Connecting Infrastructure, Connecting Research
Date: 
11 Mar 2010 - 10:00 - 11:00
Location: 
Access Grid: Virtual Venue: "CLRC Rutherford Appleton"

The NGS has been working on deploying "cloud services" using Eucalyptus.  An overview and technical information about the deployments will be given at this surgery.

Date: 
10 Mar 2010 - 10:30 - 11 Mar 2010 - 15:00
Location: 
Edinburgh

Collaboration increasingly lies at the heart of successful research. To help develop new collaborations, the Collaborations Workshop will bring together researchers, funding body representatives and technology experts in Edinburgh on 10-11 March 2010. This expertise, combined with the workshop’s novel structure, will create the perfect opportunity to meet researchers with complementary skills who, in collaboration, could help turn your ideas into a reality.

Date: 
9 Mar 2010 - 10:00 - 16:00
Location: 
NeSC, Edinburgh

The NGS has joined forces with the Scottish Bioinformatics Forum to offer training to the community.  The one day training event will be held at NeSC in Edinburgh and is open to everyone.  

 

Date: 
7 Mar 2010 - 08:00 - 12 Mar 2010 - 17:00
Location: 
Taipei, Taiwan

ISGC 2010 will focus on data driven e-Science, highlighting use cases and successful applications. Developments to establish sustainable infrastructures and the long-term support of e-Science communities will be an underlying theme.

Date: 
2 Mar 2010 - 07:30 - 4 Mar 2010 - 16:00
Location: 
Argonne, Illinois, USA

GlobusWORLD Conference series will focus on users of the Globus software, including talks and tutorials on using new and old software, and presentations and discussions by Globus users on their experiences.  John Kewley from the NGS will be giving a presentation on authentication in the NGS.

Date: 
1 Mar 2010 - 11:06 - 2 Apr 2010 - 11:06
Location: 
Online

International Winter School in Grid Computing 2010 (e-Learning) 01 March to 02 April 2010
http://tinyurl.com/iwsgc10

Date: 
26 Feb 2010 - 10:30 - 16:10
Location: 
Guildford, UK

The NGS will be hosting one of its popular roadshow events at the University of Surrey in February.  These events are designed to introduce researchers to the NGS and to let participants hear from NGS users about how they use NGS resources to help their research.  This event will also have presentations on cloud computing and presenters include a representative from IBM.

Date: 
25 Feb 2010 - 10:30 - 17:00
Location: 
Canterbury

The NGS will be hosting one of its popular roadshow events at Canterbury Christ Church University in February.  These events are designed to introduce researchers to the NGS and to let participants hear from NGS users about how they use NGS resources to help their research.

Date: 
24 Feb 2010 - 11:30 - 27 Feb 2010 - 16:00
Location: 
London, UK

Dev8D is 4 days of 100% pure software developer heaven. It will be intense. It will be exhilarating. It will make you a better programmer.

  • Learn to use unfamiliar languages (such as Python, Ruby and Clojure)
  • Team up with other developers and build rapid development projects for tech prizes
  • Take part in lightning session discussions with industry experts
  • Swap skills and ideas with other developers

 

Date: 
23 Feb 2010 - 15:00 - 16:00
Location: 
Access Grid: Virtual Venue: "CLRC Rutherford Appleton"

SARoNGS stands for Shibboleth Access to Resources on the NGS.  The service allows people to obtain short-lived grid credentials based on institutional login using Shibboleth mechanisms.  The service is now in production and will be demonstrated at this surgery event.