OMII-Europe

Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute

News and upcoming events

• OGF23

  June, Barcelona, Spain
  

Past news and events

• DEISA symposium

  28-29th April, Edinburgh, UK
  The annual DEISA symposium provides a forum where scientists from around the world can discuss HPC-eInfrastructures in general and for DEISA users to share their experiences and results. Alistair Dunlop gave a talk (slides) on Monday, April 28th (15:40-16:20) about OMII-Europe: the project's successful use of standards to achieve interoperability and the role OMII-Europe software components can play within DEISA. (full program)

• National Grid Service (NGS) roadshow

  10th April, Southampton, UK
  The NGS is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to provide free services to UK researchers from all disciplines. The NGS offers all UK researchers computational services and support including free compute resources and free training. The first of the NGS roadshows was held in Southampton, in association with OMII-UK, on the 10th of April. OMII-Europe participated in this event and joined the OMII-UK booth.

• e-Science Project Management Symposium

  10-11th April, Oxford, UK
  The EPSRC funded project Embedding e-Science Applications: Designing Managing for Usability aims to explore the processes and tools used when managing e-Science projects. In this workshop, participants presented their experiences and contributed their ideas for a project manager's toolkit. Steve Brewer, deputy project manager of OMII-Europe, also presented his experiences in managing a distributed European project such as OMII-Europe. "Project management in distributed collaborative research", 11th April schedule

• International Symposium on Grid Computing (ISGC) 2008

  7-11th April, Taipei, Taiwan
  Achim Streit of FZJ, Germany, gave a talk on the interoperability across Grid middleware that OMII-Europe has made possible on the 10th of April (11:20-12:50). This is the 7th International Symposium on Grid Computing and continues to promote awareness of the Grid operation and collaboration between the Asia Pacific region and the rest of the world.

• Seamlessly linking Europe's e-infrastructures

  March 2008
  'Creative connections: An introduction to Europe's e-Infrastructures' This DVD gives an introduction to four major projects the EU has set up to enable Europe's scientists to be at the cutting edge of research no matter how remote their base may be: GEANT2, EGEE, DEISA and OMII-Europe. A short version of this video can be viewed here. If you would like a copy of the DVD, please write to us at info@omii-europe.org

• OMII-Europe solutions for D-Grid users

  11-12th March, Juelich, Germany
  This special training course was specifically for the D-Grid community. D-Grid users learnt how to successfully submit jobs to the UNICORE-based supercomputer in Juelich via the OMII-Europe portal. OMII-Europe developers and researchers were also able to advise representatives from the projects about upcoming technologies and standards such as the GLUE 2.0 schema.

• Grid interoperability showcase - OGF22

  25-29th February 2008, Cambridge, MA USA
  OMII-Europe had a successful week at OGF22 with a session on the implementation of standards on Monday (25th) and a live software demo in the evening.

• Using OMII-Europe Grid solutions to fight malaria - EGEE User Forum

  14th February 2008, Clermont-Ferrand - France
  
  
  Grid computing has had a major impact on many areas of research; drug development is one such field. The WISDOM project is tasked with enabling the discovery of anti-malarial drugs through Grid computing. The OMII-Europe interoperability architecture has been proposed as a solution to the WISDOM project to overcome frustrating boundaries across heterogeneous Grid infrastructures. This was explored more in an OMII-Europe workshop at the end of the user forum attracting users from various fields. The adoption of OMII-Europe components by other projects is a major milestone for the project.

• OMII-Europe showcased by ICT results and GridToday

  5th February 2008
  The work done by OMII-Europe has been showcased on the ICT results website (see article). ICT Results is an editorial service created for the European Commission to showcase EU-funded ICT research and activities. This article was subsequently picked up by GridToday .

• GLUE Q&A in OGF newsletter

  5th February 2008
  GLUE is one of the newer working groups of OGF and is all about information interoperability in the Grid context. The GLUE specification is being implemented in OMII-Europe. An interview with Sergio Andreozzi, co-chair of the the GLUE working group and researcher in OMII-Europe, is published in this month's OGF newsletter.

• Seminar organised by the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC)

  22nd January 2008, Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ), Germany
  Vinod Kasam, from the WISDOM project, gave a presentation about the work done by the WISDOM project to combat malaria and how Grid computing significantly assists their research. WISDOM is one of the projects where the interoperable software components from OMII-Europe can play a beneficial role.
  More about the WISDOM project

• OMII-Europe work publicised in OGF newsletter

  The December 2007 issue of the OGF newsletter contained references to work done by OMII-Europe including the work on the accounting systems SGAS and DGAS, the GLUE (Grid Laboratory Uniform Environment) schema and UNICORE 6 BES and CREAM-BES. See more at http://www.ogf.org/News/newscal_enews.php?dec07#LINK4. OMII-Europe adopts the standards emerging from OGF to re-engineer essential Grid components.

• Grid interoperability workshop

  10-13th December 2007, Bangalore, India
  This workshop was organised by OMII-Europe and held in conjunction with the 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing. For more details and the workshop schedule, see IGIIW2007.



• BioinfoGRID Symposium 2007

  10-13th December 2007, Milan, Italy
  The BioinfoGRID Symposium 2007 brought together experts in the field of Bioinformatics for ICT, HPC and Grid computing applications in life science. Steve Brewer of OMII-Europe gave a presentation at this event on the 11th of December, 2007. More...

