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• Collaborative and Grid Computing Technologies Workshop 2010

  The Collaborative and Grid Computing Technologies Workshop will be held from 19th to 21st April 2010 in Cancun, México. The general goal of the workshop is to bring together distinguished researchers from around the world and México to present and discuss the latest advances in Collaborative and Grid Technologies
• Mark Baker gave a talk on Tycho at ISPDC 2009 in Lisbon - he talked about the various RESTful applications that we have created.
• Multimedia video presentations from the recent e-Science Workshop "The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users", can be found here.
• The Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology (VERA) project aims to produce a fully-fledged virtual research environment for the archaeological community. This video about VERA (.wmv, 32 Mbytes), produced by JISC, features Mark Baker and Hugo Mills at work with the archaeologists.
• Garry Smith attended Internet of Services 2009 (IOS2009), in Brussels to demonstrate some of the things that the SORMA project has been working on. The SORMA demonstration session was: "Using market based resource allocation for real time QoS in Grid and Cloud environments (SORMA)". An example of one of the use cases can be seen in this video, as clients compete to perform real-time video processing over the SORMA market.
• Mark Baker gave a public lecture at the e-SI Edinburgh on 16th June 2009 about "How Web 2.0 Technologies and Innovations are Changing e-Research Activities",
• Mark Baker gave a VERA talk at the JISC Leaping Hurdles workshop that was held in Edinburgh on Tuesday 9th June 2009. He also chaired a working group considering the pros and cons of knowledge about distributed computing environments.
• Mark Baker gave a Cloud Computing talk at The University of La Coruña on Tuesday 19th May 2009.
• Seminar: Andy Turner, University of Leeds, "Developing e-Infrastructure and Geographical Models", 20th May 2009, 13:00 -- 14:00. Abstract, slides.
• Mark gave a talk about the activities being explored and investigated in his e-SI Edinburgh theme " The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users"
• Seminar: Prof David C De Roure, ECS, University of Southampton, "e-Research in IAM", 6th May 2009, 13:00 -- 14:00. Abstract. Please note the change of venue for this seminar: Access Grid Room, Reading e-Science Centre, Environmental Systems Science Centre, Harry Pitt Building, 3 Earley Gate, University of Reading.
• Seminar: Ammar Ahmad Awan, NUST School of EE & CS, Pakistan, "MPJ Express Applications", 29th April 2009, 13:00 -- 14:00. Abstract
• Seminar: Jawad Manzoor, NUST School of EE & CS, Pakistan, "MPJ Express Communications", 22nd April 2009, 13:00 -- 14:00. Abstract, slides.
• Mark Baker gave a couple of talks about the VERA project at the workshop related to "e-Science - The Changing Landscape", which was held on 17th April 2009 at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh.
• Mark Baker organised the Edinburgh eSI event about the "The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users" 23 March, 09 09:30 AM - 27 March, 09 05:00 PM, e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh See the following URL to see the  agenda and talks at the five-day event: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/968/
• Research visit: Mario Macias from Barcelona Supercomputing Centre and Simon Caton from Cardiff University are visiting ACET to work with Garry Smith on mechanisms to support SLA enforcement and resource provision in open grid markets.
• Mark gave talk on Wednesday 11th February at the British Library in the "First Digital Lives Research Conference: Personal Digital Archives for the 21st Century" on VREs and the use of digital devices on the Silchester excavation.
• Seminar: Vikram Kadam, PEDAL, School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading , "Optimizing video compression using high performance algorithms and techniques", 4th February 2009, 13:00-14:00. Abstract, slides.
• The g-Eclipse Consortium is pleased to announce the first major release of the g-Eclipse framework – an easy-to-use workbench environment to access Grid and Cloud infrastructures. Click here for the formal press release.
• Seminar: Dr. Tzvetan Ostromsky, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, "Efficient Portable Parallel Implementation of a Large Scale Air Pollution Model for Sensitivity Studies", 29th January 2009, 13:00-14:00. Abstract, slides (pdf).
• Seminar: Prof. Thomas C Schmidt, University of Hamburg, Germany, "Group Communication Supporting Mobile Video Conferencing - A Hybrid Perspective", 28th January 2009, 13:00-14:00. Abstract, slides.
