HPCwire's CONFERENCE AND EVENTS GUIDE 01.18.05 ========================================================================= Important Upcoming HPC Events... As an added service to our readers, HPCwire produces a Conference and Events section, which offers information related to conferences, workshops, and user group meetings within the USA, Europe and Asian Pacific Rim. The content in this section will be updated bi-weekly and provides an excellent planning guide to subscribers. For information and quotes for posting your organization's individual or multiple conference/events, contact Mitch Becker at (858) 625-0070 or events@hpcwire.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ** Indicates New Event Listing JANUARY ^^^^^^^ January 31 - February 2, 2005 OSDL Enterprise Linux Summit Burlingame, California http://www.osdllinuxsummit.org/mg The OSDL Enterprise Linux Summit is the source of Linux deployment information. This unique conference brings together Linux users, developers and vendors to explore practical solutions for accelerating Linux deployment across the enterprise. The event is a combination of tutorials and practical education about Linux business and technical issues facing users, corporate developers and ISVs. The OSDL-ELS will be a valuable conference for anyone interested in accelerating the adoption of Linux. FEBRUARY ^^^^^^^^ February, 3 - 5 2005 13th Mardi Gras Conference Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana USA http://www.mardigrasconference.org The Center for Computation & Technology at LSU is hosting the 13th Mardi Gras Conference, February 3rd to 5th 2005, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Mardi Gras conferences take place annually, concentrating each year on a different computational theme of current relevance. This year's conference, titled Frontiers of Grid Applications and Technologies, will focus on Grid Computing, particularly how applications are exploiting emerging Grid and distributed computing environments as well as the supporting and enabling Grid technologies. February 7 - 11, 2005 GlobusWORLD 2005 Boston, MA http://www.globusworld.org GlobusWORLD 2005 is the only event that bridges the gap between cutting-edge research and enterprise Grid applications. Viewed by many as the most important Grid event of the year, GlobusWORLD features intensive training, informative presentations and interactive panels delivered by the industry's leading experts. Attendees have the opportunity to network with colleagues and meet those who have literally written the book on the Grid. February 8 - 9, 2005 Windows High-Performance Computing Cornell Theory Center New York, NY http://www.tc.cornell.edu/services/edu/events/winHPC/ The Cornell Theory Center will offer a workshop on February 8-9, in New York City, on Windows High-Performance Computing (HPC). The workshop is designed for representatives of companies, universities, and government agencies who want to learn more about implementing and using high-performance computing on Windows clusters. The Windows HPC workshop will focus on installing clusters and writing parallel applications to efficiently solve computationally and data-intensive challenges. For more information and to register for this workshop, visit http://www.tc.cornell.edu/services/edu/events/winHPC/ . February 10 - 11, 2005 Introduction to .NET and Web Services Workshops Cornell Theory Center New York, NY http://www.tc.cornell.edu/services/edu/events/winHPC/ The Cornell Theory Center will offer a workshop, Introduction to .NET and Web Services, on February 10-11, 2005 in New York City. The workshop is designed for representatives of companies, universities, and government agencies who want to learn and gain hands-on experience implementing and using .NET and Web Services on Windows clusters. After completing this workshop, participants will be able to design and deploy an integrated solution using .NET. For more information and to register for this workshop, visit http://www.tc.cornell.edu/services/edu/events/winHPC/ . MARCH ^^^^^ March 1 - 4, 2005 Linux Clusters Institute Workshop at NCSA NCSA, University of Illinois http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/index.html LCI's highly successful workshops are intensive, hands-on sessions for computational scientists, engineers, researchers, analysts, and cluster system administrators. LCI's technical materials are vendor neutral, highlighting information that attendees cannot easily find elsewhere. The deadline for registration for the March workshop is February 4, 2005. APRIL ^^^^^ April 26 - 28, 2005 The 6th Int'l Conference on Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution 2005 Chapel Hill, North Carolina http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/Linux-HPC-Revolution/ The Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution 2005 Conference, organized by the Linux Clusters Institute (LCI), is the premier international forum for sharing information on management, administration, and scientific computing techniques on Linux-based systems for high- performance computing. The technical program will include both peer -reviewed paper presentations and discipline- and industry-specific sessions offering researchers and industry leaders the opportunity to present their experiences. Call for papers deadline is January 7, 2005. MAY ^^^ May 17 - 19, 2005 Bio-IT World Boston, MA http://www.bioitworldexpo.com The Bio-IT World Conference program provides a unique educational forum for life science professionals to learn first-hand how the leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology organizations utilize technologies to speed, store, analyze and interpret the flood of information being produced in the post-genomic era. JUNE ^^^^ June 14 - 17, 2005 2005 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2005) University of Oslo, Norway http://dataforeningen.no/icpp2005/ The conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in any aspects of parallel and distributed computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Architecture, Algorithms & Applications, Cluster Computing, Compilers and Languages, Network- Based/Grid Computing, OS & Resource Management, Peer-to-Peer Technology Petaflop Computing, Programming Methodologies, Tools, Parallel Embedded Systems, Multimedia & Network Services, and Wireless & Mobile Computing. JULY ^^^^ July 26-28, 2005 On the Use of Commodity Clusters for Large-Scale Scientific Applications 2005 Greenbelt, Maryland http://www.arl.hpc.mil/Clusters2005 Hosted by the Army Research Laboratory Major Shared Resource Center (ARL MSRC), Raytheon, and the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), the third annual international program will address challenges associated with the rapidly expanding interest and acceptance of the use of commodity computer clusters for scientific applications. The symposium will explore the suitability of these clusters to operate within a heterogeneous production computing environment to solve very large scientific applications requiring extensive computer resources and execution times. This year's program will include technical papers, panels, birds-of-a-feather and tutorials in the areas of: Technology Trends, Production Issues, Applications, Storage and Security. -- Unsubscribe-Ref: hpcor3373 To stop bi-weekly HPC Conference email please forward this email with the above Ref: intact to unsubscribe@tgc.com