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V-BOINC: The Virtualization of BOINC

1 February 2013 - 4:27pm — Gary.McGilvary
G. McGilvary, Barker, A., Lloyd, A., and Atkinson, M., “V-BOINC: The Virtualization of BOINC”, in In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2013)., Delft, The Netherlands, 2013.

Supporting user communities with customised science gateways – The SCI_BUS project

1 February 2013 - 9:42am — Rosa.Filgueira
Speaker: 
Dr Tamas Kiss,

Grids and clouds are providing robust infrastructures for scientific applications. However, the wider take-up of these technologies have been limited for a long time due to the lack of user friendly interfaces that enable e-scientists to get transparent access to these platforms.
Science gateways are frameworks (or toolsets) which incorporate applications, data and tools to enable running applications on Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs) in a user friendly and intuitive way.

Date and time: 
Friday, 1 February, 2013 - 11:00
Length: 
45 minutes
Location: 
IFG03
Projects: 
VERCE
Research topics: 
Efficient distributed systems

The SHIWA and ER-flow projects

22 January 2013 - 3:20pm — Michelle.Galea
Speaker: 
Michelle Galea, Malcolm Atkinson

A discussion of the SHIWA and ER-flow projects, based on the meeting held with ER-flow project members on Friday 18th January 2013 at the University of Westminster, London.

The SHIWA project was a 3-year EU-funded project that finished in August 2012. Its aim was to develop workflow interoperability technologies, more specifically, to enable e-scientists to run heterogeneous workflows (i.e. workflows created by different workflow systems), separately or combined, from a single platform, and on different distributed computing infrastructures.

Date and time: 
Tuesday, 22 January, 2013 - 13:00
Length: 
45 minutes
Location: 
IF115
Research topics: 
Collaborative environments

The first VERCE project newsletter!

20 December 2012 - 4:54pm — Michelle.Galea

Issue 1 of the VERCE newsletter...read on...

Topic of this submission: 
News
Projects: 
VERCE
Research topics: 
Data-intensive computing

The BraINS databank

12 December 2012 - 2:55pm — David.Rodriguez
NeSC Research Seminar Series
Speaker: 
Dominic Job & David Dickie

Brain Images of Normal Subjects (BRAINS) bank and atlases are being developed with >1000 normal subjects from across the lifespan, to be expanded in the future to include subjects with disease. The images have been collected in centres across Scotland and are in a range of magnetic resonance (MR) sequences, including T1, T2, T2*, and fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR). When BRAINS is released these will be searchable by a wide range of metadata, e.g. blood pressure<140/90; age=85; MMSE>26.

Date and time: 
Friday, 14 December, 2012 - 10:00
Length: 
45 minutes
Location: 
Turing Room (5.42), Informatics Forum
Projects: 
SINAPSE
Research topics: 
Biological/Medical Image Processing

Forecasting volcanic eruptions

4 December 2012 - 10:20am — David.Rodriguez
NeSC Research Seminar Series
Speaker: 
Andrew Bell

Unlike earthquakes, most volcanic eruptions are preceded by clear episodes of unrest. These precursory signals are the main basis for forecasting eruptive activity, yet the quality of such forecasts are unknown. I will describe physical and empirical models for eruption forecasting and our efforts to quantify their performance. This work includes a project to test models in real-time, using data from multiple experimental facilities and volcano observatories.

Date and time: 
Friday, 7 December, 2012 - 10:00
Length: 
45 minutes
Location: 
IF502
Projects: 
EFFORT
Research topics: 
Seismology

New Release of DICOM Confidential

28 November 2012 - 5:04pm — David.Rodriguez
Version: 
1.4.1

Evolution of release 1.4.0. All the patches released since then applied (see 1.4.0 folder for more information).
For installing DICOM Confidential please download the executable jar dicom-confidential-1.4.1.jar.

Download: 
Jar installer
Projects: 
DICOM Confidential

Information Leakage Analysis in Open Multi-agent Systems: A Case Study in Cloud Computing

28 November 2012 - 8:09am — David.Rodriguez
NeSC Research Seminar Series
Speaker: 
Shahriar Bijani

Open Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have growing popularity and are predicted to have many applications in near future, as large scale distributed systems such as clouds become more widespread. However, A major practical limitation to open MAS is security.

Date and time: 
Friday, 30 November, 2012 - 10:00
Length: 
45 minutes
Location: 
IF502
Research topics: 
Collaborative environments

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