• Seminar: Luis de-Marcos, Computer Science Department, University of Alcala, Spain, "Competency-based Learning Object Sequencing: Comparing Two Evolutionary Approaches", 21st January 2009, 13:00-14:00. Abstract, slides.
• Seminar: Dr Julie McCann, Imperial College London, "ANS: Autonomics for Wireless Sensor Networking", 10th December 2008, 13:00-14:00. Abstract.
• Mark Baker gave a talk about the progress of the VERA project at the VRE Community meeting that was held in Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC) on Thursday 27th November 2008.
• Seminar: Professor David Walker, School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, "Performance Results for Nested Parallelism on Multicore Architectures", 3rd December 2008, 13:00-14:00. Abstract, slides.
• Seminar: Rajini Sivaram, IBM Hursley Park, Winchester, UK, "Concurrency Features in Java", 26th November 2008, 11:00-12:00. Abstract, slides (pdf).
• Seminar: Dr Ashish Thandavan, ACET, University of Reading, "g-Eclipse - Access the Power of the Grid ", 26th November 2008, 13:00-14:00. Abstract, slides (pdf).
• Seminar: Dr David Spence, e-Science Development Officer, IT Services, University of Reading, "e-Research and Campus Grid developments", 19th November 2008, 13:00-14:00.Abstract, slides (pdf).
• Seminar: Rayna Georgieva and Sofiya Ivanovska, IPP, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,"Sensitivity Analysis of Air Pollution Models", 13th November 2008, 13:00-14:00. Abstract, slides (pdf)
• Mark Baker gave a seminar at OeRC on 4th November 2008 on the Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology (VERA) project.
• Seminar: Hugh Glaser, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, "RKBExplorer.com: Anatomy of a Semantic Web Application", 12th November 2008, 13:00-14:00. Abstract, slides (pdf).
• Seminar: Prof. Doug Saddy, Centre for Integrative Neurosciences and Neurodynamics, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, "Time and again: measuring the temporal aspects of language in the brain", 29th October 2008, 13:00-14:00. Abstract, slides (pdf).
• Seminar: Dr Garry Smith, ACET, University of Reading, "The SORMA project: A marketplace for Grid resources", 22nd October 2008, 13:00-14:00. Abstract, slides (pdf).
• Seminar: Dr Alessio Murgia, PEDAL, University of Reading, "Eye-Tracking in Virtual Reality", 15th October 2008, 13:00-14:00. Abstract and references.
• Seminar: Teeroumanee Nadan, ACET, University of Reading, "Immersive Projection Technology for Biological Sciences", 9th October 2008, 13:00-14:00. Abstract, slides (pdf).
• Seminar: Carl Albing, Cray Inc, USA and ACET, University of Reading, "Toward Scalable, Extensible Service Mashups: adding computing power to e-science", 8th October 2008, 13:00-14:00. Abstract, slides (pdf).
• Seminar: Thomas Naughton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA and ACET, "System-level Virtualization: Overview and recent work on Loadable Hypervisor Modules", 1st October 2008, 13:00-14:00. Abstract, slides (pdf).
• The SORMA project had a successful 2nd year review at the EU Commission offices in Brussels on the 26th September 2008. Garry Smith presented progress on economically enhanced resource management, monitoring and fabrics. Garry also reported on the methodologies and tools adopted by the Engineering Taskforce for managing prototype development.
• Mark baker and Garry Smith attended a SORMA meeting at SICS in Kista near Stockholm, Sweden from 8th -  12th September 2008.
• Mark Baker attended the JISC Innovation Forum that was held on 15th and 16th July at Keele University.
• Mark Baker gave a talk on GridRM at ISPDC 2008 in Krakow, Poland on 3rd July 2008, and also an invited presentation on his views about programming multi-core processors.
• Florian Urmetzer gave Invited Seminar in the Politecnico di Milano, Italy on the 2nd July 08. The seminar was titled: "Usability evaluation in task orientated collaborative environments"
• Seminar: Prof. Kevin Warwick, School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, UK, "Neural Implants: A New Kind of Medicine or the Next Evolutionary Step?", 18th June 2008, 13:00-14:00. Abstract
• Seminar: Dr. Bryan Carpenter, University of Southampton, "An HPspmd Analysis of the Gadget 2 Code for Cosmological Simulations", 11th June 2008, 13:00-14:00. Abstract, slides.