• Management Developers Conference

  3-6th December 2007, Santa Clara, California
  The JRA2 team ('Identifying and implementing missing grid services') of OMII-Europe presented their work at this conference on the 4th of December. More...

• 4th E-infrastructure Concertation

  5-6th December 2007, Sophia Antipolis, France
  The 4th E-infrastructure concertation meeting was co-organised by the Commission Services and ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute). The focus of this meeting was on the role of standards in the deployment of e-infrastructures. Dr Alistair Dunlop gave a report from the middleware track in the plenary session on Thursday 6th December. Also Dr Wolfgang Gentzsch gave a keynote at this event which mentioned the work done by OMII-Europe numerous times (see Downloads page for the presentation). Find out more about the concertation meeting.

• Supercomputing 2007

  10th-16th November 2007, Reno
  "Numerous OMII-Europe components were demonstrated at both the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC) and the EGEE-INFN booth. Overall, OMII-Europe was well represented at SuperComputing. OMII-Europe members answered questions about specific interoperability gaps and the solutions OMII-Europe is able to provide. In addition to DEISA and EGEE representatives, several other e-Infrastructure groups such as the upcoming national e-Infrastructure of Brazil and D-Grid of Germany were interested too." - Morris Riedel, OMII-Europe Software Engineer, FZJ, Germany
  http://sc07.supercomputing.org/

• OMII-Europe meeting: Month 18

  5th-7th November 2007, Edinburgh, UK

• eChallenges 2007

  24th-26th October 2007, The Hague, The Netherlands
  http://www.echallenges.org/e2007/

• OGF21

  15-19th October 2007, Seattle, USA.
  Once again OMII-Europe had a good involvement with the OGF community. We had a 90-minute OMII-Europ esession titled 'Grid interoperability through standards' (see downloads page for the slides) and other members of OMII-Europe such as Sergio Andreozzi and Morris Riedel were heavily involved in other sessions too. More...

• EGEE 2007

  1st-5th October 2007, Budapest, Hungary
  EGEE 2007 presented another opportunity for OMII-Europe to chat to users and listen to their requirements. The joint session by OMII-Europe and EGEE on Thursday (4th, Oct) sparked off several interesting discussions about the development, interfaces and compliancy of OMII-Europe software components.
  http://www.eu-egee.org/egee07/home.html



• NorduGrid 2007

  24th-28th September 2007, Copenhagen
  See the presentations page for the talks given by Achim Streit and Sergio Andreozzi of OMII-Europe at NorduGrid 2007. Sergio had this to say about the event: "They expressed great interest in the work done by OMII-Europe and believe that it is essential for the evolution of Grid middleware platforms. They also expressed an interest to collaborate with OMII-Europe in the future."
  NorduGrid 2007 website



• UK e-science all hands meeting 2007

  10th-13th September 2007, Nottingham, UK
  http://www.allhands.org.uk/



• UNICORE summit 2007

  28th August 2007, Rennes, France
  Several OMII-Europe members presented at this event along with the project manager, Alistair Dunlop. See the list of presentations and slides here.



• 15 month OMII-Europe project meeting

  31st July-2nd August 2007, Stockholm, Sweden
  
  
  The agenda and other details about this meeting can be found on the internal project intranet .



• Grid middleware for research communities: gLite, Globus, UNICORE and emerging standards

  11-12th July, 2007 - Edinburgh, UK
  The aim of this training course was was to give researchers an understanding of production grid infrastructures and middleware, and practical experience in using three of the dominant middleware stacks: Globus, gLite and UNICORE. The slides from this event can be found here.



• Joint EGEE and SEE-GRID Summer School on Grid Application Support

  25-30th June 2007, Budapest, Hungary
  Mike Mineter of OMII-Europe was heavily involved in this event and also gave a talk titled "Bridges for e-infrastructure - a view from the OMII-Europe project" on Saturday, 30th June. See more...



• OMII-Europe at OGF20 in Manchester, UK 7th-11th May 2007

  OMII-Europe had a booth and 90-minute session in the main programme. Both the booth and session were well attended. You can download the OMII-Europe flyers here. OMII-Europe attracts large crowds at OGF20 event...

• Successful 12-month face-to-face meeting held in Juelich

  Over 40 OMII-Europe members attended the 12-month progress meeting in Juelich, Germany from the 23rd-24th April, 2007. The meeting enabled the project participants to discuss their work and track the progress of deliverables. The meeting started with a training session ("Introduction to ETICS") which was followed by an overview of the activities by the respective activity leaders. For minutes, slides & other information about this meeting, contact Steve Brewer

• Nine month progress meeting in Bologna, Italy

  The third face-to-face meeting of the project was held in Bologna, Italy from the 12th-13th of February, 2007. For minutes, slides & other information about this meeting, contact Steve Brewer

• Six month progress meeting in Southampton, UK

  For minutes, slides & other information about this meeting, contact Steve Brewer

• The OMII-Europe website launched

  The OMII-Europe website was launched on the 1st of July, 2006. See also Naming Conventions and logo

• First training event in Edinburgh, UK

  The first training event conducted by OMII-Europe was held in Edinburgh on the 23rd of June, 2006. Agenda

• First OMII-Europe flyer produced

  See the first OMII-Europe flyer: pdf .

• Press release at the start of OMII-Europe

  The University of Southampton, UK gave a press release at the start of the OMII-Europe project.

• Kick-off meeting held in London

  The first meeting held in London, 3rd and 4th May 2006. Slides