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2013 IEEE 9th International Conference on e-Science

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Do you want to be an eSSENCE ambassador for Swedish e-Science?
The eSSENCE programme council encourages researchers in the eSSENCE community to submit papers to this international multidisciplinary e-Science conference. Persons whose papers are accepted will be elegible for funding from the respective university, including:
* conference fee
* travel
* accomodation

Call for papers: Deadline May 24, 2013
2013 IEEE 9th International Conference on e-Science
23-25, October, 2013
Beijing, China

To the conference website

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The IEEE international e-Science conference series is a yearly event that takes place in different cities around the world.

IEEE-2011 IEEE-2011 in Stockholm
IEEE-2012 IEEE-2012 in Chicago
IEEE-2013 IEEE-2013 in Beijing
IEEE-2014 IEEE-2014 in Sao Paulo

NeGI: call for Nordic Centres of Excellence in eScience in Health and Social Preconditions for Health

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The Nordic eScience Globalisation Initiative (NeGI) has allocated approximately NOK 40 million to the establishment of 1-2 Nordic Centres of Excellence (NCoEs) for eScience research on the use of genetic/molecular data and clinical/population registries for research in health and social preconditions for health. This involves development of methods and tools for advanced data integration, data analysis, modelling and simulation for research related to health and social preconditions for health, with a special focus on exploiting national registry, biobank and genetic data in the Nordic countries.

Deadline for application: 17 April 2013.

The URL for the call: http://www.nordforsk.org/en/funding/the-nordic-escience-globalisation-initiative-negi-escience-in-health-and-social-preconditions-for-health

The URL for NeGI: http://www.nordforsk.org/en/programs/programmer/escience?set_language=en

20 million to Cloud Computing

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Erik Elmroth at umeå University

Energy-efficient computer resources which adapt its capacity to the needs of the application. This is the objective of the project “Cloud Control” which was recently awarded 20 million SEK from the Swedish Research Council. A group of researchers from Umeå and Lund under the leadership of professor Erik Elmroth from the Department of Computer Science at Umeå University, will develop methods and tools to handle resources and services in future computer centers with distributed systems of virtual machines.
The main goals of the project are:

  • to optimize the usage of servers
  • to predict the usage peaks for specific applications so that the number of virtual machines that are needed can adapt in time
  • to optimize the physical placement of the servers in order to reduce cooling requirements

The project will receive funding during five years.

Postdoc position in computer science or bioinformatics with focus on Hadoop for large scale sequence analysis

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at the Department of Information Technology
Application no later than 2012-10-15. UFV-PA 2012/2414

Background: The emerge of high-throughput technologies such as next-generation sequencing has turned life science into a data-intensive domain, which places high demands on an e-infrastructure in order to be analysed. UPPMAX (www.uppmax.uu.se) is UppsalaUniversity’s center for high performance storage and computations that via the project UPPNEX (www.uppnex.uu.se) offers resources for storage, computations, software and user support in bioinformatics and primarily sequence analysis. We are now seeking a Postdoc to evaluate how technologies like cloud computing and Hadoop can complement the current infrastructure and offer improved services in storage and analysis of bioscience data. Continue reading →

eSSENCE invites Letters-of-Interest in the area of e-Science research

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In this call, we are aiming at research areas involving e-Science collaborations between the universities and between scientific disciplines.

The plan is to support up to three 2-year post-doctoral fellows, one at each of Lund University, Umeå University and Uppsala University, with 600 kSEK/year during 2013–2014.

More information in the .pdf file: eSSENCE-LoI-LU-Umu-UU_2012.pdf

Deadline: Friday August 31, 2012

Contact: eSSENCE coordinator Ingela Nyström coordinator@essenceofescience.se

I take this opportunity to wish you all a nice Summer!

