HPCS 2012, which is being held alongside the BCNET Conference on May 1 - 3 in Vancouver, BC, is now accepting papers on any HPC-related topic. The deadline for abstract submissions is March 15. Topics areas for papers include, but are not limited to, the following subjects:

• Applications of HPC to any discipline in the physical, life and social sciences, and engineering
• Computer architectures
• Parallel/distributed/vector algorithms
• Grid or cloud computing and related tools
• Performance Modeling Evaluation
• Wide-area data transfer
• Management of large data sets
• Green HPC or energy-efficient data centres
• Visualization
• Systems and Management

Accepted papers presented as lectures or posters will be published online in the open access Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS), which is published by the Institute of Physics Publishing in the UK. All papers published in JPCS are fully citable and upon publication will be free to download. Citations to JPCS papers are tracked online using IOP Publishing’s citing articles facility, in addition to the full citation tracking facilities provided by Scopus.

For more information, or to submit your abstract online, please visit the HPCS 2012 website or email 2012@hpcs.ca.

A message was sent to all users registered on the Compute Canada Database (CCDB) on January 9, 2012. This message was intended to inform all users that over the course of this year, everyone who has registered with CCDB will be required to renew his or her account. Please note that each user will receive a separate email providing the instructions for renewal. To ensure a smooth transition, Compute Canada will be staggering the requests to renew over the course of the year. Please do not log into CCDB to renew your account until you receive the follow up email with this request and the detailed instructions. If you have any questions please email accounts@westgrid.ca.

The 2012 Resource Allocation Committee (RAC) allocation notifications have been sent to all Principal Investigators. All Compute Canada resources will be updated with allocations for 2012 as of Monday, January 9 at 11:00 am (Pacific). Final allocations will be posted to the Compute Canada and WestGrid websites shortly. If you have any questions regarding the 2012 allocations, please contact info@westgrid.ca.