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WeNMR User Survey 2011

View the results of the WeNMR user survey to measure the awareness of the user community, and potential future users, on grid computing in general and on the services offered by the WeNMR project in particular.

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Joint Workshops on e-Science Workflows in Budapest

 EGI and SHIWA are joining forces to run a combined workshop event that will be hosted by the Hungarian NGI in Budapest on 9-10th of February 2012.  The workshops will focus on the use of workflows in e-Science and in the European Grid Infrastructure in particular, and will aim to present ‘the art of the possible’ from the perspective of those involved in delivering the service, and try to explore ‘what is needed’ from the perspective of users in scientific researchers in the user community.  In other words, we aim to put stakeholders (developers and users of grid services) together in one room so that we can collectively determine how best to advance ‘Scientific workflow systems’ in this demanding and dynamic field.

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Quality Research and Innovation through Equality

European Gender Summit (8-9 November 2011, Brussels)

 “Europe needs to improve its research and innovation strategy to gain better returns on investment in scientific and technical capital. Gender equality and diversity represent key elements of ensuring quality of human scientific resources and science knowledge”

Giles Chichester,Vice-President of the European Parliament

 

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Operational Level Agreements under discussion

Operations Management Board meeting - 25 October 2011

Operational Level Agreements under discussion at the Operations Management Board meeting, 25th October 2011

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Cracow Grid Workshow 2011 - CGW2011

I have just returned from a very stimulating and rewarding three days at the 2011 Cracow Grid Workshop. Apart from discovering that Cracow is further South than Prague, well very nearly, I also learnt more about grid-related initiatives that relate to the ...

User Community Board Meeting: 31 October, 2011

A summary of the discussions that took place at the last UCB telephone conference

Meeting summary for publication and circulation. The User Community Board met via a teleconference on 31st October 2011. Representatives were present from the following communities: Earth Sciences, Life Sciences (LSGC), Auger, Digital Cultural Heritage ...