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Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 14:19:17 +0100
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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June newsletter now online at:
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/news/newsletter/June05.pdf

GT4 Announcement
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Globus Toolkit version 4 (GT4), released on April 30 2005, represents a
significant advance over earlier GT versions in terms of software
quality, functionality, and standards conformance. Quality has been a
major emphasis during the 18 month development period and in particular
the 6 month alpha-beta period, in which over 150 people participated.
Functionality includes not only the GridFTP data movement service, GRAM
job submission and management service, Reliable File Transfer service,
Replica Location Service, Community Authorization Service, OGSA Data
Access and Integration, and MyProxy services included in previous
releases (although with multiple-order-of-magnitude improvements in
scalability in several cases) but also new services such as a Workspace
Management service (for dynamic accounts), Data Replication Service,
Grid Teleoperation Control Protocol service, and an expanded set of
Monitoring and Discovery services. In terms of standards conformance,
GT4 provides probably the most full-featured implementation of Web
services security available anywhere; a full-featured GridFTP
implementation; and support for the WS Resource Framework and
WS-Notification specifications in C, Java, and Python containers.
Further information can be found at:  www.globus.org/toolkit


Upcoming Events at NeSC
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Announcing the Second - NETWORKS FOR NON-NETWORKERS WORKSHOP (NFNN2),
12pm June 20th - 4pm June 21st

NFNN2 is a free to attend workshop for people working at the technical
level in high-bandwidth dependent science, who wish to gain an
introduction to computer networks and the performance issues surrounding
them (TCP, LAN, end-user systems etc.).

The workshop will consist of a series of presentations by experts in
their field, with demonstrations of relevant tools and performance
issues available during the breaks.

NFNN2 will equip participants with the basic knowledge and set of
starting points required to begin investigating network performance
problems that may arise in their day-to-day work.

Although NFNN is a general workshop, it will be of particular interest
to those working with High-bandwidth Grid projects.

For more information, please email: [log in to unmask] or visit
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/533/

Grid Performance Workshop 2005, 22 - 23 June 2005
Want to make your Grid application run faster or more dependably? Or to
understand how to determine if you Grid is up and running as it should
be?
Come to the Grid Performance Workshop!  We've gathered together the
leading experts in Grid Performance Tools, and we're looking for
application users
and developers, middleware people and sys admins to come and work with
us to make working with the Grid better in terms of performance.

Researchers from the Globus Project, Network Weather Service, Netlogger,
GridMon, Pinger, Inca, Reality Grid, Paradyn/Active Harmony, and many
others will be gathering to discuss the needs of applications on the
Grid.

We'd like you to come and tell us:
- What performance criteria are most important to you
- How do you currently manage failures, and what tools you'd like to see
to help out
- How you've determined what the performance of your application is
- and what monitoring you'd like to see in order to maintain or improve
it
- And anything else related to performance that you can think of

More information on the workshop can be found at:
www.mcs.anl.gov/~jms/GPW2005 or http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/534/.
Registration is open to all participants.

Events outwith eSI
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First DIALOGUE Workshop: Applications-Driven Issues in Data Grids,
August 1 & 2, 2005, Blackwell Inn, The Ohio State University, Columbus,
Ohio, USA
Further information about this event can be found at:
http://www.datagrids.org/workshops.cfm

The 3rd International Summer School on Grid Computing 2005
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Through lectures, discussions, directed reading and the reports from
leading researchers, students will receive an integrated and
well-structured introduction to grid computing and its applications.
This will expose principles, research challenges and leading views on
the potential of general purpose e-Infrastructures.
A practical exercise will run throughout the two weeks illustrating
progressively more of the functions that may be achieved by
e-Infrastructure and developing experience with several widely used
technologies.

Students should complete the course with:
-  A good understanding of present technologies and their potential.
-  An appreciation, learned through experience, of good strategies for
using these emerging technologies in their research.
-  Experience of forming a team and tackling a simulated research
challenge.

The School will be held in Vico Equense, Italy (near Naples) in July
2005 from Sunday the 10th till Friday the 22nd. For more details about
curriculum, organisation and costs, please see the 2005 school web site.

http://www.dma.unina.it/~murli/GridSummerSchool2005/

You might also be interested in the latest National Grid Service
Bulletin, which you can find at http://www.ngs.ac.uk/bulletin/04.htm


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