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SC09 redux

Last week, about 11,000 people flooded Portland, Oregon to discuss the latest developments in supercomputing at SC09.

For the opening keynote, Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner introduced attendees to the 3D web. “It’s time to apply all of our High Performance Computing skills to the development, standardization and use of the 3D web,” said Rattner. “Nothing is more important to the long-term health of the HPC industry.”

Highlights of Rattner’s talk included an introduction to OpenSimulator and ScienceSim. OpenSimulator is an application server for 3D environments, and ScienceSim is a grid running OpenSimulator, dedicated to scientific applications. To demonstrate how these Second Life-like simulations could be scientifically useful, Rattner showed the audience FernLand. Conceived by Utah State University graduate student Aaron Duffy, FernLand is an attempt to simulate both the lifecycle and population genetics of ferns.

Other demos during Rattner’s keynote included a discussion of 3D fashion simulations, accurate simulations of the draping of cloth, and an audiovisual simulation of a babbling brook, generated using computational physics.

Although Rattner put on a good show, audience reaction was mixed. Twitter user simonmcs’ question, “Am I the only one who’s not convinced the ‘3D web’ is the next HPC killer app?” prompted several audience members to pipe up with their own doubts.

The Wednesday plenary was given by Lee Hood from the Institute for Systems Biology, who spoke on the emergence of predictive, personalized, preventive and participatory (P4) medicine, which is closely coupled with high-performance and high-throughput computing.

In spite of Hood’s status as a plenary speaker, his talk was somewhat anticlimactic in the face of the previous days’ Masterworks session, which featured Deepak Singh of Amazon and David Haussler from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Singh gave a summary of the computing needs of biology – and what they could mean for the future of medicine. Haussler addressed the potential of high-performance computing to reconstruct our evolutionary history.

The final keynote was given by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, on the topic of computing, energy and climate change. Audience response was largely positive. Cameron Kiddle, from the University of Calgary, the Grid Research Center, and WestGrid, wrote on Twitter, “Enjoyed the keynote by Al Gore at #SC09. He is a very good speaker – humorous at times and serious at times.”

There were, inevitably, a few naysayers. Twitter user Supercomputin09 wrote, “Whew. So, Al gives us a one and a half hour advertisement for his business mixed with weak jokes and vague aphorisms.”

As always, the exhibition floor was a colorful display of the latest in supercomputing and related fields -- more than we can tell in this space. If you want more on SuperComputing, then check out our SC09 event page, or visit the SC10 page to get a head start on planning for next year’s conference.

—Miriam Boon, iSGTW

** Please distribute the CFP widely **
** Apologies for possible cross-postings **

Call for papers
5th International Workshop on Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic
Engineering (SADFE)
Oakland, CA, USA
20 May 2010

** Paper submission Due: January 16, 2010 **

http://conf.ncku.edu.tw/sadfe/sadfe10/
or contact Dr. Endicott-Popovsky at endicott@... for
additional information.

The SADFE (Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering)
International Workshop promotes systematic approaches to computer
investigations, by furthering the advancement of digital forensic
engineering as a disciplined science and practice.

Workshop and Paper Topics

To advance the field, SADFE-2010 solicits broad-based, innovative
approaches to digital forensic engineering in the following four areas:

Digital Data and Evidence Management: advanced digital evidence
discovery, collection, and storage
? Identification, authentication and collection of digital
evidence
? Post-collection handling of evidence and the preservation of
data integrity and admissibility
? Evidence preservation, archiving and storage
? Forensic ready and compliance ready architectures and processes,
including network processes
? Managing geographically, politically and/or jurisdictionally
dispersed data artifacts
? Data and web mining systems for identification and
authentication of relevant data
? Botnet forensics
Scientific Principle-based Digital Forensic Processes: systematic
engineering processes supporting digital evidence management which are
sound on scientific, technical and legal grounds
? Legal and technical aspects of admissibility and evidence tests

? Examination environments for digital data
? Courtroom expert witness and case presentation
? Case studies illustrating privacy, legal and legislative issues

? Forensic tool validation: legal implications and issues
? Legal and privacy implications for digital and computational
forensic analysis
? Handling increasing volumes of digital discovery

Digital Evidence Analytics: advanced digital evidence analysis,
correlation, and presentation
? Advanced search, analysis, and presentation of digital evidence

? Cyber crime scenario analysis and reconstruction technologies
? Legal case construction & digital evidence support
? Cyber-crime strategy analysis & modeling
? Combining digital and non-digital evidence
? Supporting qualitative or statistical evidence
? Computational systems and computational forensic analysis

