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Everything is ready to welcome the participants of the GISELA-CHAIN Conference to be held in Mexico City from June 27 to 30. With the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) as host, this activity will bring together representatives from Europe and Latin America to discuss the latest trends in e-Infrastructure available to scientific research and educational environments. The meeting place will be the Unidad de Seminarios Dr. Ignacio Chávez, Vivero Alto, Jardines del Pedregal (UNAM).

The Conference, recognized as an opportunity to learn and get up to date about the progress and possible scenarios in virtual environments that facilitate the use of scientific tools and applications, has among its main objectives: to present prominent cases of scientific communities that use the e-
Infrastructure and discuss policies and plans for the long-term sustainability of Advanced Computer Services in Latin America.

The activity will bring together technicians, developers, researchers and authorities in charge of elaborating the various experiences that have been generated around technologies that support the use of distributed computing resources to optimize the scientific research platform. Discussions will center on: the regional model to support advanced computing services, the use of the e-Infrastructure, technological advances to facilitate the use of resources and the challenges for the appropriation of the tools available.

The GISELA-CHAIN Conference is a planned activity within the Project Grid Initiatives for e-Science virtual communities in Europe and Latin America -GISELA- co-funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission (FP7). The activity is jointly organized by the UNAM, the Latin American Cooperation of Advanced Networks -RedCLARA-, the University Corporation for Internet Development in Mexico -CUDI- and the European project CHAIN, whose purpose is precisely to harmonize efforts between Europe and the rest of world on the issue of grid technology in order to ensure coordination and interoperability of infrastructures in various parts of the world.

To know more about the event visit: http://indico.ceta-ciemat.es//conferenceDisplay.py?confId=26

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