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Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 16:05:51 +0100
From: "Andrea Grainger (NescSec)" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: NeSC News- upcoming events

Dear All


We are pleased to announce that online registration is available for two
workshops in April:


Workshop on Distributed Software Management for e-Science (WoDSMeS)
8-11 April 2002, e-Science Institute, Edinburgh
        Many e-Scientists are engaged in building large collections of software,
and are also composing software produced by others to make larger systems.
This alone is well known to be a challenging task, if the result is to be
reliable, re-usable and adaptable.
        Most e-Science funded projects are facing the additional challenge of
working in multi-organisational distributed teams. This makes project
management, quality processes and technical support far more difficult.  We
are providing the first workshop to initiate the process of jointly
developing shared knowledge of how best to proceed, given the realities of
e-Science projects that involve companies and universities, that involve
computer scientists and application scientists, and that often depend on
international collaborations.
        We intend that the whole four days should operate as a coherent whole and
be of benefit to managers, team leaders and practitioners in e-Science
projects. Those with a strong computing science or software engineering
background, or who have extensive experience may judge that they can omit
the Monday, or the Monday and Tuesday.
For more information and registration, please visit
http://umbriel.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Nesc/general/esi/events/wodsmes.html

Database Access and Integration (DAI)
15-16 April 2002, e-Science Institute, Edinburgh
        The UK Database Task Force (DBTF) has conducted a survey of Database Access
Requirements for Grid projects (http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/grid-db), and has
found that many projects appear to have similar requirements. This workshop
is intended to bring together members of the e-Science community who are
currently or expect to make use of database access and integration
facilities. The DBTF will present its current understanding of requirements,
its current grid middleware development plans, and its current view of
priorities. It is hoped that many members of grid projects will attend so
that they can provide feedback on these plans and help us improve them, and
so that the experiences of the wider community can be shared.
        It is hoped that technical issues and plans will be discussed in sufficient
detail to help projects address their database issues and to help build a
mutually supportive community of developers who use both databases and the
grid.

Who should attend?
        Members of the UK e-Science projects, of European Grid projects and of
other grid projects are welcome. Those who are actively using databases, or
wish to use databases via the grid and are designing or developing
applications are strongly encouraged to attend and to share the issues,
requirements and solutions that they have encountered.
        Those who are managing projects and wish to assess whether they should
pursue their own solutions or wait on the products emerging from this group
should also benefit from attending. We hope to show the general form of
proposed components, so that projects may plan a transition to them, if they
wish.
For more information and registration, please visit
http://umbriel.dcs.gla.ac.uk/nesc/general/esi/events/dai.html.


Best regards

Andrea

Ms Andrea Grainger
Conference Administrator
National e-Science Centre
13-15 South College Street
Edinburgh EH8 9AA  UK
+44 (0)131 650 9817
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