Biomed Grid School in Italy
The 1st Biomed Grid School is organised by Bioinfogrid, EMBRACE, EBI and ICEAGE.
Participation is free of charge but travel and susistance costs must be undertaken by each individual participant.
Places will be given on a first come first served basis. Please visit the event website to download the application form and for details on hotel accommodation available.Taking place 14 - 19 May 2007, Villa Monastero The Biomed Grid School is taking place from the 14-19th May 2007 at Villa Monastero, Varenna, Italy.
People wishing to participate must fill in this form and send it back to bioinfogrid@itb.cnr.it as soon as possible to ensure a place on the course. Places will be given on a first come first served basis.
There will not be a participation fee, but travel and susistance costs must be undertaken by each individual participant.
Hotel availability is very low, people must book by next week in order to ensure a place.
The Hotels contacted in Varenna are:
Hotel Beretta*: +39 0341 830132
Hotel Montecodeno***: +39 0341 830123
Hotel del Sole***: +39 0341 815218
Hotel Royal Victoria****: +39 0341 815111
When reserving a room, please quote the 'Biomed
Grid School' organised by Luciano Milanesi and notify us of your
reservation at the following
address: bioinfogrid@itb.cnr.it
we need to know how many places have been booked. To reserve your
room you will need to give your credit card details.
Sun's dim grid a developer thang now
The RegistrerThree years into its grand supercomputer rental experiment, Sun Microsystems has found that developers, developers, developers have more interest in the program than big spending businesses.
Sun indicated as much two weeks ago by announcing so-called cclick and rund support for its Network.com service. Customers can select applications such as BLAST, FreeMAT and Impact and fire up the software across a desired number of Sun hosted processors. Ideally, this provides developers with a cost-effective way of testing their code across a large number of machines at a low cost.
Sun first talked up this grid computing service back in late 2004, touting it as the answer for large companies in need of extra horsepower. Got some oil exploration problems that just won't fit on your in-house servers? No problem. Fork over $1 per CPU per hour and crank away on Sun's hardware.
Buoyed by its own optimism, Sun bragged about creating six data centers to host the grid-based applications, setting up shop in the US, Canada and Europe.
Now we find Sun using just a couple of data centers and paying more attention to the developer set than cycle hungry types on Wall Street or in Texas (replace Texas with Hollywood, if you're Californian). (The company refuses to divulge how many grid data centers it has now but did confirm that it has centers in the US and Canada, so we know it's at least two.) And where Sun once celebrated the grid idea at every turn, the company has made a conscious effort to scale back the grid chatter, fearing public ridicule.
The humbled Sun's focus on software developers makes sense and might prove lucrative in the long run.
In the coming weeks, Sun plans to dish out High Performance Computing (C++) and Java grid modules for NetBeans that should make it easier for coders to write software for the grid, said Sun's software chief Rich Green.
Sun last week experienced its first ever grid backlog with some jobs needing to wait about five minutes to hop on the processor train. cWe're hustling as fast as we can to get more gear on the grid,d Green said.
The company has seen chundredsd more subscribers sign up for the grid service week-over-week and is on a double-digit growth curve. Most of this interest has come from the developer crowd Sun so wants to attract.
Overall, the grid plan remains perplexing. Even if Sun managed to sell 500 million hours of CPU time 3 a minor miracle 3 the Network.com profits would barely be noticed on its balance sheet.
Insiders, however, claim that Network.com is all about the relationship not the revenue. Customers that design and run their software on Sun's grid will form strong ties to Sun's OS, developer tools and hardware. This will in turn make them more likely to buy gear for other projects.
On paper, this plan makes a heck of lot of sense, especially with the likes of IBM, HP and Dell declining to pursue similar efforts. (That last line is for you, Aisling. Now please stop punching me.)
Simposio sobre la informática de alto rendimiento en Europa
El consorcio de DEISA (Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications) celebrará un simposio que tratará sobre el alcance social de la informática de alto rendimiento en Europa los días 21 y 22 de mayo en Múnich (Alemania).
Este año, el simposio de DEISA se centrará en las iniciativas y las estrategias que prepararán el terreno para la «petascale computing» en Europa. En este acto se darán cita representantes del mundo académico y de la investigación, de la empresa y la política de toda Europa. Dicho acto servirá de foro para el diálogo con DEISA, creadores de la informática de alto rendimiento (high performance computing) y las infraestructuras Grid.
Para obtener más información, visite:
https://www.deisa.org/news_events/deisa_events/current_event.php
Tutorial sobre Grids - EGEE / EELA / EUMedGrid
Más info sobre
IRISGridProyecto EGEE II
EELA Grid
EUMedGrid
Web del cursoRedIRIS/Red.es está involucrado desde el año 2002 en el impulso de las tecnologías Grid Computing dentro de la comunidad científica española, albergando las iniciativas nacionales, infraestructuras comunes, y ofreciendo a la comunidad científica un foro de unión que permita el uso y difusión de la tecnología Grid. RedIRIS/Red.es ha participado y participa en varios proyectos europeos e internacionales en Grid , tales como, CrossGrid, EGEE-I, EGEE-II, EuMedGrid, EELA y GGF.
