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
News Archive
Invitation to EGEE Industry Day
Funded by the European Commission, the second phase of the EGEE project is starting on 1 April 2006. During the first phase, key applications were deployed in scientific fields, such as High Energy Physics, life sciences and earth observation, that have paved the way for application deployment in the Industrial sector and increased links with Industry.
The EGEE Industry Day will be a unique platform for Industry to interact directly with the EGEE project, the biggest Grid infrastructure in Europe, and will bring together decision makers, research heads, policy makers & CTOs to learn how industrial applications can be deployed on EGEE.
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Romanian National Grid Conference Takes Place
The National RoGrid Conference, a nationwide dissemination event for both the EGEE and SEE-GRID projects, took place in Bucharest, Romania on 21-22 March 2006.
The event brought together 50 delegates representing research organisations and universities from Bucharest and three other major academic centres of the country: Cluj-Napoca, Iasi and Timisoara.
On the first day the conference delegates heard about the major results of the EGEE and SEE-GRID projects, and were given an overview of other related European research projects in the field. There was also a round table to discuss the requirements and opportunities for extending the National Grid Initiative in Romania and a strategic plan for a pilot project implementation was distributed. The plan was coordinated by the National Authority for Scientific Research.
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Users Push Grids to New Frontiers
Next week, 1-3 March 2006, the Enabling Grids for E-SciencE (EGEE) project will hold the first User Forum event at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. This will bring together the established EGEE user community as well as new users from academia and industry to share their experiences and set new targets for the future. The event coincides with a significant milestone for the EGEE project, as the total processing power achieved by this Grid infrastructure now exceeds 20,000 CPUs on average. Discussions at the Forum will focus on the evolution of existing scientific applications which have been ‘gridified’ to work on this infrastructure, as well as development and deployment of new Grid middleware and new applications, in fields such as Life Sciences, Earth Observations, Computational Chemistry, Astroparticle and Particle Physics, Fusion and others.
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Global Grid Service for LHC Computing Succeeds in Gigabyte-per-second Challenge
Today, at the international Computing for High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2006 conference (CHEP’06) in Mumbai, India, the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid collaboration (WLCG) officially announced the successful completion of a service challenge. This challenge involved sustaining a continuous flow of physics data on a worldwide Grid infrastructure at up to 1 gigabyte per second. The maximum sustained data rates achieved correspond to transferring a DVD worth of scientific data from CERN every five seconds.
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2006 International Summer School in Grid Computing
The next International Summer School in Grid Computing will take place from the 9 - 21 July 2006. The school will be held once again in Italy, this year in the Jolly Hotel Delle Terme, on the beautiful Island of Ischia in the Bay of Naples. Students from all over the world are invited to apply for the well established school, now in its fourth year.
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Official Kick-off Meeting of the EUMEDGrid Project
Today the EU EUMEDGrid Project (empowering eScience across the Mediterranean) officially started with a kick-off meeting held in Malta. The main objective of the project, funded by the European Commission in the framework of the 6th Framework Programme for research and technological development, is to support implementation and use of a Grid infrastructure across the Mediterranean Area, thus fostering the development of e-Science applications (such as hydrogeological and medical applications) connected with already existing activities in Europe, in line with the support to the intercontinental extension of the European Research Area (ERA).
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EELA Takes Off!
EELA, the E-Infrastructure between Europe and Latin America, will be officially launched this week. The project will create a human network dedicated to work on Grids, e-Infrastructures, and e-Science.
Funded by the European Commission with 1.7 million Euro, the project aims to build a digital bridge between the existing e-Infrastructure initiatives that are in process of consolidation in Europe (in the framework of the European EGEE Project), and those that are emerging in Latin America, throughout the creation of a collaborative network that will share an interoperable Grid infrastructure to support the development and test of advanced applications.
