Upcoming events
Technical Forum 2011 - Call for participation opens
The EGI Technical Forum 2011 will be held in Lyon, France between 19-23 September 2011, in colocation with Grid 2011 and the Open Grid Forum's next major European meeting - OGF33.
The programme committee is now calling for contributions from the European e-Infrastructure community, and their international collaborators, on a wide range of topics including (but are not limited to):
- EGI operations
- Technology used within EGI
- The support, work and tools of the EGI User Communities
- EGI policies
- EGI dissemination
- Collaborating projects
Abstracts should be submitted through the Technical Forum's Indico page until 3 June 2011.
The event will also feature an exhibition area open for organisations active within the EGI community (projects, NGIs, companies) to present their work. In addition, end-users, application and tool developers, operations staff and others are en-couraged to participate by submitting abstracts for:
- Sessions
- Posters
- Demonstrations
- Workshops
The programme committee will review the contribution requests and allocate space accordingly, which may require different contributions to be merged.
Posters will be on display all week during the event and the selected demonstrations will have allocated time on the booths provided. The exhibition area will be open for organisations active within the EGI community to present their work.
Requests for co-located workshops will need to identify how the workshop organisers will ensure a high-quality programme that is relevant to the EGI community.
Gearing up for IBERGRID’2011 in Santander
The 5th Iberian Grid Infrastructure conference – IBERGRID’2011 – will be held in Santander, Spain between 8-10 June 2011, at the Palacio de la Magdalena.
The event, hosted by the Advanced Computing and e-science Department at the Institute of Physics of Cantabria (CSIC-UC) and the Polytechnic Univer-sity of Valencia, will focus on the on-going grid projects in development by Portuguese, Spanish and Latin American institutions.
“The IBERGRID conference has been established as the meeting point where researchers, technicians and developers of the area of distributed computing from Spain and Portugal gather once per year,” says Isabel Campos, chair of the conference’s organising committee.
“The attendance is very similar to that of a user forum – about half of the presentations are devoted to scientific applications running on the EGI infrastructure,” she says adding that software developers and site administrators also come to IBERGRID, which has become a sort of a tradition for the Iberian community.
The IBERGRID’2011 programme is varied and covers topics such as green IT, large data repositories, LHC Computing Grid and Tier-0 topology, interactive supercomputing, applications for high performance networks, ESFRI implementations in the Iberian area or applications for volunteer computing.
This year the event will also feature special tracks on virtualisation techniques and its applications, as well as on advanced management of computer centres.
