A Double Whammy!

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Today I lost my digital camera ...

Then the CD ROM drive of my Toshiba laptop broke down ...

I wonder what's next ???
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Meeting With My Niece Rona in Taichung, Taiwan

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Last Saturday, 6 December 2008, I met my niece Rona at the train station in Taichung, Taiwan. Rona works in Taichung. Last time I met Rona was in November 2007 in Taipei, Taiwan.

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http://raffysaldana.blogspot.com/2007/12/images-of-taiwan-taipei-101-part-1.html

http://raffysaldana.blogspot.com/2007/12/images-of-taipei-sun-yat-sen-memorial.html

Travel Notes: The Thao People of Sun Moon Lake, Nantou County, Taiwan

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Photo Caption: Some of the Thao people in Sun Moon Lake, Nantaou, Central Taiwan performing a traditional dance. Photos taken by Raffy Saldaña( http://raffysaldana.blogspot.com ) on 5 December 208. All rights reserved.

Today (5 December 2008) our host in Taichung, Taiwan -- the National Center for High Performance Computing (NCHC) -- brought us on a cultural tour of the Nantou County in Central Taiwan where many of Taiwan's Aboriginal groups are located.

One of the Aboriginal groups is the Thao tribe.

Here's an information about the Thao people (from wikipedia.org):

Excerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thao_people :

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The Thao/Ngan (Chinese: 邵族) are a small group of Taiwanese aborigines who have lived near Sun Moon Lake (Lake Candidius) in central Taiwan for at least a century, and probably since the time of the Qing dynasty. In the year 2000 the Thao/Ngan tribe numbered only 281, making them the smallest of all of the recognized aboriginal tribes in Taiwan (a number of aboriginal tribes, both smaller and larger than the Thao in population remain unrecognized by the Taiwanese governing authorities).

They are the smallest of the Taiwanese aborigine group in terms of population and the smallest ethnic group in Taiwan. Despite their small group size, the Thao/Ngan have retained their customs, beliefs and traditional culture and language up until now, though they have been assimilated into mainstream Chinese culture as well. Most of the members of this ethnic group work today as menial workers, cooks and vendors in the tourism industry at Sun Moon Lake. The Chi-Chi earthquake of 1999 damaged or destroyed 80% of the houses of the Thao/ngan tribe and made many of them lose employment.
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Closing Ceremony: SEAIP '08 and 4th PRAGMA Institute, Taichung, Taiwan

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Photos, Day 4: Workshop on Cluster Management / SEAIP '08 and PRAGMA, Taichung, Taiwan/ Workshop on Cluster Management Using DRBL

. Lecturer: Dr. Steven Shiau of the National Center for High Performance Computing (NCHC), Taichung, Taiwan
I got a freebie: USB flashdrive

Dr. Steven Shiau of NCHC, Taichung, Taiwan
Note: I received plenty of DUXes (DRBL Tux)


Workshop on Cluster Management
SEAIP 2008/ 4th PRAGMA Institute
National Center for High Performance Computing (NCHC)
Science Park, Taichung, Taiwan


Lecture Notes:

Workshop on Cluster Management
DRBL/ Clonezilla

Steven Shiau, Jass Wang, Ceasar Sun, THomas Tsai
NCH, Taiwan
Q4, 2008


Free Software Lab

Goal: Create a Free Software Smart Classroom (FSSC) based on our HPC experience

DRBL, Clonezilla, DRBL-WinRoll, Tux2Live, PartCloane
Multicast VNC
Acces Grid, eLearning
Cluster Computing
Grid Computing


DRBL

Clonezilla

Why DRBL?

DRBL Special Features:

Clonezilla Server Edition (SE)
AoE

"Bare Metal" Bacup and Restore

cp, tar, rsync

Bare metal = a technique in the field of data recovery and restorationon where the backed up data is available

Clonezilla Features

Free (GPL) software
File systems suported Ext 2/3. ReisersFs, Reiser4, XFS jfs HFS
Linux Logical Volume Manage 2

Partclone

http://www.partclone.org

Developed by Thomas Tsai

Cloezilla Types


Whats New since SEAIP 2007?


