Dear OGF participants and colleagues, Please see the notice regarding opening of registration for the ISGC 2015 conference below. While OGF will not be meeting at the ISGC this year (please join us the following week for OGF 43 in the Washington DC area!), we encourage participation in the ISGC conferences each year, and look forward to joining you there at another opportunity. -------------- (Apologies in advance, if you receive multiple copies of the Call for Participation) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Symposium on Grids and Clouds (ISGC) 2015 15 ~ 20 March 2015, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan CALL FOR PARTICIPATION --------------------------------------- The International Symposium on Grids and Clouds (ISGC) 2015 will be held at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan from 15-20 March 2015, with co-located events and workshops. The main theme of ISGC 2015 is “Global e-Infrastructure for Global Challenges”. Nowadays, the world is facing complex and global challenges in climate, health, energy, safety that impact whole populations and that are not restricted by country borders. Being of continental or even transcontinental size, these challenges can be tackled only through collaboration between multiple user communities, crossing nations and regions. Such collaborations are complicated by fragmented research, where individual groups and nations merely solve isolated pieces of the global puzzle. While not a panacea, the global e-Infrastructure supporting international collaboration helps us work on the puzzle effectively, accessibly, and completely. The universality of the global e-Infrastructure concept must find its way into its proper implementation, resulting from close interaction and collaboration with communities that use it. ISGC 2015 solicits papers and contributions that show this interaction benefitting both sides – the global communities dealing with global challenges (and the pieces of the global puzzle) and the e-Infrastructure developers and managers who face new challenges of size and multiplicity of requirements. The goal of ISGC 2015 is to create a face-to-face venue where individual communities and national representatives can present and share their contributions to the global puzzle and contribute thus to the solution of global challenges. CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (in alphabetical order) ------------------------------------------------- * Neil Chue Hong, University of Edinburgh/ Software Sustainability Institute * James Howison, University of Texas at Austin * Yannick Legre, EGI.eu<http://EGI.eu> * Karlheinz Meier, Heidelberg University * Michael Simeone, Arizona State University PRELIMINARY PROGRAM ------------------------------------- * Program-at-a-glance: http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2015/program.html CO-LOCATED WORKSHOPS& EVENTS ------------------------------------------------------ * Security Workshop<http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2015/securityworkshop.html> (15 March 2015)<http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2015/activelearn.html> * Team-Based Active Learning Practicum (15 March 2015)<http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2015/activelearn.html><http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2015/cvmfs.html> * CVMFS Workshop (15 March 2015) <http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2015/cvmfs.html> <http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2015/ecai.html> * ECAI Workshop (15 March 2015<http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2015/ecai.html> * OpenStack Workshop (16 March 2015) * APGridPMA + IGTF (closed meeting) (16 March 2015)