The EGEE project officially ended on the 31 March 2006
EGEE II started on 1 April 2006 and the new EGEE website can be found at:
http://www.eu-egee.org
The OMII Status and Relation to EGEE
Dr Alistair Dunlop is the director of the OMII, based at The University of Southampton, UKAbstract
The Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII) is an institute of the University Of Southampton, located in the School of Electronics and Computer Science. The OMII has published a Roadmap detailing its mission and objectives and a Call for Proposals under its managed programme. For this first call, OMII has £1.5M to spend on projects to supply software and tools to the institute. See the links on the panel to the right. OMII is also soliciting middleware components for its repository. It is our intention that OMII repository will contain much of the currently funded UK e-Science software in development. This software will be evaluated and tested, with both the software and evaluation results available from the OMII repository. The OMII intends to lead the evolution of Grid Middleware through an open consultative process with major software vendors and major UK, EU and US projects.
Biography
Dr Alistair Dunlop is the director of the OMII, an institute established in January 2004 at the University of Southampton. The OMII has the goal of being the source for reliable, interoperable, open-source, grid middleware. Although funded through the EPSRC, the OMII is more about software production than research. Alistair is well placed to lead this activity with previous commercial, academic and grid specific experience. Prior to joining the OMII, Alistair was IT Director for Capital Interactive, and Head of Software Development for Capital Radio Group based in London. He has also worked internationally developing a new consulting division for OpenText AG in Switzerland. Alistair.s prior academic experience includes work in distributed systems, performance prediction, databases, and has worked in large EU funded projects. He has also been an advisor on Grid computing through the UK e-science Technical Advisory Group since its inception.