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October
2-4, NPC 2006: IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing, Tokyo, Japan
3-4, Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium 2006, Norman, Oklahoma
13-18, International ICFA Workshop on Grid Activities Within Large Scale International Collaborations, Sinaia, Romania
15-18, PRAGMA 11, Osaka, Japan
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Function BIRN image.
Image Courtesy Greg McCarthy, Duke University and BIRN
BIRN, the Biomedical Informatics Research Network, is a geographically distributed virtual
community of shared resource. Users of the BIRN cyberinfrastructure work to advance the diagnosis
and treatment of disease. One of the four BIRN test beds, Functional Imaging Research of
Schizophrenia Test Bed, or FBIRN, uses
functional neuroimaging to explore the underlying causes of schizophrenia and assess
the impact of new treatments on functional brain abnormalities.
In this image from FBIRN, the red zones
depict areas of the brain activated in a standard auditory task across a multi-site
pooling of 85 subjects.
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Ian Foster's Blog
Ian Foster, Director of the Computation Institute at Argonne National Laboratory
and the University of Chicago, and co-founder of Globus, has been blogging since July
2006. Recent entries discuss whether or not knowledge of the history of infrastructure
could help builders of cyberinfrastructure; apocalyptic thinking; digital maps; New
Zealand's new research and education network; and a definition of the Grid.
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EGEE'06 Takes Europe by Storm
Eike Jessen of the EGEE External Advisory Board judging the "Best Demo" competition.
Image Courtesy Owen Appleton, EGEE |
Last week's conference of the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project brought more than 700 participants from five continents to Geneva, Switzerland. The first EGEE conference to broaden its scope beyond technical meetings of the project's activities, EGEE'06 included sessions geared toward business and industry, those featuring applications running on EGEE, a one-day forum for EGEE users, a series of workshops for EGEE-related projects and federations, and a demonstration and poster session.
"The most interesting part for me was meeting people from all the other projects, and learning about the different ways of applying their work with the grid," said Paola Celio from Italy's Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, who attended the conference as a representative from the EUChinaGrid project. Another EUChinaGrid representative, Xavier Jeannin from France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, noted that the conference offered an opportunity for the members of their newly formed project to meet each other and draw up a work plan.
Scientific research was well-represented at the conference, with examples of applications running on the EGEE infrastructure ranging from biomedicine and earth sciences to chemistry and fusion.
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Grid computing winners announced
Computeract!ve, September 29, 2006
By Dinah Greek
A project to combat global terrorism is the winner of a nationwide grid computing competition.
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NSF Awards TACC $59 Million for Unprecedented High Performance Computing System
TACC Press Release, September 28, 2006
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made a five-year, $59 million award to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin to acquire, operate and support a high-performance computing system that will provide unprecedented computational power to the nation’s research scientists and engineers.
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Apply by October 13 for the First EELA Grid School
EELA, the E-Infrastructure Shared Between Europe and Latin America project, will host its
first grid school on Itacuruca island, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from December 4-15. The school,
called EGRIS-1, is aimed at creating the necessary environment and know-how in Latin America
for the porting of new applications to the EELA grid infrastructure.
The EGRIS-1 agenda will cover the main topics in grid technology and the technicalities
of the EGEE/EELA middleware. The school is open to everyone, but is targeted at researchers
from EELA partner institutions, technical industries, research laboratories and universities.
Researchers interested in attending the school must bring a specific grid application to
the EELA infrastructure. An application to the school may be made by a group of up to
four people for each grid application, and the deadline is October 13.
A maximum of six grid applications will be chosen by the EGRIS-1 Selection Board.
For more information and further application instructions, visit the EGRIS-1 Web site.
Call for Papers: Journal of Grid Computing Special Issue
Although many idle computing resources are available on the Internet, only
a small percentage of these are actually used. This could be due to a lack of
reliability, availability, quality of service or security. Substantial work has been
done on protocols, middleware and services for computing, storage, data and other
resources within distributed computing sustem. But little attention has
been dedicated to the economically efficient allocations of such resources and the
generation of business models based on grid utiliziation.
The Journal of Grid Computing will present a special issue in 2007 focusing on
grid economics and business models to help address the lack of attention
to this topic. Topics of the issue include, but are not limited to, grid economics,
business models for grids and utility computing, and service science.
The submission deadline for articles is March 31, 2007, and early submission is encouraged.
More information can be found at the Journal of Grid Computing's Web site, and submissions
can be made through the online submission site.
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