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Announcing the CREDES Summer School "Dependable Systems Design", June 2-3, 2011.
This summer school is oragnised at the Tallinn University of Technology and it is supported by the EU REGPOT project CREDES
EuroAfrica-ICT & eI-Africa Monthly e-Newsletter/ March 2011
The EuroAfrica-ICT and the eI-Africa Partnerships are very pleased to bring to your attention a number of developments in the field of Euro-African collaborative research.
CHAIN Workshop Press Release - Interoperation of eInfrastructures across EU and Asia
A thematic workshop on “e‐Infrastructures Interoperation and Interoperability across Europe and the Asia‐Pacific Region” was held during the conference ICGC 2011 co‐located with the OGF 31 in Taipei, Taiwan.
Taiwanese step up their game
In the race to have the fastest high-performance computer in the world, mainland China's Tianhe-1A (Milky Way One) now leads the way globally. But Taiwan is hot on their heels.
EXTENDED CORCS 2011 Submission: 28th of March 2011
3rd IEEE International Workshop on Component-Based Design of Resource-Constrained Systems will take place in Munich, Germany, July 18th – July 22nd, 2011 in conjunction with COMPSAC 2011.
The philosophy of Ubuntu
In July 2009, it was reported that the South African academic community was to be supported with a new high-speed research network: SEACOM, a 15,000 kilometer undersea fiber-optic cable along the East African coastline, providing broadband speeds of 1.28 Tbs (terabits per second).
EUMEDGRID-Support First Year Achievements Press Release
Rome 3rd March 2011 - Science is increasingly global. Grand challenges call for collaborative efforts, advanced computing infrastructures and high-speed networks enabling researchers irrespective of their geographical location and organisational boundary.
Special Science issue on data
Science recently announced the publication of a special online collection focused on dealing with data.
Announcing the Metafor Project Workshop: Using the Metafor Common Information Model (CIM) to store, discover and locate climate modelling data.
This workshop, that will be held in Abingdon,UK on Monday 14th March 2011, is aimed at climate modellers and end users of climate data but also welcomes metadata experts.
Announcement - Open Call recently launched by the VENUS-C project (Virtual multidisciplinary EnviroNments USing Cloud Infrastructures)
This is a pioneering project, led by Engineering, for the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme that draws its strength from a joint co-operation bringing together industrial partners and scientific user communities.
MASSIVE Supercomputing Project Boosts Science Down Under
Advanced imaging facilities at the the Australian Synchrotron and Monash University will leverage the power of GPUs to provide scientists with near real-time processing and high-resolution output.
Announcement - ICPT School, 11-22 April, Trieste, Italy
The International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) is hosting an Advanced School on High Performance and Grid Computing. It aims to bring together young researchers and PhD students already with strong knowledge in programming, HPC and/or Grid computing.
VENUS-C Launches Open Call for new Pilots
The aim of the VENUS-C Open Call is to expand the user community, gather additional requirements for the VENUS- platform, test and validate it by funding between 10 and 20 new pilot prototypes with applications suited to the Cloud. The Call is open to European public and private research organisations involved in Research and Technology Development (RTD) from the 27 Member States and the 13 Associated Countries
Announcement - Registration to Cloudscape III – Taking European Cloud Infrastructure Forward is now open!
The event will be held at the Hilton Hotel, Brussels, Belgium on 15th and 16th March 2011. Cloudscape III examines standardisation in Cloud computing.
Announcement of ARTIST Graduate School on Real-Time Kernels for Microcontrollers
The proposed school will take place on 13-17 July 20011 at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, RETIS Lab - CNR Area, Pisa, Italy. The course has two main objectives:
South Africa becoming a global player in astronomical research
Five years before South Africa's MeerKAT telescope becomes operational, more than 43 000 hours of observing time
eChallenges e-2011 Conference and Exhibition - Call for Papers
eChallenges e-2011 Conference & Exhibition takes place in Florence, Italy, 26 - 28 October. This is the twenty-first in a series of Annual Conferences supported by the European Commission,
Announcement - e-IRG is pleased to announce the election of the new e-IRG Chair, Dr. Gudmund Høst,
The Research Council of Norway. Høst was elected new Chair of e-IRG for the next two-year term (2011-2012) at the e-IRG meeting in Brussels on the 16 December, 2010.
