The EGI blog - User Community category

EGI Applications Database as a community software repository

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:57:00 GMT

In the last couple of months the EGI Application Database has been extended with support for ‘Community Technology Providers’, a specific type ofgrid/cloud softwaredeveloper who will become part of EGI from May 2013. In April, with the end ...

Newsflash: DIRAC Webinar - Fri 22 March

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:07:00 GMT

A Webinar titled “DIRAC Distributed Computing Service” is scheduled for tomorrow Friday 22 March at 10:00. It will be delivered by Dr. Andrei Tsaregorodtsev, senior research engineer in Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille

Please register your interest and view the abstract through INDICO at: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1361

User Community Support Team 2013 plans

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:39:00 GMT

The 2013 plans of the EGI.eu User Community Support Team recently emerged from our annual appraisals. I would like to share the key elements of this plan with you, so our partners within the NGIs, within projects and communities can see the 2013 focus areas of our Amsterdam-based team of four.

WeNMR@J Grid Comp

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:54:00 GMT

An article describing the WeNMR VRC and its web portals and services has now been published in the Journal of Grid Computing.

Addressing gender equality to enhance excellence in research and science

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:18:00 GMT

The Gender Summit 2012, co-convened byEuropean Science FoundationandgenSET, took place on 29 -30 Nov 2012 at the European Parliament in Brussels. This year the event focused on 'Aligning Agendas for Excellence' and it brought together top scientists, ...

Science Gateway Primer

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:10:00 GMT

How to develop a grid enabled science gateway?

The Science Gateway Primer is a manual that collects useful and up to date information from the EGI community about science gateway development. The first draft version was released and is open for comments from the community.

Grid Relational Catalog web gadgets

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:03:00 GMT

New web gadgets available! Recently we extended our web gadgets set with a new Grid Relational Catalog gadgets. Both gadgets are visible on the website and detailed descriptions will let you to know more what really is Grid Relational Catalog (GRelC). ...

Software Carpentry, or the art of software artisanship

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:33:00 GMT

In its day-to-day work, EGI is taking great care of the Grid middleware that is installed in the Resource Centres affiliated with EGI through the NGIs. By testing software updates and new components before is made available for deployment, EGI is maintaining a production-grade e-Infrastructure that is mission-critical for its own success. A Software Carpentry workshop held at the EGI Community Forum 2013 in Manchester may help Researchers applying the same diligence to software that is no less critical to their own success.

The 4th International Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:08:00 GMT

EuroMed 2012 brought together researchers from many countries across Europe and beyond in the historical city of Limassol, Cyprus to present hundreds of papers on the rapidly expanding field of Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH). Presentations covered a wide spectrum of activity from 4D historical recreations of Hamburg during significant periods in its history superimposed onto Google Earth, to ARCHES, a geospatial catalogue of immovable artifacts, to various mathematical and chemical models of fire damage and corrosion and their adverse effects on cultural artifacts. Traditionally, much of the research into DCH has been undertaken by individuals or small teams in universities and museums, or memory institutions as they are now often called, reflecting their underlying purpose as custodians of our irreplaceable collective memory. However, increasingly researchers are turning to their colleagues in engineering and science departments to enable them to dig deeper into our understanding of the processes involved in understanding preservation and curation.

Big data and astronomy at the EUDAT 1st conference

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:28:00 GMT

This week I am in Barcelona for the first ever EUDAT conference. As Kimmo Koski joked yesterday evening at the conference dinner, it’s possibly the best EUDAT conference I’ve ever been to! The event brings together data infrastructure ...