---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 16:05:51 +0100 From: "Andrea Grainger (NescSec)" <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] 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 [log in to unmask]