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March
1-3, First EGEE User Forum, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
7-8, Second CLEANER All-Hands Meeting, Arlington, Virginia
13-15, ISSSE 06: International Symposium on Secure Software Engineering, Washington, D.C.
26-28, PRAGMA 10: Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly Tenth Workshop, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Full Calendar
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Lake Erie surface water velocities. (Click on image for larger version.)
Image Courtesy Mark L. Green, CCR
Researchers in the Grid Resources for Advanced Science and Engineering
(GRASE) VO at the State University of New York at Buffalo
run hydrodynamic models continuously during the algae
growing season in order to track observed harmful algal blooms within the
Great Lakes. Grid resources enable
forecasts of bloom movements from several days to several weeks. The GRASE
VO provides a science gateway for scientists from several disciplines.
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TryScience - The Grid
A fun way to learn about grid computing, Tryscience.org's interactive site teaches
visitors which types of problems are best addressed by personal computers, supercomputers
and large grid networks, how to prioritize grid applications, and how grid computing can be
used to solve large scientific problems. The activity is sponsored by IBM's World Community
Grid.
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Grid Technology Helps UNOSAT Tackle Humanitarian Challenges
CERN’s Patricia Mendez Lorenzo and UNOSAT’s Einar Bjorgo have adapted satellite imagery tools to the Grid. |
Patricia Mendez Lorenzo is part
of the LHC Computing Grid's Experiment and
Integration Support Team at
CERN. Normally she supports
the ALICE particle physics experiment, helping LCG sites to install
and run the ALICE software. But
last summer she was assigned
an additional task: to help gridify
satellite imagery applications for
UNOSAT, a United Nations
initiative that provides the
humanitarian community with
access to satellite imagery for
use in crises such as
earthquakes and tsunamis.
CERN has hosted the UNOSAT
team for the past four years, so
that it can benefit from CERN’s
substantial IT infrastructure and
Internet access. Tapping into
CERN’s grid know-how was
another reason, and last year
a summer student project,
supervised by Mendez Lorenzo
and Einar Bjorgo of UNOSAT,
provided an ideal opportunity to
push forward on this front.
With Sean Moran, a student
from Cambridge University, they
began by transferring some
3.5 terabytes of data on the Asian
tsunami to the CASTOR storage
management system. They then
set up a software infrastructure
to enable the UNOSAT team to
access the data using standard
LCG tools. At the same time,
Mendez Lorenzo and Bjorgo
created a virtual organization
for UNOSAT, with a view to
extending this to other sites
around the globe that UNOSAT
collaborates with. In this way, in
future this sort of data can be
stored in a truly distributed way.
Read the full article by Francois Grey in the CERN Computer Newsletter
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| NCSA Summer Fellowships for Faculty in Cyberinfrastructure
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications will award six summer fellowships
to faculty interested in
contributing to the creation of a national cyberinfrastructure for science
and engineering. The fellowships are available to researchers from across
the country. The deadline to apply has been extended to March 15.
The fellowships will provide 10 weeks' salary and will cover local housing
expenses and the cost of travel to and from Champaign, Illinois.
Areas of interest include:
Cyberenvironments: NCSA is creating cyberenvironments that will simplify
the integration of distributed computing and data resources into scientific
and engineering research. We look forward to working with faculty who
specialize in scientific and engineering applications, graphical user
interfaces and portals, workflow and collaboration software, and data
analysis and visualization tools.
Cyber-resources: NCSA provides high-end computing resources needed by
the scientific and engineering communities. We want to spend the summer
with faculty who are researching ways to make these resources better suit
the communities they serve and to improve the computing infrastructure that
they operate in.
Innovative Systems: Petascale computing is now a realizable goal that
will impact all scientific and engineering research, but the best pathway
to petascale computing is unclear. Come and explore those possibilities
with us.
Cyberenvironments in the Classroom: Few of the advantages of a national
cyberinfrastructure will be realized without scientists and engineers who
understand the new capabilities that it provides. NCSA is interested in
collaborating with faculty to bring cyberenvironments into the classroom.
—Trish Barker, NCSA
More information
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International Cyberinfrastructure: Activities Around the Globe
Image © CERN |
In the current issue of CTWatch Quarterly,
scientists from around the world discuss their country's cyberinfrastructure projects. Australia,
Brazil, India, Japan, Korea, South Africa, Taiwan, and the multinational PRAGMA project are all
profiled. Below is an excerpt from the issue's introduction, written by Thom Dunning and Radha
Nandkumar of NCSA.
Cyberinfrastructure is now essential for advancing scientific discovery and the state-of-the-art in engineering. It doesn’t matter whether it’s the inner workings of the universe or the inner workings of the economy, the design of a new chemical process or the design of a new material, new insights into how cells function or the delivery of personalized medicine, the spawning of a tornado or planning urban development. The basic fact remains the same—cyber-
infrastructure is now a driver of science and engineering. Without it, science and engineering will not reach their full potential.
But, science and engineering is a global activity. There is not an American chemistry and a French chemistry, nor is there a Japanese electrical engineering and a Brazilian electrical engineering. Scientists and engineers around the globe are focused on unraveling the secrets of nature and applying this hard gained knowledge to the betterment of humanity. Cyberinfrastructure must support this global activity. In fact, it is our belief that cyberinfrastructure, properly designed and constructed, will advance science and engineering as a global activity by facilitating access to resources and expertise wherever they are located.
Full article
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Princeton Professor Foresees Computer Science Revolution
Supercomputing Online, February 20, 2006
At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Bernard Chazelle, professor of computer science at Princeton University, plans to issue a call to arms for his profession, challenging his colleagues to grab society by the lapels and evangelize the importance of studying computer science.
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India to surf on a different bandwidth
Daily News & Analysis Mumbai, February 18, 2006
By Dhananjay Khadilkar
Internet 2, a high-speed connectivity network, will soon hit Indian shores and support interconnectivity and collaboration between research communities in India and the US.
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Global grid for Big Bang research reaches milestone
Computerworld, February 17, 2006
by Todd R. Weiss
A huge 100,000-PC grid-computing network being built to help research the origin of the universe passed the third of four major tests recently when it reached a data-transfer milestone, with up to 1GB/sec. of physics data sent over the global grid.
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Higgs Boson a-go-go
The Register, February 15, 2006
By Chris Williams
Physicists have trialed an international computing grid that will help probe the moments following the Big Bang.
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