The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) has published a new edition of the e-IRG Magazine, formerly known as e-IRG Newsletter. This Spring edition of the new e-IRG Magazine is now available for download.
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At the open e-IRG Workshop, held 3-4 October 2017 at Tallinn University in Estonia, we had the opportunity to talk with Ilja Livenson, an IT specialist working on the Estonian Scientific Computing Infrastructure (ETAIS) project, and George Papastefanatos, a senior researcher and project manager at the ATHENA Research Centre and research associate with the University of Athens, about national...
Read More About ETAIS and eInfraCentral: a national and a European approach for offering e-Infrastructure services »

The Open e-IRG Workshop under Bulgarian EU Presidency will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 14-15 May 2018.
Read More About e-IRG Open Workshop to focus on EuroHPC and development of e-Infrastructures in South-Eastern European (SEE) and Eastern-Mediterranean (EM) region »

During the annual SURFsara Super D Event on December 12, 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, we had a conversation with Erik Schultes, International Science Coordinator at the GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office in Leiden, the Netherlands.
Read More About GO FAIR initiative to create implementation networks for stewardship of data »

GÉANT has confirmed Erik Huizer in his role as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) following his appointment in July 2017 on an interim basis.
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Europe has an ambitious plan to become a main player in supercomputing. The EuroHPC initiative is a joint undertaking with as one of its goals to construct an exascale supercomputer based on European technology.
Read More About The European Processor Initiative (EPI) to develop the processor that will be at the heart of the European exascale supercomputer effort »

The preparations for the Square Kilometre Array are advancing: construction is due to begin in 2020. An EU-funded project team working on infrastructure was one of several groups involved in the detailed design of this instrument, which will be co-located on two continents.
Read More About Designing infrastructure for radio astronomy on an epic scale »

The 52nd closed e-IRG delegate meeting was held in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 20 March 2018. The meeting was opened by the Deputy Minister of the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science Prof. Ivan Dimov.
Read More About Professor Ivan Dimov, Deputy Minister of Ministry of Education and Science, Bulgaria opened the 52nd e-IRG delegates meeting in Sofia, 20 March, 2018 »

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), presented in the Communication on European Cloud Initiative - Building a competitive data and knowledge economy in Europe, as a part of the Digital Single Market Strategy, aims to give Europe a global lead in scientific data infrastructures and ensure that European scientists reap the full benefits of data-driven science.
Read More About European Commission awaits consultation on the European Open Science Cloud »

The European Commission adopted on 14 March 2018 the Implementation Roadmap for the European Science Cloud.
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The regional conference on "e-Infrastructures for excellent science in Southeast Europe and Eastern Mediterranean" will be held on 15-16 May 2018 in Grand Hotel Sofia and in Best Western Expo Hotel in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain; CEA, France; CINECA, Italy; ETH Zuerich/CSCS, Switzerland; and Forschungszentrum Juelich/JSC, Germany jointly announce a Public Information Event, which will be held on 15 March 2018 from 10:00 to 16:00 CET on the premises of BSC in Barcelona, Spain.
Read More About ICEI Public Information Event on the realisation of a federated HPC and data analytics infrastructure »

"Shaping Europe's Digital Future - High Performance Computing for Extreme Scale Scientific and Industrial Applications" is an event on High Performance Computing co-organised by the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the European Commission. It will take place on 19 April 2018 at the National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Read More About Shaping Europe’s Digital Future - Bulgarian Presidency event on High Performance Computing in Sofia on 19 April 2018 »

The Human Brain Project (HBP) is organising a webinar on Frameworks and Financing Models for Research Infrastructures in Europe on February 20, 2018 between 14h00 and 16h00.
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During the annual SURFsara Super D Event on December 12, 2017 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, we had the pleasure to talk with Thomas Schulthess, Director of the Swiss Supercomputing Centre - CSCS - in Lugano, who gave a keynote presentation at Super D about the European exascale developments and the requirements to achieve this.
Read More About Combination of top-down initiatives like EuroHPC and bottom-up science driven projects make European exascale effort healthy »

