News archive for May 2008
HPCwire: DEISA2 Aims for Integrated European HPC Ecosystem
HPCwire features a DEISA press-release, DEISA2 Aims for Integrated European HPC Ecosystem.
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British Council: Supercomputer Power
As part of its Cubed webzine, the British Council has an article on the power and application of supercomputers entitled ‘Supercomputer Power‘.
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OGSA-DAI WS-DAIX 1.0 released
The OGSA-DAI project team have released OGSA-DAI WS-DAIX 1.0. OGSA-DAI WS-DAIX provides an implementation of the OGF DAIS Working Group WS-DAIX specifications. It was built using OGSA-DAI 3.0 but is a stand-alone product and requires only Apache Tomcat and the Exist XML database to be used.
For further information please see the downloads page at:
http://www.ogsadai.org.uk/downloads or […]
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Feature: Distributed Grid storage for scientists
EPCC is working with a cell biology group at the University of Oxford to manage the distribution and storage of data across several UK universities.
The study of cell biology increasingly depends on the use of very large, high definition images produced by high performance microscopes. The Ilan Davis Research Group at the University of Oxford, […]
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Call for Proposals for the 4th DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative
The 4th DECI Call for Proposals is now open.
Deadline for submissions: 30th of June, 2008.
Application form: www.deisa.eu
The DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative (DECI) is an excellent way to gain access to a large amount of HPC cycles. Last year’s call saw seven UK DECI projects granted a total of over 3.2 million hours on a […]
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HPCx 6th Annual Seminar: Complementary Capability Computing
June 17th 2008 - NeSC, Edinburgh
http://www.hpcx.ac.uk/about/events/annual2008/
As the national HPCx service enters its sixth year of operation, this year’s seminar looks at the wide range of science being performed on the system. It also looks forward to the exciting opportunities for novel exploitation of the HPCx architecture as the service extends through 2009, and at the […]
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iSGTW: A Data Grid For Cell Biology
As cell biology moves from labs to computer desktops, researchers must deal with increasingly vast volumes of data. Traditional ways of sharing this data—such as physically shipping hard drives—just cannot keep up.
iSGTW feature: A Data Grid For Cell Biology
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