• Seminar: Prof. Dan Katz, Louisiana State University, "The Finite Difference Time Domain Method for Parallel Computational Electromagnetics", 4th June 2008, 13:30-14:30. Abstract, slides.
• Seminar: Prof. Srini Parthasarathy, Ohio State University, "Architecture Conscious Data Analysis: Progress and Future", 3rd June 2008, 13:00-14:00. Abstract.
• Mark Baker attended the JISC VRE II Community meeting in Manchester on 15th May 2008 on behalf of the VERA project.
• Seminar: Prof. Alexei Likhtman, Dept. Mathematics, University of Reading, "Multiscale modelling of entangled polymers", 21st May 2008, 13:00-14:00. Abstract, slides.
• Seminar: Prof. Simon Chandler-Wilde, Dept. Mathematics, University of Reading, "Hybrid Numerical-Asymptotic Methods for Wave Scattering Problems", 14th May 2008, 13:00-14:00. Abstract, slides (pdf)
• Seminar: Dr Hugo Mills, OMII-UK, "GridSAM and OMII AuthZ", 6th May 2008, 13:00-14:00. Abstract, slides.
• Seminar: Ben Clifford, Argonne National Laboratory/Globus/SWIFT, "Challenges in Grid Workflows, as seen by a developer of the Swift workflow system", 30th April 2008, 13:00-14:00. Abstract, slides.
• Mark Baker attended the eReSS meeting in Hull University on 23rd April 2008.
• Seminar: Prof. Allan Jost, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada and Prof. Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON, Canada, "Managing Access to Resources for Collaborative Sessions in Ubiquitous Environments", 23rd April 2008, 14:00-15:00. Abstract. Slides (pdf).
• A team from BBC NewsNight visited the ACET Centre and the Walker Institute on 16th April 2008 and filmed the ACET Centre's ThamesBlue Supercomputer.
• Mark Baker and Matthew Grove attended the JISC Conference in Birmingham (14th April 2008) on behalf of the VERA project.
• MarK Baker attended the Global Registries meeting that was held in the University of Southampton on March 31st 2007.
• Seminar: Prof. Jordi Madrenas, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, "The Perplexus project: Pervasive computing framework for complex system modelling. The multiprocessor approach.", 26th March 2008, 13:00-14:00, Room 101, Carrington Building (building 135). Abstract. Slides (pdf).
• Seminar: Prof. David Abramson, Associate Director - Monash e-Research Centre, Monash University, Australia , "e-Science: Why it matters, and how to build applications for the Grid", 26th March 2008, 14:00-15:00, Room 101, Carrington Building (building 135). Abstract. Slides.
• Garry Smith gave a talk about development methods and tools at the SORMA project's consortium meeting, 11-12 March 2008.
• Mark Baker and Mat Grove organised the JISC-funded Portal Developers Workshop which was held in the SSE common room. Thirty-five people from academia and industry attended the event.
• Mark Baker attended the Workshop on Curricula Development that was held on 14-15 February at the Scotland Europa Conference Centre in Brussels.
• Information on the Collaborative and Grid Computing Technologies Meeting is available. The meeting will be from 10th to 12th April, 2008 in Cancun, México.
• Mark Baker attended the Mardi Gras Conference in Baton Rouge (Louisiana) and gave a presentation on "A Web 2.0 User Interface for Wide-area Resource Monitoring".
• ACET Virtual Classrooms was demonstrated recently at Super Computing 2007 in Reno, Nevada. Watch a demo of this unique environment for synchronous e-learning here.
• g-Eclipse was represented at the Eclipse DemoCamp in London, organised by Symbian. Ashish Thandavan and David Johnson attended the event on 11th December 2007 and gave a talk outlining g-Eclipse and how it builds on Eclipse.
• The ACET Webserver has been upgraded to Debian Linux 4.0. It is possible that some quirks in the site have not yet been found, any problems should be reported to Mat Grove.
• Seminar: Claudio Garutti, University of Padua, Italy, "Computational Methods for Local Molecular Analysis", 24th October 2007, 13.00-14:00, G74 Philip Lyle Building. Abstract.
• Seminar: Roberto Turrin, University of Milan, Italy, "Optimal Resource Allocation in Grid Architectures", 17th October 2007, 13.00-14:00, Gordon Lecture Theatre. Abstract. Slides.
