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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
PRACE is Ready for Implementation
PRACE, is eligible to apply for a grant under the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme to start the implementation phase.
Making Grid Computing Easier
The XtreemOS project second public release of Linux-based Grid operating system
e-IRG Workshop in Uppsala: Bringing the e-Infrastructure actors together
Around 60 participants attended the open e-IRG Workshop in Uppsala, on 14-15 October 2009. This two-day event was organised by SNIC, the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing, under the auspices of the Swedish Presidency of the European Union. User involvement in e-Infrastructures, one of the priorities of the Swedish agenda, was the main topic addressed in the workshop. One of the key roles of the e-IRG is to bridge the gap between the providers and the users of e-Infrastructures, and to steer the developments of the e-Infrastructure components in the direction of a seamless service to all users.
First announcement of the 6th European Conference on Research Infrastructures (ECRI2010)
The event will take place in Barcelona on the 23-24 March 2010
Italy became a PRACE Principal Partner
PRACE got a new Principal Partner in its recent meeting as Italy became one of the PRACE Principal Partners.
Announcing the Second GENESI-DR Workshop.
The GENESI-DR consortium is pleased to invite you to this event that focuses on Earth observation data policy issues The meeting will take place in Villafranca, Spain on 4 December 2009.
TERENA Conference - Call for Papers
The deadline for submitting papers for the 2010 TERENA Networking Conference (TNC) is 30 November 2009.
The eNMR project, which represent the second largest GRID community in the life science area, is now launching a survey!
They would like to collect feedback from users but also companies (SMEs for example) about their views and needs for security on the GRID.
IST-Africa October 2009 Newsletter
The IST-Africa team would like to drive your attention to a number of important developments in this month's newsletter
Carnegie Mellon University Launches Initiative to Automate Discovery of Astrophysical Phenomena
Automated methods for discovering astrophysical phenomena by sifting through massive amounts of cosmological data are being developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University,
South African scientists and scholars engage with TWAS
South Africa will experience one of the largest-ever influxes to the country of notable scientists and scholars from the South next week when the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) hosts the meeting and conference of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS).
Grid computing in five minutes...Transferring technology: Grids in Business
Grid technology allows users to harness the power of multiple computers, helping to provide enhanced processing power, access distributed resources and form stronger collaborations.
D4Science-II drives forward the science e-resource revolution
The new EU-funded project D4Science-II ('Data infrastructure ecosystem for science') has held its kick-off meeting from 13 to 16 October in Pisa, Italy. It is set to establish 'virtual research environments' that will offer significantly enhanced services to scientists without high development and maintenance costs.
D4Science-II - Towards an e-Infrastructure Ecosystem for Science
D4Science-II started on October 1st 2009 as one of the main European e-Infrastructure projects, involving 10 participants such as the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Announcement_ eLearning Africa 2010 in Zambia!
eLearning Africa is delighted to announce that next year’s conference will take place in Zambia. The 5th event in the series of pan-African conferences and exhibitions will convene from May 26 – 28, 2010 in the Zambian capital, Lusaka and will bring together eLearning and education professionals from Africa and beyond.
The Quasimodo project, an FP7 initiative whose goals are to develop new techniques and tools for model-driven design, analysis, testing and code-generation for advanced embedded systems,
announces its workshop targeted at the end-users-panel, and practitioners and researchers in the field.
New consortium to embed e-Research technology By Simon Hettrick, OMII-UK
‘In the last twelve months, people have begun to think differently about e-Research technology’ says Anne Trefethen, Director of e-Research South, ‘maybe it’s the recession causing people to make more of the resources available to them, or maybe we’re starting to see the benefits of [e-Research] technology maturing’.
Announcement - Grid school for site administrators, 16-20 November, Cape Town, South Africa
The SAGrid project, together with EPIKH and EGEE will be hosting a one-week grid school for site administrators. Registration is open to any experts interested in gaining a better understanding of the services provided, how they may benefit their respective user communities and how they are used in the national infrastructure.
e-IRG Newsletter - September 2009
The third issue of the e-IRG newsletter has been released. In this issue, you will find important information on: - the e-IRG workshop in Uppsala on 14-15 October 2009; - the e-IRG Knowledge Base; - e-IRG news and related events.
The third edition of Zero-In is now available on line!
This third issue focuses on Successful Case Studies of eScience/eResearch Projects in Europe and globally.
