Upcoming Events

SSOKU09 Conference & Exhibition - 1st  European Conference on Software Services and SOKU technologies -  January 13-14, 2009 -Brussels, Belgium

This conference, jointly organised by the projects 3S and CHALLENGERS, will set the foundation for an annual European Summit on Software Services and Service Oriented Knowledge Utilities technologies.

More than 200 experts, including high level researchers, top industrial and political representatives from the European Commission and from national authorities, will come together for two days, to discuss the future of Grids & Software and Service oriented Architectures.

The latest results of the ECSS White Paper on Software and Service Architectures, Infrastructures and Engineering and of the Challengers’ Research Agenda and Roadmap on Grids will be presented and will serve as the basis for a fruitful discussion and further evaluation.

The discussions and the outcome of this event will be of primary significance for the endeavour of 3S and CHALLENGERS to maximize their influence towards the support of policy making as well as to pave the way for future synergies and collaboration in the S&S domain.

The rich programme will feature:

• Plenary sessions including VIP speakers from the research and business environment and EC representatives


• Parallel sessions offering the audience an interactive platform to discuss on Research, Business, Standards and Non-Technical Challenges in the S&S and Grid sector


• Exhibition and networking setting the scene for new collaboration opportunities


• Closure of the event with an EC information presentation

Participation is free of charge but subject to online registration

http://cordis.europa.eu/wire/index.cfm?fuseaction=article.Detail&rcn=18257

EGEE User Forum / OGF25 & OGF-Europe's 2nd International Event - 2-6 March 2009 - Catania, Italy (in the region of Sicily)

Connecting & Catalysing User Groups for Best Practices & Standards.

EGEE, OGF & OGF-Europe are spearheading efforts to connect developers, users and newcomers to distributed computing for the benefit of business and research, now and in the future. The EGEE User Forum / OGF25 & OGF-Europe’s 2nd International Event will catalyse people from diverse sectors to drive forward the evolution of distributed computing and open standards for the knowledge-based economy.

This premier event in Europe will help strengthen existing business and research communities and foster new relationships and collaborative developments on a European and global level. Special emphasis will be placed on showcasing high-level technological developments, identifying best practices, evaluating user requirements and deliberating top priorities moving forward.

EGEE User Forum / OGF25 & OGF-Europe’s 2nd International Event is a multi-faceted event featuring keynote talks delivered by high-profile experts from business, government and research, and a series of parallel and joint sessions focusing on specific sectors and technologies.

Program

The event program seeks to strengthen existing industrial and eScience communities within EGEE, OGF and OGF-Europe by providing a forum to foster new relationships and collaborations based on common interests, and develop best practices and technical specifications related to distributed systems and Grids.

http://www.ogf.org/OGF25/

Euro-Par 2009 - August 25-28, 2009, Delft, the Netherlands

The Euro-Par 2009 conference will take place in Delft, the Netherlands, from August 25th until August 28th, 2009. The conference is organized by the Department of Software Technology, Delft University of Technology.

Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. Euro-Par focuses on all aspects of hardware, software, algorithms and applications for parallel and distributed computing. The objective of Euro-Par is to provide a forum within which to promote the development of parallel and distributed computing both as an industrial technique and an academic discipline, extending the frontier of both the state of the art and the state of the practice.

http://europar2009.ewi.tudelft.nl/

2009 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2009) - 29 August - 4 September 2009 - New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

The IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC), formed in early 1999, is committed to the promotion of all aspects of cluster computing including research, technological development and education. In order achieve this, we have launched several activities including promoting an open community discussion, holding events that bring leading experts together, the instigation of a popular book donation programme and the provision of advice to commercial bodies. In mid 2004, TFCC and TCSA (Technical Committee on Supercomputing Applications) have merged to form a new Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), which will continue to promote Cluster Computing activities.

The TFCC annual conference series (part of TCSC from 2005) serves as a major international forum for presenting and sharing recent accomplishments and technological developments in the field of cluster computing as well as the use of cluster systems for scientific and commercial applications. It involves participants (researchers, developers, and users) from academia, industry, laboratories, and commerce, coming together to discuss recent advances and trends in, but not limited to:

• system modelling and architecture


• hardware systems and networks


• single system image


• system software and tools


• programming models, environments, and languages


• algorithms and applications


• performance modelling and evaluation


• resource management and scheduling


• high availability


• system management and adminstration

http://www.cluster2009.org/