News archive for September 2007
John Fisher 1945-2007
John Fisher
1945-2007
EPCC User Support
I am very sad to announce that John Fisher died suddenly on Thursday 27th September 2007. As well as being a colleague for more than 13 years, I am proud to call John my friend. His death will sadden all those who knew him throughout the UK computational science community but most […]
iSGTW: BEinGRID launches next two million Euro call
BEinGRID—Business Experiments in GRID—today launched their next competitive two million Euro call for additional Business Experiments proposals targeting industry and research organizations to provide, use and validate grid technologies to meet business challenges.
The BEinGRID project has been conducting real-world experiments with grid technologies for more than a year and are promoting their first project results […]
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iSGTW: Disaster management: in safe hands with FireGrid
Fire breaks out.
Your fire fighters arrive outside the burning building. It is buried in smoke; flames flick behind the haze. Should you enter? Or evacuate? Is the fire waning? How will it progress?
Countless fires have come under this same spotlight, including the World Trade Center collapse in 2001; the Mont Blanc tunnel fire in 1999; […]
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Fifth DEISA Training Session, Bologna, Italy, 29th-31st October, 2007
Fifth DEISA Training Session
Bologna, Italy,
29th-31st October, 2007.
Registration closes: 8th October.
Gavin J. Pringle
The 5th DEISA Training Session will be held at CINECA, Bologna, Italy, in October, 2007. The registration for this event will open early September. Scientists from all European countries and members of industrial organisations involved in high performance computing are all invited to attend.
The […]
Feature: OGSA-DAI 3.0 released
A completely redesigned and rewritten version of the database access and integration software has been released.
Imagine a census database, containing myriad facts such as the price of a loaf of bread or the number of cancer deaths within various regions of the UK. This database could be used to answer questions such as ‘How many […]
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