European industry went HPC with PRACE in Toulouse
The second PRACE industry seminar “Europe goes HPC” was held in Toulouse on 7–8 September. It attracted more than 100 participants from 21 countries with executive attendees representing 57 companies from a wide variety of industry fields, HPC (High Performance Computing) vendors, ISV (Independent Software vendors), service companies and representatives from the European Commission. The seminar was organized jointly by GENCI and GAUSS and sponsored actively by Airbus, Grand Toulouse and the Midi Pyrénées Region.
MANGO-NET - Helping to bring African ICT up to speed
Mangoes are cultivated in African countries such as Nigeria, MANGO-NET aims to cultivate an ICT infrastructure.
EGI Council elected its chair
The EGI Council elected its chair on 24 September 2009, during the EGEE’09 conference in Barcelona, Spain. Per Öster, representative of the Finnish National Grid Initiative (NGI), was chosen by the European Grid Initiative (EGI) Council members to lead the project’s governing body.
Lisbon selected as the First PRACE Headquarters Location
PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, decided to place its headquarters in Lisbon, Portugal, starting in 2010.
CALL FOR PAPERS: ARCS 2010 23rd International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems
The proceedings of ARCS 2010 will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series (pending). After the conference, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their contribution for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Systems Architecture. Also, a best paper and best presentation award will be presented at the conference.
CSIR technology supports access to government information and services in rural South Africa
The final pilot of project Lwazi (a Zulu word meaning knowledge or information) takes place on 11 September 2009 at the Thusong Service Centre in Atteridgeville, outside Pretoria.
Centre for High Performance Computing puts new supercomputer into operation (Speech by the Minister of Science and Technology, Mrs Naledi Pandor, available on the Department of Science and Technology website)
The Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) has launched phase 2 of its operations. The latest addition to its facilities is the Sun Microsystems hybrid supercomputer. The Minister of Science and Technology, Mrs Naledi Pandor, was the guest of honour at the launch event, which took place on 8 September 2009 at the CHPC in Rosebank, Cape Town. The event was hosted by the CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research).
Announcing the NICE Training Event in Cortanze (Asti, Italy) in October 2009
This training is a five-day event - running from 26 to 30 October 2009 - on Software Technologies for the deployment of High-level Infrastructures oriented towards HPC, Grid Computing and Cloud Computing.
PRACE HPC Training Video Material Available
PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, has produced a set of 16 HPC (High Performance Computing) training videos that can be downloaded free of charge.
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.
ICT Results publishes the article "Belief, how European e-Infrastructure makes a difference"
Europe has turned its early belief and investment in the potential of e-Infrastructures and virtual research into a position of great strength, especially in e-Science and grid technology, such as the GÉANT network dedicated to research and education. The European Belief-II project is working to ensure that Europe maintains and strengthens its position as a major e-Infrastructure provider in the world.
Announcing call for Papers - IEEE ICT2010 - International Conference on Telecommunications 2010
Special Track on Reconfigurable Computing for Telecommunications, Networking, and Signal Processing. This year, the International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 2010) will take place at Doha, Qatar on the 4th-7th April 2010. It is dedicating a track to highlight advances in reconfigurable computing technologies.
Announcement - 2nd ICES Annual Conference
ICES - KTH's Innovative Centre for Embedded Systems – is pleased to invite you to attend the 2nd ICES Annual Conference in Stockholm on Wednesday 2nd September!
Call for Papers on: Real-time, Networked, and Dependable Systems
The 13th DATE conference and exhibition is the main European event bringing together designers and design automation users, researchers and vendors, as well as specialists in the hardware and software design, test and manufacturing of electronic circuits and systems. It puts strong emphasis on ICs/SoCs, reconfigurable hardware and embedded systems, including embedded software.
Call for Papers for the 2nd Workshop on Compositional Theory and Technology for Real-Time Embedded Systems (CRTS'09).
This event is held in conjunction with the 30th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS'09) and it will take place in Washington, D.C., USA on 1-4 December 2009
Announcing that Registration to the CHPC National Meeting 2009 and 5th BELIEF Symposium to is now open
The event is hosted by the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) and will be held on 7th - 9th December 2009 at the Sandton International Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Academia Sinica watches global carbon
Observing how the level of carbon fluctuates between the atmosphere, living creatures and the ground tells researchers much about climate change.