DRBL

supports newer GNU/Linux versions incluidng Ubuntu 8.04/8.10, Fedora 9, Mandriva 2008.1, and OpenSuSe 11.0

Provides AoE booting mechanism in support of diskless MS Windows XP

Clonezilla Live

Easier to create a recovery ISO/zip
Clonezilla Live

Demo 1

http://drbl.name

Based on gPXE

Running WIndows XP for DRBL Server on Acer Aspire One

Edubuntu


Clonezilla Live

1.2.1-21

http://www.clonezill.org/clonezilla-live

Scenario:

A working MS Windos Xp
Save 1st partition as an image on 2nd partition using Clonezilla Live

Restore the image on 2nd partition to 1st partition


Penguin: "My name is Dux (DRBL Tux)"


Related Links:

http://drbl.nchc.org.tw/en
http://www.clonezilla.org/


Note: I received the following freebies during the workshop: DRBL "penguins" and USB flash drive.

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Photos, Day 3. SEAIP '08 and PRAGMA Institute, Taichung, Taiwan

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Southeast Asia '08
International Joint Research and Training Program in High-Performance Computing Applications and Networking Technology
4th PRAGMA Institute
Pacific Rim Applications and PRAGMA Institute
December 1-5, 2008
NCHC, Taichung, Taiwan

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Photos, Day 2: SEAIP 2008 and 4th PRAGMA Institute, Taiwan

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Southeast Asia '08
International Joint Research and Training Program in High-Performance Computing Applications and Networking Technology
4th PRAGMA Institute
Pacific Rim Applications and PRAGMA Institute
December 1-5, 2008
NCHC, Taichung, Taiwan

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Note: I ran out of batteries for my digital camera again, so I used the webcam of my EEE PC to take photos during the 2nd day of the SEAIP '08 and PRAGMA Institute being held in Taiwan. Our session today (December 2, 2008) was held at the National Palace Museum in Taipei. From Taichung it takes two and a half hours travel by bus (one way) to Taipei.

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More Photos (Day 1): SEAIP '08 and PRAGMA Institute, NCHC, Taichung, Taiwan

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Southeast Asia '08
International Joint Research and Training Program in High-Performance Computing Applications and Networking Technology
4th PRAGMA Institute
Pacific Rim Applications and PRAGMA Institute
December 1-5, 2008
NCHC, Taichung, Taiwan
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Photos: SEAIP '08 and 4th PRAGMA Institute, Taichung, Taiwan

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Southeast Asia '08
International Joint Research and Training Program in High-Performance Computing Applications and Networking Technology
4th PRAGMA Institute
Pacific Rim Applications and PRAGMA Institute
December 1-5, 2008 NCHC, Taiwan




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Notes (Day 1): SEAIP 2008 and 4th PRAGMA Institute (NCHC, Taichung, Taiwan)

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NOTES:

Southeast Asia '08: International Joint Research and Training Program in High-Performance Computing Applications and Networking Technology

4^th PRAGMA Institute
Pacific Rim Applications and PRAGMA Institute

December 1-5, 2008
NCHC, Taiwan

PRAGMA　＝
A Practical Collaborative Framework

http://www.prgam-grid.net/

• streaming underwater video

• bridging grid islands

• integrating SCMS web and Condor

• - PRAGMA CA and VOMS

• MURPA

Working Groups: Organize Activities

Resources

Biosciences

Telescience

GEO

Framework for Collaboration

Resources: Activ middleware improvement and exchange

Biosciences: Avian Flu Grid

Telescience: Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON); CREON

Telescience and GEO

Education: PRIME; PRIUS; MURPA; use of HD VTC

Training: PRAGMA Institutes

From PRAGMA to CEPERC: An Opportunity from Success to Excellence

Continuous Evolvement of Community Building

Pacific Rim 32 Institute Members

KEYNOTE TALK:

“New Frontiers in Science and Education:

Cyber-Enabled Environment''

