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• EGI user support requirements publicity
  In the beginning when the requirements tracking (RT) system was setup it was not publicly accessible, it required to have an EGI SSO (Single Sing-On) in order to submit new requests or to see the existing user support requirements. That led to many ...
• WeNMR grid tools and scripts
  WeNMR has developed a number of useful tools that directly target specific needs of the WeNMR community, both at the administrative level and at the users level. All these tools are documented in the WeNMR site and made freely available to other ...
• EGI users and grid robots
  The number of users profiting from the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) is a strong indicator of the success and uptake of our e-infrastructure by the research communities. While the importance of this metric is apparent, obtaining the number of EGI ...
• Call for Papers for HealthGrid and IWSG-Life conferences - Deadline extension
  The submission deadlines for the HealthGrid conference and IWSG-Life 2012 call for papers have just been extended to 23 January and 30 January respectively. Accepted submissions will be published in PubMed. View the HealthGrid 2012 submission details ...
• Workshops on e-Science Workflows in Budapest - Registration now open
  Registration is now open for the EGI/SHIWA workshops on e-Science Workflows that will take place in Budapest on 9-10th of February 2012Read more...Tags : egi, events, shiwa, ucst, user community, workflow, workshops
• Towards operations sustainability
  The OMBDecember meeting was held yesterday [agenda] to discuss plans for future sustainability of the operations services of the Resource infrastructure Providers (NGIInternational Services) and the EGI.eu central operational services (Global ...
• 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/us...
• User Community Communiqué
  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
  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 ...

• Re: MapReduce talk by Dr Jimmy Lin
  Actually the University of Glasgow has been working with the ENROLLER project (http://www.gla.ac.u...
• Re: Exploring Business Models to Sustain EGI
  Interesting post. True a BM shouldn't focus merely on commercial activities, not-for-profits have business models too! Have to disagree that the BM is about creating, delivering and capturing value, though. Discussions of business models are often only ...
• Re: Food and drink suggestions for the User Forum evenings
  Thanks Neasan for the notes! Added. Are you sure that you were not born in Lithuania ?