• Seminar: Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA, "Service-Level High Availability in Parallel and Distributed Systems", 10th October 2007, 13.00-14:00, Room G74, Philip Lyle Building. Abstract and slides.
• Two VERA meetings were held on Thursday 4th October in the Geoscience Building at the University of Reading. An internal VERA project meeting was held first, and then a VERA Steering Group meeting took place. The latter, involved various knowledgeable people from around the country who listened to our progress and advised on our future steps.
• The first g-Eclipse Release, v0.5.0, is now publically available. Instructions for download and use can be found at the Project's Eclipse.org homepage.
• Following a successful review call and voting process, the g-Eclipse Project successfully passed the Release Review for the first version of its framework.
• The SORMA project's annual consortium meeting was held at Reading on the 24-25 September 2007.
• Garry Smith attended a SORMA developers meeting at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, 2-8 September 2007.
• Mark Baker attended the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting in Nottingham and presented his thoughts/ideas in the Workshop 5: VREs: Where are we now?
• Ashish Thandavan participated as a presenter in the g-Eclipse project's first official tutorial session at the GridKa School 2007 in Karlsruhe, Germany on 11 September 2007.
• Mark Baker gave an invited seminar at the Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, Colombia, 23rd August, 2007.
• Mark Baker gave an invited keynote talk at the Latin-American conference on High Performance Computing (CLCAR) in Santa Marta, Colombia, 15th August 2007.
• The first batch of Erasmus Mundus NeBCC MSc students graduated on 5th July 2007. There was a get together and the three students with the highest results received awards. The ACET Centre would like to wish all the students the Very Best in their future careers and in life.
• Seminar: The following seminar will now be held on the 28th June 2007: Prof. Paolo Cremonesi, Computer Science Department, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, "IPTV Recommender Systems", 13.00-14:00, Room G74, Philip Lyle Building. Abstract.
• Ashish Thandavan attended the g-Eclipse Project's 2nd Integration Meeting in Poznan, Poland, between 18 - 22 June 2007. This meeting was to prepare for the first major release of the g-Eclipse Framework.
• Seminar: Prof. Paolo Cremonesi, Computer Science Department, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, "IPTV Recommender Systems", Wednesday 27th June 2007, 13.00-14:00, Room G74, Philip Lyle Building. Abstract. Slides.
• Mark Baker attended the two day JISC VRE Community Meeting that was on held on 21st and 22nd June at Highgate House, Creaton, near Northampton. He gave a talk on the VERA project to the attendees.
• Vassil Alexandrov, Simon Branford, Ivan Dimov, Cihan Sahin, and Christian Weihrauch presented at and attended the sixth International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation seminar on Monte Carlo Methods (MCM2007) in Reading, UK (18th-21st June). MCM2007 was hosted by ACET.
• Simon Branford, Ivan Dimov and Christian Weihrauch attended the 6th International Conference on "Large-Scale Scientific Computations" in Sozopol, Bulgaria (5th-9th June).
• Vassil Alexandrov, Simon Branford, Ronan Jamieson, Florian Urmetzer and Christian Weihrauch attended and presented at the International Conference on Computational Science 2007 in Beijing, China (27th-30th May).
• ACET is hosting The Sixth IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods from the 18-21 June 2007.
• Mark Baker gave invited talks at the two Thai Workshops on Trends, Technologies and Collaborative Opportunities in High Performance and Grid Computing held in Bangkok on June 4-5, 2007, and Khon Kaen University on June 8 2007.
• Seminar: Tom Lahmer, University Erlangen, Germany, "Direct and Inverse Problems in Piezoelectricity", Wednesday 13th June 2007, 13.00-14:00, Room G74, Philip Lyle Building. Abstract. Slides.
• Simon Branford gave a talk on Complexity of Monte Carlo Algorithms for a Class of Integral Equations at the International Conference on Computational Science 2007 in Beijing, China (27th-30th May).
• The g-Eclipse project is featured in the International Science Grid This Week after Harald Kornmayer (FZK) was interviewed at the EGEE User Forum in Manchester.
• Mark Baker gave an invited talk at the first workshop on Distributed Programming Abstractions Theme at the NeSC, Edinburgh, 30th May - 1st June 2007.
• Seminar: Arif Shaon, ACET, "Long-term Digital Metadata Curation: An Approach", Wednesday 6th June 2007, 13.00-14:00, Room G74, Philip Lyle Building. Abstract. Slides (ppt).
