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Registration Open: Swiss Distributed Computing Day, November 28

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

SwiNG, the Swiss National Grid Association is inviting to participate in the

Swiss Distributed Computing Day, University of Berne, 28 November 2011
http://www.swing-grid.ch/event/516553-swiss-distributed-computing-day

The Swiss Distributed Computing Day is an annual meeting for users and providers of distributed computing technologies. This year’s focus is on:

  • Grid computing
  • Cloud computing
  • HPC resources

The even is free of charge. Please register here »

Agenda

9:45 – 10:15    Registration/Coffee

10:15 – 10:25  Welcome, Heinz Stockinger, SwiNG and SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

10:25 – 10:50  Distributed Computing Infrastructures for Swiss Science,  Sigve Haug, SwiNG and University of Bern

10:50 – 11:15  Swiss Multi-Science Computing Grid, Placi Flury, SWITCH

Technology Session – I

11:15 – 11:40 HPC technology update – challenges or chances, Thomas Schoenemeyer, Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS)

11:40 – 12:05 Scientific and Technical Applications as a Service in the Cloud, Wibke Sudholt, CloudBroker GmbH and EuroCloud Swiss

12:05 – 12:30 Using a Cloud based System to provide Web Site Hosting – Webvanta CMS,  Thibaut Siegmann, Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI)

12:30 – 13:30    lunch

Science session

13:30 – 13:55 Swiss Experiment: A distributed infrastructure for storage and processing of environmental data, with advanced access and annotation support, Michael Lehning, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF

13:55 – 14:20 Computational Challenges in the Life Sciences, Ioannis Xenarios, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

14:20 – 14:45 Computational Chemistry on the Grid, Timm Reumann, University of Zurich

14:45 – 15:10 High Energy Physics, TBD

Industry session

15:30 – 15:55    Google Cloud for Data Crunchers, Akos Frohner, Google Inc.

15:55 – 16:20   Elastic Enterprise Data Warehouse Query Log Analysis on a Secure Private Cloud, Kurt Stockinger, Credit Suisse AG

16:20 – 16:55    Databases in the cloud – Experience with SQL Azure, Fabio Consani, ETH Zurich

Technology Session – II

16:55 – 17:20    Cloud computing – VM-MAD Project, Sergio Maffioletti, SwiNG and University of Zurich

17:20 – 17:55   Swiss Wide Resource Booking System Project,  Dean Flanders, SwiNG and Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI)

GridKa School 2011 co-organized by SwiNG

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

The Swiss National Grid Initiative (SwiNG), the Karlsruhe Institute of Technonolgy (KIT) and the Helmholtz Alliance ‘Physics at the Terascale’ organize the GridKa School 2011. GridKa School offers a broad range of topics, which are chosen from the realm of these projects and beyond.

The school is hosted by Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) of KIT and is scheduled for September 5th to 9th. It cooperates with the European Grid Initiative (EGI), the European Middleware Initiative (EMI) and the Initiative for Globus in Europe (IGE).

Go to the home page of GridKa School 2011 »

Common dinner hpc-ch and SwiNg communities

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Lausanne is for two days the HPC and Grid center of Switzerland. In fact both communities SwiNG and hpc-ch managed to organize two very interesting meetings:

We managed to meet for a common dinner in a restaurant downtown in Lauanne having a very good time and good food. If you love statistics: total of 21 participants, 7 from SwinNG, 7 from hpc-ch and 7 from both communities.

We would at this place thanks Dean from SwinNG for having invited all of us to the dinner. We really appreciated.

For the people leaving the dinner early: Yes, we had an additional meeting after the dinner until 2 in the morning having long discussions about life and system management.