Science Europe and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) are launching an initiative for the voluntary international alignment of research data management policy. The organisations presented the initiative on 30 January in Brussels at a co-hosted event on how to manage research data in an era of Open Science.
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During the annual SURFsara Super D Event on December 12, 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, we had a conversation with Thomas Skordas, who is responsible for the EuroHPC strategic initiative. Thomas Skordas is Director of "Digital Excellence and Science Infrastructures" of the European Commission's Directorate in DG Connect.
Read More About European Commission explains why Joint Undertaking is well suited as legal instrument to help create EuroHPC ecosystem »

The EOSC-hub project, funded by the European Commission, started on January 1st 2018, bringing together an extensive group of national and international service providers to create the Hub: a central contact point for European researchers and innovators to discover, access, use and reuse a broad spectrum of resources for advanced data-driven research.
Read More About EOSC-hub to launch integrated services for the European Open Science Cloud »

Researchers are one step closer to being able to quickly and easily create data management plans for their research. Science Europe launches a framework for research data management protocols that scientific communities can use to set up domain-specific protocols as templates for researchers within their field.
Read More About Framework for Research Data Management makes life simpler for researchers »

The European Commission has unveiled its plans to invest jointly with the Member States in building a world-class European supercomputers infrastructure, confirming its commitment to EuroHPC.
Read More About European Commission proposes to invest 1 billion euro in world-class European supercomputers »

The Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, in partnership with the European Commission, will host the 2018 Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU Flagship conference "Research Infrastructures beyond 2020 - sustainable and effective ecosystem for science and society".
Read More About Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU to host Flagship Conference "Research Infrastructures beyond 2020" »

The OpenAIRE datathon started on 30 November 2017 and will take place until the end of February 2018.
Read More About OpenAIRE datathon encouraging developers and data scientists to analyse the OpenAIRE Information Space »

In a report entitled "Top science requires top infrastructure", the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) advises the new government to make an extra 27 million euro per year available for the Netherlands' national digital infrastructure.
Read More About NWO advocates permanent funding for national digital infrastructure »

The EUDAT Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) has appointed Per Öster, Director of Research Infrastructures at CSC - IT Center for Science, to lead the EOSC-Hub project as Project Director. This agreement was made during the EUDAT CDI Council which was hosted by the IN2P3 Computing Centre, in Lyon, France, on 21 November 2017.
Read More About EUDAT CDI Council appoints Per Öster as Project Director of the EOSC-hub project »

In order to take a step closer towards the realisation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), Germany and the Netherlands are setting up an international office to support the GO FAIR Initiative, the International Support and Coordination Office (ISCO). France is joining them and will also contribute to the office.
Read More About Progress towards the European Open Science Cloud »

The Fall edition of the e-IRG newsletter is now available for download.
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European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Digital Society Maria Gabriel has visited the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (IICT) at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) in Sofia on 13 October 2017 to discuss the EuroHPC-related perspectives and challenges in Bulgaria.
Read More About Commissioner Gabriel to visit Institute of Information and Communication Technologies in Sofia, Bulgaria »

On October 26, 2017, the Commission has made available the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Declaration to all scientific stakeholders, for their endorsement and commitments to the realisation of the EOSC by 2020.
Read More About European Commission officially releases European Open Science Cloud Declaration »

A more strategic approach is needed to the co-ordination between regional, national, and European research activities and to the initiatives supporting them. That is the main message of the Policy Brief "On Public-to-Public Partnerships and the Next Framework Programme for Research and Innovation", released by Science Europe.
Read More About It is time to clarify who funds what research in Europe, says Science Europe »

On November 6, 2017, the European Commission in cooperation with the Estonian Presidency of the EU is organising an event called "Fet Flagships - Partnering for Excellence" in Brussels, Belgium from 10h30 till 16h15. The event takes stock of the value and importance of the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Flagships for Europe.
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The draft of the work programme for 2018 - 2020 of the Horizon 2020 Research and Development funding programme has been published. The work programme gives details on the topics for which proposals are invited, and the amount of budget available. Although it is still a draft, not many changes are to be expected in the final version.
Read More About Draft work programme for 2018 - 2020 of the European Horizon 2020 funding programme now available »

