The Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation (PETSc) provides a framework for development of computational science codes. Although scalability and high performance are crucial for scientific applications, the usability often turns upon other software factors, such as modular design, and extensibility. We will discuss these issues in the context of PETSc development. Moreover, we will present examples of PDE solvers developed in PETSc with advanced capabilities, such as unstructured meshes, multi-grid, and parallel sparse direct solvers.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/

In this one-day class, users will learn about the scientific visualization and data analysis resources available at TACC, including remote visualization on Ranger, Spur, and Longhorn. A significant portion of the class will involve hands-on interaction with the systems, and users are encouraged to bring data for use in the class (sample data will be provided as well).

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/

In this one-day class, users will learn about the scientific visualization and data analysis resources available at TACC, including remote visualization on Ranger, Spur, and Longhorn. A significant portion of the class will involve hands-on interaction with the systems, and users are encouraged to bring data for use in the class (sample data will be provided as well).

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/

Training for users who are new to TeraGrid will be provided on Friday, February 5, from 1-3pm Eastern (12-2pm Central, 10am-noon Pacific).

The session will be delivered using ReadyTalk web-based teleconferencing, and include hands-on opportunities. The following topics will be covered:

• Portal Overview
• TeraGrid Knowledge Base
• Accessing Resources
• File Transfers
• Ticket System
• Softenv & Modules
• Security
• Next Steps

If you are interested in participating, please send email to training@teragrid.org by close of business on Wednesday, before the session. We will send out email to respondents with instructions on how to join the telecon. You will need to have your TeraGrid portal account information available to fully participate in the session.

Note that this is a free session; there is no charge for ReadyTalk connections for participants. More information about this tool is available online at www.readytalk.com.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/

Special postdoctoral fellowships at Argonne are awarded internationally each year to outstanding doctoral scientists and engineers who are at early points in promising careers.

http://www.dep.anl.gov/postdocs/

This 4-day event will highlight tutorials, oral presentations and demonstrations covering advanced network technologies and applications. There will be plenty of opportunity to interact with researchers and practitioners from Asia Pacific and beyond during this meeting. The event will take place in Sydney, Australia.

http://www.apan.net/meetings/Sydney2010/

The Modeling Agency offers three data mining courses with distinct objectives. The courses are designed to be attended independently, or as a progressive series. While the three levels are staged as a progression, they should not be viewed simply as "introductory, intermediate and advanced."

http://www.the-modeling-agency.com/training/series.html

The Fourth International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS 2010) continues a series of international events covering a large spectrum of topics related to advanced networking, applications, and systems technologies in a digital society.

http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/CfPICDS10.html

Workshop on Algorithms and Computation (WALCOM) is intended to provide an international forum for researchers working in the areas of algorithms and computation.

http://www.buet.ac.bd/cse/walcom2010/

The 17th annual Mardi Gras Conference on Computational Materials and Methods covers the current state of the field and future developments, fosters information exchange and enables community building.

http://www.mardigrasconference.org

The conference will be held in Innsbruck, Austria, and will include conferences on artificial intelligence and applications; modeling, identification and control; parallel and distributed computing and networks software engineering; signal processing, pattern recognition and applications; computer graphics and imaging; and biomedical engineering

http://www.iasted.org/conferences/location-innsbruck2010.html

MuCoCoS 2010 is aiming to bring together researchers, developers, practitioners, and users of multi-core computing systems.

http://www.par.univie.ac.at/~pllana/mucocos10/

The objectives of this workshop are to consider information security issues in a holistic and systemic approach, putting the individual at the core of the question; point out stakes, challenges and issues related to a global approach for information security and reliability in order to develop an inclusive information society; analyze and propose innovative concepts, methods and solutions to insure a high level of information security for safety of people, the protection of organizations’ assets and critical information infrastructures, when failure is not an option; present and discuss emerging know how and standards that will contribute to minimize the informational risk and bring it under control.

http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44

The 18th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing will be held in Pisa, in the premises of the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa, from February 17th to 19th, 2010.

http://www.pdp2010.org/

AAAS President and Nobel Laureate Peter C. Agre invites you to join a diverse array of leading scientists, engineers, educators, and policy-makers at the association's 176th meeting. It will attract attendees from all U.S. states and territories as well as more than 50 countries. The meeting will be in San Diego, CA.

http://www.aaas.org/meetings/

How to Get Predictive Modeling Off the Ground and Into Orbit

http://www.the-modeling-agency.com/webinar/

Unix/Linux foundational skills are essential for researchers in areas of High Performance Computing. These skills can be directly applied to resources at the Texas Advanced Computing Center and in any Unix environment. This class is intended for the beginner and intermediate user wishing to gain more experience in the command line environment. The lecture will emphasize common strategies used for interacting with clusters and HPC resource.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/

he Third International Workshop on Data Intensive Distributed Computing (DIDC'10) will be held in conjunction with the 19th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC'10), in Chicago, IL on June 22, 2010.

http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~kosar/didc10

The conference is to address, explore and exchange information on the state-of-the-art in high performance and large scale computing systems, their use in modeling and simulation, their design and use, and their impact.

http://cisedu.us/cis/hpcs/10/main/callForPapers.jsp

A 250 word abstract (PDF format) must be submitted online at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ScienceCloud2010/ before the deadline of February 22nd, 2010 at 11:59PM PST

http://dsl.cs.uchicago.edu/ScienceCloud2010/

Workshop will be held in Jaipur, India

http://acat2010.cern.ch/

Parallel Computing on Ranger and Lonestar covers the architecture, user environment and proper use of Ranger, the Sun Constellation Linux Cluster and Lonestar, the Dell Linux Cluster. This class should be of particular interest to computational scientists interested in developing and porting codes for this system.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/

FAST '10 brings together storage system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems.

http://www.usenix.org/events/fast10/index.html

This webinar will provide an introduction to performance tools and techniques. A common application, High Performance Linpack (HPL), will be analyzed with profiling tools from a high level progressing down to how the code is mapped onto hardware.

http://illinois.edu/calendar/Calendar?ACTION=VIEW_EVENT&calId=831&skinId=1072&DATE=2/18/2010&eventId=162580

The Third International Workshop on Data Intensive Distributed Computing (DIDC'10) will be held in conjunction with the 19th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC'10), in Chicago, IL on June 22, 2010.

http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~kosar/didc10

VTDC2010 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Submitted papers should be limited to 8 pages (including tables, images, and references) and formatted according to the ACM SIGS Style (http://www.acm.org/publications/instructions_for_proceedings_volumes). Document templates can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. Only pdf format is accepted. All papers will receive at least three reviews. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register for the workshop and present the paper.

http://www.grid-appliance.org/wiki/index.php/VTDC10

Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 10 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages (including all text, figures, and references), as per ACM 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines

http://dsl.cs.uchicago.edu/ScienceCloud2010/

LSAP2010 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Submitted papers should be limited to 8 pages (including tables, images, and references) and formatted according to the ACM SIGS Style.

http://www.lsap2010.org/

TACC instructors will present various topics related to improving code performance on Ranger via the use of code instrumentation and profiling of MPI applications. Users will also receive instruction on the use of remote visualization software to visualize data sets generated on this resource.