Forensic-support technologies: forensic-enabled and proactive
monitoring/response
? Forensics of embedded or non-traditional devices (e.g. digicams,
cell phones, SCADA)
? Innovative forensic engineering tools and applications
? Proactive forensic-enabled support for incident response
? Forensic tool validation: methodologies and principles
? Legal and technical collaboration
? Digital forensics surveillance technology and procedures
? "Honeypot" and other target systems for data collection and
monitoring
? Quantitative attack impact assessment

Instructions for Paper and Panel Submissions

The SADFE-2010 Program Committee invites three types of submissions:
Full papers
Full papers present mature research results. Papers accepted for
presentation at the Workshop will be included in the SADFE-2010
proceedings, which we anticipate will be published by IEEE Press.
"Work-in-Progress" short papers
These shorter papers should describe interesting developing work or
concepts in the field of digital forensic engineering. These papers
should emphasize the nature of the problem they present, potential
solution and implications/impacts to the field, in such a way that it
will engender community discussion

Posters
Describing work in progress and/or specific tools available without
charge to the research community (ie, no vendor posters should be
submitted).

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Mukaddim Pathan
Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Lab
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
The University of Melbourne
Room # 5.30a, ICT Building, 111 Barry Street
Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria 3053, Australia.
Contact: +61-3-8344 1355 (Lab); +61-433349410 (Cell)
URL: http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~apathan
E-mail: apathan@...

Dear All,

I am attending Supercomputing 2009 in Portland, OR. How many of you are here?

I would like to propose a PakGrid members get together in Portland.
Please respond.

Best Regards,

- Fawad Nazir
http://member.acm.org/~fawad.nazir

A number of PhD scholarships are available for studies at the Department of Micro- and Nanotechnology, DTU Nanotech, beginning in spring 2010. The subject of the PhD project must be within one of the main research areas of the institute:

Cleanroom based micro- and nanofabrication

Polymer micro- and nanoengineering

Synthesis and self assembly of nanostructures

Lab-on-a-chip technology

Miniaturised sensor and energy technology

Nanobiotechnology

Theory of micro- and nanosystems

Qualifications

Candidates should have (or soon obtain) a master's degree in engineering or a similar degree with an equivalent academic level. Candidates may apply prior to ob�tai�ning their master's degree, but cannot begin the PhD education before having received the grade.

Approval and Enrolment

The scholarships for the PhD degree are subject to academic approval and the candi�dates will be enrolled in one of the PhD programmes at DTU. For information about the general requirements for enrolment and the general planning of the scholarship studies, please see the DTU PhD Guide.

Salary and appoint��ment terms

The salary and appoint��ment terms are consistent with the current rules for PhD students at DTU. The position is available for a period of 3 years.

DTU needs diver�sity and supports equal opportunities irrespective of gender, age, and ethnic back�ground.

Application

We must have your online application by 18 November 2009 at the latest. Please open the link "apply for this job online", fill in the application form and attach all of the following documents:

Curriculum vitae of the applicant including a list of publications (guidelines)

A letter motivating the application (guidelines)

Grade transcripts and BSc/MSc diploma

Conversion of grade averages to Danish grades (guidelines and excel spreadsheet for the conversion)

Description of the proposed research project (guidelines) (to be attached under �Attach other relevant file�)

Endorsement by the Nanotech supervisor (guidelines) (to be attached under �Attach other relevant file�)

Further information

Further information is available at the URL www.nanotech.dtu.dk/English/Education/PhD.aspx or by contacting Education Coordinator Pernille Broen Larsen, building 345 East, room 054, phone +45 45255712, e-mail Pernille.Broen.Larsen@....

Dear All


KIndly refer my previous correspondence on E-Village Project. After very
successful E-Village Conferences in NWFP and PUNJAB in which  relevent
stakeholders from public/private organizations and specially individuals
working in Agri and livestocks business also participated. Now first SINDH
conference of E-Village has been Scheduled on 22nd November at Sheraton
Karachi.In December 2009 same conference would be held at Quetta to invite
stakeholders from Baluchistan. Followed by these four regional
conferences, an International conference on ICT for Development would be
held in Islamabad during April 2010.

For Karachi Conference on 22nd November in sheraton Karachi, participation
is strictly by invitation to persons belonging to Sinhd and Invitations
would be issued after receipt of information from interested person(s).


Conference would start at 10 AM and likely to continue upto 5 PM.
Agenda points are being prepared, any suggestion would be welcomed.
General points would be as under:-

    a) Introduction of Participants.

    b) Presentation(s) on ICT for development.

    c) Film show on some efforts in pakistan and abroad regarding
       development in rural areas through technology.

    d) Introducing "E-Village" Project.

    e) Personal experiences/ contributions of all participants.

    f) Suggestions/recommendations for economic empowerment of our rural
       population and take the power of knowledge & services at their door
       step through use of technology.

    g) Selection of Ten Members Taskforce to implement E-Village Project in
       Sindh.


    g) Declaration of Way Forward.......