COMPSAC2011 Call For Contributions
The 35th Computer Software and Applications Conference will take place in Munich, Germany on the 19-23 July 2011
The last e-IRG newsletter of the year has just been released
In this December 2010 issue, you will find: a summary report of the last e-IRG workshop in Brussels, focusing on governance issues, an interview of Leif Laaksonen on his 4-year chairmanship of the e-IRG and a presentation of the new e-IRG support project (e-IRGSP3) which was launched on 1 December 2010
Second Workshop on Green and Smart Embedded System Technology: Infrastructures, Methods and Tools
The event is organised in conjunction with CPSWeek 2011 and funded and Supported by Artist NoE. Il will take place in Chicago, U.S on the 11th April 11 2011.
PRACE announces third Tier-0 machine: a 3 Petaflop/s revolutionary “SuperMUC” at LRZ manufactured by IBM
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, PRACE, welcomed the upcoming availability of the third Tier-0 system for the PRACE Research Infrastructure. The contract about the next supercomputer at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany (Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, LRZ) - as part of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS)-
Afghan universities connect to GÉANT
Three universities in Afghanistan can now collaborate with their counterparts in Europe thanks to the interconnection agreed between GEANT and the NATO-led SILK Afghanistan project.
Announcing the Africa 5 2011 - Joint CHAIN/EUMEDGRID-Support/EPIKH School for Application Porting
The Grid School aims at increasing the number of scientific/industrial applications running on the CHAIN/EUMEDGRID-Support production infrastructure.
Feature - SuperComputing 2010 comes to a close
Last week 10,000 people from around the world converged on the city of New Orleans to attend SuperComputing 2010. Hot topics included (but were hardly limited to) climate change modeling, graphic processing units, and the rise of data-intensive science.
Announcement - China wins title of world’s fastest computer
A Chinese scientific research center has built the fastest supercomputer ever made, replacing the United States as maker of the swiftest machine, and giving China bragging rights as a technology superpower.
PRACE Research Infrastructure calls for one year project grants on two Tier-0 computers
This call marks the second regular call for the PRACE resources with the standard allocation time of one year.
PRACE Research Infrastructure announces a continuous call for preparatory access
This call marks the opening of continuous preparatory access allowing researchers to apply for code scalability testing, support for code development and optimisation. Preparatory access calls are rolling calls, researchers can apply for resources all year. There are no closing dates.
From grids to clouds and beyond: GRNET supports Greek researchers
All Greek universities get their internet from one source: GRNET (Greek Research and Education Network), a company supported by the Greek state, which connects them both to each other and to the larger pan-European academic network, GÉANT.
Announcing the ERINA4Africa final conference at the Scandic Marina Congress Centre in Helsinki, Finland
This conference will aim at presenting and promoting the results of the project’s study and will revolve around the questions on how existing EU and Sub-Saharan Africa e-Infrastructure links should evolve in a way that will bring benefits to African development and to the e-Infrastructure cooperation between both regions.
Grants for Computer Science Meetings in African Countries
TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world, the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) and Microsoft Research Ltd, offer financial assistance to the organizers of scientific activities (conferences, workshops, symposia and other meetings)
High speed data transfer through TENET and UbuntuNet
A high-speed transfer of real scientific data took place for the first time on September 30, 2010 via the UbuntuNet-GEANT connection.
Announcing the 23rd Annual Science and Technology Conference and Exhibition
The event organised by the Scientific Research Council of Jamaica, will take place on 9th-11th November 2010 in Kingston, Jamaica.