Attendees are assumed to be familiar with the basics of submitting and running jobs on Ranger and Spur and are encouraged to bring their own code and data sets. [Details]

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/

Registration and Preliminary Program are now available for GlobusWORLD 2010 which will be held March 2-4 at Argonne (near Chicago Illinois, USA). This year’s GlobusWORLD conference will focus on Globus success stories, including discussions with Globus users about their experiences, technical presentations, and tutorials on using new (and old) Globus software.

Registration is now available at www.globusworld.org.

http://www.globusworld.org

This latest installment of the GlobusWorld conference series will focus on users of the Globus software, including talks and tutorials on using new (and old) Globus software, and presentations and discussions by Globus users on their experiences.

http://www.globusworld.org/

The 2010 Oil and Gas High Performance Computing Workshop will be the fifth workshop in this series and the third hosted by the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology at Rice University. The main objective for this series of workshops is to provide a venue focusing on specific trends, needs and requirements from oil & gas industry users of scientific computing and HPC; as well as foster interaction with information technology industry, academic research communities and educators working on solutions to challenges faced by the oil & gas industry. Each workshop will focus on theme(s) and the 2010 workshop will be focused on two main topics: (1) application scaling for massive parallelism and (2) training and workforce needs and development.

http://og-hpc.org/Rice2010/

ISGC 2010 will focus on data driven e-Science, highlighting use cases and successful applications. Developments to establish sustainable infrastructures and the long-term support of e-Science communities will be an underlying theme. The event will be in Taipei, Taiwan.

http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2010/

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) is hosting the 11th LCI International Conference on High-Performance Clustered Computing. This year the Conference will focus on the impact of multi-core technologies, including heterogeneous approaches using GPGPUs and Cells, on high end computing; and the power consumption and scaling challenges of peta- and exa-scale computing.The conference is a four-day event that includes a conference, pre-conference tutorials, vendor presentations, and ample networking opportunities. The technical program focuses on experiences with applications, tools, user environments and administration of large-scale clustered systems across a vast array of sectors. The conference attracts the world's top practitioners of clustered computing who gather to share experiences and update colleagues on the latest developments in the field.

http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org

Cluster2010 welcomes original unpublished paper submissions from researchers in academia, industry, and government, describing innovative research in the field of cluster and high-performance computing.

http://www.cluster2010.org/

The theme for OGF28 is "The Future of Distributed Computing Infrastructure (DCI)". To support this theme, the OGF28 program will consist of a broad range of topics including Clouds, Green IT, Security, Interoperability, Grids, HPC, and large-scale DCI.

http://www.ogf.org/OGF28/

The National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and Carnegie Mellon University (www.cmu.edu) will host a 'Hands-On' Workshop on Computational Biophysics using NAMD and VMD.

http://www.nrbsc.org/education/workshops/register.php

Cluster2010 welcomes original unpublished paper submissions from researchers in academia, industry, and government, describing innovative research in the field of cluster and high-performance computing.

http://www.cluster2010.org/

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.

http://illinois.edu/calendar/Calendar?ACTION=VIEW_EVENT&calId=831&skinId=1072&DATE=2/18/2010&eventId=162580

The workshop will focus on High-Performance Computing education and training including CPU technologies, accelerators, networking, storage, software middleware and various applications. The workshop will also cover advanced topics such as MPI offloads, networking optimizations and will feature presenters from the Swiss Supercomputing Centre, Simula Research Laboratory, HPC Advisory Council professionals as well as technologists from various Independent Software Vendors and OEMs. Hands-on training will be incorporated within the workshop agenda to allow participants to actually configure and test high-performance clusters. The workshop will bring together system managers, researchers, developers, computational scientists, students and industry affiliates for cross-training and to discuss recent HPC developments and future advancements.

http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/switzerland_workshop/

The National High Performance Computing and Communications Council holds an annual High Performance Computing and Communications Conference each Spring. This is one of the few conferences that emphasize communication between manufacturers and users, as well as academics and the government agencies which establish policy and regulate the use of advanced technologies. Each year the Council Conference Committee plans an agenda full of prominent speakers who provide a wealth of information in a forum designed for exchanging information, discussing technical issues, and transferring technology within the HPCC community.

http://www.hpcc-usa.org/

Learn about all the latest cloud computing innovations in the Cloud Connect conference—designed to serve the needs of IT professionals, executives and developers—and learn about the latest cloud technologies and platforms and identify opportunities in the cloud.

http://www.cloudconnectevent.com/cloud-computing-conference/overview.php

In 2011, a new NSF-funded petascale computing system, Blue Waters, will go online at the University of Illinois. The purpose of this solicitation is to invite research groups to submit requests for allocations of resources on the Blue Waters system.

