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Under the theme "Bridging the Gap Between Science and European and Iberian-America" IBERGRID'10 is held this year at the University of Minho, in Braga, May 24 through May 28. It is organized by the University of Minho in cooperation with the Supercomputing Center of Galicia, CESGA, Santiago de Compostela and the University of Porto. The program includes an international conference with several Parallel Thematic Sessions, the Second Conference of Supercomputing, organized by CESGA and a one-day Tutorial sessions with "hands-on" training for access to HPC resources through the Portuguese Grid (INGRID) and Iberian, including remote visualization resources at the University of Texas at Austin.

IBERGRID'2010 is an excellent opportunity to bring together a broader community of scholars, researchers, students, industry specialists and professionals in all branches of knowledge that share a common need in terms of resources: computing, visualization and storage.

The Conference begins on the afternoon of the 24th with a welcome session intervention will António Cunha (Rector of the University of Minho), Mariano Gago (Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education), José Manuel Fernández Labastida (Director General of Investigation and Management of National Plan I + D + I of Spain), Mario Campolargo (Director of Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures of DG INFSO, EU), Luís Magalhães (Chairman of the Agency for the Knowledge Society UMIC) and Vicente Hernandez (Scientific Coordinator of the Spanish Network for e-Science). The following days include lectures from visiting scholars, in the thematic sessions and the presentation of scientific papers selected by an international commission of reputable researchers.

The 2nd edition of the Supercomputing Conference, organized by CESGA is scheduled for Thursday evening May 27, while on Friday May 28 is reserved for training and practical and experimental, with the support of the Laboratory Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (LIP, with the theme EGEE / INGRID), Supercomputing Center of Galicia (CESGA, addressing the Finisterrae SMP) and Texas Advanced Computing Center / University of Texas in Austin (TACC / UTA on GPU cluster for Data Analysis and Remote Viewing).

Noted that the participation of technicians and researchers CESGA is very intense at this conference, featuring more than eight conferences, among which is "The Metrics Portal: a tool for collecting statistics EGEE operations", which is the CESGA software designed by and is being used at CERN to measure the collection of data from LHC.

IBERGRID'2010 4th edition is a series of "Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conferences" started in 2007 under the bilateral agreement for Science and Technology, signed in November 2005 by the governments of Portugal and Spain. The main objective of those achievements was to provide a forum where advances in the development of network infrastructure, technologies and applications can be discussed by the major players in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America. The aim is thus to encourage the building of an infrastructure common Ibérica e-Science and to promote cooperation in the fields of grid computing and the supercomputer.

More information:
http://www.ibergrid.eu/2010/
info2010@ibergrid.eu.