FP7 project SCI-BUS searches for subcontractors
The SCI-BUS (Scientific gateway Based User Support) project is looking for 6 subcontractors. The subcontractors are expected to bring in new user communities preferably with an application area and segment of community which is not yet covered by any project consortium member. The task of subcontractors will be to develop their application-specific gateways and to contribute to the dissemination of the SCI-BUS technology through their user communities.
Cloudscape IV - Advances in Interoperability and Cloud Computing Standards
http://www.sienainitiative.eu/Pages/SelectedDocument.aspx?id_documento=c...
cloudsv2.JPGCloudscape IV focuses strongly on interoperability and portability issues with the involvement of key Standard Development Organizations as part of a call for action to strengthen international cooperation to address global challenges. Cloudscape IV also shines the spotlight on the reusable assets of European Distributed Computing Infrastructures and the need to foster synergies beyond the typical research infrastructure landscape.
Job advert - grid position available
This major research programme, funded by Cancer Research UK, brings together expertise from three departments in the University of Cambridge: Oncology, Engineering, and Physics, also within the medical physics, radiotherapy and clinical groups in Addenbrooke's Hospital.
CFP: Free Workshop on Science Applications and Infrastructure in Clouds and Grids
The purpose of this workshop is to investigate cloud and grid framework software efforts and applications in greater detail, exploring ways in which cloud resources are being used to complement or supplement resources from traditional grids, supercomputing, and local cluster resources for science.
Prospective participants are invited to submit brief abstracts and to request special topics for consideration if so inclined. Topics include:
SSI Collaborations Workshop 2012 - registration now open!
The Collaborations Workshop gets researchers and software developers working together to solve research problems. If you’re a researcher who wants to make more of software, or a developer who wants to work with researchers, the workshop is the perfect opportunity to meet new collaborators. The Collaborations Workshop will be held on 21-22 March at Queen’s College, Oxford and registration is now open. For more information, visit the Collaborations Workshop website.
NGS Seminar Series February 2012
The NGS will be hosting a short online seminar series at the beginning of February highlighting the recent developments in the UK for accessing and managing grid resources. The seminars are aimed at interested parties from the grid community and further afield who are interested in access management. The seminars will be broadcast online on Wednesday mornings at 10.30am (GMT) and will last for 30mins with an opportunity for questions. They will also be recorded and be available after the event.
International Symposium on Grids & Clouds (ISGC) 2012
Online registration is now open for the International Symposium on Grids and Clouds (ISGC) 2012 which will be held at Academia Sinica in Taipei, from 26 February to 2 March 2012, with co-located events and workshops. The conference is hosted by the Academia Sinica Grid Computing Centre (ASGC), Taipei, Taiwan. To enjoy the early bird discount rate, please register before 20 January, 2012!
Data-Intensive Computing in Biology
https://eventbooking.stfc.ac.uk/news-events/data-intensive-computing-in-...
cecamdatalogo.jpgA major theme of modern biology is the quantity and wealth of data available: the data deluge. Computational biologists need to be able to handle very large datasets, and to extract useful information and derive knowledge. Example applications include sequencing, metagenomics, proteomics, imaging and neuroscience.
Methods in Molecular Simulation Summer School 2012
The summer school will take place at Cardiff University, July 22 - July 31 2012. Organised by CCP5 and sponsored by the CECAM organisation, this School is intended for newcomers to the science of molecular simulation and will provide a comprehensive introduction to the methodology, practical sessions on computational methods and examples of the power and versatility of simulation methods.
Call for Workshops
The 8th IEEE eScience conference (e-Science 2012), sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee for Scalable Computing (TCSC), will be held in Chicago Illinois from 8-12th October 2012. The eScience 2011 conference is designed to bring together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies.
Social Science and Digital Research: Interdisciplinary Insights
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/?id=486
Oxford2.jpgThe research councils, including the ESRC's Digital Social Research Programme, have sought to bring the social sciences to bear on the study of how academic disciplines in the sciences, social sciences and humanities are leveraging digital tools and data to advance research. Over the last decade, efforts to embed computing within research across academic disciplines have operated under various banners: e-science, cyberinfrastructure, e-research, digital humanities, digital social research, e-social science, and others.
Computer Simulations of Biological Molecules on the NGS
There is a new case study now available from the NGS website on the use of NGS resources to NGS resources to try and understand how biological molecules perform their functions.
Sarah Harris from the University of Leeds has most recently used the NGS to study the fragmentation of long filamentous structures formed from aggregated proteins which are known as amyloid fibrils. These are associated with a number of degenerative diseases in humans including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and type II diabetes.
Christmas cover at the NGS
As we approach the Christmas and New Year holiday we would like to give advance notice of the support cover that will be available for the central NGS services.
These services include:
Help Desk - CA and RA interfaces - Myproxy - Wiki - BDII - Conformance testing (INCA) - Portal - Sarongs - GSISSHTerm - Certificate Wizard - UI/WMS – UAS - GOCDB - Site services at Oxford, Leeds, Manchester and STFC RAL.
The levels of cover are as follows:
Christmas edition of NGS News is out now!
The latest edition of the NGS newsletter is now available to download. This quarters edition contains articles on -
STFC graduate scheme vacancies now open
The STFC are seeking graduates with good degrees in engineering (mechanical, electrical, software and especially electronics and microelectronics), physics and computing science to join their graduate programme at research establishments at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford and the Daresbury Laboratory in Warrington and the UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Edinburgh.
NGS resources aid Arabic Corpus Digitisation
There is a new case study now available from the NGS website on the use of NGS resources to accelerate the processing of a large corpus of Arabic words.
Majdi used the NGS to gain a massive reduction in processing time for his research. He divided the Arabic Web Corpus into half-million-word files and then wrote a program that generates scripts to run the processing for each file in parallel. By using the NGS he massively reduced the execution time of processing the 176M-word corpus to only 5 days.
AHM 2010 papers available now
Selected papers from the 9th e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM 2010), held in September 2010 in Cardiff, are now available as a special issue of the British journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. The journal is free to access until 31st December 2011.
