The IEEE 2008 eScience Conference and 2008 Microsoft eScience
Workshop were held on December 7-12, 2008 at the University Place
Conference Center in Indianapolis. The eScience conference serves as
a forum bringing together international and interdisciplinary
communities developing or using IT technologies to enable scientific
research.
The conference featured more than 100 papers, over sixty posters
and demonstrations, and keynote addresses by Daniel A. Reed,
Edward Seidel, Alexander Szalay, and Rich Wolski.
For more information please visit the conference Web sites at
http://escience2008.iu.edu/
and
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/escience2008/
Indiana University Cyberinfrastructure News
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Indiana University, the National Science Foundation, the Pakistan
Higher Education Commission, and the European Commission have
partnered to extend the NSF-funded TransPAC2 network to connect
scientists and researchers in Pakistan to their counterparts in the
global scientific community. Indiana University manages TransPAC2,
as part of Indiana University's strategy of leadership in the
advanced research networks that connect the world of scholarship
and discovery. Read more:
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Professor Alex Vespignani has been elected to fellowship in the
American Physical Society, the preeminent organization of physicists
in the United States. Vespignani was honored for his contribution to
the statistical physics of complex networks, in particular his
seminal work on the spreading of viruses in real networks.
Vespignani joined the IU School of Informatics in 2004. His recent
research focuses on the study of epidemics, and has won a $1.2
million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop
EpiC, a computational infrastructure supporting the study of
biological and social contagion. For more information, see
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/print/9415.html
and
http://epic.slis.indiana.edu/goal.html -
Bioinformatics is the science of managing, mining, and extracting
knowledge from biological sequences and structures. The goal of
this Workshop is to present the latest research in high-performance
computing applied to bioinformatics. The Parallel Bio-Computing
Workshop will be held in conjunction with the Seventh International
Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics in
Wroclaw (Breslau), Poland, September 13-16, 2009.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Bioinformatic databases
* Computational genomics and proteomics
* DNA assembly, clustering, and mapping
* Gene expression and microarrays
* Gene identification and annotation
* Molecular sequence analysis
* Phylogeny reconstruction algorithms
* Protein structure prediction and modelling
* Parallel algorithms for biological analysis
* Parallel architectures for biological applications
* System tools for large scale high–performance bio-computing
Papers should be submitted by April 10, 2009. For more information,
please visit the PBC web page:
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The Libra Cluster, which has been in service since 2005, will retire
during the Spring 2009 semester. Accounts are available on the newer
Quarry cluster, a general-purpose Unix computing environment. The
Research Database Cluster (RDC) is not included in this retirement,
and will remain in service.
For more details, see
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Research Technologies Round Table
Keith Lehigh will be discussing security best practices for servers,
desktops and mobile platforms.
When: Thursday, January 29th, 12:30-1:30pm
Where: IUB room TBA, IUPUI ICTC room 497
Live URL: mms://wms.indiana.edu/rt_round_table
Archive: mms://wms.indiana.edu/ip/vic/rt_round_table_20081029.wmv -
The maintenance window for Big Red, Libra and Quarry
is the first Tuesday of each month, 7am - 7pm EDT.
The maintenance window for the Mass Store and Research File System
is every Sunday 7-10AM.
Outage reports are available online at:
* http://racinfo.indiana.edu/hps/research/bigred/outages.shtml
* http://racinfo.indiana.edu/hps/research/libra/outages.shtml
* http://racinfo.indiana.edu/hps/research/quarry/outages.shtml -
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
answers on how to do things.
An introduction and overview titled "Indiana University's
CyberInfrastructure: The least you need to know" is available at
http://rtinfo.uits.indiana.edu/documentation/
For more information, go to:
* http://rtinfo.uits.indiana.edu/
* http://racinfo.indiana.edu/hps/
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
researchtechnologies@iu.edu.