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08529/nsf08529.htm

The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS) is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to Software Science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of five main annual conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops and other events.

http://www.etaps10.cs.ucy.ac.cy/

The MRSC 2010 conference addresses itself to researchers and vendors who are actively involved in the development of methods, tools & applications for heterogeneous computing platforms using many-core technologies and hardware accelerators in particular.

http://www.mrsc2010.eu/home

This seminar provides an example-based methodology for designing operational, technical and systems architecture views and products that are consistent with the guidelines of the DoDArchitecture Framework (DoDAF). You will receive step-by-step compliance guidelines for ensuring your technologies, systems and architectures meet the technical and architectural requirements imposed by the DoD. Learn practical techniques for creating and evaluating required architecture products. Learn how to save time following successful strategies while avoiding costly pitfalls when meeting DoD requirements.

http://ttcus.com/view-seminar.cfm?id=103

Session highlights include Cloud Computing, Social Media, Virtualization, Federating Identity in DoD, and more. Gain a wealth of IT knowledge in just two days, join your colleagues and attend the FOSE Conference 2010!

http://fose.com/events/fose-2010/information/conference-intro.aspx

The Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB) conference was established by the ISCA to promote the advancement of computing techniques and their application to life sciences. The BICoB conference will feature original unpublished research in all areas of bio-informatics and computational biology, and covering the entire spectrum of underlying computational techniques/models/paradigms.

http://sce.uhcl.edu/bicob10/

The Institute will start the morning of Monday May 24, 2010 and completing in the afternoon of Thursday May 27, 2010. Each day will consist of in-class instructions by leading experts on a variety of topics complemented by hands-on laboratory sessions using local high performance systems.

http://citi2.rice.edu/events/HPC2010Institute/

This half-day lecture is part of a series of short lectures presented by TACC this spring for foundational skills.Basic C programming skills are essential for researchers in areas of High Performance Computing. These skills can be directly applied to resources at the Texas Advanced Computing Center and in any Unix environment. This class is intended for the beginner and intermediate user wishing to gain more experience in C programming.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/

C++ is often characterized in the Scientific Community as being too bloated, slow, and complicated to be useful. In fact, quite the opposite is true. A number of high-powered, modern, extensible numerical software libraries now utilize C++; having some knowledge of the language is therefore beneficial now and for the foreseeable future. In this combined lecture and lab session, we will discuss basics of C++ usage including I/O, vectors, objects, and their relation to the same concepts in C. Special attention will be devoted to important topics like memory management, references vs. pointers, and the STL, which we feel are essential to effective use of the language by beginners, but which are typically relegated to more advanced courses.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/classes/c-plus-programming-basics/

The International Workshop on Virtualization Performance: Analysis, Characterization and Tools (VPACT) is a selective venue for reporting and discussing new initial results in the measurement, characterization, analysis, and modeling of the performance of virtualized computer systems, including the tools to support such work. VPACT is interested in results at all scales, including multicore/manycore processors, mobile devices, desktops, servers, data centers, clusters, parallel supercomputers, and distributed virtualized computing environments.

http://www.hpcwire.com/events/?month=3&year=2010

The course covers profiling and debugging technologies available at TACC for performance optimization and debugging of serial and parallel codes. The course contains instructions for beginners and advanced users, along with a lab with demos and examples.

The course consists of two parts. The first part covers debugging techniques, starting from the basic use of the GNU debugger (GDB) and finishing with an example of use of the parallel debugger DDT. The second part of the course addresses optimization and scalability. This part contains instructions on general optimization strategies, the use of timers, the GNU profiler (GPROF), and the MPIp package for scalability analysis. An example of profiling with an integrated package like HPCToolkit or Tau is also given.

Prerequisites: A basic understanding of the UNIX/Linux command line environment is required. The lectures assume that you are familiar with either the C or the Fortran programming language.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/

The 2010 Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim'10) is an annual conference which covers state-of-the-art developments in computer simulation technologies, as well as scientific, industrial, and business applications. Areas covered include high-performance computing technologies, models and algorithms, GUI visualization technologies, communications and much more.

http://www.scs.org/confernc/springsim/springsim10/springsim10.htm

The 5th EGEE User Forum will be held in collaboration with EGI and NDGF in Uppsala, Sweden, April 12-15, 2010, hosted by SNIC, UPPMAX and PDC. The main sponsor of the event is Microsoft.

http://egee-uf5.eu-egee.org/index.php?id=687

The application theme of the meeting is "Using HPC to Drive Economic Competitiveness."

http://www.hpcuserforum.com/

Users will receive instructions on the use of remote visualization software to visualize data sets generated on systems such as Ranger. A review of the scientific visualization process will precede an overview of the visualization software available to TACC users, including the parallel visualization software VisIt and ParaView. Labs will provide students with the opportunity to prepare data sets to be visualized using these applications. In addition, attendees will be introduced to the Longhorn visualization portal.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/classes/introduction-to-scientific-visualization-on-longhorn/

The EuroSys conference series brings together professionals from academia and industry. It has a strong focus on systems research and development: operating systems, data base systems, real-time systems and middleware for networked, distributed, parallel, or embedded computing systems. This event takes place in Paris, France.

http://eurosys2010.sigops-france.fr/

The workshop on System-level Virtualization for HPC (HPCVirt 2009) is intended to be a forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences on the use of virtualization technologies for HPC, the challenges and opportunities offered by the development of system-level virtualization solutions themselves, as well as case studies in the application of system-level virtualization in HPC.

http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/hpcvirt2010/

HASTAC is delighted to announce the HASTAC 2010: Grand Challenges and Global Innovations Conference. Held April 15-17, 2010 and hosted by the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at the University of Illinois, HASTAC 2010: Grand Challenges and Global Innovations will be a free, entirely virtual event held in a multiplicity of digital spaces instigated from sites across the globe.

http://ichass.illinois.edu/Events/Entries/2009/10/30_HASTAC_2010.html

The Cloud has captured the imagination of IT because it promises compute capacity as a liquid currency that can be shared and made available on demand. Find answers to all your Cloud-related questions at our upcoming 5th Cloud Expo co-located with the 8th Annual Virtualization Conference & Expo.

http://cloudcomputingexpo.com/

Cloud Slam '10 is scheduled for April 2010. This annual premier cloud computing event will attract over 1000 attendees and the movers and shakers in the industry.

http://www.cloudslamevent.com/cloudslam10/

Make plans to attend IPDPS 2010 in Atlanta. The five day program features nineteen workshops on Monday and Friday. The three days in between include: 127 regular conference papers in 32 technical sessions; 3 keynote speakers and a panel discussion; 21 PhD Forum posters; 2 evening tutorials; and the conference banquet. All IPDPS events are open to all IPDPS attendees. This year, IPDPS is pleased to acknowledge the commercial participation of CRAY, Elsevier, Google, HPCwire, IBM and NVIDIA.

