NEWSLETTER
Issue 29, March 2005
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OGSA-DAI Chosen for caBIG
Following an extensive, in-depth evaluation, the US National Cancer Institute
Center for Bioinformatics (NCICB) has chosen to use OGSA-DAI for its Cancer
Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) prototype project, taking place across fifty
sites in order to integrate data from cancer research as part of the National
Institutes for Health (NIH) fight against cancer. It was found that the rich,
extensible support for service metadata expression in OGSA-DAI meant that
it perfectly suited the needs of caBIG. More information about CaBIG can be
found on the website:
http://cabig.nci.nih.gov/
OGSA-DAI (Open Grid Services Architecture Data Access and Integration) is
the result of a partnership between NeSC, EPCC, the universities of Manchester
and Newcastle and IBM. More information can be found at:
http://www.ogsadai.org.uk/
Forthcoming Events
March 2005
Wed 2 Mar
e-Research within The University of
Edinburgh
Thu 3 Mar - Fri 4 Mar
GridSphere and Portlets workshop
Mon 7 Mar - Thu 10 Mar
“From Actions to Experiment” The
2nd International Lattice Field Theory
Network Workshop
Tue 15 Mar - Thu 17 Mar
5th annual Dependability IRC
workshop
Mon 21 Mar - Tue 22 Mar
The Accessibilty e-Olympics
UK Globus Week
Staff News
Following the success of our 2003
tutorials on Globus Toolkit 3, we are
pleased to announce Globus Week,
to be held at NeSC on April 4 to 8,
supported by Dr. Carl Kesselman
and the Globus Team from Argonne
National Laboratory and the University
of Southern California/ ISI. This event
is sponsored by the National e-Science
Centre (NeSC). The meeting will
communicate the latest status of
Globus software and to enable
intense conversation between Globus
developers and users concerning
future directions for open source Grid
software. More information about this
event can be found on the website:
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/519/
This month we welcome Dr Kostas
Tourlas, who joins NeSC with the
DAIT project, Mr Boon Low, who joins
the EGEE Training team, Mr Stephen
Davey, the Software Architect for
NextGRID and Mr David Bon who
replaces Andy Sullivan as Finance
Officer. We hope they all enjoy their
time here. Edikt loses two staff this
month: technical architect Denise
Ecklund returns to her native USA,
and
commercialisation
manager
Charles Gadalla returns to his home
country of Canada. We wish them
both the best of luck.
Several job vacancies are available
at NeSC, including EGEE Software
Developer/Trainer
and
Accounts
Officer (part-time).
You can find
details of these, and e-Science
vacancies in the UK and world-wide,
at the website:
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/career
GGF 13
April 2005
Participants get involved during February’s Atlas
UK Training Course at NeSC. More details can
be found on the website. Photo: NeSC
The thirteenth Global Grid Forum will
be hosted by KISTI and GFK and take
Mon 4 Apr - Fri 8 Apr
place on 13th-16th March, 2005 in
UK Globus Week
Seoul, Korea.
NeSC Contact Details
All Workshops, Working Group,
Mon 11 Apr - Tue 12 Apr
Research Group sessions and Birds- If you would like to hold an e-Science
NextGRID Project Appraisal
of-a-Feather sessions will take place event at the e-Science Institute, please
at the Hotel Lotte. Seoul. Registration contact the Conference Manager at:
Thu 21 Apr - Fri 22 Apr
for the event can be made on-line, at
National e-Science Centre,
EPSRC e-Science Meeting 2005
the GGF website:
15 South College Street,
http://www.globalgridforum.org/
Edinburgh,
Tue 26 Apr - Thu 28 Apr
Meetings/GGF13/reg.htm
EH8 9AA
The PRISM Forum Meeting
United Kingdom
For more information about this event,
Note: NeSC will close for public holidays including the daily schedules, please
Tel: 0131 650 9833
on Friday, 25th March and Monday 18th see the website:
Fax: 0131 650 9819
April, 2005.
www.ggf.org/
Email:events@nesc.ac.uk
NEWS EXTRA
Issue 29, March 2005
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(CCGrid 2005) Call for Participation
The Cluster Computing and Grid conference will take place on 9th-12th May
2005 in Cardiff, UK.
Commodity-based clusters and Grid computing technologies are rapidly
developing, and are key components in the emergence of a novel servicebased fabric for high capability computing. Cluster-powered Grids not only
provide access to cost-effective problem-solving power, but also promise to
enable a more collaborative approach to the use of distributed resources, and
new economic products and services.
CCGrid2005, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society is designed to bring
together international leaders who are pioneering researchers, developers,
and users of clusters, networks, and Grid architectures and 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/
AHM2005: Call for
Abstracts
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/
GOSC/NGS Newsletter
The second issue of the Grid
Operations Support Centre & National
Grid Service Newsletter is now
available, covering GOSC development
plans for Certificate Authority Upgrade,
OGSA-DAI on the Manchester NGS
Node, user case studies and updates.
Additional contact details and the
address of the GOSC can be found on
the website at
http://www.grid-support.ac.uk
Submission of news for future
newsletters should be sent with the
subject of ‘NEWSLETTER’ to:
support@grid-support.ac.uk
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.
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