This Thursday (4 February), BlueFern at NZi3 brings you a half-day supercomputing webinar headed by SGI.

If supercomputing is your thing you're invited to participate in today's BlueFern user group meeting where Tony Dale will give highlights from the Supercomputing 2009 conference, and Steve Moore will present on GPU computing.

A call for papers has been issued for the Open Source, Multicore and Parallel Computing conference to be held in January 2010.

Yesterday NIWA announced its buying one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers for use in environmental forecasting.

If supercomputing is your thing you're invited to participate in the first BlueFern user group meeting where Colin McMurtrie will give highlights from the Supercomputing 2008 conference.

Free virtual seminar on Wednesday 27 May on KAREN-enabled infrastructure for genomics researchers in New Zealand.

Prime Minister John Key and a troop of VIPs were dazzled by high definition video conferencing over KAREN last Thursday during the opening of the new national ICT Innovation Institute, NZi3.

MoRST is seeking proposals for a semantic data modelling project.

The Ministry of Research, Science and Technology has just released an online survey to assess the needs of New Zealand researchers for High Performance Computing and eResearch.

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Join us this Wednesday for a rundown from Peter Helms on the eResearch and supercomputing services available at BlueFern to support your research activities.

We are excited to bring you Peter Helms from BlueFern at the University of Canterbury. Advanced computing and networking are natural companions in the global age of eResearch.

The Ministry of Research, Science and Technology is requesting proposals on the distribution of $840,000 to support a grid computing and middleware initiative.

The Government Budget 2008 allocated funding to develop capability around the use of KAREN. $840,000 (plus GST) of this funding was tagged to establish a national grid infrastructure and middleware tool initiative.

A new book has just been released as an online eBook and in hard copy called The Tower and The Cloud – Higher Education in the Age of Cloud Computing.

Call for papers for the Workshop on Scientific Instruments and Sensors on the Grid at CCGrid 2009.

This workshop will explore the integration of instruments and sensors into a computation Grid and the challenges associated with doing this to collect raw observations used in experiments. Paper submissions are due by 15 December.

Check out the latest edition of EDUCAUSE Review for enlightening articles on the use of cyberinfrastructure (high performance computing, data, visualisation, virtual organisations and advanced networks) for research and education.

A call for papers has been issued for the 7th Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research  (AusGrid 2009).

Pete Beckman and Jim Basney join other trail-blazers in eresearch as speakers at the High Performance Research Symposium.

Register for the 3rd NZ Workshop in  High Performance and Grid Computing.

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Further speakers confirmed for the High Performance Research Symposium (HPRS)

Three speakers have been confirmed to speak alongside Ian Foster at HPRS:

The PDCAT08 Organising Committee invites workshop/tutorial proposals for PDCAT08 to be held in Dunedin, New Zealand, in December 2008.

The Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (AHeSSC) at King’s College London has published a report entitled Text and Grid: Research Questions for the Humanities, Sciences and Industry.

Mike Culver's visit to REANNZ is taking place at 1pm Tuesday 19 February.

Mike Culver an Evangelist for Amazon Web Services is visiting REANNZ as part of his February trip to Australia and New Zealand.

Biomatters Limited and New Zealand’s Bioinformatics Institute announce the first release of new Geneious software for grid computing on BeSTGRID, the Broadband enabled Science and Technology Grid running on KAREN, the Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network that provides high-speed, high-capacity internet to New Zealand academics, researchers and educators.