May 07, 2012
May 7 -- To encourage support from non-profit organizations and educational institutions, XSEDE12 has created four new levels of support for the annual conference, July 16-20, 2012. Non-profit and educational sponsors may choose from Platinum - $10,000, Gold - $7,500, Silver - $5,000, and Bronze - $2,500. Among the benefits associated with sponsorship are complimentary conference registration and acknowledgments in print and online, and sponsors have the opportunity to network and showcase their organizations, products, and services to an audience of technology adopters, educators, and researchers.
The inaugural XSEDE12 conference will highlight the discoveries, innovations, and achievements of those who use, build, and support XSEDE high-performance and high-throughput computing resources, as well as those involved in related endeavors around the world. The conference also is a forum for discussion of current needs and future plans among researchers, students, XSEDE staff, and National Science Foundation Representatives. XSEDE12 is a follow-on to the highly successful TeraGrid conference, which attracted computational scientists and engineers from across the country, as well as expert computer scientists and technologists who developed, deployed, and supported the advanced TeraGrid infrastructure. XSEDE12 highlights the current and ongoing work.
Details on the sponsorship levels: https://www.xsede.org/web/xsede12/be-a-sponsor
Organizations interested in sponsoring XSEDE12 should contact Kay Hunt, Sponsorship Chair, at kay@purdue.edu
ABOUT XSEDE
XSEDE, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, is the most advanced, powerful, and robust collection of integrated digital resources and services in the world. It is a single virtual system that scientists and researchers can use to interactively share computing resources, data, and expertise. XSEDE integrates the resources and services, makes them easier to use, and helps more people use them. The five-year, $121 million project is supported by the National Science Foundation, and it replaces and expands on the NSF TeraGrid project. Find XSEDE at: www.xsede.org, on Facebook and Twitter, and the XSEDE12 conference at:www.xsede.org/web/xsede12/.
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