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We have finished the first call for STSM grants in the 3rd Grant Period. In that first call  (June 2017) fifteen applicants submitted their forms, and the following eleven have been accepted: Olivera Novovic, Fátima Leal, Piotr Szuster, Andrzej Wilczyński, Elli Rapti, Eirini Koilanioti, Adriana Chis, Agnieszka Jakobik, Grażyna Suchacka, Ana Respicio, Mauro Iacono. The final amounts founded appear in the next table, which sum a total of 17.000 EUR. The remaining budget is 8.000 EUR for the 2nd Call.

On June 22nd, 2017, Clemens Grelck, cHiPSet scientific coordinator, presented our COST Action at ISC High Performance, the 32nd Annual Super Computing Conference at Frankfurt (Main), Germany. With more than 450 speakers and more than 3200 attendees ISC High Performance is one of the largest events of its kind in the world. Among others ISC High Performance is world famous for the publication of the summer edition of the TOP-500 list of most powerful high performance computing systems. Clemens was invited to present cHiPSet at the Workshop on HPC I/O in the Data Center (HPC-IODC 2017). For cHiPSet this was […]

cHiPSet is promoting a Training School on Big Data Processing and Analytics in the Internet of Everything Era, that will take place in Novi Sad, Serbia from 20 to 22 September, 2017. Trainers coming from academia and industry will provide presentations with detailed descriptions of the selected data and applications, as well as hands on experience in leveraging big data frameworks on real world problems. For more information please visit our cHiPSet Training School page: http://chipset-cost.eu/index.php/chipset-training-school-2017/ PhD students, researchers and skilled practitioners interested in participating in this training event are welcome to apply: please express your intention to participate, along with […]

cHiPSet was presented this year at ISC HPC Exhibition . This is the result of our collaboration with HiPEAC. We werer invited to share their exhibition booth at Frankfurt. Many thanks to Sabri Pllana for making it possible and Xavier Salazar- HiPEAC Recruitment Officer, Madeleine Gray and Anna Molinet – HiPEAC Communications for their company and kind support in the preparation of our presentation. cHiPSet Chair with Anna … again… ..now with Xavier.. ..our working place. We had 30+ visitors during  3 hours who asked us about the Action details and took our leaflets and promotional materials.

Dear All, We received the following note from the Elseier publishers: Dear Guest Editors, It is my pleasure to announce the publication of your special issue on High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications. The issue is available electronically on Science Direct at the following link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/1569190X/76 I would also like to take this opportunity to thank you on behalf of Elsevier for your excellent contribution to our publication program. In the meantime, please would you pass on our thanks to the corresponding authors who also contributed to this issue. I hope that other opportunities for collaboration will arise […]

Dr. Horacio González-Vélez, Vice Chair of cHiPSet and Associate Professor at National College of Ireland and Dave Feenan, Industry Dissemination Co-Ordinator for cHiPSet, the two Irish representatives in the Cost Action IC1406, hosted an industry focused seminar in Dublin on Thursday May 18th 2017. Attracting a registered attendee audience of 59 people, predominately drawn from industry, Dr. González-Vélez provided insight into the arena of data-intensive modelling and simulation and how they assist industry today. The seminar appealed to Data Scientists, Computational Scientists, CIOs, Statisticians and the wider tech community who had a desire to understand more about HPC, High Performance Modelling […]

As a result of a successful academic collaboration with the European Council on Modelling and Simulation (ECMS), cHiPSet members ran the High Performance Modeling and Simulation (HIPMOS) track at the 31st edition of the annual ECMS conference held in Budapest on 23-26 May 2017. Below, one can see the photograph of the cHiPSet delegation to the conference together with ECMS President and Secretary.   The HIPMOS track chairs this year were Mauro Iacono, Daniel Grzonka, and Agnieszka Jakobik. Joanna Kolodziej continued to be the honorary chairperson of the track. In addition to organising the peer-review process of the track, Daniel and Mauro seemed to have time for inventing photo-faces with Horacio […]

A fully-funded PhD studentship (competitive) on blockchain technologies, distributed ledgers e decentralised applications/smart contracts is available at the University of Stirling, UK. Focus can be adapted to latest developments/student’s interest and expertise. We would like kindly ask you to disseminate and invite suitable/interested candidates to apply For more details please contact Andrea Bracciali (abb@cs.stir.ac.uk) ************************************************************ Fully-funded PhD Studentship  on Blockchain Technologies and Applications A fully funded PhD studentship on Blockchain Technologies and Applications is available at the Computing Science and Mathematics division of the University of Stirling, UK. The studentship will cover tuition fees at Home/EU rate, and a standard stipend […]

Dear All, it is my pleasure to announce that the book we published in the end of 2016 on Resource Management for Big Data Platforms http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319448800 is very well cited and achieved the very high number of chapter downloading  index -more than 19 000 (9 May, 2017) I have received the following nice e-mail from the publisher: ********************************* Dear Joanna, HELLO, I hope this mail finds you doing very well?!  I see that your Springer book already has 19K chapter downloads, which is superb for a 2016 title!  Well done, it was a pleasure working with you. Any other book […]

Dear All, We now collect expressions of interests, from people interesting in hosting/organising the Training School in 2018 within the cHiPSet COST Action. Deadline: 31 May 2017. In the cHiPSet COST Action we organise a Training School during each financial period. The TrainingSchool covers activities relevant for the COST Action. You can find more on the Training Schoolat http://chipset-cost.eu/index.php/training–schools/. Following the first edition (in Bucharest) and second one (in Novi Sad), we are now preparing the third edition of the event. Participants in the cHiPSet COST Action, interested to host the third Training School edition, are invited to send an Expression-of-Interest. The expression […]