Berkeley, CA
May 7-8, 2012
The Cloud Futures Workshop series brings together thought leaders from academia, industry, and government to discuss the role of cloud computing across a variety of research and educational areas -- including computer science, engineering, Earth sciences, healthcare, humanities, interactive games, life sciences, and social sciences. Presentations, posters and discussions will highlight how new techniques, software platforms, and methods of research and teaching in the cloud may solve distinct challenges arising in those diverse areas. This year's Workshop is being hosted in conjunction with UC Berkeley.
For more information, http://research.microsoft.com/cloudfutures2012/ .
IU Cyberinfrastructure News May 2012
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May 13-16, 2012
The Delta Ottawa City Centre Hotel, Ottawa, Canada
Registration is open.
CCGrid is a series of conferences with the overarching goal of bringing together international researchers, developers, and users and to provide an international forum to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to cluster, grid, and cloud computing platforms and paradigms and their applications.
CCGrid 2012 will have a focus on important and immediate issues that are significantly influencing all aspects of cluster, cloud and grid computing. Topics discussed in the technical sessions include:
* Applications and Experiences
* Architecture: System architectures, Design and deployment
* Autonomic Computing and Cyberinfrastructure
* Performance Modeling and Evaluation
* Programming Models, Systems, and Fault-Tolerant Computing
* Multicore and Accelerator-based Computing
* Scheduling and Resource Management
* Cloud Computing: Cloud architectures
* Software tools and techniques for clouds
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The Fifth IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE 2012) contest will focus on end-to-end problem solving using concepts, technologies, and architectures (including clusters, grids, and clouds) that facilitate scaling. Participants in the challenge will be expected to identify significant current real-world problems where scalable computing techniques can be effectively used, and design, implement, evaluate, and demonstrate solutions. SCALE2012 will be held in conjunction with the 11th CCGrid Conference in Ottawa, Canada on 13-16 May, 2012.
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September 17-21, 2012
San Jose, CA, USA
ICAC is the leading conference on autonomic computing techniques, foundations, and applications. Autonomic computing refers to methods and means for automated management of performance, fault, security, and configuration with little involvement of users or administrators.
Systems introducing new autonomic features are becoming increasingly prevalent, motivating research that spans a variety of areas from computer systems, networking, software engineering, and data management to machine learning, control theory, and bio-inspired computing. ICAC brings together researchers and practitioners across these disciplines to address multiple facets of adaptation and self-management in computing systems and applications from different perspectives.
Autonomic computing solutions are sought for clouds, grids, data centers, enterprise software, internet services, data services, smart phones, embedded systems, and sensor networks. In these environments, resources and applications must be managed to maximize performance and minimize cost, while maintaining predictable and reliable behavior in the face of varying workloads, failures, and malicious threats.
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8th IEEE International Conference on eScience
October 8-12, 2012
Chicago, IL, USA
The eScience 2012 conference is designed to bring together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. The conference serves as a forum to present the results of the latest applications research and product/tool developments and to highlight related activities from around the world.
Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work. Submission details are available at: http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/escience2012/call_for_papers.php .
It is a requirement that at least one author of each accepted paper attend the conference.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission (required): 4 July 2012
Paper submission: 11 July 2012
Paper author notification: 22 August 2012
Camera-ready papers due: 10 September 2012
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XSEDE12 Conference, July 16-19 2012, Chicago IL
Richard Tapia, Rice University Professor of Engineering and Computational and Applied Mathematics, recent recipient of the National Medal of Science, and longtime diversity advocate, will deliver a keynote speech during the XSEDE12 conference in Chicago, July 16-20.
XSEDE is the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, a new NSF-funded national cyberinfrastructure service that began in July of 2011, succeeding the TeraGrid.
The XSEDE12 conference is the inaugural conference for science, education, outreach, software, and technology related to XSEDE and to the NSF Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21).
Tapia serves XSEDE as director of the XSEDE Scholars Program; assists underrepresented minority students who are earning degrees in computing-related fields at research institutions; and provides them with opportunities for learning more about high-performance computing and XSEDE, networking with the research community, and participation in XSEDE-facilitated research experiences.
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Beijing, China
September 20-23, 2012
Co-located with ChinaGrid'12
Grid computing enables the sharing of distributed computing and data resources such as processing, network bandwidth, and storage capacity to create a cohesive resource environment for executing distributed applications. The Grid conference series is an annual international meeting that brings together a community of researchers, developers, practitioners, and users involved with Grid technology. The objective of the meeting is to serve as both the premier venue for presenting foremost research results in the area and as a forum for introducing and exploring new concepts.
In 2012, the Grid conference will come to China for the first time and will be held in Beijing, co-located with ChinaGrid'12. Grid 2012 will have a focus on important and immediate issues that are significantly influencing grid computing.
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Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
June 18-22, 2012The ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) is the premier annual conference on the design, implementation, evaluation, and use of parallel and distributed systems for high-end computing. HPDC'12 will take place in Delft, the Netherlands, a historical, picturesque city that is less than one hour away from Amsterdam-Schiphol airport. The conference will be held on June 20-22 (Wednesday to Friday), with affiliated workshops taking place on June 18-19 (Monday and Tuesday).
