ENVRI, Integrated infrastructures, Environmental research in harmony

A New Dawn for environmental data networks - Environment - "International Innovation is the leading global dissemination resource for the wider scientific, technology and research communities, dedicated to disseminating the latest science, research and technological innovations on a global level. More information and a complimentary subscription offer to the publication can be found at: www.researchmedia.eu."Dr Sanna Sorvari, a key collaborator in the ENVRI project, explains how the venture will contribute to the construction of environmental research infrastructures by sharing experiences and technologies and solving crucial common challenges and e-science issues in an integrated manner

CREATIVE-B Cloud computing, conferences and communities

A New Dawn for environmental data networks - Environment - "International Innovation is the leading global dissemination resource for the wider scientific, technology and research communities, dedicated to disseminating the latest science, research and technological innovations on a global level. More information and a complimentary subscription offer to the publication can be found at: www.researchmedia.eu."Wouter Los discusses the importance of biodiversity research in modern sciences and its need for dissemination and global interaction supported by cloud services. He also explains how cloud computing is playing a central role in modern biodiversity research infrastructures (Intelligence CREATIVE-B coordination of research e-infrastructures activities toward an international virtual environment for biodiversity)

Proposing a roadmap for HealthGrids

Présentation commune des éditeur

Grid-enabled sentinel network for cancer surveillance

International audienc

Parallelization of monte Carlo simulations and submission to a grid environment

presentation L. Maign

Le portail g-INFO pour surveiller la grippe Influenza A

Le portail g-INFO pour surveiller la grippe Influenza

Demonstration of In Silico docking at a large scale on grid infrastructure

présenté par N. Jac

g-INFO portal: a solution to monitor Influenza A on the Grid for non-grid users

International audienceIn this paper, we introduce a portal for monitoring Influenza A on a grid-based system. Influenza A keeps on being a major threat to public health worldwide; especially if one virus can mutate itself so that it acquires the capacity for human to human transmission of H1N1 as well as the high death rate of H5N1. The existing g-INFO (Grid-based Information Network for Flu Observation) project provides a complete system for monitoring flu virus on the Grid. We present here a portal that operates on top of the g-INFO system as a solution for non-grid users to utilize grid services for analyzing molecular biology data of Influenza A

Grid enabled virtual screening against malaria

34 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables, to appear in Journal of Grid Computing - PCSV, à paraître dans Journal of Grid ComputingWISDOM is an international initiative to enable a virtual screening pipeline on a grid infrastructure. Its first attempt was to deploy large scale in silico docking on a public grid infrastructure. Protein-ligand docking is about computing the binding energy of a protein target to a library of potential drugs using a scoring algorithm. Previous deployments were either limited to one cluster, to grids of clusters in the tightly protected environment of a pharmaceutical laboratory or to pervasive grids. The first large scale docking experiment ran on the EGEE grid production service from 11 July 2005 to 19 August 2005 against targets relevant to research on malaria and saw over 41 million compounds docked for the equivalent of 80 years of CPU time. Up to 1,700 computers were simultaneously used in 15 countries around the world. Issues related to the deployment and the monitoring of the in silico docking experiment as well as experience with grid operation and services are reported in the paper. The main problem encountered for such a large scale deployment was the grid infrastructure stability. Although the overall success rate was above 80%, a lot of monitoring and supervision was still required at the application level to resubmit the jobs that failed. But the experiment demonstrated how grid infrastructures have a tremendous capacity to mobilize very large CPU resources for well targeted goals during a significant period of time. This success leads to a second computing challenge targeting Avian Flu neuraminidase N1