Advanced tools and technologies for collaborative research

New tools are available to help researchers collaborate in multidisciplinary teams, often across institutions, and hence increase their competitiveness. This Jisc sponsored roadshow for researchers and those providing IT support services, will introduce the infrastructure, and some of the tools and resources that have recently been developed to enable collaborative research.

Speakers will include Dr David Fergusson, Deputy Director, Training, Outreach and Education, the National e-Science Centre, and researchers at Manchester who are working on projects to develop and demonstrate collaboration tools. These include myExperiment, a collaborative environment where scientists publish and share their workflows.

Programme

Time
Programme Activity

09.30 - 10.00
Registration and coffee

10.00 - 10.05

Chair's introduction:

Dr David Fergusson, Deputy Director, Training, Outreach and Education, National e-Science Centre

10.05 - 10.35

Making use of the UK's advanced computing services for research - an overview

Dr David Fergusson

10.35 - 11.05

Portals and Science Gateways for the Campus Grid

Dr Rob Allan, Leader of the Grid Technology Group, Daresbury Laboratory

11.05 - 11.30

Introduction to the Access Grid Support Centre

Dr Martin Turner, Research Computing Services, University of Manchester

11.30 - 11.50
Coffee break

11.50 - 12.20

Some specialist Access Grid projects

Dr Martin Turner

12.20 - 12.50

myExperiment, a collaborative environment for sharing workflows

Mr Jiten Bhagat & Mr Paul Fisher, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester

12.50 - 13.20

Research Computing Cloud - a user-focused infrastructure for research computing

Dr Robin Pinning, Research Computing Services (RCS), University of Manchester

13.20 - 13.30

Questions and close

David Fergusson

13.30 - 14.00
Buffet lunch provided

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Contact

Please contact Judy Redfearn if you have any queries relating to this workshop.