Climate model tackles clouds
Few areas of science are currently hotter than climate. Attempts to understand humankind’s impact on our planet are occupying the front pages of countless newspapers and the minds of an increasingly informed public.
Announcing the upcoming e-Infrastructures for Cultural Heritage Conference
This one-day event will take place at the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels on the 29th of October 2010.
Join the UP 2010 Cloud Computing Conference in San Francisco, United States!
This is the premier cloud computing event, covering latest trends and innovations in the world of cloud computing. Conference panels, workshops, and tutorials are selected to cover a range of the hottest topics in cloud computing.
Astronomical computing - Supporting the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope means thinking big
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope under construction in Chile will incorporate the world’s largest digital camera, capable of recording highly detailed data more quickly than any other telescope of comparable resolution.
Please join the eResearch Australasia 2010: 21st Century Research
Where Computing Meets Data. The conference will be held 8 - 12 November at RACV Royal Pines on Queensland's Gold Coast.
Announcement - Blue Paper a new document endorsed by e-IRG and ESFRI.
This paper is strengthening the collaboration between the aforementioned policy bodies.
PRACE Research Infrastructure strengthened: a second Tier-0 system will be installed in France by the end of the year and fully available in 2011
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, PRACE, welcomed the upcoming availability of the second Tier-0 system of the European research infrastructure
Announcing the next Open e-IRG workshop in Brussels!
The e-IRG workshop will be organised under the Belgian Presidency of the European Union in Brussels on 13th - 14th October 2010.
Announcing the Future Internet Assembly
The Future Internet Assembly will be held in Ghent, Belgium next December 2010. It brings together European researchers to work jointly on technical and non-technical issues in the developments of the Future Internet.
Announcement - Biomedical High Performance Computing Leadership Summit 2010
The conference will be held at the Harvard Medical School in the United States from 17th October to 19th October 2010. Held for two days, with a reception on the eve of the first day, the Biomed HPC Summit assembles 200 professionals from around the country to share ideas and collaborate on today's and the next generation of cluster and grid computing.
Cloud Computing Conference
Learn about all the latest cloud computing innovations in the Cloud Connect conference—designed to serve the needs of IT professionals, executives and developers—where you will see the latest cloud technologies and platforms and identify opportunities in the cloud.
Announcement - Call for Papers APESER-2010
The 4th Asia-Pacific Embedded Systems Education and Research Conference (APESER 2010) will be held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China on the 13-14 December, 2010
Announcing the CLOUD COMPUTING SUMMIT
One of the hottest IT topics of recent times, Cloud Computing is fast becoming mainstream.
Announcing the 8th e-Infrastructure Concertation Meeting – 4-5 November 2010, CERN - Geneva, Switzerland
Unit F3 is pleased to announce the forthcoming 8th Concertation Meeting on e-Infrastructures that will take place in Geneva from 4 to 5 November 2010.
Two more weeks of early bird registration for the EGI Technical Forum!
The EGI Technical Forum 2010 will be the first major event within the EGI community and will bring together European distributed computing projects and their collaborators in academia and businesses, from around Europe and around the world.
SEE-GRID-SCI press release now available
The research and academic communities of South East Europe have made a big step towards joining the new era of long-term sustainable e-Infrastructures in Europe, thanks to the SEE-GRID-SCI e-Infrastructure for regional eScience (SEE-GRID-SCI) project,
Distance Education Journal with Special Issue on Africa
Distance Education, the peer-reviewed international journal of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia, will be publishing a special issue dedicated to Africa.
Mark your Calendar - eLearning Africa 2011
The 6th pan-African conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training, eLearning Africa 2011, will take place from May 25th - 27th, 2011, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Announcing the SIENA Initiative
The main strategic objective of SIENA is to accelerate and coordinate the adoption and evolution of interoperable Distributed Computing Infrastructures through engagement with industry, standards development organisations and major stakeholders to forge community agreements on best practices and standards for distributed computing.
