The EGI blog - steveb

EGI Community Forum - Cloud discussion

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:28:00 GMT

I'm currently enjoying the Cloud Discussion session which is explaining and opening up the work of the Federated Cloud Task Force which has been running since last September. The Task Force was established to take forward the opportunities for running secure virtual machines across EGI's partners, providers and users. The Task Force was given a formal mandate following a well-attended workshop in Amsterdam at EGI.eu's headquarters last May. The key features of this mandate were an 18 month timeframe to deliver a blueprint and a collection of clearly defined proof of concept demonstrators.

RAMIRI - Prague workshop

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:33:00 GMT

The RAMIRI project (http://www.ramiri.eu/) has just launched the second series of learning workshops for those involved in establishing or running research infrastructures (RIs) in Europe. RAMIRI stands for Realising and Managing International Research Infrastructures and the project has a vision of fostering knowledge transfer, network building and the capture of best practice. The widely distributed nature of the European Grid infrastructure represents a new departure for research infrastructures which traditionally have been either single sites or locally distributed. Consequently, I found myself in Prague rubbing shoulders with people running synchrotrons, radar stations, laser facilities and telescope arrays. Participants had arrived from many corners of Europe and represented many professions and career paths from psychologists and lawyers to project managers and linguists. The common interest was the challenge of planning and running international organizational structures to manage large and advanced research facilities be they physical Research Infrastructures or e-Infrastructures like EGI.

User Community Communiqué

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:32:00 GMT

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 ...

User Community Board meeting: 25 November, 2011

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:45:00 GMT

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 ...

Cracow Grid Workshow 2011 - CGW2011

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:44:00 GMT

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

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:40:00 GMT

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 ...

User Community Board meeting: 23 August, 2011

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:38:00 GMT

Since the last User Community Board (UCB) meeting the User Community Support Team (UCST) has been involved in preparations for the EGI Technical Forum to be held in Lyon in September from 19th to the 23rd. Many presentation proposals have been received ...

User Community Board meeting: 15 July, 2011

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:48:00 GMT

This is the first of what will become a regular monthly posting, namely a summary of the discussions from the previous User Community Board(UCB)meeting. The UCB enables representatives from the user communities to meet and share grid experiences and ...

CLARIN Newsletter

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:37:00 GMT

I was pleased to be invited to produce an article for the latest issue of the CLARIN project newsletter. EGI is working with CLARIN, and also DARIAH, to form a VRC once the two ESFRI projects achieve ERIC status. The article describes the recently signed Letter of Intent that was signed between EGI.eu and these two large ESFRI projects that cover Arts, Humanities and Social Science between them. I am pleased to say that the letter was signed shortly after the article was written.

The latest issue of the CLARIN newsletter can be found here - go.egi.eu/rupac

EGI keynote at HealthGrid - questions follow up

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:13:00 GMT

There were a number of interesting questions asked after my talk yesterday on EGI at the HealthGrid conference at UWE, Bristol. The talk covered three aspects of EGI's activity: 1) managing sustainable infrastructure, 2) building sustainable user services, and 3) cultivating sustainable communities (with a focus on the Life Sciences Grid Community - LSGC). The call to arms at the end of the talk focused on encouraging the Life Sciences community to participate in the activities of the recently formalised LSGC and, furthermore, to make use of the EGI services namely the Applications Database, the Training Marketplace and the VO services. Finally, the audience was urged to look out for and engage with the forthcoming user community workshops.