Connecting Infrastructure, Connecting Research

UK e-Infrastructure Academic User Community Forum

UK e-Infrastructure Academic User Community Forum

15th April, 2013 UCL Bloomsbury Campus, London

Summer School on Grid and Cloud Workflows and Gateways

Summer School on Grid and Cloud Workflows and Gateways

1-6 July 2013, Budapest, Hungary

Software Sustainability Collaborations Workshop 2013

Software Sustainability Collaborations Workshop 2013

The Collaborations Workshop 2013 will be held at Merton College, University of Oxford on 21-22 March 2013

Research Associate Wanted

Research Associate Wanted

Can you contribute to research in Distributed Computing?

New versions of WS-PGRADE/gUSE and the CloudBroker Platform

New versions of WS-PGRADE/gUSE and the CloudBroker Platform

provide extended cloud access for science gateways

Application Porting Workshop

Application Porting Workshop

Application Porting Workshop between 19-22 March at the University of Westminster.

About Us

The NES: Who we are and what we do

The National e-Infrastructure Service (NES) aims to facilitate UK research by providing access to a broad range of computational and data based resources.

The goal of the NES is to deliver a production quality e-infrastructure to support academic research across all Higher Education Institutes  (HEIs) in the UK.

We provide core services to enable collaborative access to computing and data resources in support of UK researchers.

The NES ensures that UK researchers can efficiently exploit computing facilities all across the globe. To make this possible we have developed partnerships with infrastructures in Europe, the USA, and elsewhere  in the world.

The EU Competitiveness Council has identified provision of e-Infrastructure as crucial to the future success of EU economies in a global market place. To meet this demand the NES has established itself as the foremost provider of international e-infrastructure for the UK. 

The NES is funded by JISC and EPSRC, and is led by the STFC e-Science Department. The e-Science department works in close conjunction with the University of Edinburgh, University of Manchester, University of Leeds (White Rose Grid Consortium), and the University of Oxford.

1-6 July 2013, Budapest, Hungary

There are already several well established grid and cloud infrastructures in Europe. The next issue is how to exploit these infrastructures, how to port and develop application for these infrastructures and how to extend their user communities. The main goal of this summer school is to give answers for these questions and to promote best practice examples for potential application developers and users of e-science infrastructures.

The main goal of this summer school is to give answers for these questions and to promote best practice examples for potential application developers and users of e-science infrastructures.

New versions of WS-PGRADE/gUSE and the CloudBroker Platform provide extended cloud access for science gateways.

The Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA SZTAKI), CloudBroker GmbH, and the SCIentific gateway Based User Support (SCI-BUS) project are happy to announce new versions of the two SCI-BUS base technologies, WS-PGRADE/gUSE and the CloudBroker Platform, which together considerably extend the cloud access for science gateways.

WS-PGRADE/gUSE is an open source framework to build community gateways based on Liferay. It provides scientific workflow management for application developers and end users, and supports various Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs) including clusters, grids and clouds. For cloud access, it uses the CloudBroker Platform, an application store for offering and running compute-intensive applications on public and private cloud infrastructures. The platform widely automates resource and software handling, job execution as well as user accounting and billing, and can be accessed as a service both through the web as well as programmatically.

 

21-22 March 2013, Merton College, Oxford

The Software Sustainability Institute is running its annual
Collaborations Workshop (CW13) at Merton College, Oxford.  This
workshop brings together researchers, software developers, managers,
funders and more to explore ideas in software pertinent to their
research and exploit any synergies that may lead to interdisciplinary
collaborations.

The European ER-FLOW project organises an Application Porting Workshop between 19-22 March at the University of Westminster. The workshop is open and free of charge.

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