http://www.ipdps.org/

High Performance Computing systems including Linux, Low Latency, Virtualization, Cloud, Grid, Blade, Cluster are hot technologies for financial markets. It's a way for traders to speed their orders to market faster than their competitors while lowering computer costs. This High Performance Computing marketplace will assemble 700 financial markets and Wall Street IT professionals at a convenient networking and exhibition forum.

http://www.flaggmgmt.com/linux/

The 17th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW 2010) will be held in Atlanta, USA in April 2010. RAW 2010 is associated with the 24th Annual International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2010) and is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. The workshop is one of the major meetings for researchers and practitioners to present ideas, results, and on-going research on both theoretical and practical advances in Reconfigurable Computing.

http://www.ece.lsu.edu/vaidy/raw/

Multiple concurrent tracks and keynote speakers offer a variety of venues for discovering more about the world of Bio-IT. The event will take place in Boston, MA.

http://www.bio-itworldexpo.com/Bio-It_Expo_Content.aspx?id=94022&linkidentifier=id&itemid=94022

The next e-IRG workshop will be organized under the Spanish Presidency of the European Union in Barcelona by BSC , Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

http://www.e-irg.eu/open-e-irg-workshop-barcelona.html

This 2-day seminar examines GPFS's features, semantics, programming considerations, configuration procedures, tuning and optimization guidelines, best practices and environment.

http://www-304.ibm.com/easyaccess3/okwsca/formtemplate/!!/form_xmlid=195151

Fortran programming skills are essential for researchers in areas of High Performance Computing. These skills can be directly applied to resources at the Texas Advanced Computing Center and in any Unix environment. The class is intended for the intermediate user wishing to gain more experience in Fortran90/95 programming. Basic knowledge of Fortran or another mid/high-level programming language is a prerequisite.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/

The Health-e-Child (HeC) project started in early 2006 with the aim of developing a Grid-based healthcare platform for European paediatrics, providing seamless integration of traditional and emerging sources of biomedical information; the long-term goal being to deliver uninhibited access to universal biomedical knowledge repositories for personalised and preventive healthcare, large-scale biomedical research and training, and informed policy making.

http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1002461

The Indian market for WiMAX will continue to be one of the most sought after markets for global equipment vendors. The nation promises to offer huge, consistently high growth for the next several years, judging by its extremely low broadband penetration rates (under 3 million for a population of over 1 billion).

http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=130292&rt=Conference-on-WiMAX-2010.html

The 5th annual Multicore Expo will take place in combination with ESC, the industry’s leading embedded systems event. Working in conjunction with ESC, the Multicore Expo will provide attendees with three days of dedicated multicore technology training options and an increased number of multicore-related exhibits.

http://esc-sv.techinsightsevents.com/multicore-expo

Cloud Computing is one of the biggest innovations in decades. But how can you use it to gain a competitive advantage? And what’s the best, safest way to put it to work for your business? Tap the considerable benefits of Cloud Computing by making your move now to minimize risk. We’re ready to help—at the State of the Cloud Executive Conference in Boston on April 26-27, 2010.

http://www.stateofthecloud.com/

Workshop on Scalable Global Parallel File Systems Tiled Storage in Stuttgart, Germany.

https://corga.hlrs.de/corga/corga-hwws-2010/index.jsp

Focusing on the design principles of large-scale networked and distributed systems, NSDI '10 brings together researchers from across the networking and systems community in fostering cross-disciplinary approaches and addressing shared research challenges.

http://www.usenix.org/events/nsdi10/index.html

The Master’s degree program in Computational Science and Engineering (MCSE) is a terminal degree* offered jointly by the departments of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics in the school of engineering. The program is designed to provide training and expertise in modern computational techniques that will find application in a wide range of industries and technical and managerial functions within them.

http://engineering.rice.edu/content3.aspx?id=2649

Training for users who are new to TeraGrid will be provided on Friday, April 30, from 1-3pm Eastern (12-2pm Central, 10am-noon Pacific).

The session will be delivered using ReadyTalk web-based teleconferencing, and include hands-on opportunities. The following topics will be covered:

• Portal Overview
• TeraGrid Knowledge Base
• Accessing Resources
• File Transfers
• Ticket System
• Softenv & Modules
• Security
• Next Steps

If you are interested in participating, please send email to training@teragrid.org by close of business on Wednesday, before the session. We will send out email to respondents with instructions on how to join the telecon. You will need to have your TeraGrid portal account information available to fully participate in the session.

Note that this is a free session; there is no charge for ReadyTalk connections for participants. More information about this tool is available online at www.readytalk.com.

NorduGrid conferences gather the user and development communities of the modern grid computing middleware solution ARC (Advanced Resource Connector), created by the NorduGrid collaboration.

http://www.sling.si/events/2010/NG2010/

The goal of International Conference on Cloud Computing and Virtualization is to provide a forum for researchers, academics, and practitioners to discuss all aspects of Cloud Computing.

http://www.cloudcomputingconf.org/

SIMDI is a Fair/Conference specially oriented to users of software for Technical and Scientific Simulation. Both applications and High Performance Computing systems are at focus.

http://www.simdi.se/

DEISA, the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications, and PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, are inviting again to their joint annual science symposium as an important European HPC event: The DEISA PRACE Symposium 2010 will take place in Barcelona, Spain.

http://www.deisa.eu/news_press/symposium

ScicomP brings together computational scientists and engineers interested in achieving maximum performance and scalability on all IBM HPC platforms, including Blue Gene and POWER architectures.

http://www.spscicomp.org/ScicomP16/

Both papers and abstracts can be submitted for the Science, Technology, Gateways, and Education tracks, with accepted peer-reviewed papers being published in conference proceedings, which will be stored in the ACM digital library. Abstracts can be submitted for all other parts of the conference. All interested individuals and organizations are invited to participate.

https://www.teragrid.org/web/events/callforsubmission;jsessionid=E7B9FF86AD15EFA9AB5998724E4136BE.jvm2

The National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing (www.nrbsc.org) at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (www.psc.edu) and Carnegie Mellon University (www.cmu.edu) will host a 'Hands-On' Workshop on Computational Biophysics using NAMD and VMD on May 10-14, 2010. www.nrbsc.org/education/workshops/namd/