Australians launch new Compute Cloud
With the launch of their new Compute Cloud last month, the Australian Research Collaboration Service aims to bring user friendly grid and cloud computing to a whole new level.
Announcing the EGI Technical Forum 2010
Event registration and hotel booking are now open and a draft programme is available and the call for demonstrations and posters is open
Europe and Africa: toward the creation of a science policy dialogue
The EU is working to decide whether the nature of its participation in the proposed policy dialogue between Africa and the EU will occur through the Science Forum on International Cooperation,
CLARA and ALICE 2 publish a White Paper
The Latin American Research Education Network (CLARA) is a non-profit International Law Organisation serving as a Latin American collaboration system by means of telecommunications advanced networks for research, innovation and education.
ESFRI GridBriefing now available!
We are pleased to inform you that this interesting article has now been released and is available for download at the GridTalk website
A reminder about the forthcoming JISC/CNI event in Edinburgh
It is not too late to register; the delegate rate is £345 including attendance at all conference sessions, refreshments and lunch on 1 and 2 July, a place at the conference reception and evening activities on 1 July, overnight accommodation on 1 July and breakfast.
PRACE calls for One Year Project Grants on Europe’s fastest Computer
PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, enables researchers from across Europe to apply for time on the PRACE resources via a peer review process.
Announcement Call for Papers UbuntuNet Connect 2010
Rolling out the Regional Infrastructure: From dreams to achievement Infrastructure, Applications, Content, Innovation and Policy
PRACE Research Infrastructure inaugurated: World-class Supercomputing Service for European Science
In a ceremony EC Deputy Director General Zoran Stancic and representatives of 19 nations established PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe. PRACE is creating a persistent pan-European High Performance Computing research infrastructure and related services.
CGW10 - Call for abstract
The main objective of the Cracow Grid Workshops, which were initiated in 2001, is to support the community of researchers, developers, and practitioners who work in the fascinating field of e-Science, grid systems, and their applications.
DEISA PRACE Symposium 2010 attracted Participants from 23 Countries
The DEISA PRACE Symposium 2010 was held for the second time as a big European HPC (High Performance Computing) event. The symposium featured speakers from different scientific communities as well as decision makers in science.
Commission launches Digital Agenda, its new five year strategy for the ICT sector
Commissioner Nelly Kroes announced on 19 May 2010 the EU Commission's ICT strategy for 2010-2015, the so-called Digital Agenda.
Get up-to-date with PRACE at ISC’10
PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, takes an active role at ISC’10, Hamburg, Germany on May 30 – June 3, 2010.
Join EUMEDGRID-Support Social Networks and Online Community!
Keep up-to-date with the latest information on e-Infrastructures and the Mediterranean Region
Announcement - The deadline for submission of abstracts at the AHM 2010 has been extended to 24th May!
The ninth UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM 2010) will be held at the City Hall, Cardiff, from 13-16 September 2010.
SERENE: South-South Exchange of Research Education Network Experience
SERENE (South-South Exchange of Research Education Network Experience) is a programme that involves exchange of information between South Asian countries and other countries. Information exchange is through Video-conferences, on-line discussions and face-to-face interactions.
SAFE-BioPharma - A new domain standard for secure identity
In medical and pharmaceutical research, researchers deal with sensitive private information on a daily basis. That makes secure identity management a crucial need. Mollie Shields-Uehling is the CEO of the SAFE-BioPharma Association, a non-profit organization charged with creating a standard that meets that need.
First PRACE Petaflop/s System Ready for European Researchers: Early Access Call Open
PRACE (the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) allows researchers from across Europe to apply for time on the PRACE resources via a peer review process. This call marks the first opportunity for researchers to apply for PRACE resources.
The Position Statement of the BELIEF South African conference in now available!
