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• Virtualised Resources: Challenges and opportunities
  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.Read ...
• Workflows, workflow systems
  Scientific calculations that run on distributed computing infrastructures often require the coordinated execution of computing jobs, transfer of files, registration of meta-data and usage of various types of infrastructure services. These actions can be ...
• I wandered lonely as a cloud...
  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 ...
• EGI Sustainability – Clearer Skies
  Over the last year, there have been numerous discussions, meetings, articles and reports trying to address the complex issue of EGI sustainability. The latest installment of this multi-facet activity, took place in a full-day workshop “Sustaining ...
• Joint Summer School on Workflows and Gateways for Grids and Clouds
  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.Read more...Tags : events, operations, technology, user community
• Damage control
  After spending a very stimulating week at the EGI Community Forum 2012 I returned to work on Friday morning to find over 400 emails from our VOMS server stating that pretty much all our VO members have been suspended, including myself... Since then the ...
• Portals & Gateways
  The morning session about Portals and Gateways was an inspiring and refreshing moment. Four speakers engaged with the audience in the main auditorium at the EGI.CF.2012 while their research workspaces were presented. From my point of view, the outcome of ...
• Golden Nuggets at EGI Community Forum
  Day 1 of the Community Forum was busy in every respect and at the very core of events, Hall 3 in the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics was filled to the brim for the important discussions on Sustaining the EGI Ecosystem lead by Steven Newhouse and ...
• User requirements leading the integration of PRACE and EGI operations
  At the CF12 this week EGIand PRACEmet the user communities whose requirements are driving operations integration across the two infrastructures.Read more...Tags : operations, technology
• EGI Community Forum - Cloud discussion
  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 ...

• Re: I wandered lonely as a cloud...
  Consolidation and commercializtion of commodity resources is a trend that will only continue. If someone can do it cheaper and better, it is hard to make the case to keep it locally. In terms of privacy, I think those issues can be worked out. We need to ...
• Re: Damage control
  "But of course the reason for the original post is not the bug itself, but the apparent paranoia of the resource owners. Well, they have very good reasons to be paranoid. Even bank cards have limited validity period and need to be renewed. ...
• Re: Damage control
  Yes, VOMRS is nice for sending notifications that members need to re-sign the AUP. Tanya does good work. And she brings us chocolate (bonus!). You mentioned there are 2 other products that fulfill the VOMS-Admin role - what are they? Thanks, Dan ...