Advanced Distributed Services Summer School 2009
7th - 11th September 2009
Cosener’s House
Oxfordshire
Working with a number of UK and international partners the Training, Outreach and Education Group at the National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh has delivered a number of Summer School programmes globally in the past 5 years. In conjunction with the National Grid Service (NGS) this expertise will underpin the delivery of Advanced Distributed Services School (ADSSS) in the UK.
The aim of the ADSSS is to help develop the skills of those involved in providing computational support for research in a wide range of disciplines.
In particular the school will focus on the use of, provision of interfaces to and the development of services based on employing the composition or aggregation of computational or data services.
For instance the school will show how to compose a variety of services into bioinformatics work flows which can be used to support biomedical research processes, how to use and develop lab or department scale clusters of computers to run simulations, how to work with the National Grid Service to compose protein simulation models for running on UK or international super computers, developing a portal to support legacy appications.
The school aims to provide the students with a familiarity with and the tools to use the facilities available in the UK and internationally to transform current research practices in the light of the developing services being made available in a highly networked
world.
Registration is now open. Costs £276 per student including accommodation and meals.
Further information available on the ADSSS website, NGS website and in the NGS newsletter.
UK federation in Practice
A cross-sector event to help organisations learn from the experiences of others
The UK Access Management Federation is pleased to announce that it will be running a federated access event on 14th October 2009 at the ICO in London.
The event will focus on a number of cross-sector case studies that have been developed to help others to deploy federated access management within their organisations and will focus on a range of deployment strategies in HE, FE, Schools and Commercial organisations.
The event is aimed at both identity providers and service providers and will give attendees the perfect opportunity to learn from the experiences of other organisations, and their different modes of deployment.
This event is free of charge but spaces are limited so it is suggested that you book early.
See further details, programme and booking
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