egee: Latest News http://news.eu-egee.com/ Latest News en Tue, 11 May 2010 11:11:00 +0200 EGI appointments announced http://news.eu-egee.com/index.php?id=193&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=158&cHash=239a84bf5f http://news.eu-egee.com/index.php?id=193&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=158&cHash=239a84bf5f The beginning of May saw the start of full-time operations at EGI.eu with the following... The beginning of May saw the start of full-time operations at EGI.eu with the following appointments announced:

* Steven Newhouse, Director
* Catherine Gater, Chief Administrative Officer and Dissemination Manager
* Tiziana Ferrari, Chief Operations Officer
* Stephen Brewer, Chief Community Officer
* Rob van der Meer, Organisation Manager
* Sergio Andreozzi, Policy Development Manager
* Gergely Sipos, User Community Support Team
* Els Dekker, Administrative Support Team

All of these will be starting in Amsterdam over the next few months.

The position of Chief Technology Officer/Technical Manager, and positions on  the User Community Support and Policy Development Teams remain open. Further details can be found at http://www.egi.eu/about/jobs/.

]]> Project home Tue, 11 May 2010 11:11:00 +0200 EGI-Inspire launches! http://news.eu-egee.com/index.php?id=193&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=157&cHash=3826298e37 http://news.eu-egee.com/index.php?id=193&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=157&cHash=3826298e37 Beginning 1 May 2010 the new European project, EGI-Inspire, stepped into the position of... Beginning 1 May 2010 the new European project, EGI-Inspire, stepped into the position of coordinating the European Grid Infrastructure. This grid infrastructure, assembled through three stages of the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE, is the world's largest public production grid infrastructure.

While for users this transition should be largely unnoticed (the contacts and tools for operations and support all remain the same) the change is an important step in providing the European research community with a distributed computing infrastructure for many years to come.

Future information will be posted on http://www.egi.eu/.

]]> Project home Mon, 03 May 2010 14:33:00 +0200 Register now for INGRID 2010 http://news.eu-egee.com/index.php?id=193&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=156&cHash=dbc762b542 http://news.eu-egee.com/index.php?id=193&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=156&cHash=dbc762b542 INSTRUMENTING THE GRID (INGRID2010) 12-14 May, 2010 Poznan, Poland http://www.ingrid.cnit.it Registration for INGRID2010 - INSTRUMENTING THE GRID workshop is open now.

Workshop scope:

A number of science, industry and commerce problems which require broad international cooperation may be addressed by using sophisticated equipment and top-level expertise. Therefore, the development and dissemination of techniques and technologies that allow virtualized, remote and shared access to industrial or scientific instruments are essential for the progress of society. The possibility of using scientific or industrial equipment independently of their physical location helps towards equality of opportunity for and unification of communities, and subsequently provides new opportunities for industry, science, and business.

Registration form is available here.

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Co-located, the DORII Summer School will take place May 10-11, 2010. Registration is also open now.

More information here. 

]]> Project home Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:12:00 +0200 EUAsiaGrid Dissemination Conference: 21-23 June 2010 http://news.eu-egee.com/index.php?id=193&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=155&cHash=2c7432f953 http://news.eu-egee.com/index.php?id=193&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=155&cHash=2c7432f953 EUAsiaGrid Dissemination Conference 21-23 June 2010 Activity Centre of Academia Sinica Taipei,... All partners and players in projects related to EUAsiaGrid are invited to take part in this event as we share our joint achievements. EUAsiaGrid has been acting as a support action, spreading dissemination, providing training courses, supporting scientific applications and monitoring the results during these 2 project years. The project not only paved the way towards an Asian e-Science Grid Infrastructure, but also made good use from the existing global Grid technologies, with the specific emphasis on the European experience of the gLite middleware and applications deployed.

The theme for the EUAsiaGrid Dissemination Conference will focus on the applications that the project carries, which includes the applications on Earthquake, Biomedicines, Climate Change, Computational Chemistry, Humanities & Social Science and Cultural Heritage. Learn more at: http://indico.twgrid.org/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=872.

]]> Project home Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:45:00 +0200 ROD Teams Workshop June 1st-2nd 2010 Amsterdam http://news.eu-egee.com/index.php?id=193&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=154&cHash=94815516a2 http://news.eu-egee.com/index.php?id=193&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=154&cHash=94815516a2 On June 1st and 2nd 2010 there will be a workshop for ROD (regional operator on duty) teams held in... The agenda will include the following topics.

- Operations in EGI-InSPIRE
- Operational procedures, best practices and tools training
- Status overview of the operational tools and roadmap
- Organising your operations in EGI Inspire
- Site and NGI monitoring through Nagios.
- Transition ROCs to NGIs
- Security

More details and registration are available https://www.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=29.