Applications are due by March 15, 2010 and selected participants will be notified by March 22, 2010. To apply online, please visit: www.nrbsc.org/education/workshops/register.php

http://www.nrbsc.org/education/workshops/register.php

Stark State College of Technology

This workshop has been designed to introduce you to the emerging technology of computational science for the Ohio job market. The hands-on activities will show you how easy it is to integrate computational science into your STEM classes and help you meet the Ohio Academic Content Standards in this area. This will be a great opportunity to network with fellow Ohio STEM educators. You will be introduced to the virtual school of computational science at RRSCS. For those who are interested, information about how to develop a baccalaureate minor or associate degree in computational science at your institution will be presented.

http://www.computationalscience.org/workshops/9910

The Texas Advanced Computing Center, in association with the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin, is pleased to present the 4th annual "Scientific Software Day" event. The purpose of the event is to increase awareness of new scientific software and to inform users of relevant and timely issues. The day will include a number of short presentations related to the developments in scientific software.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/softwareday/

Microsoft and NVIDIA are teaming up to bring you the latest in GPU Computing. You are invited to attend this free seminar and workshop. GPU computing is rapidly being adopted in the Oil & Gas industry. Particularly for seismic processing and reservoir simulation applications. Performance increases of over 10x are common when writing applications to use the computational power of GPUs.

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032446248&culture=en-US

The CCGrid symposium series serves as a major international forum for presenting and sharing recent research accomplishments and technological developments in the field of Cluster, Cloud and Grid computing. The conference will be held in Melbourne, Australia.

http://www.manjrasoft.com/ccgrid2010/mainpage.html

The goal of International Conference on Cloud Computing and Virtualization is to provide a forum for researchers, academics, and practitioners to discuss all aspects of Cloud Computing.

http://www.cloudcomputingconf.org/

Clusters, Clouds, and Grids are three different computational paradigms with the intent or potential to support High Performance Computing (HPC). Resilience 2010 is the follow-on workshop to the successful Resilience 2009 held with HPDC in Munich, Germany, and the earlier Resilience 2008 held in conjunction with CCGrid in Lyon, France.

http://xcr.cenit.latech.edu/resilience2010/

Acceleware develops and markets software acceleration products that bring unparalleled performance and speed to today's most strenuous and challenging compute and/or data-intensive demands.

http://www.acceleware.com/default/index.cfm/about-acceleware/

In this workshop, students will participate in lectures, labs, and discussions about the architecture and use of Ranger and its supporting infrastructure. This class will be of particular interest to computational scientists interested in developing codes for and porting codes to Ranger.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/classes/introduction-to-parallel-computing-on-ranger-at-cornell-university/

SC10 is now accepting applications for travel support for those who are interested in joining them in New Orleans in November.Travel support will include airfare, hotel accommodations (two attendees per room), and Education Program registration. Teams of up to five educators are encouraged to apply. Preference will be given to faculty and teachers from secondary school programs in science, technology, engineering and/or mathematics, although students interested in careers in teaching are also welcome to apply.

http://sc10.supercomputing.org/?pg=edprog.html

The WEA/SEA Symposia are intended to be an international forum for researchers in the area of design, analysis, and experimental evaluation and engineering of algorithms, as well as in various aspects of computational optimization and its applications.

http://www.sea2010.unina.it/

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

NCSI's Parallel and Cluster Computing workshops focus on teaching faculty how to move from traditional desktop computing to modern high-performance hardware. Offerings range from end-user focused applications ready-designed for HPC to the details of creating applications designed to run on clusters, many-core machines, shared-memory machines, and graphics processing units. The material is designed for undergraduate faculty from a variety of disciplines who would like to add parallel computing to their undergraduate teaching and research. In addition, undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to attend alongside a sponsoring faculty member. The workshop is hands-on, with exercises in both computing and curriculum development.

http://www.computationalscience.org/workshops/9898

The 33rd International Convention MIPRO is devoted to information and communication technology, electronics and microelectronics.

http://www.mipro.hr/

It will be the seventh in a series of international conferences that present research contributions in theory and applications of sequential, parallel, and distributed algorithms, data structures, and computational complexity.

http://ciac.di.uniroma1.it/

WHGA2010 is the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Grid Computing, Cloud Computing, Green Computing, Pervasive Computig, Networking, and Storage.

http://ag3.hpcc.jp/IWHGA2010/

The workshop will focus on HPC productivity, and advanced HPC topics and futures, and will bring together system managers, researchers, developers, computational scientists and industry affiliates to discuss recent developments and future advancements in High-Performance Computing.

http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/european_workshop/index.php

The International Conference on Computational Science 2010 (ICCS 2010) aims to bring together researchers and scientists from mathematics and computer science as basic computing disciplines, researchers from various application areas who are pioneering advanced application of computational methods to sciences such as physics, chemistry, life sciences, and engineering, arts and humanitarian fields, along with software developers and vendors, to discuss problems and solutions in the area, to identify new issues, and to shape future directions for research, as well as to help industrial users apply various advanced computational techniques.

http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2010/

The four-day conference will highlight many cutting-edge presentations divided into various sessions focusing on innovations and applications of supercomputing.

http://www.supercomp.de/isc10/Program/Conference

This symposium aims at bringing together scientists and computational experts to present advances in the development and implementation of numerical methods for eigenvalue problems. Short papers are solicited on all aspects of research, development, and applications in this field.

http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~edodin/icnaam.html

HPCS (High Performance Computing Symposium) is Canada’s foremost HPC 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 HPC computational research.

http://www.hpcs2010.org/

The 42th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2010), sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory, will be held in Cambridge, MA, Sunday, June 6 - Tuesday, June 8, 2010, at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/newengland/events/stoc2010/default.htm

The Departments of Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics at Marshall University will jointly host selected students for ten weeks of instruction and research in computational science beginning Sunday, June 6, 2010.

http://www.marshall.edu/reu/

Oberlin College

The purpose of these workshops is to expose participants to and inspire them with new techniques, teaching materials, and applications to use computational models in the undergraduate curriculum. By bringing faculty from different disciplines together so that they can learn how to incorporate computational models into their classrooms and research projects, it will advance the use of computing in undergraduate science education. We desire to have participants from a broad range of disciplines, including computer science, mathematics, and the natural sciences.

http://www.computationalscience.org/workshops/9900

The conference is meant to be a forum for researchers and practitioners working on various aspects of integer programming and combinatorial optimization. The aim is to present recent developments in theory, computation, and applications in these areas.