The second volume of the ESFRI Scripta series is dedicated to the outcomes of the ad hoc Working (WG) Group on Long-Term Sustainability (LTS) of Research Infrastructures (RIs).
Read More About ESFRI Scripta Volume II: 'Long-Term Sustainability of Research Infrastructures' report is now published »

The ETP4HPC Workshop that took place on June 22 at ISC'17 in Frankfurt, Germany offered us the chance to interview Jean Gonnord and Didier Juvin, both from CEA, which is the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, about the role of CEA in European HPC. Didier Juvin is Programme Director of the Simulation and HPC Programme at CEA.
Read More About CEA, ETP4HPC and European Commission working hard together to deliver commercial exascale by 2023 »

EOSCpilot is organising its first Stakeholder event in The Square, Brussels, on 28-29 November 2017. The event aims at charting a course towards a concrete and sustainable European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), identifying first steps on the EU added-value of EOSC and its building blocks to make Europeans do their research better.
Read More About First EOSC Stakeholder Forum is shaping the future of the EOSC »

The ETP4HPC Workshop at ISC'17 in Frankfurt, Germany offered us a chance to interview Jean-Pierre Panziera, the ETP4HPC Chairman. ETP4HPC is an association led by the European HPC industry. It is gathering all the stakeholders in the European HPC ecosystem with the goal of developing a worldclass HPC supply chain. ETP4HPC's focus is to develop the HPC technology in Europe.
Read More About ETP4HPC plays instrumental role in development of European exascale programme »

The ETP4HPC Workshop at ISC'17 in Frankfurt, Germany provided us with an excellent occasion to interview Marc Morere who is in charge of the strategy of the scientific computing centre at Airbus for 14 years now. HPC is a topic where Marc Morere has been focusing on for a very long time. Airbus needs HPC to design aircraft and for the optimization of the machines. There are different parts...
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The Programme Committee (PC) of the second Digital Infrastructures for Research (DI4R 2017) invites everyone with an interest in Open Science to bring their voice to DI4R 2017. DI4R 2017 will be held in Brussels, on 30 November - 1 December 2017. It will take place at the Square Meeting Centre, and is organised jointly by EGI, EUDAT, GÉANT, OpenAIRE, PRACE and RDA Europe. The abstract...
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During the Workshops Day at ISC'17 in Frankfurt, Germany, we were able to interview Erwin Laure from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, the largest engineering school in Sweden. KTH has a long history of providing the best HPC services to Swedish academia.
Read More About In Europe applications are driving the hardware developers towards exascale »

The ETP4HPC Workshop at ISC'17 in Frankfurt, Germany allowed us to talk with Michael Malms, who is working at the ETP4HPC Office. His responsibility is to bring together strategic documents like the multi-annual roadmap (SRA), orchestrate workshops, and also pushing certain ideas like the extreme-scale demonstrator idea that the ETP4HPC Workshop focused on.
Read More About ETP4HPC to lay out roadmap for tangible HPC products within Europe »

The next e-IRG Open Workshop will take place in Tallinn, Estonia, 3-4 October 2017. The main objective of the e-IRG workshop is the contribution towards some main directions in the development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Key areas that will be explored include governance, funding, services and data-related aspects. Sustainability will be a cross-cutting theme.
Read More About e-IRG Open Workshop to address European Open Science Cloud governance »

During the Workshops Day at ISC'17 in Frankfurt, Germany, we were able to interview Eric Van Hensbergen from ARM. ARM is an IP design company. They develop IP for micro-processors. The traditional business was in embedded systems and mobile phones. Almost every mobile phone has ARM IP in it. The company is based in Cambridge, England but ARM has design centres all over the world. Eric Van...
Read More About ARM is not just focusing on the Flops but on the science behind the workloads in HPC »