En el marco de los proyectos EELA, EUMedGrid y EGEE-II, RedIRIS/Red.es organiza este curso de formación destinado tanto a administradores como a usuarios de la tecnología Grid, basado en las infraestructuras y middleware que define el proyecto EGEE, donde RedIRIS participa en varias actividades, entre ellas, NA3 relativa a formación. En octubre de 2006, RedIRIS/Red.es organizó el primer curso de formación para la comunidad científica basado en el middleware definido en el proyecto EGEE y dado el exito en participación de este primer curso y la demanda de la comunidad científica en conocer esta tecnología, RedIRIS/Red.es ha decidido organizar un segundo curso.
El objetivo de este curso es que los alumnos conozcan en profundidad la tecnología Grid, tanto a nivel de usuario como de administrador, por ello uno de los aspectos más destacados es el caracter práctico del curso.
El curso tendrá lugar en las oficinas de Red.es en Madrid , y la asistencia está limitada tanto en el tutorial de usuarios como en el de administradores a un máximo de 40 alumnos, donde tendrán prioridad las personas pertenecientes a la comunidad académica y científica española, y las personas involucradas en los proyectos EGEE-II, EELA y EUMedGrid.
La dirección de las oficinas de RedIRIS/Red.es donde se celebrará el curso es:
Edificio Bronce
Plaza Manuel Gómez Moreno, s/n
28020 Madrid
Grid Republic
Grid RepublicAlso: GridRepublic - 2006 BOINC Workshop PresentationGridRepublic members run a screensaver that allows their computers to work on public-interest research projects when the machines are not otherwise in use. This screensaver does not affect performance of the host computer any more than an ordinary screensaver does.
By aggregating idle resources from users around the world, we create a massive supercomputer.
Historically, significant increases in available computing power have always enabled new insights and discoveries.
Our network of millions of volunteers will create a resource larger than any existing supercomputer. Computations that would take tens of thousands of years to compute on an ordinary computer can be processed in just a few months.
New medicines can be developed, the human genome can be explored, the physical origins of the universe can be modeled and probed, the search for signs of life on other planets can be extended... All these and other questions can be examined in ways and to an extent never before possible.
In short, GridRepublic makes the impossible possible.
The European Union promotes an unexpected level of synergies, bridging Life and Computational Sciences
The European Union promotes an unexpected level of synergies, bridging Life and Computational Sciences
Last Friday 23rd of February three large European Union projects converged at the National Center for Biotechnology, CNB -CSIC, in Madrid, showing the power of bridging across disciplines and promoting interdisciplinary.
Indeed, two workshops from two Networks of Excellence were combined with experts from the strategic EGEE Project (Enabling Grids for E-SciencE) so that experimental biologist were explaining their application to IT specialists while the IT specialists were explaining the grid to the biologists, providing an unprecedented level of cross dissemination among disciplines.
The experimental biologists came from the Network of Excellence on "New Electron Microscopy Approaches for studying protein complexes and cellular supremolecular architecture", the Bioinformaticians from the "EMBRACE" Network of Excellence on Grids for Bioinformatics ("An European Model for Bioinformatics Research and Community Education") and the Information Technology specialist from the EGEE project.
At the end of one week interactive course most mixed teams experimental biologist-computer scientist were able to use the computational world wide Grid of the EGEE project, submitting their works and monitoring their execution.
III Jornadas Científico Técnicas en Servicios Web y SOA
El interés por los Servicios Web y las Arquitecturas Orientadas a Servicio (SOA) continúa en claro crecimiento, tanto en ámbitos de empresa como académicos. A pesar de los continuos avances significativos, tanto desde el punto de vista conceptual como tecnológico, todavía es necesario un esfuerzo extra para alcanzar un grado de madurez que facilite el desarrollo de sistemas software complejos. Por este motivo, continuando el éxito de ediciones anteriores, esta tercera edición de las jornadas pretende colaborar activamente en este esfuerzo, siendo un punto de referencia para profesionales, empresas e investigadores interesados en el uso y la adopción de la plataforma de Servicios Web y de SOA.
En general, las jornadas tienen como objetivo estrechar los lazos entre el mundo de la industria y el entorno universitario, acercando los resultados de la investigación a las empresas y creando un marco de colaboración que facilite la transferencia de tecnología, conocimiento y experiencias prácticas.
Las Jornadas están por tanto dirigidas, pero no limitadas, a grupos tales como:
Profesionales, consultores y analistas dedicados a/o que estén considerando el desarrollo o la implantación de aplicaciones software basadas en Servicios Web y arquitecturas SOA.
Grupos de investigación en las áreas de Servicios Web, arquitecturas orientadas a servicios, middleware o servicios Grid, que desean mostrar los avances realizados en esta área.
Grupos de investigación científica que utilicen infraestructura informática basada en servicios Grid, Servicios Web o arquitecturas orientadas a servicios.
La organización de CEDI está especialmente interesada en la participación de Latinoamérica. Por ello, para facilitar la asistencia de profesores e investigadores de Latinoamérica que tengan aceptada alguna comunicación en el CEDI, se está gestionando la obtención de ayudas de unos 350 euros para financiar la inscripción completa y alojamiento (en un Colegio Mayor de la Universidad de Zaragoza) de los que así lo necesiten. Por otra parte, CEDI ha acordado con Iberia y Renfe descuentos especiales para las personas inscritas en el Congreso (30% o 25 %).
