News and Information for Septemeber 2011
Upcoming Conference and Workshop News
IEEE Cluster 2011: International Conference on Cluster Computing
September 26-30, 2011 - Austin, Texas
IEEE Cluster 2011 is the premier conference on all aspects of cluster computing for computational science. Cluster computing has become the most common method of configuring and deploying high performance computing systems. They are used to solve some of the most challenging and complex problems, to analyze and visualize massive data, and manage tremendous amounts of storage. Clusters have become the workhorse for computational science and engineering research, powering innovation and discovery that advance science and society.Attendees will have access to the latest developments in cluster computing technologies and practices. Join the cluster computing community and discuss new directions, opportunities, and ideas that will influence the future of cluster computing. For more information and to register, please visit https://www.ieeecluster.org/.
1st LinkSCEEM Climate Research Workshop
October 11-13, 2011 in Nicosia, Cyprus
Registration Deadline – September 30, 2011
Funding Application Deadline – September 10, 2011
The objective of the workshop is to provide highly motivated trainees who are interested in the fields of climate modeling and high performance computing with the fundamental skills in climate research and numerical modeling. The program will cover topics in basic atmospheric physics and dynamics, coupling of complex sea-air regimes, numerical modeling of atmospheric flows and regional climate modeling. The list of trainers includes experts in atmospheric science, numerical modeling and high performance computing from Germany, Egypt and Cyprus. There are fifteen funded competitive fellowships available. Costs covered include travel and accommodation. Applicants selected for funding will be notified by September 15, 2011. For more information about the school, the program and to register, please visit http://www.linksceem.eu/ls2/component/rsevents/event/3-1st-linksceem-thematic-workshop-for-climate-research.html.
SACNAS Annual Conference
October 27-30, 2011 – San Jose, California
Registration Deadline – October 8, 2011
Four new institutions have confirmed their support as elite sponsors of the 2011 SACNAS National Conference. SACNAS, a national society of scientists advancing Hispanics/ Chicanos and Native Americans in science, celebrates the University of California, Davis, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley as platinum sponsors, and the University of California, Santa Cruz as a gold sponsor. Thee 2011 SACNAS National Conference "Empowering Innovation & Synergy Through Diversity" will take place in the heart of Silicon Valley, the birthplace of the world's high-tech industry.The conference offers four days of scientific research presentations, professional development, networking, exhibits, culture, and community! Interdisciplinary, inclusive, and highly interactive, the national meeting offers an unparallel venue for the advancement of scientists and science students. For more information and to register, please visit https://sacnas.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=11.
Grace Hopper Annual Conference
November 9-12, 2011 – Portland, Oregon
Registration Deadline – October 31, 2011
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. Presenters are leaders in their respective fields, representing industrial, academic and government communities. Leading researchers present their current work, while special sessions focus on the role of women in today’s technology fields, including computer science, information technology, research and engineering. For more information, to view the agenda at a glance, and to register, please visit http://gracehopper.org/2011/.
SC11
November 12-18, 2011 – Seattle, Washington
SC11 will feature the latest scientific and technical innovations from around the world. Bringing together
scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, programmers, system administrators and managers, The conference will be the forum for demonstrating how these developments are driving new ideas, new discoveries and
new industries. The SC11 thrust is Data Intensive Science; the theme is Connecting Communities; and the technical program focus is on sustained performance. For more information and to register, please visit http://sc11.supercomputing.org/.
Research Features.
Berkeley Scientists Discover an "Instant Cosmic Classic" Supernova Supercomputing -- fast networks key to early discovery of explosion
A supernova discovered two weeks ago is closer to Earth - approximately 21 million light-years away - than any other of its kind in a generation. Astronomers believe they caught the supernova within hours of its explosion, a rare feat made possible with a specialized survey telescope and state-of-the-art computational tools. The finding of such a supernova so early and so close has energized the astronomical community as they are scrambling to observe it with as many telescopes as possible, including the Hubble Space Telescope. Joshua Bloom, assistant professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, called it "the supernova of a generation." Astronomers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley, who made the discovery, predict that it will be a target for research for the next decade, making it one of the most-studied supernova in history. To read further, please visit http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/news/20110825/.
Campus Champions
On August 29, 2011, Thomas Hauser and Jazcek Braden of the University of Colorado became the most recent Campus Champions to join a long and distinguished list of 98 other Champions. Who are Campus Champions? Campus Champions are campus representatives who serve as a local source of knowledge about high-performance and high-throughput computing and other digital services, opportunities and resources offered through XSEDE. This knowledge and assistance empowers campus researchers, educators, and students to advance scientific discovery. To find out more, please visit https://www.xsede.org/campus-champions.
