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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:20:52 -0000
From: Lee Callaghan <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: National e-Science Centre News
National e-Science Centre News
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Career Opportunities
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EGEE software developer/trainer
NeSC is the lead partner of the training activity of the EGEE project.
EGEE is a follow-on project from the successful European Data Grid (EDG)
project, which initiated work on middleware to support eScience in
Europe.
You will be a software developer who has an interest in training and
user interaction or a trainer with software development experience or
qualifications.
Further information can be found at:
https://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/jobs/index.cfm?action=jobdet&jobid=3003851
Accounts Administrative Secretary (Part Time)
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Joining the National e-Science Centre's clerical team, you will monitor
and control the Centre's accounts and provide administrative support to
the financial management of the Centre. You will prepare regular
financial reports and projections for the Centre Manager and assist her
in the preparation of accurate information for the Management Board and
funding bodies.
The post is available immediately 20 hours per week
Further information can be found at:
https://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/jobs/index.cfm?action=jobdet&jobid=3002944
Opportunities to Develop Oxford's Virtual Research Environment
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Oxford University has been awarded significant funding from the Joint
Information Systems Committee (JISC) to develop infrastructure and tools
for the next generation of collaborative research environments. We are
seeking enthusiastic individuals with excellent technical development
and project management skills to contribute to the following Virtual
Research Environment
(VRE) projects over the next two years:
* Building a Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities (BVREH).
* VRE for the Integrative Biology Research Consortium (IB VRE);
* Sakai VRE Portal Demonstrator (Sakai VRE);
Departments participating in these projects include the Computing
Laboratory,
the Humanities Division, and the OUCS Research Technologies Service
(RTS). See
further http://www.vre.ox.ac.uk/
Project Manager (Humanities Division)
RS1A Point 5, GBP23,643
You will be responsible for project management throughout the duration
of the Humanities VRE project and the detailed conduct of the user
survey that forms its initial stage. You will have broad experience in
the Humanities Computing sector, an understanding of the techniques and
technologies used, strong analytical skills, and the ability to write
reports with clarity and to meet deadlines.
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Technical Support Officer (Humanities Division)
RS1A Point 5, GBP23,643
You will be responsible for technical services and support for the
Humanities VRE project and for the evaluation and implementation of
demonstrator components for a Humanities VRE. You will be responsible
for the online presentation of the project. You will also have Java
programming skills and a familiarity with standards for portlets and
portal frameworks.
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First Research Assistant (Computing Laboratory)
RS1A, GBP19,460 - 29,128
You will work on the user requirements analysis, usability and interface
design, and system testing and validation. You will have excellent
communication skills, proven technical experience, and a demonstrable
understanding of usability and user interface design issues.
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Second Research Assistant (Computing Laboratory)
RS1A, GBP19,460 - 29,128
You will work closely on incorporation of the IB component toolkit into
the VRE, and acquisition and integration of resource layer tools into
the VRE. You will have several years' development experience, and, in
particular, have demonstrable experience of developing applications for
online information systems, including familiarity with XML and SOAP.
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Senior Systems Developer (RTS, IB VRE)
Senior Systems Developer (RTS, Sakai VRE)
RS2, GBP27,116 - 35,883
You will be responsible for the management, development and
implementation of technical services for the IB VRE or the Sakai VRE
projects. For both posts you will be an accomplished Java programmer
with a deep understanding of standards for portlets and portal
frameworks. We hope you have some familiarity with computation grids or
developing and integrating the latest standards-based tools for access
management or resource discovery.
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The closing date for all the above posts is 18 March 2005. Interviews
will be held in the second half of April 2005. For further details of
all these posts including the application procedures, please visit
http://www.vre.ox.ac.uk/
ARC Research Associate in Innovation and Emerging Technologies
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School of Information Systems
Curtin Business School
The ARC has funded a Linkage project in collaboration with Optus to
examine the potential of the Global Grid as 'an Infrastructure for
Innovation'. The research builds on a collaboration with the Edinburgh
Parallel Computing Centre and the Computer Network Information Centre of
the Chinese Academy of Sciences that has established a Grid Computing
link between Australia, China and the UK. This infrastructure represents
a unique set of relationships between academic and industry partners
drawn from the Telecommunications and Financial Services sectors in each
country, and has already applied the computing power of the Grid to
analyse consumer behaviour in each of these markets
(http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/inwa).
The Grid's potential for supporting and sustaining the growth of new
'virtual' industry clusters will be explored in this research and
candidates with a relevant background in interdisciplinary research are
encouraged to apply. The post may involve research visits to Edinburgh
and Beijing.
More details can be found at:
http://jobs.curtin.edu.au/positionview.cfm?positionid=5021
Or by contacting Professor Ashley Lloyd, Optus Chair of Electronic
Business, in the School of Informations Systems on [log in to unmask]
Upcoming Events at NeSC
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Induction to Grid Computing and the National Grid Service, 29 - 30 March
2005
The National Grid Service is is the core UK grid, intended for the
production use of computational and data grid resources. NGS is the core
service resulting from the UK's e-Science programme
(http://www.ngs.ac.uk/).
The goals of this course are to give participants:
- an understanding of the concepts of Grid Computing and e-Research.
- an orientation to the NGS and the Grid Operations Support Centre
(http://www.grid-support.ac.uk/).
- sufficient practical experience to allow initial use of the National
Grid Service in future.
For further details or to register please visit:
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/561/
UK Globus Week
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Motivation
The Globus Toolkit (http://www.globus.org/toolkit) provides libraries
and components that enable the development of service-oriented Grid
applications and infrastructures. Core Globus components address basic
issues relating to security, resource access and management, data
movement and management, resource discovery, and so forth. A broader
Globus ecosystem includes numerous tools and components that build on
core Globus functionality to provide application-level functions.
Globus Toolkit version 4 (GT4), to be released as a beta version in
March 2005, will provide a range of new services and features. In
addition, by delivering the first robust implementation of Globus Web
services components, GT4 completes the first stage of the migration of
Web services that began in 2003 with GT3. Thus, it is timely to convene
a meeting, both to communicate the latest status of Globus software and
to enable intense conversation between Globus developers and users
concerning future directions for open source Grid software.
Aims
The UK Globus Week has five aims:
To bring together people from the UK, Europe, and globally with a
significant interest in the Grid, Globus toolkit, and stable, standard,
and cost-effective high performance computing.
To present Globus developments and research, and to demonstrate case
studies of academic and commercial Globus use.
To provide a program of tutorials, workshops, Questions & Answers, and
demonstrations from the Globus Alliance, tailored to the needs to the UK
Grid community.
To develop a roadmap for continued Globus development, deployment,
integration, and support, which draws on skills and experience from
within institutions, eScience Projects, the Grid Operations Center
(GOC), UK National Grid Service (NGS), and UK Open Middleware
Infrastructure Institute (OMII).
To stimulate the formation of a community that will undertake this work.
To document the event's proceedings as a UK eScience Technical Report.
Presenters for the tutorals include Carl Kesselman, Bill Allcock,
Charles Bacon, Lisa Childers, and Jennifer Schopf, as well as other
members of the Globus Alliance who will be present for the week; a
valuable and rare opportunity for the UK and EGEE communities.
*******PLEASE NOTE DUE TO THE HIGH NUMBER OF PEOPLE APPLYING FOR THIS
EVENT WE ARE NOW FULLY BOOKED FOR WEDNESDAY 6 APRIL**********
For further details or to register please visit:
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/519/
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