News about GROWL

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Dec'06 - some updates to the Web site

Oct'06 - Peter Brorsson joins the project at Cambridge

Summer 2006 - Several presentations on the project were given and middleware was used on NW-Grid

May'06 - Lightweight Grids workshop was held on 2-3/5/06 in Castleton, see workshop pages

Feb'06 - A Lightweight Grids workshop is being planned in collaboration with Prof. Peter Coveney's group at UCL. Possibly April?

10/2/06 - Web site updated and telephone answering enabled

Feb'06 - no-cost extension granted for GROWL while seeking a replacement for Lorna

Feb'06 - GROWL used to run GAMESS-UK computational chemistry application on NW-GRID prototype

January 2006 - GROWL is included in a bid to develop an e-Infrastructure for ESRC, part of the NCeSS activites

January 2006 - Rik presented the Rcommands at the SRB workshop at NIEeS Cambridge

16-17/1/06 - particpation in the JISC VRE Programme Workshop, Oxford

December 2005 - GROWL used to run GITS tests on NW-GRID prototype

December 2005 - sadly Lorna Morris left the GROWL Project to join another project at University of Cambridge

December 2005 - 2nd Progress Report submitted to JISC

13/12/05 - Rob presented at 1st NW-GRID Seminar, Daresbury

11/12/05 - Discussion with members of Prof. Peter Coveney's group, UCL, on WEDS and AHE technolgy used in RealityGrid.

November-December 2005 - more work ongoing with the new server architecture

November-December 2005 - John presented at Middleware 2005 conference, Grenoble

October 2005 - Rcommands developed by Rik Tyer for metadata creation and editing. Uses gSOAP client side.

20-24/9/05 - see (and hear?) GROWL at the UK e-Science All Hands Conference, Nottingham

408/7/05 - Dan presented at NCRM Summer School, Southampton

13/9/05 - John presented at GIS and Grid Computing ASW, Leeds

26/8/05 - SRB functions added to GROWL and user Manual

10/7/05 - Adam Braimah joins the group at Daresbury to extend the GROWL middleware for use in CQeSS

6/7/05 - GROWL presentation and demo at JISC workshop, Cambridge

23-24/5/05 - First developers' work-in at University of Cambridge

20/5/05 - GROWL paper accepted for UK e-Science All Hands Conference

10/5/05 - GROWL paper accepted for 1st International Conference on e-Social Science

16/5/05 - Dan Grose joined the project at University of Lancaster

30/5/05 - GROWL now also builds on Cygwin

30/5/05 - new clean makefiles available

27/5/05 - Full Project Plan submitted to JISC

11/4/05 - Draft Project Plan submitted to JISC

6/4/05 - Lorna Morris joined the GROWL Project at University of Cambridge

5/11/04 - new GROWL Portal (a re-factoring of HPCPortal) see http://cedar.dl.ac.uk/HPCPortal

16-22/12/04 - new 'tidy' version of GROWL ready for project launch

20/9/04 - new 'look and feel' for the Web site

20/9/04 - JISC JCSR panel recommends funding for GROWL under its VRE programme

1/9/04 - Priscilla Ramsamy joined the project as an M.Sc. student at University of Reading

3-4/2/04 - tidy up of C library prototype

28/1/04-3/2/04 - development of an R library prototype

26/1/04 - LibXML and LibXSLT investigated

20/1/04 - SRB client Scommands toolkit investigated

8/1/04 - gSOAP installed and a simple client-side Web service code written and tested. Update to Web pages, README.txt file and install scripts.

7/1/04 - Basic Web, docs and source directory structure defined. Globus 2.4.3 GPT and GSI packages installed. A few functions to create and check a Globus Grid proxy certificate which we will use in the rest of the library. Ongoing discussions with my portal developers about re-use of Grid services.