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The EUChinaGRID Project Kicks-off
Today, the EUChinaGRID (Interconnection & Interoperability of Grids between Europe & China) Project officially kicks-off in Athens. The main goal of this European Commission funded project is to support the integration and interoperability of the Grid infrastructures in Europe and China for the benefit of eScience applications and worldwide Grid initiatives, in line with the support of the intercontinental extension of the European Research Area (ERA).
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EGEE Successfully Passes EU Review
The second review of the EGEE project was held at CERN, Switzerland on 6 and 7 December 2005, where the work of the past nine months was presented to the five EU-appointed reviewers and the EU project officer, Kyriakos Baxevanidis.
The project received the official report from the reviewers on Friday 16 December, which stated that the overall performance of the project continues to be very good. The reviewers also remarked that the change in leadership was smooth and that the transition period was well managed. They accepted all the deliverables from the second period and approved the plans for the remaining months of the project.
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CERN Awarded High-Performance Computing Prize at Supercomputing 2005
CERN* has received the High Performance Computing (HPC) Public Awareness Award at a ceremony at Supercomputing 2005 in Seattle this week. Supercomputing 2005 is the foremost international conference for HPC. The award was presented by HPCwire, the leading HPC publication, as one of their 2005 Editors' Choice Awards, a category where the winner is determined by a panel of recognized HPC luminaries and contributing editors from industry. The award citation is for ‘Outstanding Achievement in Creating Public Awareness for the Contributions of High Performance Computing’, and reflects CERN’s high visibility in scientific computing through its lead role in some of the world’s largest and most ambitious international Grid projects.
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Open Day: The Grid and Neglected Diseases
Those working in the field of neglected diseases should not miss the opportunity to meet with like-minded scientists to discuss the next step in grid computing, the major driving force for new approaches towards collaborative large scale science. An open day to discuss the future of grid computing and drug discovery is taking place on Friday 16 December 2005 at Bonn-Aachen International Centre for Information Technology, Bonn, Germany.
In the biomedical community, grid computing has already initiated several projects on large scale in silico drug screening approaches. The project WISDOM (Wide In Silico Docking on Malaria) was amongst the first in the public domain that made use of grid enabled in silico docking to simulate the interaction of potential drugs with target proteins on the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) grid infrastructure.
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EGEE Management Changes
Following the departure of Project Director Fabrizio Gagliardi on 1 November, a number of changes have been made to the project management. Dr Gagliardi is replaced by Robert Jones as Project Director. Dr Jones, well known to most members of the project, was previously EGEE Technical Director and Deputy Project Leader for the EU DataGrid (EDG) project. Prior to this he worked on the ATLAS collaboration, a detector for CERN’s forthcoming Large Hadron Collider.
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Global e-Infrastructure Reports Landmark Results at European Conference
Today marked the completion of a major conference organised by the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project, which is coordinated by CERN and co-funded by the European Commission, where a number of key results were reported on the road to achieving a global Grid infrastructure for science. It was announced at the conference that the EGEE infrastructure, which spans over 150 sites in Europe, the Americas and Asia, had surpassed 2 million computing jobs, or the equivalent of over 1000 years of processing on a single PC.
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EGEE Looks To The Future at Fourth Conference
The fourth conference of the Enabling Grid for E-sciencE (EGEE) project will be held in Pisa, Italy next week (24 to 28 October 2005). The EGEE project provides the world’s largest Grid infrastructure of its kind, and is Europe’s flagship Research Infrastructures initiative, supporting six scientific fields and running more than 20 different applications. The EGEE conference in Pisa also coincides with a major milestone for the project: by October, 2 million jobs had been successfully run on the project’s infrastructure this year alone.
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BEgrid Joins EGEE
BEgrid, the Belgian research grid infrastructure that resulted from the BELNET Grid Initiative, has grown in less than two years to an environment featuring about 300 CPUs and 4 Terabytes of storage.
Besides the multi-gigabit network, BELNET contributes by providing the Certification Authority and manpower to coordinate the project and help new partners to start. The Flemish Government contributed by providing the Flemish partners with funding for new equipment.
