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EGI user support requirements publicity

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:24:00 GMT

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

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:25:00 GMT

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 communities.

EGI users and grid robots

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:57:00 GMT

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 users is quite a challenge due to the various ways the users can interact with our services.

Call for Papers for HealthGrid and IWSG-Life conferences - Deadline extension

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:25:00 GMT

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 (extended to January 23rd)
View the IWSG-Life 2012 submission details (extended to January 30th)

Workshops on e-Science Workflows in Budapest - Registration now open

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:28:00 GMT

Registration is now open for the EGI/SHIWA workshops on e-Science Workflows that will take place in Budapest on 9-10th of February 2012

Towards operations sustainability

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:35:30 GMT

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?

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:17:00 GMT

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

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:44:00 GMT

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

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 ...

Middleware requirements, resource managers and more in the OMB agenda for 2012

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:29:00 GMT

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).