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REMINDER: Call for session proposals due Jan. 29; early bird / regular registration deadlines for OGF 34
by Alan Sill 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

Dear OGF community, This is a reminder that the Call for Session Proposals for OGF 34, to take place March 12-15, 2012 at Oxford, is open at the link below http://www.ogf.org/OGF34/cfp.php In addition, Registration is open also with the following schedule for early, regular and on-site or late registrations: http://www.ogf.org/OGF34/registration.php OGF34 Event Registration Costs: Advance Registration (until February 18, 2012) Member Fee Non-Member Fee Full Conference $395 $495 One Day $195 $245 Student $275 $275 Full Registration (February 19 - March 8, 2012) Member Fee Non-Member Fee Full Conference $495 $595 One Day $245 $295 Student $325 $325 On-Site Registration (March 9 - March 15, 2012) Member Fee Non-Member Fee Full Conference $595 $695 One Day $295 $345 Student $375 $375 Note that all costs are in US Dollars. See the above page for further details. We have already received several requests for special sessions, which are being coordinated by Joel Replogle and our host for this event and VP for Community, David Wallom. We look forward to full and active participation by our community and encourage you to submit your session requests as stated by January 29, 2012 using the link above. Thanks. Alan Sill, Ph.D Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center Adjunct Professor of Physics TTU ==================================================================== : Alan Sill, Texas Tech University Office: Drane 162, MS 4-1167 : : e-mail: Alan.Sill(a)ttu.edu ph. 806-834-5940 fax 806-834-4358 : ==================================================================== Alan Sill, Ph.D Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center Adjunct Professor of Physics, TTU Vice President of Standards, Open Grid Forum ==================================================================== : Alan Sill, Texas Tech University Office: Drane 162, MS 4-1167 : : e-mail: Alan.Sill(a)ttu.edu ph. 806-834-5940 fax 806-834-4358 : ====================================================================

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Fwd: NIST Cloud Computing Standards Roadmap Working Group (CCSRWG) - conference call
by Alan Sill 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Dear OGF colleagues, The NIST Cloud Standards Roadmap group, one of several subgroups of the NIST cloud computing effort, is restarting as of this Thursday. The goal is to move to a new phase emphasizing community-developed priority action plans ("PAPs") to set future directions for this effort. The agenda for the next meeting is described below. Also included are instructions on how to join the associated e-mail list and add topics to the agenda. In addition to this group, there are several others that might be of interest to the OGF community. In particular, there is an effort that meets Fridays, late in the day (unfortunately for our European colleagues) that is focused on federated infrastructure considerations for clouds, that has requested specific input from the grid community regarding its past and current efforts in federated distributed computing infrastructures. If you are interested in that group also, please let me know or look up the information on the NIST TWiki under the Reference Architecture group on it or on any other associated groups of interest. For now, I'd like to call your attention to the Standards Roadmap group and invite community participation and input. My own role as a participant in some of these work groups has made me very aware of the value of community participation and input in roadmap efforts of this type worldwide, and I would like to invite your participation also. The NIST TWiki that describes their efforts to date is available online at http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-cloud-computing/bin/view/CloudComputing/ This site also contains notes and minutes of previous meetings, for your reference. I would especially appreciate involvement from the community in the standards roadmap, standards testing (SAJACC) and reference architecture groups; participation in the security, business use cases and other NIST groups might also be of interest to you or your organization. There are equivalent roadmapping efforts going on throughout the world that are of equal interest; if you know of any that are open to OGF community input, I'm sure we would all appreciate knowing details regarding how to contribute. Of course, these and our own community's response to these challenges will be discussed in detail at various sessions of the upcoming OGF 34 conference, registration for which is already open at http://ogf.org/OGF34/registration.php and the call for session proposals is still open at http://ogf.org/OGF34/cfp.php Yours, Alan Sill VP of Standards, OGF Begin forwarded message: > From: "Sokol, Annie W." <annie.sokol(a)nist.gov> > Date: January 23, 2012 6:24:14 PM CST > To: CC_STANDARDS <CC_STANDARDS(a)nist.gov> > Subject: Re: [cc_standards] NIST Cloud Computing Standards Roadmap > Working Group (CCSRWG) - conference call > Reply-To: "cc_standards(a)nist.gov" <cc_standards(a)nist.gov> > > > January 23, 2012 > > Dear All: > > Thank you very much for your interest and participation in the > past. We will continue to look forward to our collaboration in > 2012. Attached with this email are the draft agenda and CCSRWG > members. The draft agenda includes details on how to join in the > teleconference. > > If you have a topic that you think it would be beneficial to be > added to the discussion, please email me before noon ET, Wednesday, > January 25, 2012. If you want to unsubscribe to the mailing list, > please email annie.sokol(a)nist.gov with the subject heading, > "Unsubscribe". > > I look forward to our conference call on Thursday, January 26, 2012. > > Regards, > Annie Sokol > _______________________________________________ > cc_standards mailing list > cc_standards(a)nist.gov > To unsubscribe, email the word "unsubscribe" in the title or message > body to the address cc_standards-request(a)nist.gov