William Y. B.Cheng, PhD

Program Director

Office of International Science and Engineering

and Office of Cyberinfrastructure

wychang@nsf.gov

National Science Foundation

GLORIAD

Global-Ring Network for Advanced

VO: International R&E Network

Vision: People anywhere can do research

LOOKING (Laboratory of Ocean ..)

http://www.pragma-grid.net/

Work with science teams to advance

Integrated Cyberinfrastructure

Layers:

Global Collaboration

Grid Middleware

Cybersecurity

Infrastructure

Globus org Downloads

Nov 2006

UCSD Osaka University Collaboration

Global LakeEcological Observation

Avian Bird Flu in Qinghhai Lake, Qinghai Province, May 2005

Taiwan National Grid

Earthquake Engineering Grid

Flood MitigationGrid

Water Resource Agnecy

Real-Time Video Monitoring River and Reservoir Stage

24 hours a day~200 sites

Influence of Resetting Events for Lake Metabolism

A Near Future 3D Stereo Fiber-Optic Eneabled Ocean Observatory

Coral Reef Environmental Obervatory Network (CREON)

GBR, UCSB

http://www.coralreef.org/

ReefBot is a mobile sensor nerok

Digital Reef Mapping

POWER OF CEYBERLEARNING

1. Bringing people, information, togethere in the samepalce at the same time

PRIME Students

Global Cyberbridge

University of Sao Paulo's School of the Future (Brazil)

Knowledge triangle

education, research, innovation

Cyber-Eucation: PostDoc, Visit Master Courses

NSC Southeast Asia Program

Globalization:

Two New Developments

Information Technology

The World is Flat

• distance is not an issue anymore

Global Knowledge Economy

More closely integrated global economy

Competition for Global Resources and Talent

New Knowledge Economy

Increase R&D Investment

Education

Infrastructure

Note: Every 7 to 10 years, new directions come in (e.g., MP3)

Equation for prosperity

Talent + Education

New discoveries

Innovation + new products and services

High quality jobs + greater productivity

Sustained Growth

Sustained economic growth depends on Science and Technology

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Talk: Using Technology to Preserve Cultural Heritage

cisa3.cali2.net

Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Arts, Architecture and Archaeology

3D Modelling with Structured Light

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ISGC 2009: International Symposium on Grid Computing (Taipei, Taiwan)

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ISGC 2009
International Symposium on Grid Computing
April 21-23, 2009
Academia SinicaTaipei, Taiwan


It is our pleasure to announce that the International Symposium on Grid Computing (ISGC) 2009 will be held at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan from 21 to 23 April 2009.

Organized by ASGC since 2002, ISGC is stepping into the 8th year of this grand event. ISGC is one of the most significant annual international events in Asia Pacific region that brings together scientists and engineers worldwide to exchange ideas, to present on challenges, solutions and future development issues in the field of Grid Computing.
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2nd Conference on Drug Development for the Third World 2009 (Trieste, Italy)

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Website: http://www.sissa.it/sbp/DDTW2009/conference.htm

2nd Conference on
Drug Development for the Third World
from Computational Molecular Biology to Experimental Approaches

International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Trieste, Italy
1-5 June 2009


The aim of the event is to bring together distinguished scientists from all over the world, and in particular from third world countries, such as Indonesia, Mexico, East Europe.

With this second edition, the Organizers intend to create a specific web site, and this Conference will serve as a platform to gather course offerings in bioinformatics, docking, biotechnology, and other computer-intensive areas.

It will also serve to link together both students and faculty, to encourage future involvement for further exchange and mutual research.

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Mathematical Neuroscience 2009 (Edinburgh, UK)

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http://icms.org.uk/workshops/mathneuro2009

Mathematical Neuroscience
Mar 23, 2009 - Mar 25, 2009
Royal Society of Edinburgh,
22-26 George Street, Edinburgh

Organisers/Name/Institution

Coombes, Stephen
University of Nottingham

Timofeeva, Yulia
University of Warwick

Training Workshop Organiser

Dr Mark van Rossum, University of Edinburgh

This is the second annual meeting of the UK Mathematical Neuroscience Network.

