Centre for Advanced Computing and Emerging Technologies (ACET)
The major aim of the Centre for Advanced Computing and Emerging Technologies (ACET)
is to demonstrate and promote new ways of doing multidisciplinary research based on
the approach of "scientific discovery through advanced computing".
Latest News
- Mark Baker gave a talk on Tycho at ISPDC 2009 in Lisbon - he talked about the various RESTful applications that we have created.
- Multimedia video presentations from the recent e-Science Workshop "The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users", can be found here.
- The Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology (VERA) project aims to produce a fully-fledged virtual research environment for the archaeological community. This video about VERA (.wmv, 32 Mbytes), produced by JISC, features Mark Baker and Hugo Mills at work with the archaeologists.
- Garry Smith attended Internet of Services 2009 (IOS2009), in Brussels to demonstrate some of the things that the SORMA project has been working on. The SORMA demonstration session was: "Using market based resource allocation for real time QoS in Grid and Cloud environments (SORMA)". An example of one of the use cases can be seen in this video, as clients compete to perform real-time video processing over the SORMA market.
- Mark Baker gave a public lecture at the e-SI Edinburgh on 16th June 2009 about "How Web 2.0 Technologies and Innovations are Changing e-Research Activities",
- Mark Baker gave a VERA talk at the JISC Leaping Hurdles workshop that was held in Edinburgh on Tuesday 9th June 2009. He also chaired a working group considering the pros and cons of knowledge about distributed computing environments.
- Mark Baker gave a Cloud Computing talk at The University of La Coruña on Tuesday 19th May 2009.
- Seminar: Andy Turner, University of Leeds, "Developing e-Infrastructure and Geographical Models", 20th May 2009, 13:00 -- 14:00. Abstract, slides.
- Mark gave a talk about the activities being explored and investigated in his e-SI Edinburgh theme " The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users"
- Seminar: Prof David C De Roure, ECS, University of Southampton, "e-Research in IAM", 6th May 2009, 13:00 -- 14:00. Abstract. Please note the change of venue for this seminar: Access Grid Room, Reading e-Science Centre, Environmental Systems Science Centre, Harry Pitt Building, 3 Earley Gate, University of Reading.
- Seminar: Ammar Ahmad Awan, NUST School of EE & CS, Pakistan, "MPJ Express Applications", 29th April 2009, 13:00 -- 14:00. Abstract
- Seminar: Jawad Manzoor, NUST School of EE & CS, Pakistan, "MPJ Express Communications", 22nd April 2009, 13:00 -- 14:00. Abstract, slides.
- Mark Baker gave a couple of talks about the VERA project at the workshop related to "e-Science - The Changing Landscape", which was held on 17th April 2009 at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh.
- Mark Baker organised the Edinburgh eSI event about the "The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users"
23 March, 09 09:30 AM - 27 March, 09 05:00 PM, e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh
See the following URL to see the agenda and talks at the five-day event: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/968/
- Research visit: Mario Macias from Barcelona Supercomputing Centre and Simon Caton from Cardiff University are visiting ACET to work with Garry Smith on mechanisms to support SLA enforcement and resource provision in open grid markets.
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