Educator Spotlight
NASA Offers School and Education Groups Chance to Talk to Space
NASA is offering opportunities for schools and educational groups to speak with astronauts aboard the International Space Station to learn about the challenges and rewards of their work. Members of Expedition 29 and 30, the 29th and 30th crews to live on the station, will be available for question-and-answer sessions from September through March 2012. NASA astronauts Mike Fossum of McAllen, Texas, Dan Burbank of Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, and Don Pettit of Silverton, Oregon, willparticipate in the 20-minute question-and-answer sessions, known as in-flight downlinks. "These discussions are unique opportunities for students to learn first-hand from astronauts aboard the station what it is like to live and work in space," said Cindy McArthur, Teaching From Space (TFS) project manager at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and schedule information, please visit http://www.nasa.gov/ntv. For more information about the Teaching From Space program, please visithttp://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/teachingfromspace/home/index.html.
K-12 Computing Teacher Workshop
November 11-12, 2011 – Portland, Oregon
The 2011 K-12 Computing Teachers Workshop will be held at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference (GHC). The K-12 workshop is hosted in Partnership with the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI) and will be the third K-12 teachers workshop held at the GHC. For more information and to view the workshop agenda, please visit http://gracehopper.org/2011/k-12-computing-teachers-workshop/agenda/.
SC11 Education Program Full of Opportunities: LittleFe, Four-Day Program, Grants, Opportunities and
Workshops
This year the Education Program will host SC's first ever LittleFe (co-funded by Intel Lab's University Program Office),
a portable mini-cluster of multiple nodes, whose primary focus is on turnkey classroom demonstrations of and exercises
in HPC, parallel programming, and CDESE. The Education Program also will host a four-day intensive program, taking place Saturday, November 12 through Tuesday, November 15, with plenary sessions, focused hands-on tutorials and birds-of-a-feather gatherings, in addition to formal and informal opportunities to interact with the full spectrum of conference attendees and exhibitors.
Limited grants are available to support teaching faculty from both secondary and postsecondary institutions. International transportation grants, to attract attendees from around the world, are also available. For more information, please visit http://sc11.supercomputing.org/?pg=edprog.html
Faculty Opportunities
2011 BEN Scholars Program
Application Deadline – September 22, 2011
The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Biological Sciences Pathway, BiosciEdNet (BEN), invites undergraduate faculty in the biological sciences to apply to become BEN Scholars. The BEN Scholars Program is one of the grassroots outreach activities of the BEN Collaborative of more than 20 life sciences professional societies.The goal of the BEN Scholars Program is to promote the use of digital library resources and student-centered teaching and learning methods in higher education, specifically in biological sciences lecture and laboratory courses, and in research training programs. The BEN Scholars program works both directly with faculty who are BEN Scholars and indirectly, through outreach activities led by BEN Scholars. Outreach activities are aimed at biological sciences faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and middle and high school teachers. Using digital libraries, BEN Scholars learn how to transform lectures and laboratories to be more student-centered and to integrate career exploration and up-to-date science content across fields into existing curricula. For complete program information and for submission guidelines, please visit the American Physiological Society (APS) online application center at https://www.the-aps.org/awardapps/login/index.cfm.
Student Corner
FAA Design Competition for Universities
Submission Period – August 30, 2011- April 27, 2012
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is again sponsoring a national FAA Design Competition for Universities that engages undergraduate and graduate students at U.S. colleges in addressing issues relating to airports for the 2011 - 2012 academic year.
Students can address technical challenges regarding the safety, capacity and efficiency of the nation’s airports, offer innovative solutions, and win cash for outstanding proposals. The FAA hopes that the Competition challenges will provide a meaningful educational experience for individual students or students working in teams either as part of a class assignment, independent study or a project undertaken by a student professional society. Challenges are interdisciplinary in nature, encouraging participation from many engineering, technology and science disciplines. For more information and submission guidelines, please visit http://faadesigncompetition.odu.edu/.
Who, What, Where - XSEDE Across the Country
New TEOS Outreach Exhibit Locations – Pay Us a Visit
• Joint Annual Conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and National Society of Hispanic Physicists (NSBP/NSHP), Austin, Texas - September 21-24, 2011|
• SACNAS National Conference, San Jose, California, Oct 27–30, 2011
• Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Portland, Oregon, November 9-12, 2011
IEEE Cluster 2011
September 26-30, 2011- Austin, Texas]
IEEE Cluster 2011 welcomes original unpublished paper submissions from researchers in academia, industry, and government, describing innovative research in the field of cluster and high-performance computing. This year’s Keynote talks will be delivered by Thomas Sterling, Louisiana State University; Yang XueJun and Liu GuangMing, National University of Defense Technology (China) and the National Security Council (China); and Charles Moore, Advanced Micro Devices. The conference will also include forty technical papers, two workshops, three panels, six tutorials, and poster sessionallowing for face-to-face interactions with the technology leaders in cluster computing. For more information and to register, please visit https://www.ieeecluster.org/.
XSEDE’12 and XSEDE’13 Conference Locations Set
The location for the next two XSEDE annual conferences has been finalized. For XSEDE’12, participants will be gathering in Chicago, Illinois. Craig Stewart of Indiana University will chair the conference. For 2013, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, of the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, will chair the conference, which will be held in La Jolla, California. Stay tuned for upcoming details!
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