This document summarises the major outcome of the discussions held during the two policy Round Tables which took place during the aforementioned BELIEF conference in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Announcement - GENESI-DR April newsletter - Ground European Network for Earth Science Interoperations
Over the course of the GENESI-DR project we have seen the creation of a new data infrastructure providing search and retrieval of Earth science data held in diverse digital repositories across Europe
First ERINA4Africa workshop successfully delivered in Kigali last week!
The Erina4Africa consortium successfully delivered its first workshop in Kigali last week. The event was attended by over 35 participants and excellent speeches were provided by key African players in the field of eHealth.
Announcing the last issue of the SEE-GRID-SCI newsletter now available on the SEE-GRID-SCI website
Topics inside this issue:
The EUAsiaGrid consortium is pleased to announce its Dissemination Conference.
The event will be held at the Activity Centre of Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan from 21-23 June 2010. EUAsiaGrid has been acting as a support action, spreading dissemination, providing training courses, supporting scientific applications and monitoring the results during these 2 project years.
Announcement - 5th Grid and e-collaboration workshop: from Digital Repositories to Digital Earth Communities
The European Space Agency, within the GENESI-DR project is organising the aforementioned workshop, which will be held on the 12th of May at ESA-ESRIN in Frascati, Italy.
PRACE – Towards a Permanent Research Infrastructure
PRACE, the Partnership for Advance d Computing in Europe, has completed the preparatory work to create a permanent pan-European High Performance Computing Research Infrastructure. The PRACE Research Infrastructure will provide a leading HPC service to enable world-class science.
Open e-IRG Workshop, Barcelona cancelled
Due to European airspace restrictions, the e-IRG workshop in Barcelona, 21-22 April 2010, has to be cancelled.
New broadband network for Africa approved
Funding for the first phase of an initiative to connect African research centres and link them to an existing European network has been approved by the European Commission.
Invitation: participate at the e-IRG Workshop 21-22 April over the Internet
The Global project invites you to participate remotely or follow the streaming of the forthcoming e-IRG (e-Infrastructure Reflection Group) Workshop of the European Commission in Barcelona on the 21st and 22nd of April.
Ministers promise decade for African science
African science ministers agreed on ways of pushing the science agenda at the AMCOST meeting in Cairo.
e-IRG releases new Roadmap on e-Infrastructure
The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group releases this month a Roadmap outlining the vision for future e-Infrastructure services in Europe.
Grid computing in five minutes - The data-centric age
The GridTalk consortium has recently launched its April issue of GridBriefings on data
Announcement - HPC 2010 Advanced Workshop in Cetraro, Italy
Registration is now open for the High Performance Computing, Grids, and Clouds Workshop, which will take place 21-25 June.
EU-Med Event 3 – 30-31 March 2010
Today, Arab nations are playing a key role in advancing scientific collaboration. Dr Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chair of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID) of the United Nations announces the launch of the Arab Scientific Research and Education Network (ASREN), at the EU-MED Event held in Brussels, Belgium, the 3rd in a series of high-level policy meetings.
Announcement - AHM 2010: Call for Submission of abstracts
The ninth UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM 2010) will be held at the City Hall, Cardiff, from 13-16 September 2010.
Announcement - Third AlmereGrid Desktop Grid workshop
On 29-30 March 2010 a major desktop grid event will take place in Almere, The Netherlands. The event combines:
DRIHMS Hydro-Meteorology Research questionnaire has been launched!
The questionnaire was prepared during the DRIHMS HMR Consultation Meeting held in Munich on February 2-3 at LMU headquarters.
Announcement - Nine PRACE Prototypes are Available for Testing
PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, invites researchers from academia and industry to test applications on prototypes of potential future HPC Petascale systems.
Announcement Registration open for IX DOSAR Workshop
The meeting will take place on 6-8 April 2010 in Pilanesburg, South Africa. The DOSAR Workshop series is designed as an instrument to improve the relationship among all groups and exchange information about the latest developments in the various analysis centers.
