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.

HealthGrid 2011, Bristol, UK

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:40:00 GMT

The 2011 HealthGrid Conference in Bristol got off to a flying start with an upbeat summary of the current situation for eScience research and associated facilities in Melbourne and the rest of Australia from Professor Richard Sinnott recently of these islands. Richard has an admirable track record having delivered a strong legacy of clinical research-related projects based around robust and well-crafted solutions. However, the risks associated with such solutions hinge largely on the sustainability of such interventions in the longer term. This is where EGI comes in, building on the achievements of such projects by transferring the applications and services to a production infrastructure when and where applicable in the european context. In this way EGI can provide a way forward from the dependency on the project cycle for developing research infrastructure leaving experts like Richard free to take on new challenges whether in Australia or Europe.

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EGI keynote at HealthGrid - questions follow up

HealthGrid 2011, Bristol, UK