Yearly Archives: 2016


Best Paper Award at ECMS2016 Conference

It is our great pleasure to announce that the members of our Action Agnieszka Jakobik, Daniel Grzonka, Joanna Kolodziej and Horacio Gonzalez-Velez have been awarded for the best conference paper at the 30th Jubilee Edition of European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, held in Regensburg (Germany) on 31 May-3June, 2016 (http://www.scs-europe.net/conf/ecms2016/). The paper is the result of the STSMs of Agnieszka and Daniel in Dublin, under the supervision of Joanna and Horacio. Congratulations!!!


cHiPSet Training School #1 – Call for Trainees

The first cHiPSet Training School will take place in Bucharest, Romania, at the Faculty of Automatic Controls and Computers, from 21 to 23 September, 2016. Call for Trainees for the following training school is open. PhD students, researchers and skilled practitioners interested in participating in this training event are welcome to apply. Up to 20 trainees will be sponsored. Application deadline for Trainees is 10th June 2016. Please visit our cHiPSet Training School page for details: click here


cHiPSet Training School #1 – Call for Trainers

The first cHiPSet Training School will take place in Bucharest, Romania, at the Faculty of Automatic Controls and Computers, from 21 to 23 September, 2016. Call for Trainers for the following training school is open. We invite interested colleagues that can contribute with teaching activities related to the scope of High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications, to apply for Trainer position. Up to 4 trainers will be sponsored by cHiPSet Cost Action. Application deadline for Trainers is 1st June 2016. Please visit our cHiPSet Training School page for details: click here


STSM grants

cHiPSet has released the 1st call of STSM Grants for the 2nd Grant Period with a Budget of 15.000 euros, and oriented to provide 5-10 grants depending on the applicant proposals. During the previous 1st Grant Period 12 candidates have already enjoyed a STSM grant. The candidates can travel to any of the countries participating in the action, including Near Neighbor Countries and International Partner Countries, for a minimum period of 5 days and up to 3 months. The period to enjoy the grant starts the 1st of October 2016 and ends the 15th  of March 2017. The deadline for […]


New Scientific Coordinator

It is my great pleasure to announce that our cHiPSet Action has new Scientific Coordinator.  Dr Clemens Grelck – cHiPSet MC member from Netherlands has been elected recently by the MC of the Action and replaced Dr Steffen Moeller. On behalf of the Action Chairs, I would like to thank Steffen for his work during the first grant period and let me welcome Clemens with our warm congratulations and wishes of the successful work. Joanna Kolodziej, Action Chair


The 4th EURECA Workshop in Dublin

The  EU H2020 EURECA project consortium organizes a workshop on Wednesday 11th of May in Dublin at the Chartered Accountants House (http://eureca-project.eu/workshop/the-4th-eureca-workshop). The cHiPSet members are very welcome to join the meeting. The EURECA event brings together the CIO, Irish Government; CTO, Local Government Management Agency; and a number of international experts to discuss ICT sustainability and Cloud consolidation in the Irish public sector. Attendees are largely c-level executives / ICT managers from the Irish public sector and representatives of the Cloud and Data Centre industry. Additionally, there will be an EU commission speaker who will present the current relevant funding opportunities […]


CMSB 2016 in Cambridge

Dear Action Members Prof. Pietro LIo’ from University of Cambridge- cHiPSet WG2 and WG3 member, UK MC Substitute  would like to invite you all for participation at CMSB 2016 event. CMSB2016 is the 14th conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology and it will take place on the 21st to 23rd September 2016 in Cambridge. The website link is https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/events/cmsb2016/index.html Its aim is to bring together researchers from across biological, mathematical, computational and physical sciences who are interested in the study and modelling of biological systems. CMSB2016 will be hosted at Cambridge University Computer Laboratory. The 3 days conference (plus a […]


IWSG 2016 – Rome, Italy

8-10 June 2016 IWSG (International Workshop on Science Gateways) aims to bring together researchers and scientists from different scientific domains, along with science gateways developers, to discuss problems and solutions in the area, to identify new issues, to shape future directions for research, foster the exchange of ideas, standards and common requirements and push towards the wider adoption of science gateways in e-Science. Accepted full papers will be published in PeerJ Computer Science as open-access articles. Additionally, selected accepted papers at the workshop will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue jointly organized with the US workshop […]


2016 Workshop on Exascale Multi/Many Core Computing Systems (E-MuCoCoS)

The cHiPSEt member Sabri Pllana is organizing the 2016 Workshop on Exascale Multi/Many Core Computing Systems (E-MuCoCoS) in conjunction with the ISC (Frankfurt, Germany, June 19 – 23, 2016). Extreme-scale data analysis is among the major topics of E-MuCoCoS in this year, and cHiPSEt members are welcome to submit their high-quality contributions. * IMPORTANT DATES – Submission: March 31, 2016 – Notification: May 15, 2016 – Workshop: June 23, 2016 – Camera ready: July 23, 2016 * WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS – Sabri Pllana, Linnaeus University, Sweden http://homepage.lnu.se/staff/saplaa/ – Achim Streit, Steinbuch Centre for Computing, KIT, Germany https://www.scc.kit.edu/personen/achim.streit.php   Please visit workshop […]


Special Issue of the SIMPAT Journal is planned

Dear Action Members, Thanks to a kind support from Helen Karatza, we plan to edit a special issue in the SIMPAT journal (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/simulation-modelling-practice-and-theory/) We believe this is a nice offer for cHiPSEt Members. Please start your work on the preparation of HQ publications. This call is open for all cHiPSEt members (and restricted to the Action). All papers will be evaluated according to the Elsevier and SIMPAT standards. Please find the details below Joanna Kolodziej IC1406 Chair ################### CALL FOR PAPERS ###################################### SIMULATION MODELLING PRACTICE AND THEORY SPECIAL ISSUE ON “High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications” ############################################################################ *********** […]