Past events
2011
January
Tallin, Estonia , 13-14 January 2011
The overall objective of the DC-NET concertation seminar is to identify and document common approaches and mechanisms how multinational projects and memory institutions with digital cultural heritage collections could gain access to individual e-infrastructure national representatives (NRENs) as well as to the resources managed by coordination initiatives such as GEANT and Grid platforms.
March
Brussels, Belgium, 15-16 March 2011
Cloudscape III, organised by the EC-funded SIENA initiative, will delve deeply into the topic of standardisation in Cloud computing through a series of keynote presentations from the EC, industry and eScience communities. A series of use-cases will highlight best practices and challenges being faced by both cloud providers and end-users, while interactive roundtable discussions will engage participants in a 2-way dialogue with key players in the cloud landscape.
Taipei, Taiwan, 19-25 March 2011
The International Symposium on Grids and Clouds (
ISGC 2011) in conjunction with the Open Grid Forum (
OGF 31) will be held at Academia Sinica in Taipei from 21-25 March 2011, with co-located events (19-21 March), including IGTF All-Hands Meeting, IDGF Tutorial, Asia@home Hackfest, iRODS Workshop. The conference is hosted by the
Academia Sinica Grid Computing Centre (ASGC).
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 23-25 March 2011
The Canada-EU Future Internet Workshop 2011 will bring together European Union (EU) and Canadian researchers and companies to explore opportunities to directly interact, to be updated on the respective research statuses, and to explore areas of mutual interest. The event is designed to address industry interests and to provide interested Canadian partners with an opportunity to participate in EU research related to the Future Internet. It will also provide a basis for the exploration of longer term joint research avenues and processes.
The major objective this event is to explore prospects for deeper exchange and collaboration between the Canadian and European research communities in the area of "Future Internet (FI)" in Europe.
Leuven, Belgium, 29-30 March 2011
The primary objective is to build a wider understanding relating the governmental, funders and research interests, and their relationship to the commercial market. The workshop will be research focused but will investigate the tensions between the different understanding of clouds between government/policy bodies, commercial providers/vendors, funding agencies and research communities.
It will determine user perspectives on how the cloud can help in the research arena. What are the real uses that researchers are looking towards for cloud. What are the barriers: both the nontechnical ones (IPR, cost, data protection, licensing, site/national/pan-national licensing agreements etc.); and technical (how to ensure cloud remains accessible without a high degree of technical knowledge – ala the web). How to expose the user requirements better; how to get access to cloud resources; policy advice, further workshops/debate on cloud useability and applicability.
Conclusions from the HPC expert consultation meeting on 30 March 2011
Now it's the time to act. 2011 is a critical year in which important decisions will be taken for the future of the development of supercomputing capabilities in Europe including the efforts towards producing exa-scale systems. The three main areas where timely action should be taken are:
(a) Structuring the European stakeholders: a European Technology Platform (ETP) was receiving strong support
(b) Applications supporting science, supporting industrial co-design processes, but also supporting socio-economic analysis in political and economic decision making processes
(c) Sustainability in terms of supporting the necessary R&D, engineering and application (re-)coding effort for exa-scale systems, and of market and industrial strategy considerations.
Europe has the required technical and human-skills capabilities to tackle the exa-scale challenge, but in addition to the current weaker position of the technology supply in supercomputers the European R&D, organisational and political landscape is much more complex than in US, China or Japan. However, the extra effort required to coordinate the European efforts can have enormous returns: mastering extreme-performance technologies (use and supply) is not just to put European technologies back at the forefront of supercomputing, but is also crucial for maintaining and improving the competitiveness of European industries in many areas, for key advances in fundamental sciences, engineering and technology, and for tackling global challenges such as energy, climate change etc. Solid and quantified arguments integrated in a convincing story and a comprehensive plan on how to carry out the efforts must be developed in order to get the necessary support of EU and national decision-makers.
April
Budapest, Hungary, 04-06 April 2011
The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group organises workshops twice a year in collaboration with the country holding the EU presidency. Workshops are open to all, and function as incubators for feeding new information and trends into the e-IRG plenum work. The workshop is organised in conjunction with the internal meeting of the e-IRG delegates (6 April).
Vilnius, Lithuania, 11-15 April 2011
The conference will showcase the diversity of the user community within the European Grid Infrastructure through daily plenaries, oral presentations, poster sessions and co-located workshops.
The event aims to help all members of the EGI community, from end-users to application developers, operations staff and technology providers, to share their knowledge and build collaborations. The programme will also include numerous networking and social events and opportunities to ‘meet the experts’.
Helsinki, Finland, 13-14 April 2011
DEISA, the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications, and PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, are inviting again to their joint annual science symposium as an important European HPC event. The Symposium is featuring key note speakers from the US, Asia and Europe as well as scientific speakers from all over Europe, covering major computational science areas in HPC.