Help solving the world's energy crisis with EDGeS@Home
Producing energy in a sustainable, safe and environmental friendly way is one of the main challenges of our time. Nuclear Fusion is one of the promising energy sources, but the technology is difficult to master.
The EUAsiaGrid project makes a virtue of diversity
EUAsiaGrid, a two-year project to promote grid awareness in South-East Asia, is entering its final phase. Time to take stock of some of the unique aspects of running such a geographically and culturally diverse grid project, and the opportunities it has created for closer scientific collaboration.
Registration now open for the 1st Erina4Africa Workshop!
This one-day event will be held in Kigali, Rwanda on the 21st of April. It will focus on Investigating Best Practices for e-Infrastructure Application Development.
Announcement DEISA PRACE Symposium 2010 in Barcelona: Exciting Computational Science and Future HPC Technologies
DEISA, the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications, and PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe organise a second major European event in High Performance Computing: the DEISA PRACE Symposium 2010.
Announcement - CCGrid 2010: Call for research and product demos
The 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid) is now accepting proposals for demonstrations from laboratories or research groups.
PRACE evaluated additional prototypes for next generation architectures
In addition to the well-known PRACE prototypes for the first generation of European Tier-0 centers, the PRACE work package for “Future Petaflop/s computer technologies beyond 2010” has evaluated 12 additional prototypes.
Announcement - ERINA4Africa goes live!
Exploiting Research INfrastructures potentiAl for boosting Research and Innovation in Africa (Erina4Africa) now has a live website and community.
4th Issue of Zero-In now available!
The BELIEF team is pleased to announce that the 4th issue of its Zero-In eMagazine has just been published
PRACE Benchmark Suite Finalised
PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, selected 22 applications for the final PRACE application benchmark suite.
ACACES 2010 Call for participation
This Summer School, organised by the HiPEAC Network of Excellence, is a one week summer school for computer architects and tool builders
Call for papers - Special Issue on Network-on-Chip Architectures and Design Methodologies Microprocessors and Microsystems -- Embedded Hardware Design
The Elsevier Embedded Hardware Design (MICPRO) Journal seeks original manuscripts
Announcement of a tutorial about Architectural Aspects of Deriving Performance Guarantees
The ACM IEEE International Symposium Computer Architecture is the premier forum
Announcement - the January issue of the GENESI-DR newsletter has been released
This issue describes the philosophy behind the development of the GENESI-DR Scientific Portal
CALL FOR PAPERS - Doctoral Program at the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Secure Software Integration and Reliability Improvement
The objective of the Student Doctoral Program is to encourage students to attend SSIRI and present their work,
Breaking news from the EGEE project on the last EGEE User Forum
The event will be held in Uppsala, Sweden on 12-15 April. Two demo/poster/exhibition sessions will be organised to optimise the visibility for exhibitors and demo presenters as well as to give more time for discussion.
Announcing an open position - Postdoctoral Research Fellows in Methods of Model-Based Design and Verification (UNU-IIST)
Post-Doc vacancies in the rCOS Group at the United Nations University, International Institute of Software and Technology
Announcement - Joint UJ/Wits School for Grid Application Porting
The second grid application development school will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa on the 15th-26th March 2010.
eSkills Summit 2010 - Call for Papers Deadline 26 February
Hosted by the Government of South Africa through the Department of Communications and the eSkills Institute, eSkills Summit South Africa 2010 will take place in Cape Town, 26 - 28 July 2010.
Annoucement - Summer Internships for BSc and MSc Students
The School of Computer and Communication Sciences provides internship opportunities in the Summer period for students enrolled in BSc, MSc, or equivalent programmes in Computer Science or Engineering,
e-IRG Roadmap 2009 draft released – Comments welcome!
