HPCwire's CONFERENCE AND EVENTS GUIDE 02.15.05 ========================================================================= 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 MARCH ^^^^^ March 1-4, 2005 Linux Clusters Institute Workshop at NCSA NCSA, University of Illinois http://news.tgc.com/ct.jsp?uz1317805Biz701896 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 10-15, 2005 USENIX Technical Conference 2005 (USENIX '05) Anaheim, California http://news.tgc.com/ct.jsp?uz1317805Biz701901 USENIX's Annual Technical Conference 2005 (USENIX '05) includes 5 days of training by industry experts such as Ted Ts'o, Gerald Carter, Aeleen Frisch, and Marcus Ranum; keynote address by historian George Dyson; starting April 13, technical sessions including General and FREENIX/ Open Source Refereed Papers, Invited Talks, and Guru Is In Sessions. Learn the latest groundbreaking practices from the technical best. Themes include: system administration, Linux, open source, security, networking, and more. Early bird registration deadline is March 21, 2005. April 26-28, 2005 The 6th Int'l Conference on Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution 2005 Chapel Hill, North Carolina http://news.tgc.com/ct.jsp?uz1317805Biz701895 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://news.tgc.com/ct.jsp?uz1317805Biz701900 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://news.tgc.com/ct.jsp?uz1317805Biz701893 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://news.tgc.com/ct.jsp?uz1317805Biz701897 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. -------- Modify your preferences or unsubscribe here: http://news.tgc.com/al.jsp?vk=j2kZpXcA&un=dolinsky@gsu.by&an=357