Peter Tieleman, WestGrid executive member and Biological Sciences professor, was included in the 2010 edition of Canadian Who’s Who reference guide. The Canadian Who’s Who is a comprehensive source of biographical information on leading and influential Canadians. Dr. Tieleman’s research at the University of Calgary utilizes computer-modeling technology to focus on molecular biophysics of cells and the possible applications for treating diseases such as Alzheimer’s. A brief biography of Dr. Tieleman was included in the annual guide published by the Toronto University Press.

For more information about Peter Tieleman's research, please click here.

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The Academic Information and Communication Technologies (AICT) department at the University of Alberta is seeking a Team Lead - Research Support.

To apply, please click here. The closing date is August 16, 2010.

Duties

• Ensures that the AICT computing cluster is supported so that all University of Alberta researchers can run their research computing code to obtain data and results
• Ensures that numerical and statistical servers are used to support researchers in running their larger numerical and statistical projects using applications such as SAS, MatLab, etc; like the research cluster, this service has to be maintained, kept available, and utilizes the scheduling software
• Houses licenses associated with licensed applications purchased by the University
• Provides scientific visualization services
• Supports 3D printer services
• Contributes, and is a partner to the WestGrid consortium, which provides high performance computing services and support to the research community within Western Canada
• Contributes to, and is a part of the following projects and initiatives: Cybera, Canarie, Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), and Atlas Canada
• Responsible for developing and delivering to the research community, a series of instructional workshops each year which explains the methods and tools to effectively use the multitude of HPC computing resources
• Responsible for financial management that includes annual expenditures of $1,254,000; annual revenue of $145,000; annual institutional services of $20,000; and sustainable capital of $100,000
• Guides an eleven member team working with all U of A researchers on their computational programs

Qualifications

A Workshop on Autonomic Computational Science, will be held in conjunction with the IEEE Grid 2010 Conference in Brussels (Oct, 2010).
 
For details of the workshop and topics of interest, please see:
 
  http://wiki.esi.ac.uk/ACS2010
 
We hope you will consider submitting to this workshop, as well as helping bring it to the attention of your colleagues/collaborators.
 
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a special issue of the Scientific Programming Journal (expected early 2011).

Important Dates and Submission

• 01 August: Paper Submission
• 15 August: Notification of Results
• 20 August: Final Version Due