In order to get registered for the Conference you are requested to provide
the following information by mail ( Ammar@... )
latest by 15th November 2009.


   1) Name

   2) Postal address

   3) cell number

   4) Email address

   5) Area of speciality/Interest.


Concept paper of the project is attached. For any
information/assistance/support kindly contact me personally.



Regards,

Ammar Jaffri
cell 0300-8551479
Ammar@...

Macquarie University PhD Research Excellence Scholarships (MQRES) - Wireless Research

Macquarie University offers competitive PhD scholarships to eligible domestic and international applicants. Eligible candidates will receive a full fee scholarship and a living allowance of around AU$20,000 per year.

1. If it is required to passively detect that if a car has a guidance system
installed on not, that is a very hard problem perhaps. By passive I mean that no
additional equipment can be installed in the car to be detected for the sole
purpose of figuring if it has a a GPS based guidance system.

The guidance systems almost entirely rely on GPS. That is they passively receive
a signal from the GP satellite. Since there is no active communication of any
sorts with another entity external to the vehicle, one can't even home in on
particular frequencies/eavesdrop etc. to detect if the car has this system or
not. However that would be different for a GPS + Tracking system but even in
that case mostly the communication with the base station is with a secure GSM
connection.

2. If some hardware can be installed or at least the car to be tracked/detected
can establish a communication link (via GSM phone chip like they do with
tracking systems) then there are a few possibilities. For example the car
computer (installed in most of the fuel injected vehicles these days) may be
able to tell if the guidance system has been installed. You may want to look at
diagnostic codes generated by engine car computers.

An invasive way to do it would be by fooling the vehicle into locking on a false
GPS signal but I am not an expert in that area and don't know if it can be done.
It does have moral implications like what if the vehicle veers of course, falls
in a ditch, loss of life etc. Also if at that particular moment the navigation
system is switched off then again there is no way to knwo for sure if the car
didn't follow the new GPS signal or it just didn't have the system.

Another crude way would be if a picture of the dashboard of the vehicle could be
taken and scanned for GPS, vehicle tracking etc. but again this is easy to fool
and hard to rely on.

Finally one could look at any peculiar raditaion pattenrs or digital signals
emmitted by the chips used in navigation/tracking systems. Again if the vehicle
is switched/powered off then there is no way to tell.


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> �
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> Need solution to the following Problem
> �
> " A car is moving with a Route Guidance System in it. The objective is to
detect electronically if it possess this system"
> �
> Route guidance system or automatic guidance system used in cars to guide
through the destination.
> �
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> NUST
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GPS based Guidance systems usually don't have transmitters (RF,GSM/GPRS or any
other) only very few come with built in GSM/CDMA modem. As GPS receiver is
passive so according to me it is not possible to detect that if there is any GPS
receiver present in car.

In order for navigation system to report about itself to some destination server
it needs to have any type of connectivity via some modem or internet link (Can
be via internet sharing via cellphone Bluetooth, any usb modem connected to
navi-system etc).
It should have an application that sends either SMS or some packet via internet
having such information(status).

Other option is to interface navigation system with Tracker (Vehicle tracking
device) and tracker reports navigation device attachment status in its general
report. Let me know if you need such type of implementation, I can refer you to
someone in TEKLINX, a local R&D company which has designed and are manufacturing
tracking devices.

Regards,
Sarfraz Ahmed


--- In pakgrid@yahoogroups.com, Hussain Ali <hussainali.hussainali@...> wrote:
>
> Assumption:
> 1) Car having root guidance system must have GPS Tracking as well.
> 2) GPS system allows you to do some programming.
>
> Might be solution:
> When a tracker tracks a car having GPS system. Car can give an additional
> information of 1 bit to state that it has route system installed or not.
> like 0 for no-route system and 1 for route system.
>
>
> Kindly forgive me if this is totally a wrong idea because I am not a
> computer programmer, just thought it generic.
>
> Hussain Ali
>
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> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Adnan Khan <adkhan100@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  Need solution to the following Problem
> >
> > " A car is moving with a Route Guidance System in it. The objective is to
> > detect electronically if it possess this system"
> >
> > Route guidance system or automatic guidance system used in cars to guide
> > through the destination.
> >
> > reply at adkhan100@... please
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Dr Adnan Khan
> > NUST
> >
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