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Funded by the Tertiary Education Commission, New Zealand

Enabled by KAREN

What is BeSTGRID?

A recorded 15min presentation by Paul Bonnington at the KAREN “Building Communities for Collaboration” Conference early July about our BeSTGRID project. It highlights some of our services and demonstrates how one could engage with the computational GRID.

BeSTGRID is a Tertiary Education Commission Innovation and Development Fund Project 2006-2008, focused on how to make eResearch (What is eResearch?) work, to create a fully-functional eResearch ecosystem for New Zealand. BeSTGRID will deliver mechanisms, methods and tools that facilitate collaboration on shared information, sharing of computational resources and online visualization of instruments and experiments.

Services	News and Events
Click here to Access EVO now EVO is a collaboration system that supports point-to-point and multipoint collaborative sessions. EVO users can communicate using audio, video and instant messaging, exchange files and share desktop applications. .... more on EVO BeSTGRID VRE BeSTGRID's Sakai Virtual Research Enviroment (VRE) facilitates collaboration and communication for specialist research communities within New Zealand. VRE Hosted Projects Discussion paper about the BeSTGRID Sakai-VRE Access BeSTGRID's VRE now FAQ on using BeSTGRIDs VRE BeSTGRID Data GRID The BeSTGRID Data GRID: Over 100 Terabytes of Data Storage for Research Data distributed between Auckland, Canterbury and Massey. A data grid is a grid computing system that deals with data—the controlled sharing and management of large amounts of distributed data. These are often, but not always, combined with computational grid computing systems. Many scientific and engineering applications require access to large amounts of distributed data (terabytes or petabytes). The size and number of these data collections has been growing rapidly in recent years and will continue to grow as new experiments and sensors come on-line, the costs of computation and data storage decrease and performances increase, and new computational science applications are developed. Data Storage at the University of Auckland Research Projects using the BeSTGRID Data GRID Public Databases Hosted by BeSTGRID Simple and Secure FTP Data Repository for NZ-based Projects Computational GRID Computational Platform Howto : Bioinformatics researchers: Getting started with the New Zealand BioPortal Portable AccessGRID Portable AccessGRID in Action Contact details AccessGRID nodes in New Zealand Universities Flash video introduction to AccessGRID Osprey Capture Card Configuration Progress Capture, storage and sharing of data (Data GRID - Data theme) Computational processing, analysis and presentation of that data (Computational GRID - Computation theme) Multi-discipline, multi-modal collaboration (Collaboration GRID - Collaboration theme) Trip Reports For further information and status on BeSTGRID's activities review each theme above.	Media and Presentations Upcoming Events 20 March 2008 March 2008 Steering Committee meeting being held via EVO. Recent News and Events News 25 February AVCC wiki joins BeSTGRID Federation. This great news (copied below) posted this morning to the AVCC list by Nathan Gardener at the HitLab. The addition of this new AVCC wiki service to the BeSTGRID Federation shows the desire by the community to move towards this federated model. To achieve this integration, Vladimir Mencl at Canterbury University built on the initial work carried out at Auckland on the BeSTGRID wiki, improving and further maturing support for MediaWiki based service providers. Congratulations Nathan and Vladimir! 24 February Mike Culver from Amazon visited New Zealand industry and research institutions to discuss Amazon Web Services. Mike's NZ trip report details some of the issues he made note of. Notes on Amazon services for e-Research. 22 February BestGRID delivers 'cloud' storage for large datasets: Tertiary Education Commission project delivers community computing. 2007 19 December Bioinformatics software first for BeSTGRID Biomatters Limited and New Zealand’s Bioinformatics Institute announce the first release of new Geneious software for grid computing on BeSTGRID, the Broadband enabled Science and Technology Grid running on KAREN, the Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network that provides high-speed, high-capacity internet to New Zealand academics, researchers and educators. Read the complete article on the REANNZ website 5 December BeSTGRID releases second Identity Provider at the University of Canterbury. 19 October 2007 Social Sciences Data Service web site released: http://www.nzssds.org.nz/ 5 October 2007 BeSTGRID releases first application - MediaWiki - integrated with the BeSTGRID Identity Provider and the University of Auckland Identity Provider. 7 August 2007 KAREN 2007 Workshop Videos are available here. Recent News and Events...

Services

News and Events

Click here to Access EVO now

EVO is a collaboration system that supports point-to-point and multipoint collaborative sessions.

EVO users can communicate using audio, video and instant messaging, exchange files and share desktop applications.

.... more on EVO

BeSTGRID VRE

BeSTGRID's Sakai Virtual Research Enviroment (VRE) facilitates collaboration and communication for specialist research communities within New Zealand.

VRE Hosted Projects
Discussion paper about the BeSTGRID Sakai-VRE
Access BeSTGRID's VRE now
FAQ on using BeSTGRIDs VRE

BeSTGRID Data GRID

The BeSTGRID Data GRID: Over 100 Terabytes of Data Storage for Research Data distributed between Auckland, Canterbury and Massey. A data grid is a grid computing system that deals with data—the controlled sharing and management of large amounts of distributed data. These are often, but not always, combined with computational grid computing systems.

Many scientific and engineering applications require access to large amounts of distributed data (terabytes or petabytes). The size and number of these data collections has been growing rapidly in recent years and will continue to grow as new experiments and sensors come on-line, the costs of computation and data storage decrease and performances increase, and new computational science applications are developed.

Computational GRID

Computational Platform

Howto : Bioinformatics researchers: Getting started with the New Zealand BioPortal

Portable AccessGRID

Progress

Capture, storage and sharing of data (Data GRID - Data theme)
Computational processing, analysis and presentation of that data (Computational GRID - Computation theme)
Multi-discipline, multi-modal collaboration (Collaboration GRID - Collaboration theme)
Trip Reports

For further information and status on BeSTGRID's activities review each theme above.

Media and Presentations

Upcoming Events

20 March 2008: March 2008 Steering Committee meeting being held via EVO.

News

25 February: AVCC wiki joins BeSTGRID Federation. This great news (copied below) posted this morning to the AVCC list by Nathan Gardener at the HitLab. The addition of this new AVCC wiki service to the BeSTGRID Federation shows the desire by the community to move towards this federated model. To achieve this integration, Vladimir Mencl at Canterbury University built on the initial work carried out at Auckland on the BeSTGRID wiki, improving and further maturing support for MediaWiki based service providers. Congratulations Nathan and Vladimir!
24 February: Mike Culver from Amazon visited New Zealand industry and research institutions to discuss Amazon Web Services. Mike's NZ trip report details some of the issues he made note of. Notes on Amazon services for e-Research.
22 February: BestGRID delivers 'cloud' storage for large datasets: Tertiary Education Commission project delivers community computing.

2007

19 December: Bioinformatics software first for BeSTGRID; Biomatters Limited and New Zealand’s Bioinformatics Institute announce the first release of new Geneious software for grid computing on BeSTGRID, the Broadband enabled Science and Technology Grid running on KAREN, the Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network that provides high-speed, high-capacity internet to New Zealand academics, researchers and educators.; Read the complete article on the REANNZ website
5 December: BeSTGRID releases second Identity Provider at the University of Canterbury.
19 October 2007: Social Sciences Data Service web site released: http://www.nzssds.org.nz/
5 October 2007: BeSTGRID releases first application - MediaWiki - integrated with the BeSTGRID Identity Provider and the University of Auckland Identity Provider.
7 August 2007: KAREN 2007 Workshop Videos are available here.