NEWSLETTER
Issue 28, February 2005
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PV 2005 Announcement and Call for Papers
PV 2005, entitled ‘Ensuring Long-term Preservation and Adding Value to
Scientific and Technical data’ will take place on 21 - 23 November 2005, at the
Royal Society in Edinburgh. This conference is the third of a series on longterm preservation and adding value to scientific data, begun in 2002 in France.
Over the past several years the importance of this topic has been recognised
increasingly widely and the term “digital curation” has come into use which
covers similar ideas. What technological, methodological, standardizing and
economic prospects are now opening up in this field? These will be some of the
issues addressed during the symposium. It seems timely for this conference to
encourage contributions from the areas of e-Science and digital libraries, where
there is a great deal of relevant work underway. More information at:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/pv-2005
Forthcoming Events
February 2005
Thu 3 Feb
Building a Roadmap for Informatics
and eResearch in Edinburgh
Mon 7 Feb - Tue 8 Feb
ATLAS-UK e-Science Training Course
Mon 7 Feb
ScotGrid Technical Board Meeting
Wed 9 Feb
Higgs-Maxwell Particle Physics
Workshop
Thu 17 Feb - Fri 18 Feb
Introduction to the Edinburgh Mouse
Atlas and EMAGE Gene Expression
Database
Fri 18 Feb
DAIT Technical Review Board
Wed 23 Feb - Thu 24 Feb
Introduction to Web Services and the
Resource Framework (WSRF)
March 2005
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
Discussions at the Database Issues in Biological
Databases event in January. More details can
be found on the website. Photo: NeSC
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).
February sees more new arrivals at
the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh,
Ms Leena Al-Hussaini, Mr Alastair
Phipps, and Mr Clive Davenhall. We
welcome them and hope they enjoy
their time with us.
Our congratulations go to Dr John
Allen, who graduates with an MSc
in Informatics from the University of
Edinburgh. Congratulations also go to
The Globus Toolkit provides libraries Jennifer Hurst who takes on the role of
and components that enable the Senior Secretary this month.
development of service-oriented Grid
applications and infrastructures. A Several job vacancies are available at
broader Globus ecosystem includes NeSC, including the e-Infrastructure
numerous tools and components that Policy Advisor (closing date 25 Feb
build on core Globus functionality to 05).
provide application-level functions.
You can find details of these, and
Globus Toolkit version 4 (GT4), to e-Science vacancies in the UK and
be released as a beta version in world-wide, at the website:
March 2005, will provide a range
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of new services and features. In
addition, by delivering the first robust
implementation of Globus Web
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services components, GT4 completes
the first stage of the migration of Web
If you would like to hold an e-Science
services that began in 2003 with GT3.
event at the e-Science Institute, please
contact the Conference Manager at:
Thus, it is timely to convene a meeting,
National e-Science Centre,
both to communicate the latest status
15 South College Street,
of Globus software and to enable
Edinburgh,
intense conversation between Globus
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developers and users concerning
United Kingdom
future directions for open source Grid
software.
Tel: 0131 650 9833
More information about this event can
Fax: 0131 650 9819
be found on the website:
Email:events@nesc.ac.uk
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/519/
NEWS EXTRA
Issue 28, February 2005
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GEMLCA Release
The grid computing research team of the Centre for Parallel Computing at
University of Westminster is pleased to announce the first official release of
the GEMLCA tool for legacy code deployment. GEMLCA - Grid Execution
Management for Legacy Code Architecture - is downloadable from their
website (see below). GEMLCA facilitates deployment of legacy applications as
Grid services. No significant user effort is required. Applications written in any
programming language can be deployed without the need for modification or
even access to the legacy source or binary codes. GEMLCA is also integrated
with the P-GRADE Grid portal, offering a user-friendly interface for deploying,
executing and monitoring legacy applications, and for creating complex Grid
workflows from combinations of legacy and new components. GEMLCA
is implemented as a three-layer architecture. Two layers are middlewareindependent: the front-end offers a set of Grid services for Grid clients, and
the middle, core layer deals with the legacy code environment. Only the backend is Grid middleware-specific. The current GEMLCA implementation is
based on GT3, and the team is currently porting the architecture to GT4.
You can find more information on GEMLCA at:
http://www.cpc.wmin.ac.uk/gemlca
AHM2005: Call for
Abstracts
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” reflecting how the UK escience programme has generated
innovative solutions in both computing
and application science. The goal of the
meeting is to provide a forum in which
information on e-Science projects from
all disciplines can be communicated
and where the capabilities being
developed within projects can be
demonstrated. The conference will
feature presentations by groups from
throughout the UK who are active in eScience projects, in addition to poster
sessions, mini-workshop sessions,
project demonstrations, and birdsof-a-feather sessions. The schedule
will also include a number of invited
Keynote speakers involved in leading
Grid and e-Science activities.
Important Dates
1 April: Submission deadline
20 May: Authors informed by email of
acceptance/rejection
1 July: Final camera-ready papers
due
e-Science Projects
NeSCForge
NeSCForge is a SourceForgelike facility for supporting project
development.
Projects Database
The
Projects
database
stores
information about e-Science projects.
Glasgow Access Grid Please help us keep this up to date by
sending additions and corrections to
If you would like to book time on the Susan Andrews.
AG, please contact Susan Andrews on
0141 330 8648
andrewsm@dcs.gla.ac.uk
eSI Visitor Programme
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
http://www.allhands.org.uk/ with reviewing.
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