Queen Mary hosts GridPP16
Tue 4 Jul 2006
During the current stretch of fine weather, the GridPP collaboration visited London for its most recent conference, GridPP16. Queen Mary, University of London, in the East End, was the host for the five days of the meeting.
| Starting on Monday the 26th with the news that Dave Britton had been selected as the project leader for GridPP3, this was one of the longest GridPP meetings. It stretched from the Project Management Board face to face on Monday to the Deployment Team's face to face on the Friday, with three days of collaboration meeting in between. Attendees discussed a wide range of issues affecting GridPP, from security and support to interoperability and applications, including status reports from the experiments, the Tier 2s and the Tier 1/A. There were meetings of the Deployment and User Boards, and a joint discussion between the two. |
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With Queen Mary having a large Computer Science department and a newly upgraded cluster there had to be talks on the work being done at Queen Mary both as part of the Grid and as part of the wider computing community; Professor Ursula Martin, the vice principal for Science and Engineering officially opened the meeting on the Tuesday morning, Dr Jian Zhang detailed Queen Marys general networking research and Dr Alex Martin discussed the new cluster and conducted a tour around it during one of the lunch breaks. |
| This was one of the largest gatherings the collaboration has organised with close to 90 people attending the meeting. Viglen and Boston sponsored the collaboration dinner in Cafe Naz on the famous Brick Lane, which included plenty of food, drink and a raffle for a tablet PC overseen by the CEO of Viglen, Mr Bordan Tkachuk. |
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Presentations and details of the meeting can be found at http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/gridpp16/.
With a photo gallery at http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/gridpp16/gallery.html.
The next Collaboration Meeting, GridPP17, will be on the 1st and 2nd November 2006 at the National eScience Centre in Edinburgh.
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