The ETP4HPC Workshop at ISC'17 in Frankfurt, Germany provided us with an excellent occasion to interview Martin Palkovic from IT4Innovations, the National Supercomputing Centre in the Czech Republic. IT4Innovations is both serving as a cycle provider, distributing cycles to mostly Czech academia but also industry, and as an expertise provider, helping the customers, either from academia or...
Read More About IT4Innovations actively contributes in creating HPC ecosystem to reach exascale »

During the Workshops Day at ISC'17 in Frankfurt, Germany, we were able to talk to Guy Lonsdale from Scapos at the occasion of the ETP4HPC Workshop. Scapos is a spin-off company from Fraunhofer. This SME company was set up to do marketing and sales of high tech products from Fraunhofer but Scapos also works with other SMEs and multiple Fraunhofer institutes.
Read More About European exascale projects seek to make programme environments more application suitable »

One of the keynote speakers at ISC'17 in Frankfurt, Germany was Peter Bauer from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). ECMWF is a European organisation, not to be confused with the European Union. It has very similar Member States. ECMWF was founded 40 years ago with the idea to centralize in one place scientific excellence and HPC power.
Read More About ECMWF aiming at exascale as a European world leading research infrastructure in weather and climate modelling »

At the occasion of the Super D SURFsara event, we had the opportunity to talk with Siewert-Jan Marrink, Professor of Molecular Dynamics at the University of Groningen. The work Professor Marrink does in the Molecular Dynamics Group is to use big computers to simulate the interaction of molecules, and in particular, the molecules that build cell membranes.
Read More About Computational microscopy needs big supercomputers to study secrets of self-organising cell membranes »

GÉANT has appointed Erik Huizer as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) effective immediately, replacing Steve Cotter who has left GÉANT by mutual agreement with the GÉANT Association Board. As the result of this appointment, Erik Huizer will temporarily suspend his activities at SURFnet. Once GÉANT has recruited a new permanent CEO, Erik Huizer will resume his position as CTO at SURFnet.
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After the e-IRG Workshop in St. Paul's Bay, Malta, we had the opportunity to talk with Rafael Jimenez, Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of the ELIXIR infrastructure. His role in ELIXIR is to facilitate the technical activities within the infrastructure. This includes the implementation of the workplan programme through different platforms that ELIXIR has for operating its technical activities,...
Read More About ELIXIR is working hard trying to find a common Key Performance Indicator vocabulary between research infrastructures »

ELIXIR has released its 2016 Annual Report highlighting the major achievements of 2016 and illustrating the growth and maturity of ELIXIR's services. It also shows progress made towards the priorities of the current ELIXIR Scientific Programme 2014-2018 and sets the scene for the remainder of the programing cycle.
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After the e-IRG Workshop in St. Paul's Bay, Malta, we took the chance to talk with Chris De Loof, ICT advisor at the Belgian Science Policy Office and one of the two e-IRG Delegates for Belgium, next to Rosette Vandenbroucke. Chris De Loof is a new e-IRG Delegate and attended his first e-IRG Workshop in Malta. His background is in research infrastructures.
Read More About New Belgian Delegate Chris De Loof believes in driving role for e-IRG for process of converging research infrastructures »

The Open Science Policy Platform (OSPP) has adopted consensual reports on the European Open Science Cloud and on Open Access Publishing.
Read More About European Commission has published three documents with regard to the European Open Science Platform »

On 21 June 2017, the Commission set up the new High Level Expert Group European Open Science Cloud. Its mission is to advise the Commission on the measures needed to implement the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
Read More About European Commission to set up new High Level Expert Group 2017-18 for the European Open Science Cloud »

After the e-IRG Workshop in St. Paul's Bay, Malta, we invited Dr. Juan Miguel González-Aranda, e-IRG Delegate for Spain, Interim LifeWatch ERIC Chief Technology Officer and Deputy of the Directorate-General for International Relations at the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness in Spain for an interview about the European construction "commons" spirit and the essential role to this...
Read More About Exciting times for the European citizen: EuroHPC plans two exascale machines by 2024-2025 »