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Bulgarian EGEE Team Celebrates One Year as First BG LCG/EGEE Site
It is one year since the first Bulgarian EGEE grid site BG01-IPP joined the LCG Testzone giving the Bulgarian EGEE team a reason to celebrate. This month, the team reviewed the work done in the framework of the project, reminded themselves of their achievements and celebrated with friends after a seminar and discussion.
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Call for Papers for 1st Austrian Grid Symposium
A call for papers has been issued for the 1st Austrian Grid Symposium taking place in Schloss Hagenberg, Austria on the 1 and 2 December 2005.
The Austrian Grid Initiative is the national initiative in Austria to set up and support grid computing in general, and to provide coordination and collaboration between research areas actively involved and interested in grid computing. The Austrian Grid Consortium combines Austria's leading researchers in advanced computing technologies with well-recognized partners in grid-dependant application areas.
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Regional German/Swiss EGEE Computing School Concluded
For the third year running the German EGEE partners, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (FZK) hosted the annual GridKa Computing School.
The one-week event comprised four EGEE-related hands-on sessions, ranging from an introduction to gLite and the ROOT/PROOF analysis framework over Grid application development to a gLite installation course. A particular technical highlight was the use of Xen to virtualise an entire Grid in a 16 node cluster.
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EGEE Battles Malaria With Grid Wisdom
The first biomedical data challenge for drug discovery, which ran on the EGEE grid production service from 11 July 2005 until 19 August 2005, has been hailed a success. Entitled WISDOM (Wide In Silico Docking On Malaria), the challenge saw over 46 million docked ligands during that period – the equivalent of 80 years on a single PC. Usually in silico docking is carried out on classical computer clusters resulting in around 100,000 docked ligands. This type of scientific challenge would not be possible without the grid infrastructure - 1000 computers were simultaneously used in 15 countries around the world.
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Register Now for the Fourth EGEE Conference
Registration is now open for the fourth and final EGEE Conference, taking place in Pisa, Italy, between Monday 24 and Friday 28 October 2005.
Delegates are encouraged to register early to take advantage of the early registration fee (€300 until 9 September) and are reminded to book accommodation as soon as possible as this stunning city, famous for its leaning tower, is also a popular tourist desination.
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Third International GRID School Attracts Students from Seventeen Countries
Students from all over the world attended the Third International Grid School in Vico Equense, Italy to extend their knowledge of GRID Computing. Numerous EGEE staff were involved in the planning and delivery of the programme. Participants consisted of young researchers from technical industries, research laboratories and academic environments who were interested in using or developing Grid technologies.
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GridKa Registration Now Open
Registration is now open for the third annual GridKa Computing School which will take place between 26 - 30 September 2005 in Karlsruhe, Germany. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (FZK) - one of the EGEE partners and home of the largest German science cluster "GridKa" - will host the event.
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EGEE Attends the World's Leading Linux Trade Show and Conference
Around 12,000 visitors visited the recent "Linux Tag" event - the world's number one Linux Expo and Conference since 1996. The event took place in Karlsruhe from 22 to 25 June 2005. Among more than 150 exhibitors the EGEE Partner Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (FZK) demonstrated the aims and possible fields of application of EGEE and Grid Computing in general to interested audiences.
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EGEE Makes Rapid Earthquake Analysis Possible
Using the advanced grid infrastructure of the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project, researchers at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), France, were able to analyse the large Indonesian earthquake, which struck on 28 March 2005, within 30 hours of it occurring. Although less severe than the one in December 2004, which caused a tsunami wave in the Indian Ocean, over 1000 people were killed in this second major earthquake.
The analysis showed that the March earthquake was not a belated aftershock of the December one, although they are intricately linked.