Announcing the August 2009 NeSC newsletter
Please find it available at
CSIR awards national research network tender to Telkom
The CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) has awarded the contract for the installation of the national backbone network of the South African National Research Network (SANReN) to Telkom.
1st D4Science World User meeting
The 1st “D4Science World User meeting” will be held from 25-26 November 2009 in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations headquarters (Rome, Italy). It will host an international audience and distinguished guest speakers from the scientific and user communities.
SEE-GRID-SCI USER FORUM 2009 - Call for abstracts now open
SEE-GRID-SCI USER FORUM 2009 Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey December 9-10, 2009
Announcing the WINDS-Caribe Seminar - Fostering EU-Caribbean cooperation in ICT research
This event, the first of its kind, will take place in Brussels on the 20 October 2009 in the ACP Secretariat.
Africa hopes to leapfrog other regions in IPv6 adoption
Africa's lag behind other regions in technology may actually serve to ensure a faster Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) adoption. The pool of available IPv4 addresses is expected to run out by 2011 because of global broadband uptake and the expected growth of Internet access in Africa.
First EGI Council in Amsterdam
Amsterdam was the host city for the first EGI Council on 9 July 2009. The Council took place after reception of the signatures of the EGI Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) by 24 NGIs.
EGI eNewsletter 2/2009
The last issue of the EGI eNewsletter has been released. You will find in this issue information on the first EGI Council held in Amsterdam on 9 July 2009, and a presentation of NorGrid and BEgrid.
iSGTW interviews Senator Jefferson Praia about the state of e-infrastructure in Latin America
To find out what the speakers at the upcoming BELIEF (Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers) International Symposium think about the state of e-infrastructure in Latin America, we interviewed Senator Jefferson Praia, who is also a professor at Amazonas University, Brazil. He shared his thoughts on grid technologies in the region.
South Africa Grid: A view from the coordinator’s chair
When you look at the Real Time Monitor, you see incoming and completed jobs shuttling in rapid fire between computer centers scattered all over the globe — including Antarctica.
eResearch2020 e-Infrastructures Survey now launched
Take the time to fill in their online questionnaire before July 31st!
EELA-2 (E-science grid facility for Europe and Latin America) is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts/Papers for its second Conference that will take place in Choroni, Venezuela, from November 25 to 27, 2009.
Abstracts, written in English, should be comprehensive enough to describe the actual content of the contribution (400 to 800 words) and should be sent to conference2@eu-eela.eu as text, word or pdf.
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION at the IWPLS'09 - International Workshop on Portals for Life Sciences
IWPLS’09 will bring together scientists of the field of life sciences, bioinformaticians and computer scientists. The aim is to exchange experience, formulate ideas and introduce up-to-date technological advances in molecular and systems biology in the context of portals.
Announcement for Call for abstracts and call for posters. ICT that makes the difference - The Future of Ambient Intelligence and ICT for Security
This conference will be held in Brussels, Belgium on the 22-25 November 2009
Zero-In e-Magazine: submission deadline extended!
The abstracts submission deadline for the Zero-In eMagazine has been extended to Friday 17 July
Announcing the 7th e-Infrastructure Concertation Meeting
The event will be held on the 12-13 and 14 October 2009 in Brussels (BE)
The GLOBAL consortium organised a successful e-Infrastructure Networking Event which took place on the 23rd of June.
25 sites were connected from different part of the world and over 200 participants attended the event remotely.
PRACE organises an industry seminar for potential European High Performance Computing users.
Close to 150 invited participants, especially decision makers are expected to attend the event including representatives from aerospace, car manufacturing, energy, chemicals, drug design and medical industry, metal industry, bioinformatics, telecommunication companies, finance, insurance, as well as HPC vendors, scientific software developers and service companies, and EC representatives.
Announcement - Clusters, grids and clouds, 2 July, Sophia Antipolis, France
Last chance to register for Parallel Computing with Servers, Clusters, Grids & Clouds, to be held by INRIA — French national institute for research in computer science and control — at Sophia Antipolis, France, on Thursday 2 July.
Announcing the PhD Forum of VLSI-SoC 2009
The VLSI-SoC 2009’s Ph.D. Forum is a poster session aimed at the exchange of ideas and experiences of Ph.D. students from different parts of the world. Elected Ph.D. students have an opportunity to discuss their thesis and research work with specialists within the system and design automation communities.