http://ipco.epfl.ch/

Shodor Education Foundation

This course examines the different resources available through the National Science Digital Library (NSDL). Throughout this course, you will explore different ways to find resources through NSDL as well as actually examining and using the resources themselves. All of the tools learned in this class will be put to use in a culminating project where you will create a lesson plan to be used in your classroom.

http://www.computationalscience.org/workshops/9909

HotPar '10 will bring together researchers and practitioners doing innovative work in the area of parallel computing.

http://www.usenix.org/event/hotpar10/

The IASTED International Conferences will take place at the House of Scientists in Akademgorodok, a community located outside the Siberian city of Novosibirsk.

http://www.iasted.org/conferences/location-novosibirsk2010.html

This training workshop will focus on how to use "MATLAB on the TeraGrid," a 512-core NSF-funded experimental computing resource located at Cornell. Lectures, labs, and discussions will cover the system architecture and how to use The MathWorks’ Parallel Computing Toolbox™ to run parallel and distributed tasks locally and on remote resources. Workshop participants will learn how to install and use client software and the Parallel Computing Toolbox to launch MATLAB jobs from a local desktop and run them on the remote cluster at Cornell. Workshop instructors will assist users in code development and porting.

http://www.cac.cornell.edu/about/news/100505.aspx

This is an annual conference that intends to reflect the broad scope of international cooperation in computer science.

http://csr2010.antat.ru/

The ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) is the premier venue for presenting the latest research on the design, implementation, evaluation, and use of parallel and distributed systems for high performance and high end computing.

http://hpdc2010.eecs.northwestern.edu/

The aim of the Workshop is to discuss the future developments in the HPC technologies, and to contribute to assess the main aspects of Grids and Clouds, with special emphasis on solutions to grid and cloud computing deployment.

http://www.hpcc.unical.it/hpc2010/

The conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in any aspects of distributed and parallel computing.

http://icdcs2010.cnit.it/

The 6th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '10) will take place at the UC Santa Barbara Conference Center in Santa Barbara, California, USA during Monday, June 21 - Wednesday, June 23, 2010.

http://www.dcoss.org/

The ScienceCloud workshop will focus on the use of cloud-based technologies to meet new compute intensive and data intensive scientific challenges that are not well served by the current supercomputers, grids or commercial clouds.

http://dsl.cs.uchicago.edu/ScienceCloud2010/

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.

http://www.lsap2010.org/

The Third International Workshop on Data Intensive Distributed Computing (DIDC'10) will be held in conjunction with the 19th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC'10), in Chicago, IL.

http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~kosar/didc10

VTDC brings together researchers in academia and industry who are involved in research, development and planning activities involving the use of virtualization in the context of distributed systems, where the opportunities and challenges with respect to the management of such virtualized systems is of interest to the ICAC community at large.

http://www.grid-appliance.org/wiki/index.php/VTDC10

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.

http://sites.google.com/site/clade2010/

Join us in Boston, MA, June 23–25, 2010, for the 2010 USENIX Annual Technical Conference. USENIX ATC has always been the place to present groundbreaking research and cutting-edge practices in a wide variety of technologies and environments. USENIX ATC '10 will be no exception.

http://www.usenix.org/events/atc10/

WebApps '10 is a new technical conference designed to bring together experts in all aspects of developing and deploying Web applications. Web-based applications are revolutionizing both the features that can be delivered and the technologies for developing and deploying applications. They also involve a diverse collection of issues and technologies.

http://www.usenix.org/events/webapps10/

Kean University

NCSI's Parallel and Cluster Computing workshops focus on teaching faculty how to move from traditional desktop computing to modern high-performance hardware. Offerings range from end-user focused applications ready-designed for HPC to the details of creating applications designed to run on clusters, many-core machines, shared-memory machines, and graphics processing units. The material is designed for undergraduate faculty from a variety of disciplines who would like to add parallel computing to their undergraduate teaching and research. In addition, undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to attend alongside a sponsoring faculty member. The workshop is hands-on, with exercises in both computing and curriculum development.

http://www.computationalscience.org/workshops/9899

The conference is to address, explore and exchange information on the state-of-the-art in high performance and large scale computing systems, their use in modeling and simulation, their design and use, and their impact.

http://cisedu.us/cis/hpcs/10/main/callForPapers.jsp

Get ready for a week of digital art and design that will change the way you look at popular arts and media. Workshop instructor Scott Flanders is a freelance illustrator and artist specializing in entertainment art and media including commercial illustration, comic books and conceptual design for film and video games, Scott brings an exciting and contemporary professional approach to digital art and a deep knowledge rooted in the fundamentals of fine art training that will leave participants inspired to stretch their creative muscles and push the boundaries of visual expression! Students will be exposed to many of the basic techniques and common approaches to digital art and design, including the familiar skills of drawing, painting and composition as synthesized through the digital medium, but also silhouette and contour design, using abstraction in development, and using photographic reference and the basics of image sampling. Presented by Scott Flanders, Scott Flanders Art Course open to middle and high school students.

http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=18

Join us for intellectual engagement with colleagues from a range of learning sciences-affiliated disciplines, keynote addresses from Dr. Carl Weiman, Dr. Koeno Gravemeijer and Dr. Pamela Grossman, walks along Lake Michigan, deep dish pizza, and jazz music as a part of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences.

Conference proposals for all presentation formats are due 30 October 2009.

http://www.isls.org/icls2010

The ICLS 2010 conference theme, Learning in the Disciplines, invites you to explore the ways disciplinary perspectives can inform the study of learning in educational settings, workplaces, and other contexts.

http://www.isls.org/icls2010/

This introductory hands-on four-day workshop is a must for any educator who wants to explore genomics through the use of biotechnology and genomics activities for the classroom. The workshop timeline will take participants from the initial extraction of DNA, through the Central Dogma of biology, ending with protein structure analysis. Introduced will be basic techniques for DNA extraction, DNA sequencing and proteomics studies. Additional hands-on lab sessions will include PCR, DNA Contigs, gene cloning, protein purification, and protein crystallization. Complimenting the program will be an introduction to BLAST, iDNA and other interactive, protein visualization software programs available for educators. Interspersed in this comprehensive educator training will be a field trip to an area research institute.

