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"Cloud is the next milestone in our connected world" - Steven Newhouse - Technical Director EGEE III
The OGF-Europe Cloudscape workshop saw over 100 participants enjoyed an in-depth look at the benefits that Cloud computing offers business. Challenges for the adoption of Cloud was also addressed as well as the impact that it can have on Green IT.
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Early Bird Registration has been extended! Early Bird Registration for this premier event on distributed computing closes at 09:00 Central European Time (CET) on Tuesday 3 February 2009.
This multi-faceted event will connect and catalyse developers, providers, users and newcomers to showcase benefits of adoption, foster best practices and deliberate key challenges in the drive towards open standards for the knowledge-based economy.
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A draft programme is available here.
What's a grid? With GridTalk's latest GridBriefing anyone can learn about grid computing in just five minutes. The Briefing offers valuable comments from developers & users alike, showing how it has transformed their day-to-day activities and has impacted on research outcomes.
Download the GridBriefing here - Grid Computing in Five Minutes.
Next month the world’s largest multi-science grid project, Enabling Grids for E-sciencE, will hold its annual conference in Istanbul, Turkey, 22-26 September. This event will gather international scientists, decision makers and information technology engineers. EGEE’s conference is an opportunity to learn the latest about using distributed computing in fields such as business, high energy physics, life sciences, geophysics, grid security, middleware and grid sustainability.
Download the Media Invite here.
OGF has announced the current Board of Directors, which includes Silvana Muscella, Technical Co-ordinator of OGF-Europe, as one of the "At-Large Members".
OGF-Europe is actively supporting a Workshop dedicated to OGF specifications: BES, JSDL & GLUE. The Workhop, which takes place 2-4 September at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, near Geneva in Switzerland, aims to evaluate end-to-end job submission using OGF specifications. The Workshop will highlight the missing pieces so that recommendations on how to address these issues can be made and the next steps taken.
Addressing the Challenges of a fast-changing IT Landscape is the focus of this month's eAnnouncement. Features include a snapshot of OGF-Europe's Industry Expert Group by Fabrizio Gagliardi, Microsoft Research. Sergio Andreozzi (INFN; OGF-Europe) takes a look at in-depth tutorials and explains why they play such a key role in fostering the implementation of specifications. The eAnnouncement showcases OGF-Europe's achievements in the last six months with an eye to the future for upcoming international events: OGF24, 15-19 September 2008, Singapore and OGF25, which takes place in Catania, Italy in early March 2009.
OGF24 will provide an excellent opportunity to engage with the Applied Distributed Computing communities in the Asia/Pacific region. OGF24 is hosted by the Singapore Grid Forum and co-located with GridAsia 2008. The deadline for Advanced Registration & Session Proposals is 8 August 2008. Participants are advised to book accommodation as soon as possible.
Grid Computing Now! (GCN!) has played a significant role in identifying and championing the adoption of grid technologies through its porfolio of case studies, events, conferences and webinars.
Download the GNC! 2008 Report here.
D4Science aims to continue the path that the GEANT, EGEE and DILIGENT projects have initiated towards establishing networking, grid-based and data-centric e-Infrastructures that accelerate multidisciplinary research by overcoming several crucial barriers such as those related to heterogeneity, sustainability and scalability.
According to Donatella Castelli, Scientific Coordinator, CNR, “By building upon the experience acquired over the past years, we are now ready to put into production the first e-Infrastructure that will enable sharing and seamless access to heterogeneous content, service and computer resources”.
Download the Press Release here.
3 July 2008 - GridTalk Media Release "Grid computing school shares teaching resources through digital library and behind-the-scenes blog" at the upcoming International Summer School on Grid Computing, 6-18 July in Hungary. Download the Media Release here.
This Week's issue of iSGTW brings an in-depth article on why standards are so important. Standardisation is inextricably linked to interoperability, which facilitates and fosters co-operation, competition on a level-playing field and long-term sustainability. Community consensus on standards enables smoother technology transfer and ease of use.
The Feature, Grid computing walks the standard line: thinking inside the box, outlines the current landscape; challenges moving forward and brings community perspectives.
GridTalk took us behind the scenes at OGF23 through an amazing mix of live interviews, snapshots from keynotes & sessions, the media conference and surprises galore. The GridCast shows how people from across the globe came together to talk about the future of distributed computing. See the faces behind OGF23 by clicking in the box on the right of this page or by clicking here. Many thanks are owed to Cristy Burne and Corentin Chevalier from GridTalk, to all the bloggers, and to iSGTW for coverage: iSGTW feature.
OGF23 hosted a high-profile press conference today, Tuesday 3 June. Attendants included Mario Campolargo, Head of Unit, DG INFSO/F3 - GÉANT & e-Infrastructures; Craig Lee, President of OGF; Werner Vogels, CTO Amazon.com; Dieter Kranzlmueller, European Grid Initiative; Santi Ristol, ATOS Origin; Jamie Shiers, CERN; Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, FAPESP; and Francesc Subirada, BSC Associate Director.
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Interested in learning about the European Grid Initiative & its links to OGF-Europe?
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OGF23 on-line registration closes 16 May 2008! Register now for this major Grid event in 2008.
Industry Keynote on Tuesday 3 June 2008, 2.00-3.00, OGF23
As a launching point to the BEinGRID Industry Days event, OGF and BEinGRID are providing interesting speakers that give a more commercial view of grids and related distributed computing technologies. Dr. Werner Vogels is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company's technology vision, which is to continuously enhance the innovation on behalf of Amazon's customers at a global scale. The second speaker is Diego Pavia, CEO Atos Origin Iberia who will be speaking on the topic of “From grid to utility. Enterprise IT evolution”.
The OGF-Europe April Announcement is out now!
To download the PDF Article, click here.
The OGF-Europe fact sheet offers a snapshot of the project as a whole. Outreach activites are highlighted including information regarding OGF23, Community Outreach Seminars and Workshops. User communities and other related European projects are also focussed upon, as well as the international flavour of the project.
A pdf version of the fact sheet is available here.
OGF23 Schedule: click here
OGF23 is a unique opportunity to engage with a large international audience in Europe, where Grids are riding significant momentum, and showcase the technological developments taking shape in EU research and commerical settings. OGF23 will bring together Grid players from across the globe to discuss interoperation, standardisation and innovative solutions taking shape.
Grid Computing Now! Webinar, Thursday 10 April 2008 on Virtualisation and Grid: a fundamental challenge to the software licensing model?
The webinar is scheduled for 14.00 BST.
This webinar brings together some of the pioneers in this industry, working at the leading edge to shed light on the new responsibilities of IT managers; to provide tools and methods to gain insight and to set policies and industry direction in the new situation.
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where the project was hailed as a important milestone for OGF.