• Rahim Lakhoo presented a paper and gave a talk at the International Workshop on Virtual Research Environments and Collaborative Work Environments that was held at NeSC, Edinburgh, on 23rd and 24th May 2007.
• Mark Baker gave an invited talk on a Developer's Viewpoint, at the CREE Workshop that was held in Manchester Conference Centre, 24th May 2007.
• Seminar: Dr. Mark Beaumont, School of Biological Sciences, "Approximate Bayesian Methods for Population Genetics", Wednesday 23rd May 2007, 13.00-14:00, Gordon Lecture Theatre. Abstract. Slides.
• Seminar: Richard Boakes, University of Portsmouth, "Semantic Web based Log Analysis", Thursday 24th May, 13:00-14:00, G74, Philip Lyle Building. Abstract. Slides: pdf, ppt
• Seminar: Dr Andrew Meade, Environmental Biology, University of Reading. "Untangling Molecular Evolution", Wednesday 16th May 2007, 13:00hrs, G74, Philip Lyle Building. Abstract. Slides (ppt).
• Seminar: Prof. Daniel S. Katz, Louisiana State University, "Parallelism and Distributed Applications", Thursday 17th May 2007, 14:00hrs, Gordon Lecture Theatre. Abstract. Slides (ppt.gz).
• Seminar: Dr. Lloyd Treinish, IBM Research Weather Modelling Group (USA), "Usability Scaling for Simulation and Visualization in Applications of Numerical Weather Prediction", Thursday 10th May 2007, 14:00hrs, G74, Lyle Building. Abstract. Slides (pdf)
• Ashish Thandavan attended the EGEE User Forum meeting, co-located with OGF20, in Manchester from 7 - 11 May 2007. g-Eclipse's latest milestone release was demonstrated at a dedicated stall and was very well received.
• Seminar: Dr Hong Ong, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, "Some Operating System Issues in Large-scale High Performance Computing", Thursday 3rd May 2007, 13:00hrs, G74, Lyle Building. Abstract. Slides (ppt).
• Seminar: Professor Peter Grindrod, CBE. "Customer Lifetime Value: Modelling Analytics over vast Databases for the Service Sector". Wednesday 25nd April 2007, 13:00, Gordon Lecture Theatre. Abstract.
• 7-14 April: As part of the SORMA developer exchange, Garry Smith is visiting the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) to work face-to-face with project partners.
• Seminar: Raul V. Ramirez-Velarde, ITESM - Campus Monterrey, Mexico, "Collaborative Techniques", Tuesday 20th March 2007, 13:00, Room G74, Lyle. Slides (pdf)
• Seminar: Rayna Georgieva from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. "Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output: algorithms for evaluating Sobol sensitivity indices". Thursday 22nd March 2007, 13:00, Room G74, Lyle. Abstract. Slides (pdf).
• Seminar: Dr. Stephen Pickles from the UK National Grid Service. "Collaboration, Grids and Virtual Organisations". Wednesday 21st March 2007, 13:00, Room G74, Lyle Building. Abstract.. Slides (ppt)
• Mark Baker gave an invited seminar about Java-based Technologies to Support Parallel and Distributed Applications at Daresbury Laboratory (CCLRC) on Wednesday 7th March.
• ITV local news (Thames Valley Tonight) reported on the post traumatic stress disorder application being ported to the fully immersive environment (ReaCToR) utilising software (VieGen) developed by ACET researchers. The report can be viewed online via ITVlocal.com (direct link to stream).
• Information on the Collaborative and Grid Computing Technologies Meeting is available. The meeting will be from 12th to 14th April, 2007 in Cancun, México.
• Seminar: Christian Weihrauch, from the ACET Centre, The University of Reading, UK. Data Splitting for Parallel Linear Algebra Monte Carlo Methods. Wednesday 7th March 2007, 13:00, in the Gordon Lecture Theatre. Abstract. Slides (pdf).
• Mark Baker attended and gave a talk at the Agent Cities meeting that was held at NeSC, Edinburgh, which dealt with "Agent-based Grid Computing" on 19th and 20th February 2007.
• The deadline for submission for the sixth International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation seminar on Monte Carlo Methods (MCM2007) has been extended until 30th April.