The second edition of the European HPC Summit Week (EHPCSW) took place in the North Campus of the Technical University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain and was hosted by Barcelona Supercomputing Center. The aim of the conference series "European HPC Summit Week" is to gather all related European HPC stakeholders, including institutions, service providers, users, communities, vendors and...
Read More About Impressions from the European HPC Summit Week 2017 in Barcelona, Spain »

The Second RICH Symposium was held on May 8, 2017 at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal. The objectives of the symposium were to showcase approaches to innovation taken by Research Infrastructures and projects in all scientific domains, as well as to provide a floor for the discussion of policies and incentives for innovation.
Read More About Money cannot buy me love - but can it buy me innovation? »

During the e-IRG Workshop in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, Primeur Magazine had the chance to talk to Peter Wittenburg, Executive Director of the Research Data Alliance Europe and Senior Data Systems Advisor at the Max Planck Compute and Data Facility. Peter Wittenburg studied Computer Science and Pattern Recognition in Berlin. He had the opportunity to build the Technology and Methodology...
Read More About GEDE urges e-IRG to raise their voice in discussion about service-oriented support for research infrastructures and Persistent Identifiers »

After the e-IRG Workshop in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, we took the opportunity to talk with Mark Parsons, Secretary General of the Research Data Alliance (RDA). Mark Parsons comes from a background of data management. For many years, he worked to manage data in the cryosphere area - cold things like snow and ice - but also, more generally, for arctic data management, given anything from...
Read More About RDA's active data management and e-IRG's high level infrastructure policy might yield promising collaboration »

The OpenAIRE project is collecting feedback on the Horizon 2020 template for Data Management Plans (DMPs).
Read More About OpenAIRE organises survey on the Horizon 2020 template for Data Management Plans »

The European e-Infrastructure Services Gateway project (eInfraCentral) aims to gather structured information about all digital services for research from independent providers to create a single entry point to European e-infrastructure services.
Read More About Survey on requirement elicitation for a common e-infrastructure service catalogue now available »

The Spring edition of the e-IRG newsletter is now available for download.
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The next e-IRG Open Workshop, which is organised in the framework of the Maltese EU Presidency of the Council of the European Union, will take place in St Paul's Bay, Malta, on 8-9 June 2017.
Read More About e-IRG Open Workshop to discuss long-term sustainability of e-Infrastructures »

At the occasion of the recent news that research and education (R&E) networks in Europe and North America have joined forces to deploy links providing a total bandwidth of 740 gigabits per second (Gbit/s), we had the opportunity to interview René Buch, CEO of NORDUnet, one of the partners in this cross-atlantic collaboration that has been set up under the umbrella of the Global Network...
Read More About Global Network Architecture is strong believer in collaboration sharing capacity, costs for transatlantic connectivity »

Scientists around the world are increasingly collaborating to address global issues such as clean energy, medicine and protecting the environment. Their ability to share and analyse data is essential for advancing research, and as the size of datasets grows, the need for high-speed global network connectivity becomes ever more critical. That is why research and education (R&E) networks in...
Read More About North Atlantic Network Collaboration Building Foundation for Global Network Architecture »

The LEARN project has been shortlisted for the 2017 Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards (THELMAs) in the "Outstanding Library Team" category.
Read More About LEARN project shortlisted for Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards »

In accordance with the procedures laid down in the LifeWatch ERIC Statutes with regard to the working calendars, and after checking agendas with the European Commission services, the 1st General Assembly of LifeWatch ERIC will take place in Seville, Spain on 8-9 May 2017.
Read More About LifeWatch ERIC 1st General Assembly to be held May 8-9, 2017 »

The Research Data Alliance, together with ENVRI, is organizing the RDA EU - ENVRI Summer School on Data Management and Data Science, taking place 12-16 June 2017 in Helsinki/Espoo, Finland. Participants can learn how to do FAIR compliant professional Data Management and receive experience and practice with the latest software to manage and analyse data.
Read More About RDA Europe - ENVRI Summer School on Data Management and Data Science »