Best regards,

Ingela Nyström

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Ingela Nyström, Professor Ingela.Nystrom@it.uu.se
Dept. of Information Technology http://www.cb.uu.se/~ingela
UPPSALA UNIVERSITET Phone: +46 70 1679045
Box 337 Visit: Lägerhyddsvägen 2
SE-751 05 Uppsala SWEDEN ITC building 2, floor 1
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Umeå: HPC2N Symposium — Inauguration of Abisko, May 31, 2012

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Umeå University, May 31, 2012

High Performance Computing Center North cordially invites you to participate in the inauguration of Abisko, the new HPC2N supercomputer system. The morning program offers a tutorial and the afternoon program includes presentations by scientists using Abisko, state-of-the-art technical and R&D overviews and the formal inauguration of Abisko.

The procurement of Abisko was made possible through a grant from the Swedish National Metacenter VR/SNIC and the support of Umeå University.

Dead-line for registration: May 21 at 12.00.
There is no conference fee but remember that the number of seats for all events are limited, so register as soon as possible.

Most welcome!
Bo Kågström, HPC2N Director
Marianne Sommarin, Chairperson of the HPC2N Board

Links to program and registration form:
https://www.hpc2n.umu.se/abisko/inauguration
https://www.hpc2n.umu.se/abisko/inauguration/form

Invitation for Letters of Interest in the area of e-Science research at UU

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Call: 2-year PostDoc positions cofunded with 500 kSEK per year.

Deadline: April 30, 2012
Contact: eSSENCE coordinator Ingela Nyström <ingela.nystrom@it.uu.se>
Attachment: eSSENCE-LoI-2012.pdf

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 Ingela Nyström, Professor                 Ingela.Nystrom@it.uu.se
 Dept. of Information Technology           http://www.cb.uu.se/~ingela
 UPPSALA UNIVERSITET                       Phone: +46 70 1679045
 Box 337                                   Visit: Lägerhyddsvägen 2
 SE-751 05 Uppsala     SWEDEN              ITC building 2, floor 1
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Uppsala: Registration to CSC2012 – This summer in Uppsala

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The 35th CERN School of Computing will be held at the Uppsala University, Sweden
from Monday 13th of August to Friday 24th August 2012

Programme highlights
The CERN School of Computing 2011 is organised around 3 thematic themes, each theme comprising lectures and exercises.

  • Do you know how to bridge Grids and Clouds using virtualization technology?
  • Is it possible to simplify LHC physics analysis using virtual machine?
  • How can reliable storage services be built from unreliable hardware?
  • Why are tapes still used in high energy physics data storage?
  • How can I write code for tomorrow’s hardware, today?
  • Do you want to see your software with attacker’s eyes?
  • Can you hack your own code?
  • Do you know what do ‘code injection’ and ‘integer overflow’ have in common?
  • What’s so special about High Energy Physic’s data format?
  • What are the key statistical methods used in physics data analysis?

All the answers at CSC2012 Continue reading →

8th IEEE International Conference on eScience – CALL FOR PAPERS

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8th IEEE International Conference on eScience
http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/escience2012/
October 8-12, 2012
Chicago, IL, USA

Researchers in all disciplines are increasingly adopting digital tools, techniques and practices, often in communities and projects that span disciplines, laboratories, organizations, and national boundaries. The eScience 2012 conference is designed to bring together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. The conference serves as a forum to present the results of the latest applications research and product/tool developments and to highlight related activities from around the world. Also, we are now entering the second decade of eScience and the 2012 conference gives an opportunity to take stock of what has been achieved so far and look forward to the challenges and opportunities the next decade will bring. Continue reading →

8th IEEE International Conference on eScience – CALL FOR WORKSHOPS

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8th IEEE International Conference on eScience
http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/escience2012/
October 8-12, 2012
Chicago, IL, USA

The 8th IEEE eScience conference (e-Science 2012), sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee for Scalable Computing (TCSC), will be held in Chicago Illinois from 8-12th October 2012. The eScience 2011 conference is designed to bring
together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. Continue reading →