NEWSLETTER
Issue 24, October 2004
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www.nesc.ac.uk
Condor Week
Following on from the success of the 2003 Condor User and Administrator
Tutorials, we are pleased to announce the inaugural UK Condor Week, to be
held at NeSC on the 11th to 15th October 2004, supported by Professor Miron
Livny and the Condor Team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This
event is jointly sponsored by the National Institute for Environmental e-Science
(NIEeS) and the National e-Science Centre (NeSC). As part of the week’s events,
Professor Livny has agreed to deliver a public talk on Condor, “Democratization
of of Computing - Opportunities and Responsibilities”. More information about
these can be found at:
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/438/
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/486/
Further details of the Condor project can be found at:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/
Forthcoming Events
October 2004
Wed 6 Oct
SWITCH study visit
Mon 11 Oct
NeSC Review
Mon 11 Oct - Fri 15 Oct
Condor week
Mon 25 Oct - Wed 27 Oct
Autumn ILDG Middleware Meeting
Thu 28 Oct - Fri 29 Oct
European Network Policy Group
Meeting
November 2004
Mon 1 Nov - Tue 2 Nov
Education and Training in UK eScience
Wed 24 Nov - Thu 25 Nov
BBSRC Bioinformatics and e-Science
Grant Holder’s Workshop
Thu 25 Nov - Fri 26 Nov
BioSimGrid meeting
Tue 30 Nov - Wed 1, Dec
e-science and data mining
More information is available at:
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/events
Condor logo from the project web site.
DCC Opening
Staff News
A major launch event for the Digital
Curation Centre is being planned at
NeSC, details of which will be reported
in this newlsetter.
We would like to extend our welcome
to Professor Peter Clarke, who joins
NeSC as the University of Edinburgh’s
Principal of e-Science. Also joining
NeSC this month is Heather Kelly
who will be carrying out web site
maintenance. We hope they both
enjoy their time with us.
Alex Woehrer, who joined NeSC
with the Visitor Programme over the
summer, leaves us to return to his
native Austria.
In the meantime,
we anticipate the arrival of Mr Timur
Perelmutov and Mr Don Petravick of
Fermilab, both of whom will be joining
us in October 2004.
In the meantime project activity has
begun to set up the Centre and its
services, and to begin engagement
with communities of practice.
The Centre will employ a full-time
Director, of world class calibre,
appointed through international search
and selection.
Prior to when the appointee takes up
post, Peter Burnhill, Director of EDINA
National Data Centre and Edinburgh More information on e-Science
University Data Library, will be vacancies across the UK at:
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/career
Director of the Centre, on a part-time
(40%) basis, to provide the required
leadership for the DCC during its setGlasgow Access Grid
up period.
If you would like to book time on the
There is a closely associated research
AG, please contact Susan Andrews on
component funded by the EPSRC and
0141 330 8648
led by Peter Buneman of the University
andrewsm@dcs.gla.ac.uk
of Edinburgh, as Research Director.
AHM 2005
NeSC Contact Details
If you would like to hold an e-Science
The date for next year’s All Hands event at the e-Science Institute, please
Meeting has been decided; it is set to contact the Conference Manager at:
take place from 20th - 22nd September
National e-Science Centre,
2005.
15 South College Street, Edinburgh,
EH8 9AA United Kingdom
More information about All Hands can
Tel: 0131 650 9833
be found at the web site:
Fax: 0131 650 9819
http://www.allhands.org.uk/
Email:events@nesc.ac.uk
NEWS EXTRA
Issue 24, October 2004
LambdaGrid GLIF
Workshop
The first week of September signified
the end of summer, but this year it
also marked the start of a major global
alliance to build the LambdaGrid, aptly
named the Global Lambda Integrated
Facility (GLIF).
Network leadership, notably the
managers and chief engineers of
national research and education
networks, countries, consortia and
institutions, along with application
scientists
and
industrial
R&D
representatives from all over the
world, totaling 60 people, converged
in Nottingham on September 2nd and
3rd, for a two-day workshop to selforganize GLIF.
Back issues available on website:
Healthgrid Conference
2005
www.nesc.ac.uk
NeSC Services
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
After the success of the second
Healthgrid conference in Clermont
Ferrand this year, the organisers are
pleased to announce that the 3rd
Healthgrid conference will take place
in Oxford next year (April 7-9th 2005). Technical Report series
The UK e-Science Technical Report
The aim of this major event is to series is available for publishing
promote the use if Grid technology for reports from any UK source. We
health and lifesciences and to bring organise the review of candidate
together projects across Europe with reports, and welcome offers of reports
and of help with reviewing.
a similar interest.
Healthgrid 2005 will provide a forum
for GRID projects in the medical,
biological and biomedical domains
as well as for grid projects that seek
to integrate these. With an emphasis
on results, it is hoped that functionality
being developed within such projects
will be demonstrated. Healthgrid
has worked on a white paper and is
looking at potential joint research with
our European counterparts.
The next GLIF meeting was
announced, to be hosted by Larry
Smarr of the California Institute for
Telecommunications and Information
Technology [Cal-(IT)2] in conjunction
with the iGrid 2005 conference at the
University of California, San Diego
The conference is expected to attract
next September.
about 200 people and we have a call
e-Science Projects
The offer from Professors Jun Murai of out for papers - due in 31st October
Keio University and the WIDE Project 2004. The organisers’ aim to publish NeSCForge
NeSCForge is a SourceForgeand Tomonori Aoyama of University of papers in a selected journal.
like facility for supporting project
Tokyo and JGN-II to host the meeting
To submit papers for the conference,
development.
in 2006 was accepted.
please refer to the web site at:
http://oxford2005.healthgrid.org/ Projects Database
To date, these Workshops have been
invitation only, though this may change
as participation grows. For more More information about Healthgrid
can be found at:
information, see
http://www.healthgrid.org/index.php
http://www.glif.is
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