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Development of Grid e-Infrastructure in South-Eastern Europe
Over the period of 6 years and three phases, the SEE-GRID programme has
established a strong regional human network in the area of distributed
scientific computing and has set up a powerful regional Grid infrastructure. It
attracted a number of user communities and applications from diverse fields
from countries throughout the South-Eastern Europe. From the infrastructure
point view, the first project phase has established a pilot Grid infrastructure
with more than 20 resource centers in 11 countries. During the subsequent two
phases of the project, the infrastructure has grown to currently 55 resource
centers with more than 6600 CPUs and 750 TBs of disk storage, distributed in 16
participating countries. Inclusion of new resource centers to the existing
infrastructure, as well as a support to new user communities, has demanded
setup of regionally distributed core services, development of new monitoring
and operational tools, and close collaboration of all partner institution in
managing such a complex infrastructure. In this paper we give an overview of
the development and current status of SEE-GRID regional infrastructure and
describe its transition to the NGI-based Grid model in EGI, with the strong SEE
regional collaboration.Comment: 22 pages, 12 figures, 4 table
Phase Diagram for Roegenian Economics
We recall the similarities between the concepts and techniques of
Thermodynamics and Roegenian Economics. The Phase Diagram for a Roegenian
economic system highlights a triple point and a critical point, with related
explanations. These ideas can be used to improve our knowledge and
understanding of the nature of development and evolution of Roegenian economic
systems.Comment: 10 page
Like a school (of fish) in water (or ICT-Enhanced Skills in Action)
The paper presents pilot experiences related to an educational methodology
developed within the European Innovative Teacher (I*Teach) project
for building ICT-enhanced skills [1]. The methodology is presented in the context
of a workshop for teachers in mathematics and informatics with a special
focus on enhancing presentation skills. The authors share their experience in
treating the very workshop as a project with specific stages - analyzing the
audience’s interests, developing a presentation scenario around a leading metaphor
in harmony with the setting, distributing different roles among the presenters,
involving the audience in an active reasoning and sharing. Thus the
workshop has demonstrated at a meta-level how the collective intelligence of
teachers could be harnessed in action. The main message is: such an approach
makes teachers feel like co-creators of the I*Teach project´s ideas and teachers
need only a bit of praise or encouragement to recognize themselves as
innovative teachers
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