May
Gabarone, Botswana, 11-13 May 2011
Hosted by the Government of Botswana through the Department of Research, Science and Technology, Supported by the European Commission and African Union Commission and Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE, IST-Africa 2011 will take place in Gaborone, 11-13 May 2011.
Part of the IST-Africa Initiative, which is supported by the European Commission under the ICT Theme of Framework Programme 7 (FP7), IST-Africa 2011 is the sixth in an Annual Conference Series which brings together senior representatives from leading commercial, government & research organisations across Africa and from Europe, to bridge the Digital Divide by sharing knowledge, experience, lessons learnt and good practice and discussing policy related issues.
The scientific programme for IST-Africa 2011 is based on an open Call for Papers http://www.ist-africa.org/Conference2011/files/ISTAfrica2011_CallForPapers.pdf
IST-Africa 2011 is focused on applied ICT and the core thematic areas include
- eHealth
- eInfrastructures
- Technology Enhanced Learning and ICT Skills
- Digital Libraries and Intelligent Content
- Living Labs
- Open Source Software
- ICT for eInclusion and eAccessibility
- ICT for Environmental Sustainability
- RFID and Networked Enterprise
- Cloud Computing
- eGovernment & eDemocracy
- Networked Media
- Transformation of Research Results into Local Innovation
- IPv6
All submissions will be double blind reviewed by the International Programme Committee and authors will receive feedback in January. Accepted authors will then be invited to submit a final paper taking account of feedback provided for inclusion in the conference proceedings by 18 February.
If individual authors require a short extension to finalise their papers, please contact secretariat@IST-Africa.org to organise this.
Prague, Czech Republic, 11-19 May 2011
The
TERENA Networking Conference (TNC) is the largest and most prestigious European research networking conference - over 500 participants including decision makers, networking specialists and managers from all major European networking and research organisations, universities, worldwide sister institutions and industry representatives attend.
Through keynote speeches by renowned specialists and many parallel sessions, the Conference presents an overview of the latest developments in research networking, both in the technical field and in the areas of application and management.
The TNC 2011 will be hosted by the Czech National Research and Education Network (CESNET) and held in the picturesque, UNESCO World Heritage listed city of Prague in Czech Republic from 16 - 19 May 2011. CESNET provides network connectivity to all state Czech universities, colleges and research institutes. CESNET participates in a number of pioneering international projects, acting on the educational demands of networking development in the Czech Republic. With respect to its research activities and accomplishments, CESNET represents the Czech Republic in the development of the pan-European network GÉANT and participates actively in the project implementation. This sets the perfect scene for TNC 2011.
Geneva, Switzerland, 18 May 2011
The Intel Exascale Leadership Conference will bring together thought leaders in hardware and software R&D, HPC centers, European industry, and European policy to share their view on the challenges ahead for Europe and on strategies to address them. Keynote speakers from the European Commission, PRACE, and European industry will share their views on the chances and challenges of exascale computing and their strategies and roadmaps. Intel executives Steve Pawlowski (Senior Fellow, CTO of the Intel Architectuer Group) and Shekhar Borkar (VP, Intel Labs) will give an outlook on Intel’s thoughts towards exascale, the European Intel Labs will present the R&D work in the EU on these topics.
The goals of the Exascale Leadership Conference are
· Better understand the challenges for exascale computing.
· Start an information exchange between the key European thought leaders and Intel as a leading processor and HPC technology supplier.
· Identify areas where the Intel R&D teams in Europe can expand their work with the European R&D and industry organizations.
Trieste, Italy, 16-20 May 2011
This International Conference will address the role of e-infrastructures toward a better understanding of climate change from the global to the regional scales. The main goal of this event is to expose the participating scientists and stakeholders to modern e-infrastructures [which include an HCP and Grid environments) so that the potential provided by this infrastructure for climate change research can be assessed. It will provide the opportunity to enhance knowledge previously acquired and to acquire the core innovations emerging in this framework, for example the development of a European and worldwide einfrastructure for climate change applications driven by European Union projects such as Prace, EGI, EU-IndiaGRID2, EUMEDGRID-Support and others.
Budapest, Hungary, 19-20 May 2011
The ICT Proposers' Day 2011 to take place in Budapest, 19-20 May is dedicated to networking and promoting research & development in the field of Information and Communication Technologies. If you would like to know more:
- about the funding opportunities offered by the European Union in the field of ICT research & development;
- about participating in Calls 8 and 9 of the FP7 ICT Work Programme offering more than one billion euros of EU funding
and you are looking for the right partners to form project consortia, your place is at the ICT Proposers' Day 2011.
