Announcement - Grid camp and HEPiX fall 2008 meeting, Taipei Image courtesy of Academia Sinica. Academia Sinica Grid Computing (ASGC) will be hosting the Grid Camp and HEPiX Fall 2008 Meeting.When and where:Academia Sinica, Taipei, TaiwanGrid Camp dates: October 18-19, 2008 HEPiX 2008 dates: October 20- 24, 2008The HEPiX meetings not only bring together IT system support engineers from the High Energy Physics (HEP) laboratories and institutes, such as BNL, CERN, DESY, FNAL, IN2P3, INFN, ...

Announcement - Call for chapter proposals: Grid Technologies for eHealth Grid Technologies for eHealth: Applications for Telemedicine Services and DeliveryA Manuscript edited by Dr. Ekaterina (Eka) Kldiashvili Georgian Telemedicine Union (Association), Georgia Proposal Submission Deadline: October 31, 2008Introduction“Grid” computing has emerged as an important new field, distinguished from conventional distributed computing by its focus on large-scale resource sharing, innovative applications, and, in some cases, high-performance orientation. Grid computing is increasingly being viewed as the next ...

Announcement - Call for participation, MidWest Grid School, Chicago, deadline 30 Aug Under the "El" in Chicago. Image courtesy of Brad Martyna, sxc.huThe Open Science Grid (OSG), a major national grid infrastructure, invites you to learn more about grid and high throughput computing and its implications in various research areas through this intensive OSG course at the University of Chicago that introduces the techniques of grid and distributed computing for science and engineering with hands-on ...

Feature - Youngest-ever at grid summer school? Iris Schott (center), possibly the youngest-ever OGF delegate, produced a report on OGF23, highlighting issues such as cloud computing, the BEinGRID Industry Days and OGF-Europe's Seminar on Digital Repositories. Image courtesy of OGF This summer, OGF (Open Grid Forum ) welcomed someone who was possibly the youngest delegate in their history at OGF23, a grid standards conference held in June in Barcelona, Spain. We caught up with 15-year-old ...

Feature - ORIENT grid project supports Chinese earthquake aid work The idea behind the sending of high-definition image of China's earthquake damage on the ORIENT grid can be traced to the transmission of radio-telescope data from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory to Europe. Image courtesy of GÉANT2 When a major earthquake struck Sichuan, China last May, rescue workers urgently needed high-resolution satellite images of the affected areas in order to identify the extent of the earthquake’s ...

Feature - São Paulo grid brings teraflops to Brazilian researchers Proposed distribution of GridUNESP sites in São Paulo state. Image courtesy of GridUNESP. Researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil will soon have 33.3 teraflops (33.3 trillion floating point operations per second) at their fingertips. GridUNESP , the university's first computational infrastructure fully dedicated to scientific research, is scheduled to come online in October. The $1.9 million grid will consist of 368 servers ...

Announcement - Grid school shares resources Image courtesy of ICEAGE Grid computing school shares teaching resources through digital library and behind-the-scenes blog Anyone with Internet access can now share all the thrills and spills of the sixth International Summer School on Grid Computing, from 6-18 July in Hungary. The school is training approximately 40 students from 20 countries in the ways of grid computing—a technology that helps scientists tackle complex problems by combining the power ...