NEWS EXTRA
Issue 30, April 2005
Back issues available on website:
www.nesc.ac.uk
Job Opportunity: ARC Research Associate
in Innovation and Emerging Technologies
CCGrid 2005 Call for
Participation
The Cluster Computing and Grid
conference will take place on 9th-12th
May 2005 in Cardiff, UK. CCGrid2005,
sponsored by the IEEE Computer
Society is designed to bring together
pioneering researchers, developers,
and users of clusters, networks, and
Grid applications. The symposium
will also serve as a forum to present
the latest work, and highlight related
activities from around the world. More
information can be found at:
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/ccgrid2005/
Supporting
UK e-Science
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
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.
Back issues available on website:
www.nesc.ac.uk
Registration for CSC2005, taking place from 4th-17th September 2005 in Saint
Malo, France, is now open. Programme highlights for this year’s event include:
GRID Technologies, delivering unique theoretical and hands-on education
on some of the most advanced GRID topics; Software Technologies, which
will address the most relevant modern techniques and tools for large scale,
distributed software development; and Physics Computing, which focuses on
the particular challenges the HEP community is facing for the LHC computing.
CSC2005 is organised by CERN in collaboration with the CEA / Saclay.
More information, including details about how to apply, can be found at the
website:
http://csc.web.cern.ch/CSC/
Forthcoming Events
April 2005
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 international
visitors. 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 of
these services, please check the
NeSC web site, or send an e–mail to:
adminteam@nesc.ac.uk
VLDB Workshop: Data
Management in Grids
Participants at the National Grid Services event
held in March at NeSC.
More details on the website.
Photo: NeSC
Staff News
This month, Edikt bids farewell to
software engineer Brian Hills after two
and a half years’ service; we wish him
the best of luck. You can find details
Mon 11 Apr - Wed 13 Apr
of jobs at NeSC, as well as e-Science
NextGRID Project Appraisal
vacancies in the UK and world-wide, at
the website:
Thu 14 Apr
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/career
This year, a new workshop is organized
DAIT Technical Review Board
at VLDB’05: Data Management in
Grids, co-located with VLDB’05 in
MathWorks DPhil
Thu 14 Apr
Trondheim, Norway, on 2-3 September
SMIL and XHTML technologies for web 2005. More information can be found Studentship at Oxford
based training
at:
Ltd.
and
Oxford
http://liris.cnrs.fr/~jpierson/ MathWorks,
Fri 15 Apr
DMG_VLDB05/ University are pleased to announce
EGEE NA3 External Review
DPhil research starting in October
2005 in the Oxford University
Thu 21 Apr - Fri 22 Apr
Computing Laboratory on a topic
5th Annual
EPSRC e-Science Meeting 2005
related to parallel scientific computing
Access Grid Retreat and the Grid. Application deadline:
Tue 26 Apr - Thu 28 Apr
May 27, 2005. For details see
The PRISM Forum Meeting
The 5th Annual Access Grid Retreat http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/
nick.trefethen/studentship.html
2005 has sent out its call for
Fri 29 Apr
participation. The retreat will be held
The OMII 1 Infrastructure
on April 26-29 in California. The AG NeSC Contact Details
Retreats provide an interactive forum
May 2005
for the Access
Grid community If you would like to hold an e-Science
Tue 3 May - Thu 5 May
to share recent experiences and event at the e-Science Institute, please
UML 1.4 and WSDL course for JISC
research findings, to present ideas for contact:
e-Learning projects
future AG technical directions and to
Conference Manager
train and educate AG newcomers.