The event will provide academia and business sectors, SMEs and government actors from all over Europe a platform for building partnerships and exchange ideas for participating in calls for proposals. About 2500 participants are expected to attend.
In addition, over 100 Commission officials will be present to provide information on the content of the calls for proposals and advice you on how to submit your proposal
Our Unit (INFSO/F3) will have a 90 min networking session on the WP2012-13 (presentation of the call - presentation of pre-selected proposals).
June
Santander, Spain, 6-8 June 2011
The current edition of the Workshop focuses on post processing of experimental data in Grand Challenges e-Infrastructure systems. Handling of instrument output data is one of the major tasks (just after remote control of equipment) of remote instrumentation systems. Due to complexity of this process, which can operate on huge amounts of data and consists of many stages, there is a need for sophisticated approaches. These cover many aspects of data processing and storage at different functional layers, from physical to application.
Debrecen, Hungary, 7-9 June 2011
WIRE2011 will put on the floor nowadays urgent questions for innovation and research policy at regional level:
- Can the regions use the resources devoted to research and innovation more efficiently?
- How smart specialisation strategies can enable to optimise the use of research infrastructures by considering their role in clusters, regional innovation support systems and networks?
- Can the regional dimension of research infrastructures contribute to regional development and better regional research and innovation performance?
- Can tools, such as European Research Infrastructure Consortia, help to improve the construction of and the access to high quality large research infrastructures?
Hamburg, Germany, 19-23 June 2011
The International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) is Europe’s leading conference and exhibition on high performance computing, networking and storage. ISC began as a seminar with 81 participants in 1986 in Mannheim, Germany. In 2010 ISC celebrated its 25th anniversary, achieving an all-time record for attendee and exhibitor participation.
ISC’11 looks forward to once hosting attendees from over 49 countries and all major supercomputing, storage and networking vendors.
Barcelona, Spain, 27 June - 02 July 2011
It is a great pleasure for us to invite you to the LIBER 40th Annual Conference which will take place from 29 June to 02 July 2011 at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona. There will be a varied Conference programme organized under the main theme of the Conference: Getting Europe ready for 2020: the library's role in research, education and society.
We can assure you that you will be offered a Conference programme that is both professionally and socially exciting. There will also be excellent opportunities for discovering more about the beautiful city of Barcelona and its surroundings.
Palaiseau, France, 28-29 June 2011
Teratec 2011 will focus on High Performance Computing and Systems Design
TERATEC brings together top international experts in high performance numerical design and simulation, making it the major event in France and in Europe in this field. It reaffirms the strategic importance of these technologies for developing industrial competitiveness and innovation capacity.
September
Lyon, France, 19-23 September 2011
The Technical Forum will provide an overview of the EGI community and review the community's plans and progress towards the adoption of a federated virtualised infrastructure for European researchers.The event will be co-located with the
Open Grid Forum and
Grid 2011 it will provide a unique opportunity to appreciate the current developments of e-Infrastructure in Europe and the standards development activity and longer-term computer science research being undertaken in this diverse and exciting field.
Mannheim, Germany, 26-27 September 2011
Nowadays High Performance Computing (HPC) is increasingly moving into the mainstream. With commodity off-the-shelf hardware and software, and thousands of sophisticated applications optimized for parallel computers, every engineer and scientist today can perform complex computer simulations on HPC systems – small and large. However, the drawback in practice is that these systems are monolithic silos, application licenses are expensive and they are often either not fully utilized, or they are overloaded. Besides, there is a long procurement process and a need to justify the expenses including space, cooling, power, and management costs that go into setting up an HPC cluster.
Paris, France, 27-29 September 2011
Broadband World Forum 2011 is the world’s largest Broadband event attracting 10,000+ decision-makers from across the globe. Now celebrating it’s 11th anniversary year, the event is the ONLY place to meet the whole broadband industry in one place at one time.
The 3 day comprehensive conference programme brings together over 300 visionary speakers to address the commercial and technical opportunities, developments and issues currently surrounding Broadband. The NEW easy to navigate conference structure includes analyst breakfast briefings, keynote sessions, a choice of 4 tracks covering Transport, Intelligence, Access and Services and various special focus seminars.
October
Barcelona, Spain, 10-11 October 2011
The main objective of the EESI Final International Conference is presenting the project results to the stakeholders, scientists and policy makers containing presentations and discussions with all experts participating to the WG activities.
Policy makers, scientists, and participants of the EESI project are invited to attend this event. The EESI project has funding for lodging and meals at the resort but unfortunately cannot reimburse the travel costs of any participants.
Slough, United Kingdom, 10-13 October 2011
The International Cloud Symposium focuses on the unique attributes of cloud computing, and the important business and policy considerations they raise. The Symposium will examine the ways individuals and organizations handle information and interact with cloud providers. The effectiveness of current international roadmapping projects and standardisation will be explored. Together, delegates and presenters will chart the progress and define a path to enable robust trusted cloud deployments.
