Towards operations sustainability
The OMB December meeting was held yesterday [agenda] to discuss plans for future sustainability of the operations services of the Resource infrastructure Providers (NGI International Services) and the EGI.eu central operational services (Global Services).
What do you want to know about portals?
Empowering scientific communities with simple tools that enable them to utilise services of the European Grid Infrastructure is highly important for the successful engagement ofEGIwith with new users. Portals play an important role here. Portals can ...
The Training Marketplace
The Training Marketplace http://www.egi.eu/user-support/training_marketplace/ is a service that allows you to search for or advertise any type of training resource throughout the EGI community.
User Community Communiqué
A round up of news and information for and about EGI's User Communities
The User Community Board comprises representatives from groupings of researchers that EGI refers to as Virtual Research Communities or VRCs. The UCB meets monthly typically via telephone conference with open face to face meetings held twice a year at the ...
Middleware requirements, resource managers and more in the OMB agenda for 2012
Call for requirements, a SLURM survey and more in the EGI operations community's agenda
A call for operational requirements addressed to site administrators and NGI operations teams is now open until the 15th of January. In addition, site administrators are invited to participate to a survey about the Simple Linus Resource Manager (SLURM).
User Community Board meeting: 25 November, 2011
A summary of the discussions that took place at the last UCB telephone conference
The User Community Board met via a teleconference on 25th November 2011. Representatives were present from the following communities: Earth Sciences, Life Sciences (LSGC), Astronomy & Astrophysics, Auger, Digital Cultural Heritage and WeNMR as well as ...
MapReduce talk by Dr Jimmy Lin
Dr. Jimmy Lin, associate professor at the University of Maryland gave a lecture in Amsterdam on Friday about Hadoop MapReduce. Dr. Lin was invited to the Science Park by BigGrid – the Dutch NGI – and by the Amsterdam Information Retrieval ...
Applications, tools and their developers
For those of you who are not yet familiar with it, the EGI Applications Database – or AppDB as we call it for short – is a service that stores information about scientific applications, reusable application developer tools and about the ...