The web pages can be found in http://www.nchc.org.tw/event/2008/pragma_institute/and will soon be updated with more details. The meeting will be taken place at NCHC new facility in Taichung Dec. 1-5 2008, and is collocated with the “Southeast Asia International Joint Research Collaboration and Training Program”. Registration is now officially open. We like to invite all PRAGMA members to join the meeting.

15 October 2008

http://www.monash.edu.au/news/monashmemo/stories/20081015/music-class.html

Academics and students from the Monash School of Music participated in a musical master class with a difference as part of Educate08 activities last week.

In an experiment organised by the Monash e-Research Centre (MeRC) the Monash Brass Ensemble, on stage at the Robert Blackwood Hall, was led by conductor Anthony Pope from another building at Clayton through the use of high definition video technology (HDV). The ensemble performed the ‘Fanfare’, especially composed to celebrate the University’s 50th anniversary.

MeRC Director Professor Paul Bonnington said the technology had the potential to transform research and classroom teaching.

“We have previously implemented an innovative seminar program in the Faculty of Information Technology that delivered seminars from world experts based at the University of California, San Diego, to our undergraduate and graduate students,” Professor Bonnington said.

“The video quality of HDV is so good that audience members often comment that it is just like having the presenter in the room.

“The concepts applied in this musical presentation went one step further, demonstrating how HDV and e-Research technology could be invaluable to the arts/humanities disciplines.”

MeRC also unveiled a new 40 megapixel OptiPortal — a tiled LCD wall that displays complete microscope images at a high resolution.

The screen, the result of an ARC collaborative grant between Monash and Leica Microsystems, allows the user to focus on details at maximum resolution while also allowing them to view the entire image.

Separate and related images can be shown on all or on some screens, or a single image can be displayed across the entire OptiPortal wall.

“A growing world-wide ‘OptiPortal collaboratory’ could revolutionise cancer research by connecting experts from across the world, enabling them to work together on a single project,” Professor Bonnington said.

Visiting Professor Larry Smarr, founding director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, San Diego, said high-performance internet connectivity in Australia was necessary to ensure a robust public research sector.

Deadline:  December 09, 2008

The 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2008)
is hosted in the Science Park City of Tsukuba which is only 50km away
from downtown Tokyo and only 90min bus ride from Tokyo/Narita
International Airport. Your will experience well harmonized surroundings
of wide variety of High Technologies and nature. The 2008 IEEE International
Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2008) will be held on the same
days and location as Grid 2008.
SCOPE
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Grid 2008 topics of interest (in no particular order) include, but
are not limited to:

- Applications, including eScience and eBusiness Applications
- Architectures and Fabrics
- Autonomic and Utility Computing on Global Grids
- Cluster and Grid Integration
- Creation and Management of Virtual Enterprises and Organizations
- Distributed and Large-Scale Data Access and Management
- Grid Economy and Business Models
- Information Services
- Metadata, Ontologies, and Provenance
- Middleware and Toolkits
- Monitoring, Management and Organization Tools
- Networking and Security
- Performance Measurement and Modeling
- Problem Solving Environments
- Programming Models, Tools and Environments
- QoS and SLA Negotiation
- Resource Management, Scheduling, and Runtime Environments
- Scientific, Industrial and Social Implications
POSTER PAPERS
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Grid 2008 invites authors to submit poster papers about your on-going
or recently-finished work. Papers should be no more than 6 pages in
length (including tables, figures, references…) and be submitted as
a PDF file. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the
authors to register and present the poster paper at the conference
venue. The submitted papers are reviewed and all accepted poster
papers will be included in the Grid 2008 proceedings.
For author instructions visit www.grid2008.org.

