Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing

APAN26 Sustainable Networking conference 4-8 August 2008, Queenstown, New Zealand in conjunction with the University of Canterbury’s High Performance Research Symposium.

Research and Education Advanced Network of New Zealand Ltd (REANNZ) is convening APAN26 Sustainable Networking in Queenstown, New Zealand in August this year. This meeting is a unique opportunity for the Australasian research and education sectors to meet with delegates from Asia Pacific Advanced Networks (APAN).

APAN26 is New Zealand’s premier digital event for 2008 and will showcase how advanced networks and applications are accelerating research and collaboration in the Asia Pacific region and are contributing towards environmental, regional and operational sustainability.

International experts will present on:

• Advanced network applications and middleware for medical, e-Science, and e-Culture, natural resource, and agricultural research
• network technology, engineering and security
• role of networks in mitigating the impact of global warming

Date

4 – 8 August 2008

Where
Millennium Hotel
Queenstown
New Zealand

Seize the opportunity to connect with power users of advanced network applications and services. Book your place now at APAN26 at www.karen.net.nz/apan26/

The University of Canterbury's High Performance Research Symposium - 4 August 2008, Millennium Hotel, Queenstown - will set the scene for APAN26, showcasing best practice e-Research projects, programmes and tools.

email stuart.broughton@canterbury.ac.nz
web http://www.bluefern.canterbury.ac.nz/hprs/

Contacts

Research and Education Advanced Network of New Zealand Ltd

email info@reannz.co.nz

web http://www.karen.net.nz

VPAC launches new website to support users and showcase the innovative research being conducted using VPAC’s HPC Facilities and Services.

The new and improved VPAC Website is designed to build strong eResearch communities and collaborations around Victoria and Australia by ensuring researchers are fully supported.

Our new HPC User Community section provides our HPC Users with all the information and tools they need to utilise VPAC’s resources to their full potential and maximise the benefits they receive from our facilities and services. Within our HPC User Community section, you can apply for an account on our facility, learn how to use a cluster, check your account status, access our help desk, review our tutorials and learn all about the Grid Computing initiative in Australia.

An important focus of the new VPAC website is to showcase the work VPAC and our Members, Clients and Collaborators are involved in. The website acts as a forum for communication between our Users, Academic and Commercial R&D Organisations, Federal and State Government and Industry and so is a perfect medium for showcasing the innovative work our users are involved in. Case Studies demonstrating this work can be found under each specific expertise area, for instance, Health or Engineering. For the full repository of VPAC Case Studies, visit the Media section of the website. Here you will also find our latest news articles and newsletters.

If you are a VPAC User or Collaborator and would like to speak to VPAC with regards to showcasing your project as a Case Study on the VPAC website, please contact the Media Office at media@vpac.org with a short summary of your project, including the key collaborators where relevant.

Members of the international research and higher education community are invited to participate in eResearch Australasia 2008, to be held 28 Sep - 3 Oct 2008 at the Sebel and Citigate Hotels, Albert Park, Melbourne, Australia.

Submissions are invited for presentations, workshops, and BoFs. These must be received by 23 May 2008. Submissions for posters and live demonstrations are also invited and must be received by 15 August.

Please see http://www.eresearch.edu.au/participation for further information.

eResearch focuses on technological platforms that enhance researchers' ability to generate, collect, share, analyse, store and retrieve information.

eResearch Australasia 2008 is supported by the Australian Government through AeRIC (Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council) and underwritten by The University of Queensland.

The conference aims to provide:

* A catalyst for innovation and collaboration, by bringing together the architects, builders, users, and managers of eResearch infrastructures and services;
* A forum to support the development, enhancement, and harmonisation of national, regional, and discipline-specific eResearch infrastructures and services;
* A showcase for innovative science and research enabled through these technologies and services.

Keynote speakers include:

* Senator the Hon Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
* Graham Cameron, Associate Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory
* Sayeed Choudhury, Hodson Director of the Digital Knowledge Center, Johns Hopkins University
* Michael Fulford, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading
* Kerstin Lehnert, Director of the Geoinformatics for Geochemistry Program at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
* John Wilbanks, Vice President, Science Commons

The conference program also includes the eResearch Forum, a town meeting style feedback session for AeRIC which will look beyond existing initiatives for fresh ideas in innovation.

More than 300 people attended the inaugural conference in 2007, for more details see www.eresearch.edu.au/programme-2007 This year’s conference will also incorporate many aspects of APAC’07.

The program committee includes Nick Tate (Chair), The University of Queensland; Mike Briers, SIRCA; Adrian Burton, APSR; Paul Davis, VeRSI; Rhys Francis, AeRIC; Jane Hunter, The University of Queensland; Clare McLaughlin, DIISR; Patty McMillan, AAF; Peter Nicholson, DIISR; Mark Ragan, The University of Queensland; Andrew Rohl, iVEC; Andrew Treloar, Monash University and Tony Williams, ARCS

We hope you can join us. For more information, please visit http://www.eresearch.edu.au.

First International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-end Computing (P2S2) on the 8th September, 2008 to be held in conjunction with ICPP-08: The 27th International Conference on Parallel Processing Sep. 8-12, 2008 Portland, Oregon, USA

Call for Papers - (http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2)