http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech

NCAR/CISL is sponsoring a high-definition web conferencing site for the "PetaScale Programming Environments and Tools" virtual summer school, a week-long high-performance computing workshop for graduate students in computation-related sciences.The workshop will be given from Tuesday, July 6 through Friday, July 9, 2010, at the NCAR Mesa Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. Participation is limited to 20 students from the Rocky Mountain region. Cost is $100. Online-only participation is also available free.

http://www.vscse.org/news/apply_summer2010.html

Matlab is an easy-to-use yet extremely powerful "matrix laboratory", an interactive environment that supports a wide range of mathematical functions, analytical methods, and visualization tools for practically any kind of science problem, enabling you to solve computationally intensive problems faster than with traditional languages. In this workshop, you will get a hands-on introduction to the basics of Matlab's vector math and its scripting language. In this two-day workshop, you will get an introduction to the Matlab interface, matrix mathematics, and 2D plotting the first day. On the second day, you will learn the simple math and complex beauty of fractal geometry, and you will even learn how to use some of Matlab's advanced 3D visualization tools. You will also get a bit of background on other programs similar to Matlab. All Matlab example files will be provided online and available during and following the workshop. Presented by Jeff Sale, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego Course open to middle and high school students.

http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=18

Merrimack College

The purpose of these workshops is to expose participants to and inspire them with new techniques, teaching materials, and applications to use computational models in the undergraduate curriculum. By bringing faculty from different disciplines together so that they can learn how to incorporate computational models into their classrooms and research projects, it will advance the use of computing in undergraduate science education. We desire to have participants from a broad range of disciplines, including computer science, mathematics, and the natural sciences.

http://www.computationalscience.org/workshops/9901

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in the PDPTA conference proceedings (in printed book form; later, the proceedings will also be accessible online).

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp10/ws/conferences/pdpta10

Modeling Instruction in High School Physics is grounded on the thesis that scientific activity is centered on modeling: the construction, validation, and application of conceptual models to understand and organize the physical world. In this three-day, eighteen-hour introductory workshop, teachers learn to: • organize course content around a small set of basic models as the content core of physics; • engage students collaboratively in making and using models to describe, explain, predict, design, and control physical phenomena; • involve students in using computers as scientific tools for collecting, organizing, analyzing, visualizing, and modeling real data; • lots more!

http://modeling.asu.edu/

The workshop series will begin with basic introductory level activities and build on to more advanced topics both in content and equipment requirements. We will cover the basic use and applications of the equipment used. Be one step ahead for your high school biology and chemistry courses!

http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=18

Computational economics explores the intersection of economics and computation. These areas include agent-based computational modeling, computational econometrics and statistics, computational finance, computational modeling of dynamic macroeconomic systems, computational tools for the design of automated Internet markets, programming tools specifically designed for computational economics, and pedagogical tools for the teaching of computational economics.

http://comp-econ.org/

IASTED International Conference Series in Banff, Alberta, Canada will take place July 15 – 17, 2010.

http://www.iasted.org/conferences/location-banff2010.html

Have you ever wondered how they keep all those colors in the lines? Comic coloring is a incredibly useful skill the techniques of which can be applied to digital illustration and graphic design in endless ways to give artists and designers incredible control of color, composition and overall presentation. Students will be exposed to many of the basic techniques and common approaches to digital art and design, including the familiar skills of drawing, painting and composition as synthesized through the digital medium, but also silhouette and contour design, using abstraction in development, and using photographic reference and the basics of image sampling. Presented by Scott Flanders, Scott Flanders Art Course open to middle and high school students.

http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=18

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

This workshop will introduce college faculty to various resources that can be used to prepare students to acquire computational thinking, modeling and quantitative analysis skills that have become essential to the practice of modern biology. Hands-on sessions with software for building and running dynamic models, and analyzing sequence and genomic data will be coupled with pedagogy and examples of integration into the biology classroom. Hands-on tutorials on first two days will focus on: agent-based and system dynamics modeling; stochastic simulation and phylogenetic analysis. A variety of tools will be introduced, from introductory to advanced. The focus will then shift to group work to develop materials for the classroom, with additional sessions based on participant interest.

http://www.computationalscience.org/workshops/9896

The 2010 UPCRC Illinois Summer School offers experienced programmers, with little or no exposure to parallelism, an opportunity to learn about multicore programming.

http://www.upcrc.illinois.edu/summer/2010/index.html

This workshop touches both technological aspects such as infrastructure design, data analysis and fusion, decision support algorithms, as well as financing aspects for u-healthcare. It aims to gather together care-givers, IT experts, industry, and national authorities contributing towards the development and application of u-healthcare system.

http://infonet.cse.kyutech.ac.jp/conf/saint10/workshop-CFPaper/ws-cfp-10.html

The Institute will provide researchers with an intensive introduction to using TACC’s computing resources. Senior TACC staff will deliver presentations and lead interactive lab sessions focused on using TACC’s advanced computing resources and technology.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/summer-institute/

In this fun and exciting three-day hands-on workshop, students will learn to build cool 2D and 3D interactive animations. On the first day, you'll learn how to use Flash, the powerful 2D animation tool and the most popular tool on the Internet. On the second day you'll learn Blender, the free 3D animation and rendering tool used by many game developers. On the third day, students will get some real hands-on game development experience using the built-in Blender Game Engine. Students will each get their own account on the StudentTECH course site where they can upload and share their games and animations with others. Students will be provided with all source files used in this workshop, too! Presented by Jeff Sale, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego Course open to middle and high school students.

http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=18

Open Science Grid (OSG) Summer School, a hands-on four-day program in distributed computing for graduate students. This summer program is July 19-22 at the university of Wisconsin-Madison. Accepted applicants will receive funding to cover expenses and free registration for the TG'10 conference.

https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Education/OSGSummerSchool2010

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) will present a 1-day course introducing the concepts of the Fortran 90 programming language. The class will be given on Monday, July 19, 2010, at the UCAR Corporate Training Center in Boulder, Colorado. Participation is limited to 16 persons.

http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/tcg/F90COURSE/syllabus.summer10.html

NCL workshops are tailored to researchers in the earth sciences who are interesting in learning how to use NCL to analyze their data. This is an intensive 3.5-day training course scheduled for July 20-23, 2010. The workshops are taught by both a scientist and a software engineer, and offer a combination of introductory lectures and hands-on labs. During the labs, the instructors work with students to help them write NCL programs for analyzing their own data. Lecture topics include an overview of NCL language basics, an introduction to NetCDF and other data formats, and detailed information on data analysis and visualization with NCL.

