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Our events calendar includes events at RENCI, sponsored by RENCI and of interest to the larger communities served by RENCI. Send your event information to webmaster at renci.org

September 2008

September 11
Renaissance Bistro Lecture Series
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Duke University
OIT Telecommunications Building
390 Science Drive, suite 106, West Campus
Durham, NC

Details: The public and university community with an interest in hurricanes and disaster response are invited to feed their minds --as well as their stomachs.For more, see http://www.renci.org/focusareas/eduoutreach/bistro.php.

September 22
Conference: 5th Annual 2008 High Performance on Wall Street
Roosevelt Hotel
New York, NY

Details: The one day conference will focus on those technologies that underpin the high frequency and volatile trading environment of today’s financial markets. As well as requiring the capacity to cope with extreme application workloads – supporting huge market data and transaction volumes – systems must be architected to provide five nines reliability and rapid adaptability to business drivers. Cost containment is also key for firms operating in a highly competitive environment. For more, see http://www.highperformanceonwallstreet.com/.

September 25
Distinguished Lecture Series
Featuring Kathy Kleiman, historian and executive producer for the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC) Programmers Project.
12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
Bryan Center
Duke University
Durham, NC

Details: The public is invited to hear Kathy Kleiman speak about, “Shaking Up Computer History: Finding the Women of ENIAC.” She will discuss how the ENIAC programmers programmed the first all-electronic programmable computer to perform a differential calculus equation critical to a secret WWII effort. For more, see http://www.renci.org/focusareas/eduoutreach/lectureseries.php.

October 2008

October 5-7
Conference: Harvard Biomed HPC Leadership Summit 2008
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Details: This Summit is the premiere event for people who build and maintain clusters and grids for high performance computing in the biomedical fields. Over 200 HPC leaders will convene, and focus on four themes: managing biomedical storage growth, data center challenges, connecting to the grid, and trends in biomedical HPC. For more, see https://biomedhpc.med.harvard.edu/.

October 14
Open House at RENCI at Duke University
3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
OIT Telecommunications Building
390 Science Drive Extension
West Campus, Durham NC

Details: The new RENCI engagement center at Duke University will open its doors to the general public for an open house that will showcase state-of-the-art visualization technology. For more about RENCI at Duke, see http://www.renci.org/about/duke.php.

October 27-29
Conference: Storage Networking World
Frankfurt, Germany

Details: Storage Networking World Europe is the only fully independent conference where IT managers and professionals can attend SNIA-endorsed education tracks, get hands-on access to the wide range of SNIA-sanctioned solutions demonstrations, and get the time to mix with industry peers and technology experts who are faced with similar IT storage issues every day. For more, see http://www.snweurope.com/.

October 30
Renaissance Bistro Lecture Series
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
ITS Manning Building
211 Manning Drive, Chapel Hill, NC

Details: The public and university community with an interest in new media and RENCI’s efforts in digital technology and visualization are invited to feed their minds – as well as their stomach. For more, see http://www.snweurope.com/.

October 30-31
Conference: ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval
Vancouver, Canada

Details: This Conference is a premier scientific meeting for discussing the latest advances in the area of multimedia retrieval. All papers in the main track must be high quality original papers which address important issues in multimedia exploration, summarization and retrieval. For more, see http://www.renci.org/focusareas/eduoutreach/bistro.php.

November 2008

November 15-21
Conference: SC08
Austin Convention Center
Austin, TX

Details: The SC08 is the international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis. Attendees will become immersed in the latest state-of-the-field developments in technology, applications, vendor products, research results and national policy and national/international initiatives. The Conference will also demonstrate how high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis touch all disciplines to enhance people’s abilities to understand information and lead to new understanding, promote interdisciplinary projects, and affect the educational process through the use of computers in modeling and simulation in the classroom. For more, see http://sc08.supercomputing.org/.