HPDC'12 will feature a poster session that will provide the right environment for lively and informal discussions on various high performance parallel and distributed computing topics. We invite all potential authors to submit their contribution for this poster session in the form of a two-page PDF abstract (we recommend using the ACM Proceedings style, and fonts not smaller than 10 point). Posters may be accompanied by practical demonstrations. Abstracts must be submitted by sending an email to:
hpdc-2012-posters [at] gmail [dot] com before May 15th 2012, 23:59 CET.
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The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is hosting CI Day on Friday, May 4, 2012 on their campus.
This exciting, FREE program is intended to showcase state-of-the-art computing technologies available to researchers at the university and across the region.
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5th Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing (Resilience) in Clusters, Clouds, and Grids
In conjunction with the 18th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2012)
Rhodes Island, Greece, August 27-31, 2012
Paper submission deadline: Fri June 1 2011
Clusters, clouds, and grids are three different computational paradigms with the intent or potential to support High Performance Computing (HPC). Currently, they consist of hardware, management, and usage models particular to different computational regimes, e.g., high performance cluster systems designed to support tightly coupled scientific simulation codes typically utilize high-speed interconnects and commercial cloud systems designed to support software as a service (SAS) do not. However, in order to support HPC, all must at least utilize large numbers of resources and hence effective HPC in any of these paradigms must address the issue of resiliency at large scale.
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A new OpenStack FutureGrid User Group is being organized to provide a mechanism for users, developers, and administrators to exchange ideas and to be able to participate in projects and development efforts. Please join us!
Friday May 4, 2012
11:00 AM - 12:00 Noon(EDT)
Indiana University Innovation Center
2719 E. 10th Street
Bloomington, IN 47408
Meeting room number and video link availability will be announced.
For more information, please visit the FutureGrid Portal Openstack Forum:
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The FutureGrid Project Challenge is open to both students and non-students and provides an opportunity to showcase their skills and knowledge by utilizing FutureGrid computing resources in the execution of applications.
Eight awards are envisioned, four for students and four for non-students, to be based on criteria that include the following:
* Interoperability
* Scalability
* Contribution to Education
* Research (innovation, quality of papers, new software, algorithms, insightful performance measurements, etc.)
The award will be based on FutureGrid work and its analysis or on ideas and software developed with major use of FutureGrid.
First place award for students is a trip to SC12 (up to a $1,000), where a demonstration will be provided. All other awards are $200 cash.
For more information, see
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XSEDE12, the first conference of XSEDE, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, will be held July 16-19, 2012, at the InterContinental hotel in downtown Chicago. XSEDE provides high-performance computational resources and services for scientists and researchers around the world.
If you are a high school, undergraduate, or graduate student and are interested or engaged in computational research, we encourage you to participate in the XSEDE12 Student Program. By participating, you can:
- Meet computational and domain scientists from around the country who use high-performance systems in their research.
- Compete in a student poster contest that shows how your research demonstrate the value computational science adds to scientific discovery.
- Talk to XSEDE and OSG staff and users through our Student Mentor Program.
- Attend introductory tutorials tailored for students new to computational science or more advanced tutorials designed to help you get the most out of XSEDE resources.
- Present your research which uses XSEDE or OSG resources by submitting a paper to our Technical Program.
Pending final approval, the National Science Foundation may provide limited funding to support student travel, lodging, and/or registration costs for attending XSEDE12.
For details on submitting posters and papers, see the Call for Participation:
https://www.xsede.org/web/xsede12/call-for-participation
To apply for travel funding, see the Student Program Support Request:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XSEDE12StuProg
XSEDE12 website:
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The Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) Program seeks to identify outstanding mentoring efforts that enhance the participation and retention of individuals (including persons with disabilities, women and minorities) who might not otherwise have considered or had access to opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The awardees serve as leaders in the national effort to develop fully the nation's human resources in STEM.
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The George Michael HPC Fellowship honors exceptional PhD students throughout the world whose research focus is in High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, or Large-Scale Data Analysis using the most powerful computers that are currently available. The George Michael HPC Fellowship also supports the SC Conference's long-standing commitment to workforce diversity. We encourage nominations of women, minorities, and all who contribute to diversity.
Award
* $5000 honorarium
* Travel and Registration for SC12 and SC13
* Invited presentation opportunity at SC13
Applicants must be enrolled in a full-time PhD program at an accredited college or university and have completed at least one year of study in their doctoral program. All applicants must meet minimum scholarship requirements at their institution.
Visit https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ to submit an application.
Submissions will be accepted May 1, 2012 through July 1, 20120.
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FutureGrid's GPU Cloud will be available on Friday March 30, 2012. If interested in getting an early start on using GPUs, please submit a project proposal through the FutureGrid Portal: https://portal.futuregrid.org, or contact help [at] futuregrid [dot] org for assistance. We will start testing with HPC image and add virtualized environments as we test them out.
