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For more details about this opening, please see the job openings page. Note that the deadline for applications is 2012-05-30. |
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For more details about this opening, please see the job openings page. Note that the deadline for applications is 2012-05-30. |
This Call is also open to applications for Multi-year Projects lasting up to 2 years. The allocation of awarded resources is made 1 year at a time with provisional allocations awarded for the second year. Please note that this first Multi-year Access Call is to be considered as a test case and its continuation shall be subject to evaluation.
This Call also invites proposals for project access to Tier-1 resources, via DECI, the Distributed European Computing Initiative, providing single project cross-national access to national (Tier-1) HPC-resources. The DECI Call, its processes, the procedures and mechanisms are explained in detail in section “DECI Call”.
However, yesterday (2011-12-06) SNIC communicated to PDC that they wish to change their previous decision and continue to offer Ferlin as SNIC system at least for the first 6 months of 2012. PDC will support SNIC and continue to operate Ferlin until June 30, 2012.
]]>"Even if the energy to some extent has been re-used in the district cooling system we have always been looking for a more efficient system which would also save us some money" says Gert Svensson, Deputy Director at PDC.
]]>The course will be given on December 13-14, 2011. Read more...
]]>EUDAT aims to provide Europe’s scientific and research communities with a sustainable pan-European
infrastructure for improved access to scientific data. Burgeoning volumes of valuable and complex data –
newly available from powerful new scientific instruments, simulations and digitization of library
resources – represents a fantastic opportunity for science, but has created new challenges related to
data management, access and preservation. EUDAT aims to address these challenges and exploit the
opportunities using its vision of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure.
The EUDAT consortium comprises 25 European partners, including data centers, technology providers,
research communities and funding agencies from 13 countries, who will work together to deliver a
Collaborative Data Infrastructure that can sustainably meet future researchers’ needs.
“EUDAT will fill an important gap in the current European e-Infrastructure landscape,” said Dr. Kimmo
Koski, CSC Managing Director and EUDAT Project Coordinator. “We aim to develop a generic
infrastructure for scientific data management that can used by a diversity of research communities and
existing infrastructures.”
“This can only be achieved through a systematic and focused approach covering the entire life cycle of
data objects, and by encouraging collaboration between the various stakeholders and in particular
between the communities involved in designing specific services and the data centers willing to provide
generic solutions,” said Dr Koski. “Our ultimate aim is to develop a high-quality, cost-efficient and
sustainable pan-European data ecosystem, driven by European research needs and user communities.”
Multi-disciplinary collaboration and data sharing
The EUDAT partners include key representatives from research communities in linguistics (CLARIN), earth
sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and
medical sciences (VPH), all of which have been allocated project resources to help specify their
requirements and co-design related services. Other communities have joined EUDAT as associate
members, representing 15 research disciplines across all major fields of science.
EUDAT Scientific Coordinator Peter Wittenburg, from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics at
Nijmegen, the Netherlands, said EUDAT will open considerable new opportunities for research
communities. “Beyond offering common services such as data hosting and preservation, EUDAT is paving
the way towards integrated and interoperable access to data and, in doing so, will facilitate new science
and allow efficient knowledge creation,” said Wittenburg. “It is this double opportunity that makes the
EUDAT initiative so interesting for research communities and infrastructures.”
Wittenburg stressed, however, that the challenges of integration, interoperability, data life cycle
management and trust building would involve a continuous and global discussion process. “EUDAT is
calling for the contributions of all stakeholders interested in adapting their solutions or contributing to
the design of the CDI. The EUDAT user forums and the Data Access and Interoperability Task Force
(DAITF) already provide some opportunities to join in the discussion.”
More information is available from www.eudat.eu
Contacts:
Kimmo Koski, EUDAT Project Coordinator (Kimmo.Koski at csc.fi)
Peter Wittenburg, EUDAT Scientific Coordinator (Peter.Wittenburg at mpi.nl)
Damien Lecarpentier, EUDAT Project Manager (Damien.Lecarpentier at csc.fi)
Please sign up to attend!
The meeting begins at 15:00-15:30 with a presentation of storage at PDC, and how you should use it.
Afterwards you will get some snacks and between 15:30-17:00 there will be time for individual questions and help on your particular issues.
]]>DD3015: Introduction to Programming with GPGPU and Applications in Scientific Computing
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DD3320: Software Development Tools for Scientific Computing
and
DD3323: Reading Course: Recent Advances in Distributed and Parallel Computing
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Computationally intensive simulations and processing of large data sets have become a necessity in Life Science research. Full utilization of the available computing platforms has increased the demand for software optimized for performance, scalability and high- throughput. The workshop will bring together leading researchers to share their experiences in software development across all Life Science fields such as biology, biophysics, biochemistry, ecology, medicine, medical imaging, neuroscience, pharmacology and systems biology. The focus will be on discussions regarding methods, algorithms and frameworks for exploiting a wide spectrum of hardware resources such as clusters, grids and clouds; many-core and hybrid systems; GPGPUs, FPGAs and other non-traditional architectures.
The workshop is part of the eScience2011 conference (www.escience2011.org, December 5-8, Stockholm). It is organized by the EU funded project ScalaLife and the HealthGrid association which are establishing community structures for provision of support to various aspects on computing in Life Sciences.
Topics of interests include (but are not limited to):
Rossen Apostolov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, rossen@kth.se
Yannick Legré, HealthGrid Initiative, France, yannick.legre@healthgrid.org
Matthew Smith, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany, smith@dcsec.uni-hannover.de
ScalaLife - Scalable Software Services for Life Science: www.scalalife.eu
HealthGrid - Human Grid Initiative: www.healthgrid.org
Full Papers Due: June 24th, 2011
Author Notifications: August 17th, 2011
Presentation: December 5th, 2011
Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 8 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines.
The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library.
Templates are available from here: http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/conferenceTemplates.html.
Authors should submit a PDF or PostScript (level 2) file that will print on a PostScript printer. Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the submissions page at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cals2011.
It is a requirement that at least one author of each accepted paper attends the conference.
]]>This release has been taken up by for example Computer Sweden who calculates that Lindgren is three times faster than FRA's supercomputer.
]]>Visitors work closely with a "host" research group working in a similar field of research - over 200 research groups in 7 countries are currently associated with the programme as "host" research groups (see webpage for more details).
Visits can last between 3 weeks and 3 months.
HPC-Europa pays travel and living costs and provides accommodation.
Following EC guidelines, applications are particularly encouraged from the new EU member countries and those who do not have access to similar computing facilities at their home institute.
The programme is open to researchers of all levels, from postgraduate students to the most senior professors.
The next closing date for applications is WEDNESDAY 15th SEPTEMBER.
Closing dates are held every 3 months, and the HPC-Europa programme continues until December 2012.
Further information and the on-line application form can be found at http://www.hpc-europa.eu/
Any questions not answered by the information on the webpage can be addressed to the HPC-Europa helpdesk at access@hpc-europa.org
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