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Fwd: [ASGC] ISGC 2012 Registration Opens NOW
by Sill, Alan 06 Jan '12

06 Jan '12

Although there will not be a full OGF held at this year's ISGC, it is nonetheless a comprehensive and well-organized conference with many high-quality activities and components. Please see the full description and registration information at the links below. Begin forwarded message: From: Catherine Wang <catherine.wang(a)twgrid.org<mailto:catherine.wang@twgrid.org>> Date: January 5, 2012 9:16:53 PM CST To: "asgcpressrelease(a)lists.grid.sinica.edu.tw<mailto:asgcpressrelease@lists.grid.sinica.edu.tw>" <asgcpressrelease(a)lists.grid.sinica.edu.tw<mailto:asgcpressrelease@lists.grid.sinica.edu.tw>> Subject: [ASGC] ISGC 2012 Registration Opens NOW [Apologize if you receive multiple postings] Registration Opens NOW! International Symposium on Grids & Clouds (ISGC) 2012 Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Online Registration: https://registration.twgrid.org/isgc2012/ It is our great pleasure to announce that the online registration in now open for the International Symposium on Grids and Clouds (ISGC) 2012 which will be held at Academia Sinica in Taipei, from 26 February to 2 March 2012, with co-located events and workshops. The conference is hosted by the Academia Sinica Grid Computing Centre (ASGC), Taipei, Taiwan. To enjoy the early bird discount rate, please register before 20 January, 2012! “Convergence, Collaboration, Innovation” is the theme of ISGC 2012. The last decade has seen the wide-scale emergence of e-Infrastructure as a critical asset for the modern e-Scientist. The emergence of large-scale research infrastructures and instruments that has produced a torrent of electronic data is forcing a generational change in the scientific process and the mechanisms used to analyse the resulting data deluge. ISGC 2012 will be the 10th meeting that over the last decade has tracked the convergence, collaboration and innovation of individual researchers across the Asia Pacific region to a coherent community and as a result has helped drive the growth of regional e-Science activities and its collaborations around the world. In the opening session of this year’s symposium, Dr. Robert Jones will recapitulate the journey of ISGC in the past decade. In addition, there will be current status reports on Grids and Clouds developments in Europe, the Americas, and Asia given by Dr, Steven Newhouse, Dr. Vicky White, and Dr. Simon Lin, respectively. This year we invited 4 keynote speakers: Prof. John R. Delaney, from University of Washington, talks about “Understanding the planetary life support system: next generation science in the ocean basins”, Prof. Alexandre Bonvin, from WeNMR, gives a talk on “WeNMR: bringing Grid (and Cloud) computing to a worldwide structural biology community”, Prof. Thomas Sterling, from Indiana University, talks about “Towards an Execution Model for HPC Clouds”, and Prof. Alexander S. Szalay, from Johns Hopkins University, giving a speech on “Extreme Data-Intensive Scientific Computing”. For more symposium information and detailed topic description, please visit the conference website http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2012/index.html Topics of Interest Applications and results from the Virtual Research Communities and Industry: 1. High Energy Physics 2. Biomedicine and Life Sciences 3. Earth Science, Environmental Changes and Natural Disaster Mitigation 4. Humanities and Social Sciences Activity to enable the provisioning of a Resource Infrastructure: 5. Operation and Management 6. Middleware and Interoperability 7. Security and Networking 8. Infrastructure clouds and Virtualisation 9. Business Models and Sustainability Technologies that provide access and exploitation of different site resources and infrastructures: 10. Data Management 11. Distributed Volunteer and Desktop Grid Computing 12. High Throughput Computing 13. High Performance, Manycore and GPU Computing Secretariat Ms. Catherine Wang, Academia Sinica Grid Computing Centre Email: Catherine.wang(a)twgrid.org<mailto:Catherine.wang@twgrid.org> Tel: +886-2-2789-8372 Fax: +886-2-2783-5434 _______________________________________________ Asgcpressrelease mailing list Asgcpressrelease(a)lists.grid.sinica.edu.tw<mailto:Asgcpressrelease@lists.grid.sinica.edu.tw> http://lists.grid.sinica.edu.tw/mailman/listinfo/asgcpressrelease

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