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 e-Infrastructures.
e-IRG Data Management Task Force: Final report and recommendations endorsed by e-IRG and ESFRI
In 2008, the e-IRG decided to launch a task force to investigate the numerous European activities related to the management of scientific data, and to contribute to the definition of common and shared policies in this field. After months of intensive discussion and work, the task force released its final report investigating the issue in a comprehensive way, and setting a few recommendations. The final report and the recommendations were jointly endorsed by the e-IRG, on 30 November 2009, and by ESFRI, on 11 December 2009.
Announcement - Call for Papers - Workshop on Adaptive Resource Management (WARM 2010)
Associated with CPSWEEK 2010 in Stockholm, the event will take place on the 12th of April in Stockholm.
Apply for computational time on TeraGrid by January 15, 2010 (by 12:00 Midnight submitter’s local time)
National Science Foundation prepares for transition to eXtreme Digital generation of cyberinfrastructure
Breaking News from Latin America with the EELA Newsletter N°14
Enjoy an inspiring read of the Editorial written by Michael Stanton, Director of E&D and many other stimulating articles
Announcing the Call for Papers at the Sixth European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications (ECMFA 2010)
ECMFA will be co-organised by CEA LIST (Laboratory of technology research for software-intensive systems)and UPMC-LIP6 (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6). The event will take place at the University of Pierre & Marie Curie in Paris, France on the 15-18 June 2010.
Next DEISA/PRACE symposium
The event will take place at the Casa Milà (La Pedrera) in Barcelona/Spain, more details will be available soon.
The Future of Cloud Computing - 26 January 2010, Brussels
Agenda and Executive Summary now available!
The EGEE User Forum organisers are pleased to announce the EGEE User Forum Exhibition.
This event will take place in Uppsala, Sweden on 12-16 April, 2010.
The BELIEF consortium is pleased to announce that further to the delivery of another successful and fruitful e-Concertation Meeting,
the event report is now available online!
The eighth issue of the PRACE newsletter is published
The contents of the newsletter are: PRACE is Ready for the Implementation Phase
System will allow viewing climate future scenarios
With ICMC (Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação de São Carlos da USP) project is possible to visualize models of future scenarios of climate change
Announcing Call for Abstract for the International Symposium on Grid Computing (ISGC) 2010. The event will be held at Academia Sinica in Taipei from 5-12 March 2010.
The Grid activities in Asia-Pacific have drawn attention as the main theme since past ISGCs,
PRACE Award 2010: Call for Papers has Started
The call for papers for the PRACE Award 2009 has begun. It will be the third time the PRACE Award will be presented at the ISC (International Supercomputing Conference) Opening Session.
Global Virtual Research Communities - A new world of opportunities.
Watch the video produced by the GEANT & e-Infrastructures Unit on the BELIEF YouTube channel!
10 Gbps SANReN network live
SANReN’s national backbone network completed ahead of schedule, providing educational institutions with 10 Gbps of national and international bandwidth
A challenge to improve Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for structural biology
In structural biology, the only technique available to predict the three dimensional structure of large complex molecules in solution, such as proteins and DNA, is NMR spectroscopy.
Announcement - OzViz 2009 Call for Registration, Victoria, Australia, 3-4 December
You are cordially invited to participate in Ozviz 2009, which will be held on the 3rd and 4th of December 2009
The long view: A conversation with John Wood
John Wood is one of the key people behind ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures), the organization charged with creating a “roadmap”
PRACE Prototype the Greenest Supercomputer on Earth
eQPACE, one of the advanced prototypes evaluated by PRACE, ranked at number 1 on the new Green500 list published at the Supercomputing09 conference in Portland, OR.
Call for Abstracts for the fourth issue of Zero-In now open!
Submit your articles on Governance issues for e-Infrastructures or on one of the insights themes
PRACE is Ready for Implementation: Applications ported
PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, has explored promising petascaling techniques.
Integrade
The InteGrade project is a multi-university initiative aimed at building a novel object-oriented Grid middleware that focuses on leveraging the idle computing power of commodity workstations such as PCs in shared laboratories, corporate employee workstations, and household PCs. The project site URL is: http://www.integrade.org.br/en