NEWSLETTER
Issue 27, January 2005
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Globus Toolkit 4
On 27th and 28th January, GridFTP technology coordinator Bill Allcock will
introduce GridFTP and give hands on instructions for system administrators,
developers and users. The Globus Alliance has re-implemented their highly
popular GridFTP server to allow better, more flexible performance and
functionality. GridFTP is a high-performance, secure, reliable data transfer
protocol optimized for high-bandwidth wide-area networks. The GridFTP
protocol is based on FTP, the highly-popular Internet file transfer protocol. A set
of protocol features has been selected, with extensions defined already in IETF
RFCs and added a few additional features to meet requirements from current
data grid projects. The Globus Toolkit provides library interfaces to the GridFTP
protocol, which will be the topic of these discussions. More information at:
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/516/
Forthcoming Events
January
Call for e-Social Science
Development
Thu 27 Jan - Fri 28 Jan
Globus Toolkit GridFTP Days
The Economic and Social Research
Council
is
inviting
applications
under three streams as part of the
February
e–social science programme: i)
Mon 7 Feb - Tue 8 Feb
Centre Research Nodes ii) Small
ATLAS-UK e-Science Training Course
Grants and iii) Access Grid Nodes.
Wed 9 Feb
For more information see:
Higgs-Maxwell Particle Physics
http://
http://www.ncess.ac.uk
Workshop
Thu 10 Feb - Fri 11 Feb
Multimodal Behavioural Data and
e–Collaboration
Thu 17 Feb - Fri 18 Feb
Introduction to the Edinburgh Mouse
Atlas and EMAGE Gene Expression
Database
More information can be found at:
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/esi.html
e-Science Ontology
Training
The University of Manchester has
made an open invitation to a tutorial
covering ontology basics, engineering
and application on 1st and 2nd March.
No previous knowledge is expected,
and this event has been designed for
individuals to get adequate exposure
to the technology see how it may
be applied. The tutorial is domainindependent, using simple, real-life
examples. Details and registration
(deadline 15th February) are on:
http://www.co-ode.org/events/tutorials/
e-science01-2005/
IECnet
NeSC has joined forces with Intellect,
the trade body for the UK ITC industry,
to establish a Knowledge Transfer
Network in Inter-Enterprise Computing
(IEC). Funded by the DTI, IECnet
will establish wide understanding of
the potential of IEC in UK industry,
particularly among the IT user
community.
This activity will follow through the
e-Science Core Programme vision in
which demanding scientific research
stimulates significant advances in
Grid technology which are then
transferred to UK industry, healthcare
and government.
IECnet will undertake outreach
activities, organise workshops and
produce reports to inform and educate
commercial vendors and users.
IECnet is planned to start on February
1st. More information will appear
in the NeSC newsletter when the
activities are under way.
For more information about Intellect,
please refer to the web site:
http://www.intellectuk.org/
NeSC started 2005 with the 10th International
Conference on Database Theory. More details
can be found on the website. Photo: NeSC
Staff News
2005 sees the arrival of many new
faces at the e-Science Institute in
Edinburgh are Mr Ahmed Abdelrahim
(PhD Student), Dr John Allen
(Software System Consultant) and Dr
Jos Koetsier (Software Developer for
the BRIDGES project). We hope they
all enjoy their time with us.
The LCG Project is hiring people
for Phase 2 of the project at CERN;
fellowships and staff positions will
be available for three-year contracts.
Applications for the first round need to
be done before the end of the month.
http://cern.ch/LCG/jobs
You can find details of e-Science
vacancies across the UK and worldwide 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 27, January 2005
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www.nesc.ac.uk
NeSC Services
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.
e-Science Projects
NeSCForge
NeSCForge is a SourceForge-like 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