From jim at well.com Wed Nov 18 17:52:38 2009 From: jim at well.com (jim) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:52:38 -0800 Subject: BayPIGgies meeting Thursday November 19, 2009: Python in Computational Biology and Chemistry Message-ID: <1258563158.8131.48.camel@jim-laptop> (NOTE: Because of Thanksgiving, BayPIGgies meets in November on the third, not the fourth, Thursday of the month. And next month BayPIGiges will meet on December 14: the second MONDAY of the month.) BayPIGgies meeting Thursday November 19, 2009: Tonight's talk is * Python in Computational Biology and Chemistry by Andrew Dalke Meetings start with a Newbie Nugget, a short discussion of an essential Python feature, especially for those new to Python. Tonight's Newbie Nugget: chaining operators LOCATION Symantec Corporation Symantec Vcafe 350 Ellis Street Mountain View, CA 94043 http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&ei=w6i_Sfr6MZmQsQOzlv0v&hl=en&t=h&msa=0&msid=116202735295394761637.00046550c09ff3d96bff1&ll=37.397693,-122.053707&spn=0.002902,0.004828&z=18 BayPIGgies meeting information is available at http://www.baypiggies.net/ ------------------------ Agenda ------------------------ ..... 7:30 PM ........................... General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, any first-minute announcements. ..... 7:35 PM to 7:40 PM ................ Newbie Nugget: chaining operators ..... 7:40 PM to 8:45 PM (or so) ................ Python in Computational Biology and Chemistry by Andrew Dalke Andrew will describe how Python is used in molecular modeling, bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, and related fields. Wait! Don't leave! You're not a researcher in these fields and he knows it. He's going to give a taste of what the underlying problems are in some of those subfields, an idea of what Python tools are available and describe a few of the reasons why sometimes Perl, FORTRAN, or another language is the dominate language for that some that domain. There will be some colorful pictures. He'll also include a bit of what it's like to be a software developer in a scientific field. LINKS: http://dalkescientific.com/writings/ ..... 8:45 PM to 9:20 PM ................ Mapping and Random Access Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of issues, hiring, events, and other topics. Random Access follows immediately to allow follow up individually on the announcements and other interests. From lgj at usenix.org Tue Nov 24 20:29:24 2009 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:29:24 -0800 Subject: IPTPS '10 CFP Message-ID: On behalf of the 9th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '10) program committee, we are inviting you to submit engaging position papers on the current and future trends in peer-to-peer systems. Co-located with NSDI '10 in San Jose, CA, this one-day workshop provides a venue in which to present and discuss peer-to-peer technologies, applications, and systems and to identify key research issues and challenges that lie ahead. This year, the workshop's charter will be expanded to include topics relating to self-organizing and self-managing distributed systems. This is in response to recent trends where self-organizing techniques proposed in early peer-to-peer systems have found their way into more managed settings such as datacenters, enterprises, and ISPs to help deal with growing scale, complexity, and heterogeneity. In the context of this year's workshop, peer-to-peer systems are defined to be large-scale distributed systems that are mostly decentralized, are self-organizing, and might or might not include resources from multiple administrative domains. Papers will be selected based on originality, likelihood of spawning insightful discussion, and technical merit. The program will include presentations of position papers along with plenty of time for lively discussion among the participants, as well as a demo session for working systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Network and system support for peer-to-peer systems * Self-organizing and self-managing distributed systems * Adaptive algorithms and architectures for large-scale distributed systems * New applications and protocols for peer-to-peer systems * Availability, robustness, performance, and scaling * Security, privacy, anonymity, anti-censorship, and incentives * Lessons drawn from experience with deployed peer-to-peer systems * Measurement, modeling, and workload characterization Complete paper submissions are due Friday, December 18, 2009, 11:59 p.m. EST. For more details on the submission process, please see the complete Call for Papers at: http://www.usenix.org/iptps10/cfpa/ We look forward to receiving your submissions! Michael J. Freedman, Princeton University Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington IPTPS '10 Program Co-Chairs iptps10chairs at usenix.org --------------------------------- Call for Papers 9th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '10) April 27, 2010 San Jose, CA http://www.usenix.org/iptps10/cfpa/ Submissions Deadline: December 18, 2009, 11:59 p.m. EST ---------------------------------