Thanks Ben. Dave.
On 23/03/2020 15:59, Waugh, Ben wrote:
> UCL is part of the Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium, which is going to
> map the spread of Covid-19 by rapidly sequencing patient samples:
>
> https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2020/mar/leading-ucl-scientist-joins-major-new-alliance-map-spread-coronavirus
>
> The UCL centre is currently setting up a recently purchased cluster to
> process their samples, but I don't know if anyone else is involved in
> this and whether the project could be enabled to use the Biomed VO
> without the long learning curve that used to be needed for new users to
> get started on WLCG.
>
> Cheers
> Ben
>
> On 23/03/2020 15:04, David Britton wrote:
>> Dear GridPP Sites:
>>
>> GridPP encourages sites to consider whether their computational
>> resources can usefully support local, national, or global efforts to
>> tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. We note that, collectively, the UK
>> delivers well over the pledged amount of computing resources to the LHC
>> experiments, averaged over the year and that it would be entirely
>> possible for sites to use significant resources to support Covid
>> research without risking delivery of the annual UK pledges to WLCG. We
>> suggest that your priorities should be:
>> a) To support any Covid research efforts at your own institution.
>> b) To join any structured usage of resources by national/international
>> efforts (see for example WLCG and EGI links below)
>> c) To offer unused cycles to efforts such as [log in to unmask]
>> https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/15/coronavirus-what-were-doing-and-how-you-can-help-in-simple-terms/
>>
>> IMPORTANT:
>> Please let me know if your site develops significant involvement in any
>> of these areas. It is possible we may want to set up some managerial or
>> technical coordination across GridPP, if or when the need arises.
>>
>> Info on EGI response is here:
>> https://www.eosc-synergy.eu/covid-19-vo-supporting-research-in-challenging-times/
>>
>> Info on WLCG response is here:
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z2xcJUH_RdehJ9YsmRG-KeORtxKHuhiA2Dc4gx5Zzzk/edit#heading=h.sl6ccpf6gywr
>>
>> Regards, Dave.
>>
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