• Mark Baker and Garry Smith attended a SORMA Workshop held at the Barcelona Super Computing Centre, Barcelona, Spain, 25-26 January 2006.
• Submission for the sixth International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation seminar on Monte Carlo Methods is now open. More information on MCM2007 is available here.
• Seminar: Dr. Marcin Paprzycki from the Computer Science Institute, Warsaw School of Social Psychology, University of Warsaw, Poland and the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland. "Agent Systems and their Applications: a Biased Perspective". Wednesday 24th January 2007, 13:00, Gordon Lecture Theatre. Abstract. Slides: introduction, Agent Teams in Grid Resource Brokering and Management.
• Mat Grove gave an invited talk at Red Hat Europe titled "User Mode Linux (UML): An overview and experiences" on January 13th 2007 (Slides: ppt, pdf. Video: 138M ogg, 50M ogg, 142M wmv, 48M wmv).
• Seminar: Dr Omer Rana, School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, "Creating and Managing Dynamic Service Level Agreements", Wednesday 13 December 2006, 13:00, Gordon Lecture Theatre. abstract, slides (.ppt).
• The sixth International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation seminar on Monte Carlo Methods will be hosted by the Centre for Advanced Computing and Emerging Technologies, part of the University of Reading. The conference will be from 18th to 21st June 2007. More information on MCM2007 is available here.
• Visit us at SuperComputing 2006 in Tampa Booth No. 1756! We look forward to see you there!
• The ACET Centre celebrated its third anniversary on 31 October 2006 with lunch followed by presentations showcasing ACET's key strengths to invitees from the University. Some photos from the event can be found here.
• The ACET Centre is hosting the NGS (National Grid Service) / EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-sciencE) user training for e-researchers or people who want to know more about e-research. The five day event will take place between Monday 20 Nov. 2006 and Friday 24 Nov. 2006. More details here.
• Vassil Alexandrov, Mark Baker and Ashish Thandavan attended the European Grid Technology Days 2006 - FP6 IST Grid Projetcs Launch Event and the Grid Technologies Concertation Meeting - in Brussels, 19 - 21 September 2006. The g-Eclipse and SORMA projects were formally launched at the event on 18 September 2006.
• 5 Sep 2006: Mark Baker and Garry Smith attended the SORMA kick-off meeting at Karlsruhe Technical University, Germany, 4-5 Sep 2006.
• Work on the g-Eclipse project started at Reading in July 2006. The project aims to build an integrated workbench framework, based on Eclipse, to access the power of existing Grid infrastructures. Vassil Alexandrov and Ashish Thandavan are working on the tools that will support the creation and execution of workflows from g-Eclipse.
• Work for the SORMA project started at Reading on the 1st August 2006. The project's goal is the development of methods and tools for establishing an Open Grid Market for Grid Resources. Mark Baker and Garry Smith are working on the resource monitoring aspects of the project.
• July 13 and 14 - Mark Baker attended the Manchester VRE Programme meeting on behalf of the Sakai VRE Demonstrator project.
• A two-day Portals and Portlets 2006 workshop, organisered by Dr. Rob Allan, Prof. Mark Baker and Mr. Chris Awre is being held at NeSC on 17 and 18 July. A uPortal Tutorial will take place on the morning of 19 July. This is a technical workshop to asseses the status of portal technology for research. It will bring together the e-Science and digital information communities.
• Mark Baker gave the opening keynote the at the 5th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC 2006) Timisoara, Romania, July 6-9, 2006
• Mehmood Hasan successfully defended his PhD thesis on 6th July 2006. Congratulations Dr. Hasan!
• Ronan Jamieson presented a paper entitled "Collaborative Virtual Visualisation" at the Austrian Grid Symposium, Schloss Hagenberg, Austria, 1st-2nd December 2005.
• Florian Urmetzer presented a paper entitled "Testing Grid Software: The Development of a Testing Framework for Collaborative Distributed Systems" at Cracow Grid Workshop '05, Krakow, Poland, 20-23 November 2005.
• The ACET Centre successfully organised the sixth International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS) 2006 : "Advancing Science through Computation" at the University of Reading, UK between 28-31 May 2006.
• Florian Urmetzer presented a paper entitled "Testing Grid Software: The development of a distributed screen recorder to enable front end and usability testing" at the Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2006 (CHEP06) conference at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, 13-17 February 2006.