National
e-Science Centre,
Wed 4 May
15
South
College Street,
JISC Networking Committee
For more information please visit:
Edinburgh,
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/fl/
EH8 9AA
Mon 9 May - Fri 13 May
flevents/ag/agr05
events/ag/agr05/
United
Kingdom
PPARC Summer School
The call for participation can be found
Tel: 0131 650 9833
Note: NeSC will close for public holidays at:
Fax:
0131 650 9819
on Monday 18th April, and Monday and http://www.mcs.anl.gov/fl/flevents/ag/
Email:events@nesc.ac.uk
Tuesday 23rd-24th May, 2005.
agr05/AG_Retreat_2005_CFP.pdf
Mon 4 Apr - Fri 8 Apr
UK Globus Week
e-Science Projects
The fourth UK e-Science Programme
All Hands Meeting (AHM 2005) will be
held at the East Midlands Conference
Centre, Nottingham, from 19-22
September 2005. The theme of this
year’s meeting is “Innovating through
e-Science”.
Important Dates
Glasgow Access Grid
1 April: Submission deadline
20 May: Authors informed by email of If you would like to book time on the
acceptance/rejection
AG, please contact Susan Andrews on
1 July: Final camera-ready papers
0141 330 8648
due
andrewsm@dcs.gla.ac.uk
http://www.allhands.org.uk/
Issue 30, April 2005
CERN School of Computing 2005
School of Information Systems, Curtin Business School, Australia: the ARC
has funded a Linkage project in collaboration with Optus to examine the
potential of the Global Grid as ‘an Infrastructure for Innovation’. The research
builds on a collaboration with the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre
and the Computer Network Information Centre of the Chinese Academy of
Sciences that has established a Grid Computing link between Australia, China
and the UK. This infrastructure has already applied the computing power of
the Grid to analyse consumer behaviour in these markets.
http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/inwa
The Grid’s potential for supporting and sustaining the growth of new ‘virtual’
industry clusters will be explored in this research and candidates with a
relevant background in interdisciplinary research are encouraged to apply.
The post may involve research visits to Edinburgh and Beijing.
More details can be found at:
http://jobs.curtin.edu.au/positionview.cfm?positionid=5021
Alternatively, contact Professor Ashley Lloyd, Optus Chair of Electronic
Business, in the School of Informations Systems
Ashley@curtin.edu.au
AHM2005: Call for
Abstracts
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VLDB’05 (Very Large Data Bases,
http://www.vldb.org/) is the 31st
http://www.vldb.org/
Conference in the series. It is one of the
top conferences on the management
of data bases in the world.
NeSC Staff
Malcolm Atkinson
Centre Director
Anna Kenway
Centre Manager
Richard Sinnott
NeSC Technical
Director, Glasgow
John Watt
NeSC Glasgow
Jos Koetsier
BRIDGES Project
Peter Clarke
Deputy Director
Dave Berry
Research /IECnet
Manager
Susan Andrews
NeSC Glasgow
Anthony Stell
NeSC Glasgow
Arthur Trew
Deputy Director
Mark Parsons
Commercial Director
David Fergusson
Training Team
Mike Mineter
Training Team
Richard Kenway
Chairman
Andy Knox
Resident
IBM Senior Engineer
Phillip Clark
e-Science Lecturer
Robert Mann
e-Science Lecturer
Boon Low
Training Team
Jennifer Schopf
Visitor
Clive Davenhall
ESLEA Project
Colin Greenwood
ESLEA Project
Micha Bayer
BRIDGES Glasgow
Rob Baxter
Edikt Project Manager
Rob Carroll
Edikt Project
Richard Hopkins
Training Team
Bob Gibbins
Edikt Project
Stephen Rutherford
Edikt Project
Guy Warner
Training Team
Kostas Tourlas
DAIT Project
Kostas Karasavvas
DAIT Project
Ted Qingying Wen
Edikt Project
Oliver Malham
Applications
Barney Garrett
ESLEA Project
David McNicol
Systems Manager
Gill Maddy
Conference Manager
John Allen
GridQTL
Steve Thorn
Systems Admin
Lee Callaghan
Conference Admin
Stephen Davey
NextGRID
Mark Pellegrini
Systems Support
Yvonne Anderson
Reception
Iain Soutar
Systems Support
Jennifer Hurst
Senior Secretary
Terry Rodgers
Edikt