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Training/Workshops/

Louisiana State University

The purpose of these workshops is to expose participants to and inspire them with new techniques, teaching materials, and applications to use computational models in the undergraduate curriculum. By bringing faculty from different disciplines together so that they can learn how to incorporate computational models into their classrooms and research projects, it will advance the use of computing in undergraduate science education. We desire to have participants from a broad range of disciplines, including computer science, mathematics, and the natural sciences.

http://www.computationalscience.org/workshops/9912

In this fun, exciting hands-on workshop, students will learn basic camera functions to make eye catching photos and then take them to a new level in Photoshop, with the use of special techniques. Though we will learn about interesting technical tools, this class is ant art photography class and will focus on the creating powerful self portraits, portraits, or images based on your dreams . Experimentation, in any form, is encouraged. This course requires the use of a DSLR. A digital Point-and-Shoot camera is also acceptable. Please be familiar with the use of your camera. You will also need a USB thumb drive, which allows you to save any assignments in progress (or completed) during the class. Presented by Rebecca Webb, ArtPower, UC San Diego Course open to middle and high school students.

http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=18

Training for users who are new to TeraGrid will be provided on Friday, July 23, from 1-3pm Eastern (12-2pm Central, 10am-noon Pacific).

The session will be delivered using ReadyTalk web-based teleconferencing, and include hands-on opportunities. The following topics will be covered:

• Portal Overview
• TeraGrid Knowledge Base
• Accessing Resources
• File Transfers
• Ticket System
• Softenv & Modules
• Security
• Next Steps

If you are interested in participating, please send email to training@teragrid.org by close of business on Wednesday, before the session. We will send out email to respondents with instructions on how to join the telecon. You will need to have your TeraGrid portal account information available to fully participate in the session.

Note that this is a free session; there is no charge for ReadyTalk connections for participants. More information about this tool is available online at www.readytalk.com.

The mission of this congress is to initiate a sustainable platform for exchanging up-to-the-minute upstream and downstream achievements, industrial needs and research opportunities of industrial biotechnology fields in Asia Pacific Rim.

http://www.bit-ibio.com/default.asp

Houston Community College System

The purpose of these workshops is to expose participants to and inspire them with new techniques, teaching materials, and applications to use computational models in the undergraduate curriculum. By bringing faculty from different disciplines together so that they can learn how to incorporate computational models into their classrooms and research projects, it will advance the use of computing in undergraduate science education. We desire to have participants from a broad range of disciplines, including computer science, mathematics, and the natural sciences.

http://www.computationalscience.org/workshops/9902

In addition to providing you with a platform to enhance your knowledge and skills, SecureAsia hosts the (ISC)² Asia-Pacific Information Security Leadership Achievements (ISLA) Program that recognizes and brings together infosec leaders from over 12 countries in Asia and a two-day exhibition that showcases the latest technologies, products and professional services in information security.

http://www.informationsecurityasia.com/

et ready for a week of digital art and design that will change the way you look at popular arts and media. Workshop instructor Scott Flanders is a freelance illustrator and artist specializing in entertainment art and media including commercial illustration, comic books and conceptual design for film and video games, Scott brings an exciting and contemporary professional approach to digital art and a deep knowledge rooted in the fundamentals of fine art training that will leave participants inspired to stretch their creative muscles and push the boundaries of visual expression. Participants will be exposed to many of the basic techniques and common tools used by professional digital artists/designers as synthesized through the digital medium, Adobe Photoshop. At the end of this exciting intensive workshop, participants can expect to have generated their very own original works of art and design and will be well on their way to developing their computer skills with an enhanced working knowledge of digital art creation software.

http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech

The Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Sciences (UCES) Award Program sponsored by the Krell Institute is seeking applications for the 2010 awards which will be presented in conjunction with SC10 in New Orleans this November. The program seeks to recognize innovations incomputational science education. Five finalists will be invited to New Orleans (travel expenses paid) to present their work at a symposium during the SC10 Education Program on Sunday, November 14. After the presentations, all finalists will receive a certificate and one will be chosen as the 2010 UCES Award winner and will receive a cash prize of $1000.The deadline for applications is August 1 so time is short (but thepotential rewards are great!).

http://www.krellinst.org/uces_award/

San Jose State University

This workshop will cover various ways that computers can be used to enhance and expand the educational experience of students enrolled in the undergraduate chemistry curriculum. Discussions and hands-on laboratory exercises on visualization, simulation, molecular modeling, and mathematical software will be presented.

http://www.computationalscience.org/workshops/9897

The 5th annual TeraGrid Conference, TG'10, will be held August 2-5, 2010, at the Sheraton Station Square in Pittsburgh, PA. Registration opens in March 2010, so be sure to sign up early!

Abstracts and papers are due May 10, 2010.

http://www.teragrid.org/tg10/callforsubmissions.html

University of Oklahoma

NCSI's Parallel and Cluster Computing workshops focus on teaching faculty how to move from traditional desktop computing to modern high-performance hardware. Offerings range from end-user focused applications ready-designed for HPC to the details of creating applications designed to run on clusters, many-core machines, shared-memory machines, and graphics processing units. The material is designed for undergraduate faculty from a variety of disciplines who would like to add parallel computing to their undergraduate teaching and research. In addition, undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to attend alongside a sponsoring faculty member. The workshop is hands-on, with exercises in both computing and curriculum development.

http://www.computationalscience.org/workshops/9903

George Mason University

The purpose of these workshops is to expose participants to and inspire them with new techniques, teaching materials, and applications to use computational models in the undergraduate curriculum. By bringing faculty from different disciplines together so that they can learn how to incorporate computational models into their classrooms and research projects, it will advance the use of computing in undergraduate science education. We desire to have participants from a broad range of disciplines, including computer science, mathematics, and the natural sciences.

http://www.computationalscience.org/workshops/9904

This course will provide an introduction to using Maya to create computer animations. Students will be given a comprehensive introduction to the various components of the Maya software package; including Modeling, Animation, Rendering, and Lighting.

http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=18

The USENIX Security Symposium brings together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in the security of computer systems and networks.

http://www.usenix.org/events/sec10/

High Performance Software Tools to Fast-Track The Development of Scalable and Sustainable Applications

http://acts.nersc.gov/events/Workshop2010