NEWSLETTER
Issue 25, November 2004
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www.nesc.ac.uk
Digital Curation Centre Launched In Edinburgh
Formally launched in Edinburgh on 5th November, 2004, the DCC is charged
with raising awareness and providing practical tools and support to a new
breed of digital curators, drawn from research units, archives, libraries and
computing centres. The first of its kind, the Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
has been set up to meet the needs of the research community in making a
concerted effort to secure its investment in digital data. Funded by the Joint
Information Systems Committee, (JISC) and the e-Science core programme,
the DCC is run by a consortium of institutions (University of Edinburgh
(lead partner) and the University of Glasgow, UKOLN, at the University of
Bath; the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils).
For further information, please visit:
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=3255
Forthcoming Events
Staff News
November 2004
Wed 24 Nov - Thu 25 Nov
BBSRC Bioinformatics and e-Science
Grant Holder’s Workshop
Thu 25 Nov - Fri 26 Nov
BioSimGRID Annual Meeting
Thu 25 Nov
e-Fungi Project Meeting
Tue 30 Nov - Wed 1, Dec
e-Science and Data Mining
December 2004
The DCC was opened by the former Principal of
Edinburgh University, Lord Sutherland of Houndwood. Photo: NeSC
Prof. Miron Livny gave a talk for last month’s
Condor Week at NeSC.
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/
SC2004 UK eScience Talks &
Demonstrations
SC2004 is taking place between 612 November 2004 in Pittsburgh,
Thu 2 Dec
USA, expected to attract over 6000
SC4DEVO-2 Astronomy Day
participants from around the world.
The UK e-Science programme is
Fri 3 Dec
again providing a demonstration and
5th International Lattice Data Grid
auditorium space to showcase UK
Workshop
activities in the exhibitor hall, between
9-11 November.
Mon 6 Dec - Wed 8 Dec
The talks in the auditorium include
Biodiversity Grid
overviews of the UK e-Science
Programme and details on projects
Tue 14 Dec - Wed 15 Dec
ranging from Particle Physics to
AstroGrid Consortium Meeting
commercial applications of the Grid, all
broadcast via Access Grid.
Wed 15 Dec
Twelve projects are demonstrated
DAIT Technical Review Board Meeting on the stand, throughout the
exhibition,
covering
applications
such as BioInformatics, Astronomy,
Note: NeSC will be closed for Christmas Engineering,
Systems
Biology,
and New Year from 24th December and Healthcare and Aerospace, as well as
will reopen on 5th January, 2005
technological advances such as Grid
Markets and Remote Visualisation.
More details can be found at:
More information is available at:
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/events/sc2004/
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/events
We bid farewell to Alan Gray from
Edikt, who leaves the project after
two years, and wish him the best of
luck in his new employment. There
are several new arrivals at NeSC this
month, including: Steve Thorn and
Mohammed Abdi, both of whom join
the Systems team; Fraser Martin,
working for DCC. Also joining us this
month is Yvonne Anderson, replacing
Laurette Young at reception.
New job vacancies at NeSC are
available.
The DAIT project is
advertising for a Software Engineer
and the ESLEA project has openings
for a Project Manager and a Software
Engineer. Details of these, as well as
e-Science vacancies across the UK
and world-wide are found at:
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/career
Glasgow Access Grid
If you would like to book time on the
AG, please contact Susan Andrews on
0141 330 8648
andrewsm@dcs.gla.ac.uk
NeSC Contact Details
If you would like to hold an e-Science
event at the e-Science Institute, please
contact the Conference Manager at:
National e-Science Centre,
15 South College Street, Edinburgh,
EH8 9AA United Kingdom
Tel: 0131 650 9833
Fax: 0131 650 9819
Email:events@nesc.ac.uk
NEWS EXTRA
Issue 25, November 2004
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Blue Gene Arrives
NeSC Services
The University-based Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), in
partnership with IBM, has secured the first IBM Blue Gene supercomputer to
run in Europe. It will help chemists, biologists, physicists and environmental
modellers to attack complex problems that cannot be solved on existing
machines. The largest Blue Gene is recognised as the world’s fastest computer
by the Top500 Supercomputer Sites list.
http://www.top500.org
Jobs
Our jobs page shows e-Science
vacancies across the UK. To add
a position to this page, please mail
Susan Andrews:
andrewsm@dcs.gla.ac.uk
The new computer at EPCC will give British research and industry affordable
access to the computing capacity they need to address their most demanding
challenges. It will also ensure that the University of Edinburgh maintains its
lead in computational science. Traditionally, greater computing speeds have
been produced by shrinking the hardware components. But now this process
is close to reaching its physical limits and the quest for speed must take a
new approach. Blue Gene’s revolutionary design shrinks cost, size and energy
consumption without compromising speed: its performance-to-price ratio is
unprecedented. Director of Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, Dr Arthur
Trew, said: “EPCC’s mission is to accelerate the effective exploitation of high
performance computing. This development will help us deliver real benefits to
our users. It also ensures that EPCC will continue to be the premier centre
for computational science in Europe. The eServer Blue Gene is part of our
ongoing drive to challenge the extreme frontiers of computational science. It is
a novel, disruptive technology which, by taking a radically different approach
to computer design, gives us far greater power than we could previously have
hoped for.”
More information can be found at:
http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk
Technical Report series
The UK e-Science Technical Report
series is available for publishing
reports from any UK source. We
organise the review of candidate
reports, and welcome offers of reports
and of help with reviewing.
e-Science Projects
NeSCForge
NeSCForge is a SourceForgelike facility for supporting project
development.
Projects Database
The
Projects
database
stores
information about e-Science projects.
Please help us keep this up to date by
sending additions and corrections
to Susan Andrews.
eSI Visitor Programme
eSI runs a programme for visiting researchers. Their visit must be based at
eSI, but we encourage visitors to help organise workshops and to visit other
e-Science Centres. Please talk to our Research Manager Dave Berry, or the
Director Malcolm Atkinson if you would like to suggest potential visitors. You
can also email visitors@nesc.ac.uk with any suggestions.
Further Information
For more information about any NeSC services, please check the NeSC web
site, or send an e–mail to: adminteam@nesc.ac.uk