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EGEE Speeds Up Hunt for New Malaria Drugs
The Drug Discovery application running on the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) production service aims to find potential new drugs to combat malaria, a disease which kills a million people per year and affects 300 million more. The number of malaria cases and deaths has increased in many parts of the world, mainly because the most widely used drug (Chloroquine) has been rendered useless by drug resistance, and because the Anopheles mosquitoes that carry malaria have become increasingly resistant to common insecticides. In molecular biology research, parasite proteins have been identified which are potential targets for drugs against malaria.
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Euro-India ECT Co-operation initiative Workshop
The MONSOON project, a Euro-India ICT Co-operation initiative,
which EGEE is supporting as Champion Leader, officially started on 1 February 2005.
The project provides the European & Indian ICT Communities with the opportunity to find potential partners in RTD funding initiatives, share and exchange knowledge on pertinent ICT topics, placing a specific emphasis on areas highlighted by both Europe and India for mutual cooperation.
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LHC Computing Centres Join Forces for Global Grid Challenge
Today, in a significant milestone for scientific grid computing, eight major computing centres successfully completed a challenge to sustain a continuous data flow of 600 megabytes per second (MB/s) on average for 10 days from CERN in Geneva, Switzerland to seven sites in Europe and the US. The total amount of data transmitted during this challenge — 500 terabytes — would take about 250 years to download using a typical 512 kilobit per second household broadband connection.
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EGEE Celebrates First Birthday in Athens
The Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project celebrated its first successful year at the Third Project Conference in Athens this week. The project has already greatly exceeded the number of sites it expected to integrate on the EGEE Grid by the end of the project in March 2006, with 14,000 CPUs distributed over 130 sites to date.
The main focus of the conference was to plan for the second year of the project in the light of feedback from the European Union (EU) review which the project passed with flying colours in February this year.
Project Director, Fabrizio Gagliardi, thanked all those working in the project for their hard work and dedication, saying: “It is important to keep the momentum going and ensure this week is utilised to consolidate our plans for the next year of the project.”
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EGEE Passes EU Review With Flying Colours
The first review of the EGEE project was held at CERN, Switzerland between 9-11 February 2005, where the work of the past nine months was presented to the five EU-appointed reviewers, the EU project officer, Kyriakos Baxevanidis, and the EU administrator, Christophe Kowalski.
At the beginning of March, the project received the official report of the reviewers, where they conveyed their satisfaction with the successful start and performance of the project, complimented the excellent people the project builds on.
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World’s Largest Computing Grid Surpasses 100 Sites
Today, the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG) project announced that the computing Grid it is operating now includes more than 100 sites in 31 countries.
This makes it the world’s largest international scientific Grid. This Grid is being established in order to deal with the anticipated huge computing needs of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), currently being built at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. The sites participating in the LCG project are primarily universities and research laboratories.
They contribute more than 10,000 central processor units (CPUs) and a total of nearly 10 million Gigabytes of storage capacity on disk and tape. This Grid receives substantial support from the EU-funded project Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE), which is a major contributor to the operations of the LCG project.
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First Industrial Application is Running on EGEE
Geocluster, the leading industry Seismic Processing Solution, is the first industrial application successfully running on the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) Grid Production Service, within the Expanding GEOsciences on DEmand (EGEODE) Virtual Organisation (VO). EGEODE is dedicated to research in geosciences for both public and private Industrial Research & Development and Academic Laboratories.
To view the press release, click here.
EGEE Branches Out in the MED
The project branched out into new countries in the Mediterranean area last week, when the University of Cyprus (UCY) presented EGEE and Grids for the first time in Tunisia.
The presentation, given by Maria Poveda from UCY, was broadcast via satellite at the 8th Meeting of the Tunisian Society of Informatics, using the EMISPHER platform. The audience learned about the concept of Grids, the EGEE project and how they could get involved in the project.
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Registration Now Open for Third EGEE Conference
Registration is now open for the Third EGEE Conference, taking place at the five star Ledra Marriot hotel in Athens, Greece, between 18-22 April 2005. Register by Midnight on Monday 7 March to benefit from the early registration fee of 350 Euros.
