NGS Surgery meeting: Special Topic: NGS WMS-enabled Portal
http://www.ngs.ac.uk/surgery-meetings
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Recent work has provided WMS support in the NGS Portal. This surgery will present details about this new functionality supported in the NGS Portal.
Make sure your details are up to date
The NGS has recently had enquiries from several funding councils regarding their researchers use of the NGS. Looking through our user accounts it would seem that many people have not completed the sections asking for funding details (i.e which research council funds your research, PhD, postdoc etc) and the name of the PI.
NGS Director's presentation at the Innovation Forum
We are pleased to announce that Neil Geddes, Director of the NGS, will be presenting at the forthcoming NGS Innovation Forum on the 23rd - 24th November 2010. Neil will focus on the future of the NGS over the next 2 - 3 years and the longer term opportunities that are available to the NGS.
Registration for the NGS Innovation Forum '10 now open
The event will feature presentations from NGS users demonstrating how they have used the NGS in their research, breakout sessions to gather information from the delegates, updates from the European Grid community and ESFRI projects and much more.
A new feature this year will be walk-throughs of NGS tools using real life research examples. It is our aim that delegates leave the event with new knowledge of these tools and of course NGS staff will be on hand to advise how to use these tools in your research.
Presentations now available from the NGS roadshow at the Cockcroft Institute
The NGS recently held a roadshow event at the Cockcroft Institute. The presentations from this event are now available online and include -
- User Experiences with Parallel Jobs on the NGS - Dr Stephen Pickles, STFC Daresbury
- North-West Grid, Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus, and the NGS - Dr Rob Allan, STFC Daresbury
To find out more about the NGS roadshow events, please see the roadshow section of the website.
Registration deadline for AHM 2010 extended
The ninth UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM 2010) will be held at the City Hall, Cardiff, from 13-16 September 2010.
The meeting provides 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.
Want to speed up your research and easily access the NGS?
We are pleased to announce another set of speakers for the NGS Innovation Forum ’10 due to be held at STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory on the 23rd – 24th November 2010.
NGS Surgery meeting: Special Topic: NGS BDII and Information Publishing Changes
http://www.ngs.ac.uk/surgery-meetings
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This surgery will provide information on the changes and reasons for the new NGS BDII and information publishing infrastructure set up.
Workshop: uptake of e-Infrastructure services in the arts and humanities
http://www.arts-humanities.net/event/workshop_uptake_e_infrastructure_se...
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What do arts and humanities researchers want from e-Infrastructure services? What services and resources make up the e-Infrastructure for the arts and humanities? How are these services accessed and used by researchers across the disciplines? How are they transforming the research practice, and enabling new forms of scholarship? What are the barriers to using these services in the arts and humanities, and how might these be addressed?
RCUK e-Science report out now
Research Councils UK (RCUK) recently released the report of the Review of e-Infrastructure. The report “Delivering the UK’s e-Infrastructure for research and innovation” concluded that the UK’s e-Infrastructure is well developed and among the best in the world. It also recommends that further work is needed to build on this success to ensure the continued development of the UK’s research base.
Improved Database section on the NGS website
The NGS offers users access to two databases - Oracle and MySQL as well as the assistance of database experts here at the NGS.
To find out more about what we can offer you, regardless of the size of your database, please see the Database section on the website. If you have any queries about using the NGS database service, please contact the NGS helpdesk.
New Innovation section on the NGS website
As well as making sure that the NGS runs all the services required by our users and sites on a day to day basis, we are also working on services for the future. To keep you up to date with our work "behind the scenes", we have added a new Innovation section to the website.
NGS Roadshow Cockcroft Institute
http://www.ngs.ac.uk/cockcroft-institute
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The NGS is holding a roadshow and training event at the Cockcroft Institute, STFC Daresbury on the 23rd of August. Delegates are welcome to attend just the roadshow or the roadshow and training event. Registration for this event is now closed. Please see the event page for more information.
User success stories at the NGS Innovation Forum '10
We are pleased to introduce 3 NGS users who will be explaining how the NGS has helped them in their diverse areas of research. We have invited users from different research areas to demonstrate the wide range of research that can benefit from using the NGS and also how many NGS tools can be used by researchers from any discipline.
Our presenters at the NGS Innovation Forum '10 are -
Enabling cloud mobility
There is an proliferation of clouds available to Academic users, such as the commercial providers (e.g. Amazon) to NGS based clouds (e.g. Belfast e- Science, Oxford e-Research, Edinburgh ) and internal owned clouds. Belfast e- Science has developed an API to enable one-stop access to these various cloud offerings to reduce the effort in adopting the cloud model and move between various cloud providers.
Database and accounting presentations at IF'10
Presenters are being confirmed for the forthcoming NGS Innovation Forum which is taking place in November 2010 and they will be announced on the NGS website and mailing list as further details are confirmed.
One of our first confirmed speakers is Simon Collins from the NGS Database team at the University of Manchester. Simon will be giving two presentations at the event, one of interest to users and one of interest to NGS site reps, sys admins etc.
New UI/WMS tutorial available now
With the introduction to the NGS of the Work Load Management System, a new set of self-guided tutorials have been released on the NGS web site.
The Work Load Management System (WMS) allows users to submit their jobs to the NGS as a whole and allow the WMS to find the best resources to run them on based on the users requirements (in the job description file). This functionality is an important step forward in simplifying access to the NGS for users.
HPC Software Development Call 2010/11 – assistance from the SSI
The HPC Software Development call invites proposals for HPC software development to enable science and engineering. Funding in this area will be provided through a two stage process. The objective of the stage 1 projects is development of software to the point where it can be used to generate scientific output. Stage 1 projects can be up to 2 years in length.
Further information is available on the EPSRC website.
Registration for EGI Technical Forum now open
The EGI Technical Forum 2010 will be the first major event within the EGI community and will bring together European distributed computing projects and their collaborators in academia and businesses, from around Europe and around the world. In doing so it will provide an ideal venue for, the developers, end-users, resource providers and decision makers involved in these projects to meet and discuss the continued transition to a sustainable production grid infrastructure for Europe.
IEEE e-Science 2010 Conference
The sixth IEEE e–Science conference, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society´s Technical Committee for Scalable Computing (TCSC), will be held in Brisbane, Australia from 7th – 10th December 2010.