From Jeremy.Singer at glasgow.ac.uk Mon Mar 12 09:19:43 2018 From: Jeremy.Singer at glasgow.ac.uk (Jeremy Singer) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 09:19:43 +0000 Subject: [Marionet] Manycore Newsletter #3 - Mar 2018 Message-ID: Dear MaRIONet member, This is the third in our series of network newsletters to update you about activities in the UK manycore network. Regards, Jeremy Singer ----------------------- Pervasive and UbiComp workshop in Cardiff, 14-15 March ----------------------- The EPSRC-sponsored Pervasive And Ubiquitous Computing Challenge Workshop is running in Cardiff later this week, 14-15 March 2018, with the objectives to strengthen and focus UK research activity in this area. MaRIONet will be well represented at this event. If you want us to raise any issues and lobby on behalf of the manycore community, please contact jeremy.singer at glasgow.ac.uk directly. More details at https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/puccommunityworkshopeoi/ ------------------- MaRIONet workshop in Belfast, 5 April ------------------- The ISPASS conference is hosted at Queen's University Belfast - see http://ispass.org/ispass2018/ for details. A MaRIONet workshop is running at Queen's the day afterwards, on Thu 5 April. Our plan is to spend time drawing up a list of Grand Challenges for manycore research, with the aim of producing a technical report to present to funding agencies. This workshop is an free, open event - please attend if you are available. Sign up via doodle at https://doodle.com/poll/6a6swhxxpwin62ft and start thinking about your grand challenge proposal. We will set up online access to the workshop, via Google hangouts or similar, for network members who cannot attend in person. ------------------- Summer school in Glasgow, 16-20 July - save the date. ------------------- The Manycore Summer School will be held in Glasgow, Mon 16 to Fri 20 July 2018. We have an exciting lineup of speakers, including researchers from Arm, Oracle, and Women in HPC, along with academics from Southampton, Bristol, Belfast and Princeton. The sign-up page will go live very soon - please encourage your PhD students to come along! UK-based PhD students will be granted free registration and accommodation for the week, on a first-come-first-served basis. ----------------------- Network stats ----------------------- We now have around 120 members on our mailing list, from a range of industry and academic partners. This exceeds our original target by some way, and we are still growing! Please encourage your manycore collaborators to join our network too. Ask them to mail natascha.hart at glasgow.ac.uk to subscribe to this low-traffic list. ----------------------- Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund ----------------------- Adam Luqmani from EPSRC writes: > The UK Government is now inviting suggestions to > identify the third wave of industry-led challenges in > the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. > > The expression of interest for challenges opens on > 28 February 2018, and the deadline is 18 April 2018. > This is an opportunity to influence the UK research > landscape and is well worth circulating within your networks. > > https://www.gov.uk/government/news/industrial-strategy-challenge-fund-tell-us-what-to-support --- http://manycore.org.uk Follow us on twitter at @UKManycore [University of Glasgow: The Times Scottish University of the Year 2018]