers, IT support staff and top NGS users. A prize for best poster will be offered with voting performed by delegates at a dedicated poster viewing session on Tuesday evening.
For more details please see the call for abstracts website.
The NGS Innovation Forum itself will be held at STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, UK, on the 23rd – 24th November 2010. The two-day event will showcase the impact that the NGS has had on research in the UK, allow delegates to find out more about using the NGS in applied research, enable IT staff to find out how their institution can benefit from the NGS, and how you can contribute to and influence the future develo

Announcement - HealthGrid GridCast now online

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Following the success of last year’s GridCast, the GridCast blogging team are back to cover HealthGrid2010 on 28 – 30 June 2010 in Paris, France.
The HealthGrid2010 conference is the place to discuss the latest developments how grid technologies are advancing the fields of biology, medicine and health. Keynote speakers for this year include:

Kyriakos Baxevanidis, Deputy Head of GÉANT and e-Infrastructures Unit at the European Commission
Modesto OROZCO, Director of the Molecular Modelling and Bioinformatics Unit at Parc Cientific de Barcelona
Joan Dzenowagis, World Health Organization
Fabrizio Gagliardi, Europe, Middle East and Africa Director for External Research at Microsoft Research Corporation
Simon Scarle, Senior Programmer for a Serious Games Project at the International Digital Laboratory, University of Warwick

The GridCast team have been blogging the latest news and views direct

iSGTW Announcement - Live chat with experts: Choosing the right resources for your research

Together, the livechat and its followup form a sort of “one-stop shopping” for questions about finding the right computing tool for your needs: grid, cloud, supercomputing or other. Image courtesy stock.xchng

Are you a researcher, asking yourself “What is the difference between grid computing, supercomputing, cloud computing, volunteer computing and everything else? How do I know what is the right tool to use for my work?” 
If so, then attend the upcoming online discussion hosted by iSGTW,  called  “Roundtable Q&A: Choose and use the right computing tool for your research, with feedback from the experts.”
This LiveChat will be held at 9:30am Chicago time (Fermi)/4:30pm Geneva time (CERN) on Wednesday, July 14, and will feature experts who will answer your questions in real time, for one hour, using the LiveChat tool.
Our roster

Link of the Week - EuroVis2010 blog posts

The EuroVis 2010 conference logo.
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Here at iSGTW, we wish we could be at every major scientific computing conference, but it just isn't possible.
Earlier this month, we missed the EuroVis2010 conference, which took place 9-11 June in Bordeaux, France. Luckily, T.J. Jankun-Kelly, a computer science researcher at Mississippi State University, was in attendance – and blogging up a storm.
Jankun-Kelly's daily summaries of the conference were posted on Vizworld; you can see them by clicking on the links below.

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caBIG® 2010 call for abstracts extended; registration now open

Attendees at the 2010 caBIG® Annual Meeting to be held September 13-15 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., will be immersed in the latest developments and applications of caBIG® technology and will be presented with new opportunities for participation. 
The meeting will feature:

Guidance to help achieve interoperability—including adaptation of existing systems, adoption of industry-recognized standards and common data elements, or development and deployment of services and tools that are interoperable with caBIG®
Case studies and lessons learned from peers who have deployed and developed caBIG® tools and infrastructure
Access to resources that will help you achieve your goals for data integration, exchange, and collaboration, including hands-on and instructor-led educational sessions on caBIG® tools and infrastructure
Descriptions of caBIG®-en

News Round-Up - International Supercomputing Conference 2010 in the news

Computing researchers and video co-hosts John Shalf and Heike Jagode discuss the day's activities at ISC'10.
Screenshot of video captured on 4 June 2010. To see these videos, visit the YouTube video channel.

Last week, nearly 1800 researchers descended upon Hamburg, Germany, to attend the annual International Supercomputing Conference.
Naturally, there has been a great deal of information coming out of the conference in the form of videos of sessions, blogs, Twitters, videos, press releases, and news stories.
Here are some of our favorite sources of information about ISC'10.

Keynote videos - Visit this page for three keynotes, plus a video showing the highlights of the 35th TOP500 List. The videos are long, but worth the time! Note that the first video starts play automatically.
ISC10 Twitter search - For bite-sized information on anything and everything related to ISC'10, search Twitter for ISC10, or si

Announcement - CI Summer Institute for Geoscientists accepting applications, 6 June deadline

The 7th Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute for Geoscientists is now accepting applications.
The event will take place 9-13 August at the San Diego Supercomputer Center on the University of California, San Diego campus.
The broad theme for CSIG’10 will be emergent geoinformatic approaches to 3D and 4D integration of geoscience data. Given the diverse interests of past CSIG participants, and based on feedback that they have provided, CSIG’10 will feature two “tracks” of instruction:

Build Track: technologies related to building geoinformatics systems; and
Education Track: use of geoinformatics resources in education

Interested applicants at all levels are encouraged to apply, including graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and professionals in earth science and related disciplines. Applicants will have the option to choose the track of interest at the time of applica