Announcing the Call for participation at the XtreemOS summer school 2009
The XtreemOS Summer School will take place at the Wadham College, University of Oxford, UK, on the 7-11 September 2009. It will include lectures on modern distributed paradigms such as Grid computing, Cloud computing, and network-centric operating systems. The Summer School will combine lectures from research leaders shaping the future of distributed systems and world leaders in deploying and exploiting distributed infrastructures. Hands-on laboratory exercises and practical sessions using XtreemOS will give participants experience on using modern distributed systems.
The EuroIndia project's June newsletter is now available!
Enjoy the read on their last Brainstorming Session held in Paris in May 2009, where the preliminary findings were presented by Dr. Sudhanshu Rai from Copenhagen Business School, the knowledge mapping team leader.
EGEE welcomes MATLAB users in to the fold
For a new set of researchers, Europe’s largest computing infrastructure for research, just became a lot more attractive. One of the most powerful tools for research, MATLAB®, can now run on Enabling Grids for E-sciencE computing power. Widely regarded as the single most useful piece of simulation software, for use in everything from optimizing controller settings in advance of a rocket launch to engineering to vector analysis, MATLAB® is now fully compatible with any grid computing system using the gLite middleware stack.
Annoucing the upcomin joint EDGeS and EGEE Summer School on Grid Application Support
This school will be held in Budapest, Hungary from the 29 June to the 4 July 2009. The school is recommended also to staff members of companies who would like to establish an institutional desktop grid or would like to extend their existing institutional desktop grid by connecting it to other institutional desktop grids or service grids.
ADVANCED Telemedicine System links four European hospitals using GÉANT and local research networks
Three hospitals across Europe have been linked for the first time using an advanced video conferencing system. This enables the sharing of high quality, real-time video images of surgery for training and diagnosis.
METAFOR Newsletter now available!
This newsletter is intended to be a quarterly publication of the Metafor project team, and aims to keep interested parties up-to-date with the recent developments in the project.
The EU-Infrastructure Unit and the GLOBAL Project invitation you to participate in the GLOBAL e-Infrastructure Networking Event I
to be performed on June 23rd as a distributed event over the Internet with participants from Latin America, Caribbean Region, North America and Europe.
Call for Abstracts for the third issue of Zero-In eMagazine is now open!
Submit your articles for Issue 3!
e-IRG Newsletter - June 2009
The second issue of the e-IRG Newsletter has been released.
e-IRG Newsletter - June 2009
The second issue of the e-IRG Newsletter has been released. In this new issue, you will find important information on: - the e-IRG workshop held in Prague on 14-15 May 2009; - the e-IRGSP2 report on legal issues and e-Infrastructures; - e-IRG news and related events.
Call for Papers for the Second Workshop on "Very Large Digital Libraries" now open!
Call for Papers for the Second Workshop on "Very Large Digital Libraries" now open. Submission deadline 29th June 2009.
E-Infrastructures Supporting European Research: Key Challenges Highlighted at the e-IRG Workshop in Prague
National e-IRG delegates from more than 20 European countries, leaders of major EU-funded e-Infrastructure projects, and European Commission representatives attended the e-IRG workshop in Prague, on 14-15 May 2009, held at the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. The workshop was organised by CESNET, the Czech National Research and Education Network (NREN), under the auspices of the Czech Presidency of the European Union. It focused on a number of key challenges related to e-Infrastructures and research in Europe, such as partnerships and cooperation at national and regional levels, governance models, and legal issues.
Grid solutions track at LinuxDays 2009
Can Grid technology give your company a competitive advantage? The Grid Solutions Track organized by the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) Business Forum, 5 June 2009, during LinuxDays 2009 is designed to illustrate how IT strategists from a broad spectrum of businesses and public administration can benefit by adopting Grid computing.
SRM-SRB Interface: A new milestone for grid interoperation
ASGC (Academia Sinica Grid Computing) launches the SRM-SRB Interface Software Version 1.0 release today at OGF 26. This is exciting news for the Grid community. Interoperation between the two most commonly deployed data solutions, SRM (Storage Resource Manager) and SRB (Storage Resource Broker) is a great step towards pragmatic solutions for Grid interoperation.
Reporting on the D4Science-DARIAH Meeting
On 15 May 2009 D4Science ISTI-CNR partners met with DARIAH project representatives in Pisa, Italy. The meeting was dedicated to introduce D4Science, the Virtual Research Environment approach and enabling technology (gCube), and to discuss how they could address the requirements of the DARIAH research communities.
