News archive for March 2009

OMII-UK to be a mentor in the Google Summer of Code Programme

20th March 2009. Filed under: News, Announcements

For the second year running, OMII-UK will mentor student participants in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme.
GSoC provides students all over the world with a stipend to spend three months of their summertime writing code for open source projects. In this way, Google provides support for Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects by […]

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Call for Proposals for the 5th DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative. Submission Deadline: 4th May 2009

03rd March 2009. Filed under: News, Announcements

The DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative, or DECI, is an excellent way to gain access to a large amount of HPC cycles, for projects which are too large to run on a single National Resource.
Last year’s call saw five UK DECI projects granted a total of over 5.8 million hours on a variety of platforms spread […]

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Gridipedia on display at OGF25

02nd March 2009. Filed under: News

Gridipedia – the European online repository of Grid tools and information – is hosting a booth at the 25th Open Grid Forum (OGF25) in Catania, Sicily, this week. The Gridipedia team will be on hand to discuss how Gridipedia can support your business or research.
Gridipedia is an online knowledge and toolset repository for Grid computing. […]

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