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Virtualised Resources: Challenges and opportunities

Thu, 10 May 2012 14:59:00 GMT

Time is flying, and the EGI Technical Forum in Prague, from 17 to 21 September, is approaching fast. To help you deciding whether to submit an abstract or not, I will introduce the track on "Virtualised Resources" and how it is set-up.

I wandered lonely as a cloud...

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 07:25:00 GMT

Last week Gartner released a report on Cloud Computing that identified five trends that would impact the Cloud Computing strategies over the next few years. As EGI finialises its future straetgy to support its research communities, how aligned is it to the trends taking place in the commerical world?

Joint Summer School on Workflows and Gateways for Grids and Clouds

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:12:00 GMT

From the 2nd to the 6th July, SCI-BUS, SHIWA and EDGI will jointly host a summer school on workflows and gateways for grids and clouds in Budapest, Hungary.

Seeking new horizons: EGI’s role for 2020

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:33:00 GMT

Over the last three months the EGI has been reflecting on its strategy as Europe moves towards the ambitious aims outlined in the European Commission's Europe 2020 vision. Following review and feedback from the EGI-InSPIRE Project Management Board, the EGI Strategy is now available for your feedback and comment.

EGI and the SIENA Roadmap

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:44:22 GMT

The European Commission was putting a focus on Cloud Computing when launching the Digital Agenda. A cloud as a metaphor for our increasingly ubiquitous digital life is very strong and the specific focus helped a lot to gain the public interest. In the ...

Quality Research and Innovation through Equality

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:34:00 GMT

“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

Learning how to read old documents

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:38:00 GMT

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 ...

Meeting the partners at ISGC 2011 part two

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:56:00 GMT

I mentioned the food in my last post but the catering here really has to be experienced to be believed. A traditional Chinese greeting is “Have you eaten?” rather than “Hello”&...

Meeting the Asian Pacific partners at the International Symposium for Grids and Clouds in Taipei

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:58:00 GMT

This week I have been in Taipei for the International Symposium on Grids and Clouds 2011 and OGF31 at Academia Sinica. It has been a fascinating week – the food, scenery and presentations have all been of a very high standard, even if I have seen it ...

Top ten cloud themes from CloudScape-III

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:08:00 GMT

After a day or so to reflect on the CloudScape-III event in Brussels earlier in the week, for me some particular ideas and themes seemed to emerge. As a cloud newbie, a few interesting new terms leapt out at me as well - so here, in no particular order, ...