DEISA PRACE Symposium 2009 attracted almost 200 participants from more than 20 countries and four continents
DEISA, the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications, and PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, for the first time merged their annual science symposia into one big European HPC event: The DEISA PRACE Symposium 2009. This symposium took place from May 11 to May 13 in Amsterdam, and was hosted by SARA and NCF at the Royal Tropical Institute.
Announcement - Call for participation: 5th International Conference on e-Social Science
The National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS) is organising this conference in collaboration with the German Social Science Infrastructure Services (GESIS)
GridCafé launches in Spanish
GridCafé, an award-winning website aimed at introducing the marvels of grid computing to a wider audience, has this week launched a Spanish language version, making the website available to an estimated 300 million Spanish speakers around the world.
CALL FOR PAPERS - HiPEAC 2010 - The 5th International Conference on High Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers.
This event will take place in Pisa, Italy on the 25th-27th January 2010.
Announcement - Grids and E-science, 15-19 June, Santander, Spain
This workshop, jointly organized by CSIC and CNRS, is the first one organized in the framework of the collaboration established between GRID-CSIC and the Institute des Grilles.
CALL FOR PAPERS - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Special Section on "From Embedded Systems to Cooperating-Objects"
The Special Section "From Embedded Systems to Cooperating Objects" aims at presenting some of the most significant research works representing the state-of-the-art in scientific foundations and technologies that integrate computational and communication concepts with the dynamics of physical and engineered systems.
Peking University advances protein research
Researchers at Peking University’s Beijing Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Center (BNMRC) can determine 3D protein structures 1000 times faster, thanks to the grid.
Call for submission of abstracts to AHM2009: Past, Present and Future
Authors are invited to submit abstracts of unpublished, original work of not more than 3 pages of text using single spaced 10 point size on A4 pages - including 2 pages of text and (optionally) 1 of figures and tables. Authors should submit abstracts satisfying the formatting guidelines as a PDF file using the AHM2009 paper submission system which will be available shortly.
Registration is now open for the EGEE’09 Conference!
EGEE’09 - “Uniting our strengths to realise the sustainable European grid” is the final conference of EGEE, and it will bring together researchers, businesses, collaborating projects, future research infrastructures (ESFRI), developers and decision makers to realise a sustainable future for European grid computing, through the European Grid Initiative (EGI).
GridBriefing - The future of innovation: developing Europe's ICT einfrastrucures - April 2009
GridBriefing- Grid Computing in five minutes 6th issue - April 2009
Announcement - Call for participation: eResearch Australia, Sydney, November 09
Researchers, practitioners, and educators from diverse disciplines are invited to participate in eResearch Australasia 2009. This year's theme is No boundaries.
Announcement - Register for tutorials at ICCS09, 24 May, Baton Rouge
Event: Free tutorials at the Ninth annual International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2009) Hosted by: The Louisiana State University Center for Computation & Technology (CCT)
Call for Sessions at EGEE09
EGEE09 which will be held in Barcelona, Spain (21-25th September 2009) and will mark the beginning of the end of the EGEE series of projects and the start of the transition to EGI.
The OGF26 Call for Session Proposals is now open!
OGF26 will take place in Chapel Hill, NC USA from May 26-29, 2009.
Announcement - Registration open, Baltic Grid II, 29 June - 3 July, Molėtai, Lithuania
The summer school covers 5 days of lectures and practical work, on topics from "Introduction to grid" to "Network provisioning."
Announcing the NOCS 2009 last Call for Participation
NOCS is the 3rd ACM/IEEE International symposium on Networks-On-Chip. The event will take place on the 10-13 may 2009 in san Diego, California. Sponsored by IEEE CAS/CEDA & ACM SIGARCH/SIGBED/SIGDA is the premier event dedicated to interdisciplinary research on on-chip communication technology, architecture, design methods and applications, bringing together scientists and engineers working on NoC innovations from inter-related research communities, including computer architecture, networking, circuits and systems, embedded systems, and design automation.
Announcing the latest issue of the SEE-GRID-SCI newsletter available on the SEE-GRID-SCI website
Among other topics, this issue will present the main outcomes of the SEE-GRID-SCI Regional Meteorologists Workshop organised on the 15th of January 2009. The Workshop was collocated with the 3rd PSC Meeting of the SEE-GRID-SCI project in ICI, Bucharest, Romania.
CSC and CSCS Arrange Two PRACE Code-Porting Workshops