The network is focussed on using mathematics as the primary tool for elucidating the fundamental mechanisms responsible for experimentally observed behaviour in the applied neurosciences.

This three-day conference will provide an overview of the current state of research in mathematical approaches to neuroscience, bringing together both physical and life scientists.

Drawing together the field in this way will allow for a critical discussion of the relevant experimental facts and of various mathematical methods and techniques that have been successfully applied to date.

Importantly, it will draw attention to, and help develop, those pieces of mathematical theory which are likely to be relevant to future studies of the brain.

The meeting will consist of invited speakers, core members and registered participants. In addition, the schedule will allow for a number of poster presentations.

This event is sponsored by the EPSRC via the UK Mathematical Neuroscience Network

Invited speakers

Ad Aertsen
Michael Breakspear
Carson Chow
Geoff Goodhill
Vincent Hakim
Viktor Jirsa
Carlo Laing
Peter Latham
Andre Longtin
Stefano Panzeri
David Pinto
Horacio Rotstein
Andrey Shilnikov
Dan Tranchina
Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova
Carl Van Vreeswijk

Participation

To register your interest in attending this workshop please use this application form.

Invited speakers will receive an e-mail invitation.

Venue

The meeting will be held at the the Royal Society of Edinburgh,
22-26 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2PQ.

The Conference Room is equipped with an OHP, data projector and flipchart.

Registration

Registration will take place from 08.45 - 09.30, on Monday 23 March, in the foyer of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Registration fee

The registration fee for this meeting is 80.00 GBP.

Meals and Refreshments Morning and afternoon refreshments will be provided at the venue.

A Conference Dinner will take place on Tuesday 24 March at 19.00.

Accommodation Participants are asked to make their own accommodation arrangements. A list of Edinburgh accommodation of various sorts and prices is available here .

Financial AssistanceSome financial assistance is available to assist graduate students who attend BOTH the training workshop and the conference.. Applicants should provide a brief résumé including degrees and at least one recommendation letter explaining their suitability for the activity. The résumé and letter should be e-mailed to Irene Moore. Students requesting financial support will be notified by 6 February 2009.

Training WorkshopA one-day training workshop for PhD students and post-docs entitled “An introduction to Mathematical Neuroscience” will take place prior to the meeting on Sunday 22 March at the University of Edinburgh. This will be organised by Mark van Rossum and will comprise a series of 'primer' lectures designed to introduce the concepts that will be covered in the main conference.

The workshop will run from 12.30 until 18.00 on Sunday 22 March in the Forrest Hill Building, 5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh EH1 2QL. map

HPCC 2009 (Seoul, Korea)

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The 11th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-09)

http://www.sersc.org/HPCC2009

June 25-27, 2009
Korea University, Seoul, Korea

Distinguished papers accepted and presented in HPCC 2009, after further revisions, will be published in the special issues of the following international journals:

Journal of Supercomputing (JoS) - Springer (SCI)
Computers & Mathematics with Applications (CMA) - Elsevier (SCI)
The Knowledge Engineering Review (KER) - Cambridge University Press (SCI)
Computer Communications (CC) - Elsevier (SCI-E)
Journal of Internet Technology (JIT)- Ministry of Education , Taiwan (SCI-E)
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CC&PE) - John Wiley & Sons (SCI-E)
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing (JIM) - Springer (SCI-E)

With the rapid growth in computing and communications technology, the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of powerful parallel and distributed systems and an ever increasing demand for practice of high performance computing and communications (HPCC). HPCC has moved into the mainstream of computing and has become a key technology in determining future research and development activities in many academic and industrial branches, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with very tight timing schedules.
The HPCC-2009 conference is the 11th edition of the highly successful International Conference on High Performance and Communications(HPCC). It provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications.
HPCC-09 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), previously held as HPCC-08 (DaLian, China, September 2008), HPCC-07 (Houston, USA, September 2007), HPCC-06 (Munich, Germany, September 2006), HPCC-05 (Naples, Italy, September 2005), HPCN-04 (Tokyo, Japan, December 2004), PACT-SHPSEC03 (New Orleans, USA, September 2003), PACT-SHPSEC02 (Charlottesville, USA, September 2002), HPCA-01 (Nova Scotia, Canada, November 2001), HPNCA-00(Delft, The Netherlands, May 2000), HPNCA-99 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 1999).