We hope to welcome people who are (going to be) involved with the ROD activities on behalf of your NGIs.

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]]> Project home Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:45:00 +0200 NGS event: Communicating Science – registration closes Wednesday 28th of April http://news.eu-egee.com/index.php?id=193&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=153&cHash=1aa47008b2 http://news.eu-egee.com/index.php?id=193&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=153&cHash=1aa47008b2 Interested in reaching new audiences? The NGS is hosting "Communicating Science", an... Interested in reaching new audiences? The NGS is hosting "Communicating Science", an event designed to give you the skills to communicate your work on a non-technical level, clearly and confidently.

The event is aimed at everyone who needs to get their message across be it to research peers, students and potential clients within the university community etc.

Topics covered include:

    * how to gain the attention of your desired audience
    * how to get key messages across clearly and concisely, avoiding jargon and unnecessary technical terms
    * how to write for a variety of audiences
    * making the most of networking opportunities and more.

This is the first Communication event to be organised by the NGS and this initial event only will be free of charge. There will be free transport provided from Didcot Station in the morning to STFC RAL and returning to the station in the afternoon of the event. For further travel information and to register for the event please go to the registration website (http://www.regonline.co.uk/communicating_science) before 28th April.

]]> Project home Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:06:00 +0200 As of April 30th, Goodbye EGEE and Hello EGI http://news.eu-egee.com/index.php?id=193&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=152&cHash=e75d95cc14 http://news.eu-egee.com/index.php?id=193&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=152&cHash=e75d95cc14 The Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project draws to a close at the end of this month (April 2010).... The Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project draws to a close at the end of this month (April 2010). The infrastructure it has built and nurtured will be cared for by the European Grid Initiative (website at www.egi.eu) and its supporting National Grid Initiatives (learn more here).

At last week’s 5th EGEE User Forum the EGEE community celebrated past achievements and looked forward to the infrastructures future under EGI.

Important news from the week:

http://gridtalk-project.blogspot.com/2010/04/director-of-egieu-announced.html


For more news from the conference head over to the conference blog at http://gridtalk-project.blogspot.com/.

]]> Project home Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:13:00 +0200 Streamling Live: EGEE User Forum! http://news.eu-egee.com/index.php?id=193&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=151&cHash=188de60546 http://news.eu-egee.com/index.php?id=193&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=151&cHash=188de60546 Follow the plenary sessions through GLOBAL’s live video feed! If you did not make it to Uppsala... Follow the plenary sessions through GLOBAL’s live video feed!

If you did not make it to Uppsala and the 5th EGEE User Forum, you can still watch the plenary sessions!

Join us via this link:

http://vcc.dit.upm.es/spaces/egee/events/5th-egee-user-forum

For full details on the plenary speakers today and the rest of the week, please visit:

http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=69338#20100412

]]> Project home Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:50:00 +0200 Live from Uppsala! Check out the GridCast blog http://news.eu-egee.com/index.php?id=193&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=150&cHash=17f401eea5 http://news.eu-egee.com/index.php?id=193&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=150&cHash=17f401eea5 Sharing news, photos, videos and impressions from Uppsala Stay on top of up to the minute news from EGEE’s 5th User Forum, 12-15 April. Teams from GridTalk and EGEE will be blogging live from Uppsala sharing developing news, sights, sounds, impressions, and inviting your comments. Head over to GridCast.org.

We’ll also be posting photos to Flickr (tagged “EGEEUF10”), Twittering (to tweet about the event or follow it live, use the #egee hashtag) and updating our Press Room.

We look forward to seeing you there!

]]> Project home Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:50:00 +0200 New GridBriefing released from GridTalk: "The data-centric age" http://news.eu-egee.com/index.php?id=193&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=149&cHash=f5d68bce54 http://news.eu-egee.com/index.php?id=193&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=149&cHash=f5d68bce54 From the latest GridBriefing (PDF, 3.86 MB): “It is estimated that more scientific data will be... From the latest GridBriefing (PDF, 3.86 MB):

“It is estimated that more scientific data will be generated in the next five years than in the history of mankind. But while more data provides opportunities for new discoveries and fields of inquiry it has created problems with regards to storage, curation, access and analysis. This GridBriefing provides a snapshot of the most pertinent topics resulting from the so-called data deluge.”

About GridBriefings: GridBriefings are produced by the GridTalk project. They provide timely summaries of key issues in grid computing in jargon-free language. To date they’ve covered subjects such as cloud computing , standardisation, eHealth and eHumanities. GridBriefings target policy makers as well as scientists and the general public.  Learn more at www.gridtalk.org.

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