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Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (C-SHALS)

Register NOW for C-SHALS 2009!

http://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/conferences/cshals2009/registration.php

With the success of the first C-SHALS Conference in 2008, the International Society for Computational Biology is happy to present C-SHALS 2009.

This conference focuses on the continued evolution of pharmaceutical applications using Semantic Technologies. We have presentations and discussions of practical semantics-based approaches to Drug R&D and Healthcare, organized along specific topics and moderated to induce interactive discussions around key questions.

This conference is valuable to anyone wishing to understand which areas of advanced in intelligent information technologies can have the greatest impact in Pharmaceutical R&D and improved Healthcare.

We've had two unrelated but equally strange events occur on two of our servers. On Thursday, users in Communications who have a large share (on RESSRV14) called noting that some of their Mac files no longer knew what program they had been created by. On the same day, Users in Pediatric Oncology (RCBIG1) reported that some of their files, which had been used normally on Thursday night, were unreadable on Friday morning. The specific files in question seemed to be a random collection -- most of them were .doc and .ppt files, but also Illustrator and other files.

Early monday morning (2:15 am, 11/17/2008), Partners is changing its DNS system. ("DNS" refers to "Domain Name Systems," servers that resolve internet names, such as "research.dfci.harvard.edu" to numbers, such as "155.52.50.28")

Most users will experience no impact.

From Ian Stokes-Rees, SBGRID:

Tomorrow [ 11/7/2008] we will be hosting Prof. Miron Livny who will be giving a talk on the current state of the Open Science Grid, the US national collaborative computing infrastructure in use by over 60 research centers and universities across the country, with a combined capacity of over 30,000 cores and petabytes of distributed storage.