The Third EGEE conference marks the halfway point in the two year project, since it began in April 2004. The conference comes at a crucial time for all members of the project and will provide an opportunity to take stock of the significant achievements to date.
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EGEE and Grid Computing in Australia and New Zealand
The EGEE project and Grid Computing in Europe was presented at the third Australasian Workshop on Grid Computing and e-Research in Australia last week, thanks to Dr. Ruediger Berlich, FZK and Dr. KilianSchwarz, GSI - EGEE partners from Germany.
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EGEE Heads East
EGEE featured prominently at the EC-Bridge Conference “Research Networks, Advanced Networks and Broadband Solutions”, held in Shanghai on 9 and 10 December 2004. Organised by the EC-Bridge Project, funded by the European Commission and supported by the Chinese Government, the event attracted over 400 delegates from a wide-range of backgrounds and countries.
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Second EGEE Conference a Success!
The Second Enabling Grids for E-sciencE Conference , held in The Netherlands in the last week of November, was a great success. The event was one of several being held under the banner "European Leadershop in Grids and e-Science" during the six months of the Dutch EU Presidency.
The event was attended by more than 400 delegates, including members of related EU research infrastructure projects such as SEE-GRID, DILIGENT and DEISA.
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Over 50 People Participated in the First EGEE and SEE-GRID Workshop
More than 50 people participated in the First EGEE and SEE-GRID Workshop which took place in Bulgaria on 30 and 31 October 2004.
The workshop, "EU Grid projects: mission, current status, perspectives", was organised by the Institute for Parallel Processing at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (formerly CLPP-BAS).
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Member of the Bulgarian EGEE Team Receives Top Award
Dr.Emanouil Atanassov, SA1 Leader in the Bulgarian EGEE team, recently received a "John Atanasoff" honorary diploma (John Atanassoff was the inventor of the first electronic digital computer) from the President of Bulgaria, Mr.Georgi Parvanov. The prize is awarded annually in Bulgaria to young people for outstanding contributions in the field of information technology.
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Join the SEE-GRID Policy Workshop at The Hague
SEE-GRID will run a Policy Workshop in The Hague, The Netherlands, on Wednesday November 24 2004, as part of the event “European Leadership in E-science and Grids”.
The SEE-GRID project (South Eastern European GRid-enabled eInfrastructure Development) is an initiative co-funded and carried out within European Commission’s Sixth Framework Programme under Research Infrastructures.
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GridKa a Success
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, an EGEE partner and one of
Germany's largest research institutions, held its second annual GridKa Computing School last month.
Taking place at the FZK premises in Karlsruhe, Germany, 94 participants from institutions in Germany and Europe followed 14 lectures ranging from Grid research ("The EGEE Middleware Architecture" by Leanne Guy) to Grid deployment ("Grid Experiences" by Federico Carminati).
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Applications Urged to Apply to Join EGEE
EGAAP, The EGEE Generic Applications Advisory Panel, is appealing to organisations to apply to join the project.
EGAAP was set-up to advise EGEE management on the best deployment strategy. The next EGAAP meeting, scheduled on 25 November 2004 in The Hague, The Netherlands (during the Second EGEE Conference) will decide which applications can join. In order to be considered, Virtual Organisations should submit their requests to have their applications deployed on the EGEE infrastructure no later than 1 November 2004.
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Register Now for the Second EGEE Conference
The Second EGEE Conference registration is now open. The Conference will be held at the NCC in The Hague, The Netherlands, between Monday 22 November and Friday 26 November.
The second EGEE conference is one of the events taking place in the Netherlands under the banner "European Leadership in e-Science and Grids" during the six months of the Dutch European presidency.
Other EC Research Infrastructure Grid projects - DEISA, SEEGRID and DILIGENT will participate in this large event where project partners will gather to discuss issues and work together.
EGEE, DEISA, SEEGRID, DILIGENT and GN2 will host the first Concertation Meeting on eInfrastructures on the Monday and Tuesday.
