The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign is looking for highly skilled individuals to fill several positions on the Blue Waters Project. BlueWaters is a multi-million dollar project sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the State of Illinois with the goal of deploying a computational systemcapable of sustained petascale (1015 flop/sec) performance. Currently there are multiple openings for System Engineers and Sr.Research Programmers who will provide system, application and user support. If you are interested in a particular position, or have questions, you may contact Jonathan Howell at NCSA HR, jchowell@illinois.edu for more information.

This year in Venice, Italy, this year's conference will cover the complexity of node architectures in supercomputers increases as we cross petaflop milestones on the way towards Exascale. Increasing levels of parallelism in multi- and many-core chips and emerging heterogeneity of computational resources coupled with energy and memory constraints force a reevaluation of our approaches towards operating systems and runtime environments. The International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers provides a forum for researchers to exchange ideas and discuss research questions that are relevant to upcoming supercomputers.

Scientists, engineers, social scientists, and humanities experts at colleges, universities, and research centers around the world use advanced digital resources and services to make us all healthier and safer. XSEDE supports supercomputers and high-end visualization and data analysis resources across the country, as well as data collections and computational tools that are critical to the success of those researchers. XSEDE integrates these resources and services, makes them easier to use, and helps more people use them.

Below is a summary of the Survey of Computational Science and Engineering Graduate Programs that was conducted during November and December 2011. The full details of the survey can be found at: http://icl.cs.utk.edu/survey/summary/

The Great Plains Network Conference brings together network technology and cyberinfrastructure leaders from the region's top research and education universities to explore the critical technology challenges facing the industry. Once again the meeting will take place at Plaza Embassy Suites in Kansas City, MO. This offers an intimate and collegial setting for this year's Annual Meeting and also offers attractions that bring members to KC from all over the Midwest. This year's conference theme is the Nature of the University in a Highly Connected World.

A program to provide students with an awareness of opportunities arising from the technology associated with the various aspects of cyberinfrastructure has been awarded by NSF EPSCoR. We are now seeking students from eligible colleges and universities within EPSCoR jurisdictions to participate in a year-long program designed to engage and prepare undergraduate and graduate students in learning about and using cyberinfrastructure (CI).

In Cloud Computing, IT-related capabilities and resources are provided as services, via the Internet and on-demand, accessible without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying technology. The IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, steered by the Cloud Computing Association, aim to bring together researchers who work on cloud computing and related technologies.

Informative meeting times are updated promptly and posted to the HPC User Forum website. US meetings as well as international meetings are shown on the site. Feel free to browse around!