 - PDF files only.
 - Maximum 6 pages for Posters.
 - Single-spaced
 - 8.5×11-inch, Two-column numbered pages in IEEE Xplore format
 - Format instructions are available at
   http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html
   and
   ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/
 - Final camera-ready version of poster papers must comply with
   IEEE Xplore formatting and style for publication.
 - Electronic Submission: Only web-based submission is accepted.
   The URL will be announced on the Grid 2008 web page.
IMPORTANT DATES
—————–
Jul.22, 2008    Poster submissions Due
Aug.10, 2008    Poster Acceptance Notifications

CONTACT
—————–

Please contact the Poster chair, Susumu Date
(grid08-poster_AT_ime.cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp) for any other information.
Please replace _AT_ to @.

See:  http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=1319

http://dfma08.cs.usm.my/

for more details!

THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED FRAMEWORKS & APPLICATIONS 2008 (DFmA 2008)
21-22 October 2008, Penang, Malaysia
Jointly Organized for the First Time in Conjunction with 15th PRAGMA Workshop & PRAGMA Institute

DFmA 2008 welcomes computer scientists, engineers, academicians, and practitioners throughout the world to present, discuss and exchange ideas and research results related to the design, use, analysis, and application of Distributed and Parallel Frameworks.

Topics of Special Interest:

Papers submitted may cover applications, algorithm, architecture, or technology of Distributed and Parallel System Frameworks. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

- Peer-to-Peer Computing
- Grid Applications
- Distributed Artificial Intelligence
- Distributed Software Engineering
- Distributed Multimedia and Image Processing
- Distributed Systems Modeling
- Distributed Databases, Data Mining & Visualization
- Distributed Algorithms and Protocols
- Distributed Sensor Networks
- Distributed IHM for Multimedia Applications
- High-speed Communications
- Compilers and Optimizations for Parallel Processing
- Parallel and Network Computing and Algorithms
- Parallel Architecture and Processing Systems
- Network Routing and Communication Algorithms (wired, wireless, ad-hoc, etc.)
- Network Security Applications
- Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing

Each accepted paper will be considered as a candidate for the best paper awards. The best papers will be forwarded for consideration in a special issue of a journal.

Important Dates:

- Deadline for Submission of Papers: May 30th 2008
- Notification of Acceptance: July 31st 2008
- Final Manuscript Due: September 1st 2008
- Early Registration for Authors: September 1st 2008

Conference Venue: Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

Submission Guidelines:

Please submit your complete paper(s) through our website at http://dfma08.cs.usm.my. Only .PDF or .DOC files will be accepted. All received papers will be acknowledged. The paper size should be so as not to exceed 8 A4- sized pages when it is converted to the camera-ready format (two columns, single spacing, Times New Roman style characters, 10-point font size) after acceptance.

All the manuscripts must be written in English. The top section of the first page of each paper should include the title of the paper, authors’ name, position, address, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail of the author responsible for correspondence and a list of four keywords. The deadline for submission of the full paper is May 30th, 2008 with notification of acceptance by July 31st, 2008. Submission of camera-ready paper is by September 1st, 2008.

Conference Fee:

Participant
Early Birds (before September 8, 2008)

Late/On Site Registration
Members Non-members Members Non-members
International USD 300.00 USD 400.00 USD 400.00 USD 500.00
Local RM 400.00 RM 700.00 RM 500.00 RM 800.00

The conference’s fee will include exclusively:

- One volume of the hard copy version of the Conference Proceedings. (If you are an author, you will receive the volume in which your paper is published)
- A CD-ROM version of the proceedings.
- Conference kit
- Conference dinner with cultural show
- Lunches and Coffee Breaks

Any other expenses must be afforded by the participants.

Co-location:

This year, the DFmA 2008 will be co-located with the 15th PRAGMA Workshop and PRAGMA Institute. This will include the tutorial on grid middleware and applications. Further details are available at (http://www.pragma-grid.net/events-calendar/)

Organizers and Committee:

Steering Committee
Hervé Guyennet, Professor, Universite de Franche-Comte, France
J.-Christophe Lapayre, Professor, Universite de Franche-Comte, France
Muhammad Idiris Saleh, Professor, USM, Malaysia
Rosni Abdullah, Professor, USM, Malaysia
Sureswaran Ramadass, Assoc. Professor, USM, Malaysia