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EGEE Sytems Administrators Gather in Oxford
Last month, EGEE system administrators gathered in in Oxford, UK, for a workshop to train on installing and maintaining Grid middleware. The three day course was held in the Physics Department of Oxford University, and was a great success.
Run by GridPP (the UK particle physics Grid), the course attracted participants from the UK, Germany Ireland and CERN. The key aspect of the course was its practical nature - participants were split into four groups each with a set of five Dell Poweredge 1750 servers with which to practice the installation process. With a number of experts on-hand at all times to help, every group had completed a Grid installation by the end of the second day and were able to run through testing and other maintenance procedures during the third day.
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Annual Gridka Registration Open
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (FZK), one of EGEE's partners and one of Germany's largest research institutions, will hold its annual GridKa computing school between 20 and 23 September on its premises in Karlsruhe, Germany.
The main audience of the school are postdocs, graduate and advanced undergraduate students of high energy and nuclearphysics. But people interested in information about Grid Computing in other data-intensive environments will benefit from a wealth of different topics presented by a wide array of speakers. Registration is now open. For further details click here.
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Major Russian Grid Conference a Success
The first major Grid conference in Russia, hosted by Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), has been hailed a success. The conference, distributed Computing and Grid-technologies in Science and Education, took place in Dubna, Russia, between 29 June and 2 July and attracted participants from as far afield as Bulgaria, Ukraine, Slovakia, Armenia, Germany, Czech Republic and Belarus. Russians from 29 Universities and Research institutes, also attended.
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EGEE Presented in Cyprus
EGEE was firmly on the agenda of the 3rd EMISPHER Euro-Mediterranean Conference on eInfrastructures and e-Health, organised by the University of Cyprus last month.
Marios Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus, gave a presentation on the EGEE Project and Ignacio Espert-Blanquer, UPV, gave a presentation about EGEE and Healthgrids.
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EGEE Presence at Linux Tag in Germany
Linux Tag, had over 16,000 visitors and 170 exhibitors at its Trade Show in Karlsruhe, Germany, in June and EGEE was one of them.
Linux forms the backbone of Grid research and deployment in Germany, so Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (FZK), one of EGEE's partners, decided to exhibit its Grid initiatives there.
FZK held hourly talks, giving an introduction to Grid computing, the EGEE project, the AliCE Environment "AliEn" as well as other EU projects.
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Grids and Scientific Applications are a Main Feature of the TERENA Networking Conference 2004
Grids and scientific applications featured heavily in the programme of the 2004 TERENA Networking Conference in Rhodes. The annual conference attracts hundreds of people from across the world interested in networking.
All aspects of networking for the support of grid applications were addressed in the various parallel sessions and issues of scalability for the internet were frequently raised and security limitations of the current environment(in particular large-scale deployment issues for PKI).
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New Project SEE-GRID is Launched
SEE-GRID, the South Eastern European Grid-Enabled eInfrastructure Development project, was launched on 1 May 2004. The project aims to ease the digital divide between South Eastern European countries and the rest of Europe, pave the way for future enlargement of the European Union and contribute to the stability and peace in the SEE region, an area of unrest until recently.
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New EGEE Website Launched
The new EGEE website has been launched. This website replaces the old one which served as an interim site while the EGEE project was still in its start-up phase. The website is developed, maintained and hosted by TERENA.
For comments or questions please
contact the webmaster.
The First EGEE Conference Kicks Off in Ireland
The first EGEE conference got underway on Sunday 18 April 2004 in Cork, Ireland. More than 300 project delegates attended many meetings and presentations about all aspects of the project.
The conference lasted four days and the tightly packed schedule allowed delegates to discuss the overall mission of the project,
present their progress so far and deliberate about how this computing grid will be built and used.
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European Grid Computing Changes Gear
The EGEE project was officially launched on 1 April 2004. The EGEE project will build on the success of the EDG project and take Grid technology even further by establishing a Grid infrastructure which is available to cientists, 24 hours-a-day.
Read more about the launch in the
press release (PDF).