At the occasion of the Digital Infrastructures for Research (DI4R) Conference, held in Krakow, Poland in the Fall of 2016, we were able to speak with Steve Cotter, the new CEO of GEANT, the the pan-European network for scientific excellence, research, education and innovation. GEANT connects about 10.000 institutions across 41 different countries.
Read More About CEO Steve Cotter elaborates on GEANT's backbone infrastructure, service deployment and KPI development »

During the 4th National eScience Symposium, held in Amsterdam ArenA last October, we had the opportunity to talk with Ronald Stolk, who is working at the Medical Center at the University of Groningen where he is active in health research as Director of Research Data and Biobanking. At the Symposium he gave a keynote about a national initiative that has been launched, called Health-RI - Health...
Read More About Health-RI initiative to federate medical metadata across nationwide infrastructure »

Following the recent publication of the e-IRG document "Evaluation of e-Infrastructures and the development of related Key Performance Indicators", also known as the KPI document, the support project of the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) is organising a Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) session at the Research Data Alliance (RDA) 9th Plenary Meeting in Barcelona, Spain, on April 7, 2017 from...
Read More About e-IRG support project to organise BOF session on Data Infrastructure Assessment at RDA 9th Plenary »

The European Commission granted the legal status of European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) to the e-Science and Technology European Infrastructure for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research (LifeWatch). With this measure, the European Union (EU) provides the facility with many administrative advantages enjoyed by international organisations and therefore helps to successfully implement...
Read More About European 'Big Data' e-Infrastructure to support Biodiversity and Ecosystem research Lifewatch now ERIC legal entity »

The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) has produced a new document titled "Evaluation of e-Infrastructures and the development of related Key Performance Indicators". The objective of this e-IRG document is to provide an initial framework for evaluation and assessment of regional, national, and European e-Infrastructures and to develop a categorisation of KPIs for key areas/components...
Read More About e-IRG issues "Evaluation of e-Infrastructures and the development of related Key Performance Indicators" »

During the 4th National eScience Symposium, held in Amsterdam ArenA last October, we had the opportunity to talk with Wilco Hazeleger, the organizer of the event and also responsible for the Netherlands eScience Center. There were 500 people registered for the 4th National eScience Symposium and about 400 participants actually attended the event, which is a great number, according to Wilco...
Read More About Strong collaboration between digital technology experts and scientific researchers is paramount »

The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) has produced a new document titled "Guide to e-Infrastructure requirements for European Research Infrastructures: An e-IRG support document". This document is intended to help research infrastructures with the process of submitting project proposals for the ESFRI Roadmap 2018.
Read More About e-IRG issues "Guide to e-Infrastructure requirements for European Research Infrastructures: An e-IRG support document" »

During the 4th National eScience Symposium, held in Amsterdam ArenA last October, we were able to talk with Chris Broekema, a researcher in high performance computing at ASTRON, the Netherlands Foundation for Radio-astronomy, located in Dwingeloo. This is also the location for the very first dedicated radiotelescope in the Netherlands, the Dwingeloo telescope.
Read More About Square Kilometre Array data crunching will require compute power beyond Moore's Law »

During the 4th National eScience Symposium, held in Amsterdam ArenA last October, we were able to talk with Fernando Pérez from the University of California. Fernando Pérez originally is a physicist by training but he has spent most of his career building computational tools after his PhD. He has worked in the fields of applied mathematics and neuroscience.
Read More About Funding agencies and academia need to rethink reward structure for computational tool developers to tackle big scientific challenges »

At the occasion of the Digital Infrastructures for Research Conference, held in Krakow, Poland in the Fall of 2016, we were able to speak with Natalia Manola from the OpenAire project and infrastructure, which was one of the organizing parties of the Krakow conference. OpenAire is an EU project.
Read More About OpenAire to support more technical e-Infrastructures with Open Research Data guidelines, publication and training »