You are invited to submit a paper with unpublished original work for ICCS 2011, Eleventh International Conference on Computational Science, in Tsukuba, Japan on June 1-3, 2011. You can submit to the main conference or one of the workshops. All accepted oral papers will appear in the proceedings.

Please, see http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2011 for more information, including the call for workshops.

The theme for ICCS 2011 in Amsterdam is "The Ascent of Computational Excellence in the Land of the Rising Sun", to mark the continued progress in computational science theory and practice, leading to greatly improved applications in science. This conference will be a unique event focusing on recent developments in methods and modelling of complex systems for diverse areas of science, scalable scientific algorithms, advanced software tools, computational grids, advanced numerical methods, and novel application areas where the above novel models, algorithms and tools can be efficiently applied such as physical systems, computational and systems biology, environmental systems, finance, and others.  We look forward to welcoming you to this exciting event!

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

Parallel Programming Using OpenMP, MPI and Posix Threads

Time and Location of Training Sessions:
Monday, July 19, 2010 (OpenMP)
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 (MPI)
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 (Posix Threads)

Important Note:

This workshop will be made available through Compute Canada by broadcasting via Access Grid from the Training Room in Kingston. If you would like to participate remotely, please contact Chris MacPhee to determine the location closest to you where you can join.

Please fill out Registration Form to sign up for the course at:
http://www.hpcvl.org/training/course_reg.html

Nationally via Access Grid and locally at the HPCVL Training Room in Kingston, Ontario.

Each Day: Registration: 8:30 am, Lectures: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm EDT

Lecturers:

Hartmut Schmider and Gang Liu
HPCVL, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

Check the workshop website here for further details such as a list of Access Grid rooms that will join the broadcast, as well as last-minute changes. Click here to download the workshop announcement PDF.

To prepare for the upcoming launch of FDTD Solutions 7.0, Lumerical has designed the following survey for you to let them know what features you would like them to incorporate into the FDTD Solutions 7.0 product. Everyone who takes the survey before April 16th, 2010 will be entered into a prize draw to win an Apple iPod Touch.
 
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By taking the time to provide Lumerical with your suggestions and feedback, they will ensure that their software continues to meet your design needs.
 

Second Call For Submissions: 'Data-Intensive Computing'  HPCS2010 (http://www.hpcs2010.org)

HPCS (High Performance Computing Symposium) is Canada's foremost supercomputing conference, a multidisciplinary conference where computational researchers from all disciplines in industry and academia, computer scientists, and vendors exchange new tools, techniques and interesting results in and for high-performance computational research. The HPCS2010 conference will take place on June 5-9; June 5 and 6 will consist of tutorial workshops covering introductory and advanced tools for high performance computing, and the technical sessions of the symposium will take place June 7-9. Schedule and Workshop information is available on our website,  http://www.hpcs2010.org.

We are seeking abstracts for posters and oral presentations in the following areas, particularly as relating to our main theme, `Data Intensive Computing/Data Intensive Science':

  * Data-Intensive Astronomy/Astrophysics
  * HPC in the Physical Sciences and Industry
  * HPC in Life/Medical/Biological Sciences
  * HPC in the Climate and Earth Sciences
  * Data-intensive Digital Humanities
  * New algorithms for computational research in any discipline
  * Development of novel computational research tools
  * Computer architectures
  * Grid computing
  * Tools for Performance Modeling or Tuning
  * Visualization

Submissions for oral or poster presentations will be eligible for the NVIDIA Best Paper Prize, an NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800. Student submissions for oral or poster presentations will be eligible for the Intel Best Student Paper Prize, a gift card worth $500 CDN.

VPH 2010: Registration and Call for Abstracts

CONFERENCE WEB SITE
http://www.vph-noe.eu/vph2010

KEY DATES
Early Bird Registration of € 280 by 31st July!
Deadline for abstract submission: 1st May 2010
Authors Notifications: 30th June 2010

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Professor Aleksander Popel, Johns Hopkins University
Professor Nadia Rosenthal, European Molecular Biology Laboratory Monterotondo
Professor Norbert Graf, University Hospital of the Saarland
Professor Janet Thornton, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge

MEETING INFORMATION
The Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence (VPH NoE) will hold the first of a series of VPH Conferences (VPH2010) on 30th September to 1st October, 2010. The first meeting will be held in Brussels, Belgium, and is supported by the European Commission ICT for Health / DG Information Society and Media. The Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence is an umbrella project representing the Virtual Physiological Human Initiative set up by the European Commission with a budget of ~ 350 million Euros for the Framework 7 Program. The VPH NoE is also responsible for producing a VPH Vision and Strategy Document to inform the next calls for the VPH field for FP7, FP8 and for European large infrastructural actions.

You have only one week to save 20% on registration fees and be entered to win an iPod touch! Early-bird registration ends on March 12, 2010. Click here to register.

Join the information-packed, two-day event that will address new ideas for sharing technology to solve common problems.

The conference program is nearly complete. Take a look at the sessions.

Learn
The conference offers tracks for IT professionals, researchers, teachers and learners.

Participate
Demonstrate your research work to peers, government and industry at the Student Poster Competition. Entry deadline is April 02.

Contribute
Take part in discussion groups and panels, share your ideas.

Network
Connect with your peers at the evening reception on Tuesday, May 04. The two-day event offers plenty of opportunities to network with industry, government and academia.

Check the website for regular updates or follow BCNET on Twitter.

Workshop on Large-Scale System and Application Performance (LSAP2010)

in conjunction with the 19th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-19)

Chicago, USA, June 21, 2010    
http://www.lsap2010.org


IMPORTANT DATES (with extended deadline) Submission deadline:
March 8, 2010 (11:59 PM EST) Author notification: April 8, 2010
Final papers due:    April 23, 2010
Workshop:            June 21, 2010


MISSION
Over the last decade, computer systems and applications in everyday use have grown to unprecedented scales. Large clusters serving millions of search requests per day, grids executing large workflows and parameter sweeps consisting of thousands of jobs, and supercomputers running complex e-science applications, have now hundreds of thousands of processing cores, and clouds are quickly emerging as a large-scale computing infrastructure.

In addition, peer-to-peer systems and centralized video distribution systems that dominate the internet, online social networks, and complicated internet applications such as massive multiplayer online games are used by millions of people every day.

In view of this tremendous growth, understanding the performance of large-scale computer systems and applications has become vital to institutional, commercial, and private interests. This workshop solicits original papers on performance evaluation methods, tools, and case studies *explicitly focusing on the challenges of large scale*, such as decentralization, predictable performance, reliability, and scalability. It aims to bring together system designers and researchers involved with the modeling and performance evaluation of large-scale systems and applications.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Call for Papers

Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments (CLADE) 2010

To be held in conjunction with HPDC-2010, 22 June 2010, Chicago, IL

Important Dates (all dates are firm):
Submissions Due: 15 March 2010
Paper Decisions Announced: 7 April 2010
Final Camera-Ready Papers Due: 23 April 2010
Workshop Date: 22 June 2010

There is an ongoing set of unsolved large-scale problems, requiring novel, large-scale, distributed applications that need to use advanced distributed cyberinfrastructure. This workshop focuses on the complex issues, such as adapting to heterogeneity and being dynamic in space and time, that arise in developing, deploying, and executing large-scale distributed computing applications in science, engineering, medicine, business, economics, education, and other disciplines. This includes recent results on large scale and/or innovative applications that effectively use distributed heterogeneous and dynamic computing environments.