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February
13-16, GGF16: The 16th Global Grid Forum, Athens, Greece
13-17, CHEP06: Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, Mumbai, India
March
1-3, First EGEE User Forum, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
7-8, Second CLEANER All-Hands Meeting, Arlington, Virginia
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Discovering potential antimalarial drugs with EGEE. (Click on image for larger version.)
Image Courtesy Nicolas Jacq, CNRS/IN2P3
The Wide In Silico Docking on Malaria
(WISDOM) project uses the EGEE grid to match three-dimensional structures of proteins
from the malarial parasite to ligands, chemical compounds that bind to protein receptors.
Ligands that match to the parasite, as shown in this image, may be used to develop
new drugs to fight malaria. Grid technology can reduce the number of candidate compounds
from millions to thousands or even hundreds, isolating the most promising candidates and
speeding up the drug discovery process.
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Updating Computer Science Curricula
In this column in IEEE Distributed Systems Online's new education department,
Marcin Paprzycki from the Warsaw School of Social Psychology discuss revamping
the undergraduate computer science curriculum to include parallel and distributed
computing right from the start.
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Global Grid Service Meets Gigabyte-Per-Second Challenge
Data transfer from CERN to 12 major computing centers during the challenge. |
In a breakthrough for scientific grid computing, the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) collaboration officially announced the successful completion of a service challenge that sustained a continuous flow of physics data on a worldwide grid infrastructure at rates of up to one gigabyte per second. The maximum sustained data rates achieved correspond to transferring one DVD's worth of scientific data every five seconds.
The data were transferred from CERN in Geneva, Switzerland to 12 major computer centers around the globe. Over 20 other computing facilities were also involved in successful tests of the global grid service for real-time storage, distribution and analysis of particle physics data. The completion of this challenge is a key milestone on the way to establishing the necessary computing infrastructure for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest scientific instrument, scheduled to start operation in 2007.
Commenting on the significance of the results, Jos Engelen, the Chief Scientific Officer of CERN, said "Previously, components of a full grid service have been tested on a limited set of resources, a bit like testing the engines or wings of a plane separately. This latest service challenge was the equivalent of a maiden flight for LHC computing. For the first time, several sites in Asia were also involved in this service challenge, making it truly global in scope. Another first was that real physics data was shipped, stored and processed under conditions similar to those expected when scientists start recording results from the LHC."
Full article
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NSF Names Daniel Atkins to Head New Office of Cyberinfrastructure
Daniel Atkins
Image Credit: University of Michigan |
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has named distinguished computer scientist Dr. Daniel E. Atkins to head its newly created Office of Cyberinfrastruc-
ture.
Dr. Atkins, a professor in the School of Information and in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, has made major contributions to high-performance computer architecture, and led or participated in the design and construction of seven experimental machines including some of the earliest parallel computers.
He developed high-speed arithmetic algorithms now widely used in the computer industry, conducted pioneering work on special-purpose architecture including collaboration with the Mayo Clinic on development of computer-assisted tomography (CAT), and chaired the committee at Michigan that developed one of the earliest computer engineering undergraduate degree programs. More recently his research has focused on the social and technical architecture of distributed knowledge communities.
Read the full NSF press release
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Apply by May 1 for the International Grid Computing Summer School
Students from all over the world are invited to apply for the fourth Inter-
national Summer School in Grid Computing, to be held July 9–21, 2006 in the Jolly Hotel Delle Terme, on the beautiful island of Ischia in the bay of Naples.
Applications are invited from students and researchers from any country who have recently started, or who are about to start, working on grid projects, or educators who plan to teach grid computing. Researchers from computer science, computa-
tional science or any application discipline are encouraged to apply. Competence and experience in some aspects of software development, distributed systems, computational systems, data systems and grid applications are expected. The Summer School will be conducted in English.
The school offers a rare opportunity to hear about the latest achieve-
ments in grid computing from Europe, North America and Asia, and an in-depth introduction to the grid technologies that underpin e-infrastructure and cyberinfrastruc-
ture. Lectures will be given in the mornings, followed by hands-on laboratory exercises with widely used middleware on a testbed connected to major international grids. Graduates of the school will be familiar with the fundamental components of grid environments, able to use them for job submission and distributed data management, and knowledgeable about worldwide grid achievements, emerging grid applications and new research opportunities.
The School is prepared by the EGEE project, is part of the ICEAGE Project, and is endorsed by the Global Grid Forum. For further information please read the full announcement, email the organizers or visit the Web site.
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GGF, EGA to Merge
GRIDtoday, February 13, 2006
On Feb. 6, the Global Grid Forum (GGF) and the Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA) signed a non-binding Letter of Intent to merge, bringing together two leading Grid organizations with a shared mission and common values.
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From cattle to chemicals: Colorado school seeks to expand grid computing efforts
NetworkWorld, February 13, 2006
By Bob Brown
Colorado State University's Patrick Burns could talk about grid computing 'til the cows come home.
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UK e-Science Programme moves on with new ambassador
UK e-Science Programme News Release, February 8, 2006
The UK e-Science Programme is entering a new phase with the appointment of its first envoy and the award of continued funding to eight e Science centres.
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