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HiCOMB 2009 (Rome, Italy)

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HiCOMB 2009
Eighth IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology
Monday, May 25, 2009 Rome, Italy
(Held in conjunction with the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium)

Website: http://www.hicomb.org/

HiCOMB Online Proceedings

HiCOMB 2009 Call For Papers

Computational Biology is fast emerging as an important discipline for academic research and industrial application. The large size of biological data sets, inherent complexity of biological problems and the ability to deal with error-prone data all result in large run-time and memory requirements. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion of latest research in developing high-performance computing solutions to problems arising from molecular biology. We are especially interested in parallel algorithms, memory-efficient algorithms, large scale data mining techniques, and design of high-performance software. The workshop will feature contributed papers as well as invited talks from reputed researchers in the field.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Bioinformatic databases
Computational genomics
Computational proteomics
DNA assembly, clustering, and mapping
Gene expression and microarrays
Gene identification and annotation
Parallel algorithms for biological analysis
Parallel architectures for biological applications
Molecular evolution
Molecular sequence analysis
Phylogeny reconstruction algorithms
Protein structure prediction and modeling
String data structures and algorithms
Submission guidelines:

Papers reporting on original research (both theoretical and experimental) in all areas of bioinformatics and computational biology are sought. Surveys of important recent results and directions are also welcome.

To submit a paper, upload a postscript or PDF copy of the paper here.

The paper should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (US Letter or A4 size) in 11pt font or larger.

All papers will be reviewed. IEEE CS Press will publish the IPDPS symposium and workshop abstracts as a printed volume. The complete symposium and workshop proceedings will also be published by IEEE CS Press on CD-ROM and will also be available in the IEEE Digital Library.

Authors of selected papers from the workshop will be invited to
submit extended versions of their papers for publication in a
special issue of a reputed journal.

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
on High-Performance Computational Biology

Important Dates

Workshop Paper Due:

November 30, 2008 (Extended Deadline)

Author Notification:

December 25, 2008

Camera-ready Paper Due:
February 15, 2009

Workshop Co-Chairs
Srinivas Aluru Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engg. and Lawrence H. Baker

Center for Bioinformatics & Biological Statistics Iowa State University 3227 Coover Hall Ames, IA 50011, USA Phone: +1.515.294.3539Email:
aluru@iastate.edu

David A. Bader
College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332 USA Phone: +1.404.894.3152 Email:


bader@cc.gatech.edu
Program Chair
Michela TauferDept. of Computer and Information Sciences University of Delaware 103 Smith Hall Newark, DE 19716 USA Phone: +1.302.831.0071 Email:


taufer@acm.org
Program Committee
Dmitry A. Afonnikov, Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk and Novosibirsk State University (Russia)
Pratul K. Agarwal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA)
Nancy Amato, Texas A&M University (USA)
Roger Armen, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (USA)
Georg Fuellen, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald (Germany)
Concettina Guerra, Georgia Tech (USA) and University of Padova (Italy)
Ming-Ying Leung, University of Texas at El Paso (USA)
Mark Miller, San Diego Supercomputer Center (USA)
Aiichiro Nakano, University of South California (USA)
Sandeep Patel, University of Delaware (USA)
Geppino Pucci, University of Padova (Italy)
Jacques Rougemont, EPFL (Switzerland)
Alexandros Stamatakis, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Germany)
Bertil Schmidt, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
Heiko Schroder, RMIT University (Australia)
John Stone, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
Wing-Kin Sung, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
Jim Tisdall, DuPont (USA)
Chau-Wen Tseng, University of Maryland, College Park (USA)
For up-to-date information about this workshop, please visit http://www.hicomb.org/.
Call for Papers for HiCOMB 2009:
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