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Take the WeNMR user survey!

The WeNMR project has posted a survey aimed at measuring the awareness of the user community on grid computing in general and on the services offered by the WeNMR project in particular.

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Running multiprocessor jobs on the grid

The features of the cream CA allow for requesting multiple CPUs for running jobs for example in multithreading mode. This has been successfully implemented in the WeNMR GROMACS web portal.

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Report from e-IRG Workshop (12-13 October 2011)

Last 12-13 October, I attended the e-IRG workshop held in Poznan (Poland). This event is organised twice a year and is hosted by the member state holding the EU Presidency which rotates every six months. For those not familiar with the e-IRG ...

Interfacing humans and e-infrastructures

Researchers can make use of the e-infrastructure to address novel scientific theories and create more knowledge. But, how to access the resources in a user friendly, seamless and transparent way?

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Learning how to read old documents

I'm in Florence for the 2011 e-Challenges meeting and just learned that the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) has an ambitious goal – they want to digitise all Dutch-language newspapers available since the 17th century to ...
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Recomputation of SAM results and availability/reliability

A new operational procedure (PROC10) is now available which allows site administrators to request the re-computation of SAM monitoring results.

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New gadgets for the EGI Training Marketplace and the Requirement Tracker

Until recently, the whole thesis of providing and sharing software services within the EGI community has been that these applications must be either accessible through well defined portals operated by EGI members, or must be available as downloadable packages so users can operate their own installations. As I have explained it earlier, there are several problems with this approach and these problems can be solved if our software services were provided through web gadgets. I have good news: there are two new web gadgets available for the EGI community. One gadget to access the Training Marketplace and another gadget to access the EGI Requirement Tracker.

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