Poznan, Poland, 12-13 October 2011
The e-Infrastructure Reeflection Group organises workshops twice a year in collaboration with the country holding the EU presidency. Workshops are open to all, and function as incubators for feeding new information and trends into the e-IRG plenum work.
Brussels, Belgium 18-19 October 2011
The GRDI2020 Workshop on ‘Global Research Data Infrastructures: The Big Data Challenge’, 18-19 October 2011 in Brussels , brings to the table forward-thinking policy makers and world-renown experts from diverse fields to chart a course for future research data infrastructures. Questions addressed during the Workshop span the role of international cooperation in shaping visions for GRDI; the policy measures underpinning this sea-change; organisational and technological challenges that need overcoming and innovation that is being spurred by new approaches to scientific data management and distributed computing
Poznan, Poland, 25-26 October 2011
The European Future Internet Assembly (FIA), is a collaboration between projects that have recognised the need to strengthen European activities on the Future Internet to maintain European competitiveness in the global marketplace. FIA events are organised twice a year as a conference where people from the different research domains meet each other and discuss cross cutting research results and trends in an interactive manner.
Florence, Italy, 26-28 October 2011
The eChallenges e-2011 Conference takes place in the beautiful city of Florence, Italy. This is the twenty-first in a series of Annual Conferences supported by the European Commission and hosted by national governments, which regularly attracts over 600 delegates from leading commercial, government and research organisations around the world to share knowledge and experience, lessons learnt, good practice and innovation.
eChallenges provides a prestigious, international forum to share success stories and lessons learnt from applied Information and Communications Technology (ICT) related research at European level (FP6 & FP7) as well as Regional, National and Commercial initiatives. International cooperation and discussion of commercialisation, exploitation & interoperability issues are key aspects of the programme.
The goals of e-2011 are to promote ICT knowledge sharing and innovation between commercial organisations, government agencies and the research community, exhange experiences about the current state of eAdoption at a sectoral, national or regional level and stimulate rapid take-up of Research and Technology Development (RTD) results by industry and in particular SMEs.
November
Seattle, USA, 12-18 November 2011
Connecting Communities through HPC. To build a larger, more diverse, knowledgeable and skilled community, SC11 is focusing on innovating HPC applications and advancing scientific discovery for the local, regional, national and global society
Cape Town, South Africa, 14-15 November 2011
An event organised by the EuroAfrica-ICT EU project under the aegis of the European Commission (
DG INFSO / International Relations Unit) and the African Union Commission (
AUC), with the support of the Department of Science and Technology of South Africa (
DST).
The event aims at allowing European and African stakeholders involved in the development of cooperation on ICT to get together, at allowing participants to exchange views, share information, and identify synergies in order to increase the impact of their activities and at further supporting policy dialogues, apprehending medium- to long term perspectives and agreeing on an overall and coherent vision.
Toulouse, France, 24-25 November 2011
Les
journées réseaux sont une référence depuis 1995 pour les professionnels des réseaux et des systèmes informatiques en France. Elles réunissent, tous les 2 ans, tous les acteurs qui contribuent au déploiement et à l'essor des nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication dans les établissements d'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche.Les
JRES ont pour ambition de présenter un panorama très complet en termes de technologies, d'usages, de stratégies, d'organisation et de développement dans le monde des réseaux, en présentant des thèmes novateurs à chaque édition.
December
Stockholm, Sweden, 5-8 December 2011
The seventh IEEE e–Science conference, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society´s Technical Committee for Scalable Computing (TCSC), will be held in Stockholm, Sweden from 5th – 8th December 2011.
Scientific research is increasingly carried out by communities of researchers that span disciplines, laboratories, organizations, and national boundaries. The e–Science 2011 conference is designed to bring together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of e–Science applications and enabling IT technologies. The conference serves as a forum to present the results of the latest research and product/tool developments and to highlight related activities from around the world.
Amman, Jordan, 12-14 December 2011
Integrating Arab e-Infrastructure in a Global Environment, organized by the Arab States Research and Education Network, EUMEDGrid Support, EUMEDCONNECT, and INTERNET2, will be held in Amman – Jordan during 12-14 December, 2011.
e-AGE 2011 is meant to be the launching pad for R&E connectivity and cooperation. It will bring together the ASREN, EUMED, GEANT, and INTERNET 2 stakeholders and region’s foremost innovators, leaders, scientists, and businesses to discuss and debate new models of innovation, integration of R&E networks, policies for sustainable development in education, means of knowledge sharing and dissemination, capacity building programs, and region-wide e- infrastructure deployment to tackle today’s crises in climate change, global economy, food and water scarcity, alternative energy, and threatening environmental issues.
