News

Here you’ll find all of the latest news about GridPP in the list of posts below. You can find archived News Items at archive.gridpp.ac.uk/news (grid certificate required).

We’ll also be moving selected news items from the archive here as we revisit them for an update – so stay tuned!

Fifteen years of the Grid

  • Posted: 9th December 2016
  • Author: GridPP News

They say tall oaks from little acorns grow, and on Sunday the 9th of December 2001 the seeds of today’s grid were sown. On that day, four sites across Europe connected their resources to form the very first grid testbed. Over the next decade and a half this proto-grid would ultimately grow to become the […]

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The UserGuide: Now with Ganga!

  • Posted: 4th November 2016
  • Author: GridPP News

The GridPP UserGuide, the first point of contact for new users to the Grid, has now been updated to use Ganga. Ganga is a Python-based User Interface that makes moving your workflow from local running to the Grid much easier, and thanks to CVMFS all the software you need to use it is available without […]

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Deploying software the easy way with CVMFS

  • Posted: 22nd September 2016
  • Author: GridPP News

In the ‘old days’ of the grid, deploying software to the worker nodes upon which your computing job would run was a non-trivial task. Once you had got it working on the appropriate operating system (generally Scientific Linux), you would have to package it up, send it off, and remotely install it on each system […]

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GridPP support for the MoEDAL experiment

  • Posted: 12th September 2016
  • Author: GridPP News

The UK’s GridPP Collaboration has agreed to support the Monopole and Exotics Detector at the LHC (MoEDAL) with grid computing resources to aid the hunt for Paul Dirac’s hypothesised magnetic monopoles. As the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) continues its hunt for physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, the MoEDAL experiment will offer a […]

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GridPP37: (R)evolution

  • Posted: 5th September 2016
  • Author: GridPP News

Last week saw the 37th GridPP Collaboration meeting – a.k.a. #GridPP37 – take place once again at Ambleside, kindly supported by BIOS IT. The theme – “(R)evolution” – reflected how things are moving on with GridPP5 and how GridPP is adapting to current trends in distributed computing. The GridPP Collaboration at GridPP37, Ambleside. Credit: Sam […]

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