Early registration for HPCS ends on May 1, 2008. The registration cost will go from $350 to $400 after May 1.
Participants can register on line and consult the program at: http://www.hpcs2008.org/Home.html
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April 30, 2008
HPCS 2008
April 23, 2008
The deadline for TeraGrid '08 Student Competition "Call for Participation" has been extended to April 28, 2008. In addition to paper presentations, tutorials, and demonstrations, TG08 will include two competitions for students: “The Impact of Cyberinfrastructure on Your World” and “TeraGrid Student Research” competitions.
Competition Details“The Impact of Cyberinfrastructure on Your World” Competition
High school and undergraduate students are invited to showcase their talents and creativity to convey how...
April 14, 2008
The sixth in the highly successful series of International Summer Schools on Grid Computing (ISSGC) will be held at the Hotel Füred Conference and Congress Centre of Balatonfüred, Hungary, from July 6-18, 2008.
The School will include lectures, discussions, laboratory sessions, tutorials and group work delivered by leading authorities in the fields of advanced grid technology, applications of e-Science and distributed systems research. Reports from world leaders in deploying and exploiting Grids will complement lectures from... Read more...
The School will include lectures, discussions, laboratory sessions, tutorials and group work delivered by leading authorities in the fields of advanced grid technology, applications of e-Science and distributed systems research. Reports from world leaders in deploying and exploiting Grids will complement lectures from... Read more...
April 11, 2008
The spring session of the WestGrid Seminar series has now concluded. Thanks to everyone who presented at and participated in the seminar series!
The next set of WestGrid seminars will resume in September 2008.
To suggest a topic for the next series or to provide feedback, please send an email to info@westgrid.ca.
An archive of slideshows and videos for past seminars can be viewed on the Training Pages.
March 31, 2008
Coast-To-Coast: Live From Dalhousie
Norbert Zeh , Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University
11:30-12:20 PDT / 12:30-13:20 MDT / 12:30-13:20 CST / 13:30-14:20 CDT
ABSTRACT: Apart from main memory and disk drives, modern computers are equipped with multiple levels of cache, in order to bridge the gap between the CPU's processing speed and the access latency of main memory. Yet, traditional algorithms are not designed to take advantage of cache memory, making this...
Read more... March 24, 2008
The third annual TeraGrid conference, being held June 9-13 in Las Vegas, Nevada, will provide the scientific community with opportunities for collaboration and technology sharing to enable scientific discovery using the TeraGrid.
Conference registration is open! Please register here.
The TeraGrid is a comprehensive cyberinfrastructure enabling world-class open computational research. TeraGrid ’08 will showcase the capabilities, achievements, and impact of TeraGrid...
Read more... March 18, 2008
Coast-To-Coast: Live From Vancouver
Dr. Konstantin Beznosov, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UBC
11:30-12:20 PDT / 12:30-13:20 MDT / 12:30-13:20 CST / 13:30-14:20 CDT
Title: A Broad Empirical Study of IT Security Practitioners
Abstract:
Security of information technology (IT) has become a critical issue for organizations as they must protect their information assets from unauthorized access and quickly resume business activities after a security breach. In order for technological solutions...
March 10, 2008
Speaker: Matt Greenberg (University of Calgary)
Title: On the p-adic Stark-Heegner conjecture
Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Time: 14:00 - 15:30 PDT / 15:00 - 16:30 MDT
Note: Available only at the following locations:
GSB 315 at the University of Alberta,
ICICS/CS Building Room x521 at the University of British Columbia,
Biosciences 540B at the University of Calgary
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March 10, 2008
IRMACS will be hosting the 2008 Access Grid Retreat this year. It will be held from May 28-30, 2008 at the IRMACS Centre at SFU's Burnaby campus. This is an international workshop involving the key developers and users of the Access Grid software from around the world.
For those sites that are building out new collaboration infrastructure, this would be a great opportunity to meet the AG team and learn more about Access Grid current and future.
For more details see... Read more...
For those sites that are building out new collaboration infrastructure, this would be a great opportunity to meet the AG team and learn more about Access Grid current and future.
For more details see... Read more...
March 6, 2008
WestGrid Executive member and researcher Dr. Raymond Spiteri has been appointed director of the MITACS Network Centre of Excellence (NCE) for the Prairie Region. The goal of the MITACS network is to harness the power of the mathematical sciences to address the inherent complexity of modern industrial and societal problems for the benefit of all Canadians. MITACS leads Canada’s effort in the generation, application and commercialization of new mathematical tools and methodologies within a...
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