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The UITS Research Storage Group will hold two training classes for users of the Research File System (RFS):
IU Bloomington: May 18th, 2-4pm, Wells Library room 043
IUPUI: May 23rd, 2-4pm, University Library room 1116
Our instructors will give an overview of the features of RFS, and participants will go through a series of hands-on exercises. These exercises will include:
* Using several methods of connecting to RFS and comparing their features
* Trying out preferred applications to process files on RFS
* Using collaborative project areas on RFS
* Setting selective access to files that are shared by several people
* Setting up RFS access software on a laptop
Participants should bring a laptop (with Mac, Windows or Unix/Linux installed) and must have administrative access to that laptop. Participant laptops must have a wireless connection and be able to connect to the IUSecure network.
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Date: July 30 - August 3, 2012
The Science Cloud Summer School targets education and training of graduate students and the fostering of a community around a topic that has increasing interest and relevance: the use of cloud computing technologies in science - including infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service. Because cloud computing systems and technologies provide a considerable departure from traditional models and evolve at a rapid pace, this event would provide a basis for students to immerse in a focused, intensive curriculum to learn fundamentals and experiment with these technologies in practice. We will cover topics of interest to students with both application and computer science focus.
Science Cloud Summer School will be part of the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering's (VSCSE) 2012 Summer School. VSCSE delivers innovative educational experiences on cutting-edge computational science topics to the next generation of graduate students in science and engineering. Visit www.vscse.org for more info!
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The Data to Insight Center (D2I) at Indiana University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship position in the area of scientific data management in cloud computing. The postdoctoral fellow will work on a newly funded NSF project that uses cloud resources for large-scale ensemble applications in the environment with attention to metadata and provenance capture and data reuse. The ideal candidate has a PhD in computer science, a strong research record, and experience in e-science interdisciplinary research. The candidate will have an opportunity to engage in other research projects of the Center including the HathiTrust Research Center and the NSF funded DataNet project, Sustainable Environments Actionable Data (SEAD).
A PhD in computer science or a related field is required. Initial appointment will be for one year with potential for renewal for an additional year. Applications for the positions are accepted on a continuing basis until the position is filled. Send a curriculum vita and contact information for three references to: Robert Ping, Pervasive Technology Institute, 2719 E. 10th St., Bloomington, IN. Phone: 812-856-1064; e-mail: robping [at] indiana [dot] edu. The position begins immediately and will remain open until filled.
The Data To Insight Center is part of the Pervasive Technology Institute, a research-intense, world-class organization dedicated to advancing information and computing research at Indiana University. PTI is located in Indiana University's new technology corridor. Bloomington has been identified as one of the most cultural and livable small cities in the US. Over half of the US population lives within a day's drive of Bloomington, and the city is located only one hour from the Indianapolis airport. Indiana University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Women and minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. -
Middleware alternatives for storm surge predictions in Windows Azure
Beth Plale
Professor of Computer Science, SoIC, Director, Data to Insight Center, Indiana University
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Innovation Center (IC) Room 105, 2719 E 10th St, Bloomington, IN
http://connect.iu.edu/beth_plale2012/
Middleware alternatives for storm surge predictions in Windows Azure
Abstract: Cloud computing is a resource of significant value to computational science, but has proven itself to be not immediately realizable by the researcher. The cloud providers that offer a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) platform should, in theory, offer a sound alternative to infrastructure-as-a-service as it could be easier to take advantage of for computational science kinds of problems. The objective of our study is to assess how well the Azure platform as a service can serve a particular class of computational science application. We conduct a performance evaluation using three approaches to executing a high-throughput storm surge application: using Sigiri, a large scale resource abstraction tool, Windows Azure HPC scheduler, and Daytona, an Iterative Map-reduce runtime for Azure. The differences in the approaches including early performance measures for up to 500 instances are discussed. -
Mark your calendars for the Fall 2012 Digital Library Brown Bag series. The brown bags will be held most Wednesdays beginning in September. The complete schedule including abstracts is available on the IU Digital Library Program web site. Presentations and accompanying materials will be linked to this web page as talks occur.
To receive a reminder and an abstract for each presentation, send an email to listserv [at] indiana [dot] edu with the message body:
sub dl-brownbag-l Your Full Name
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The maintenance window for Big Red and Quarry is the first Tuesday of each month, 7:00 am - 7:00 pm EDT.
The maintenance window for the Mass Store and Research File System is every Sunday 7:00 am - 10:00 am.
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If you have questions pertaining to IU's cyberinfrastructure, or you are encountering some difficulty, there are several ways to obtain help.
The IU Knowledge Base (http://kb.iu.edu) is an excellent source of help on how to do things.
An introduction and overview titled "Indiana University's Cyberinfrastructure" is available at:
http://pti.iu.edu/cyberinfrastructure.pdf
If you have problems which the KB does not enable you to solve, questions about system outages, or if you just have a problem and you don't know who to contact, send email to pti [at] iu [dot] edu.
