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,...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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).
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 »

After the e-IRG Workshop in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, we took the opportunity to talk with Andy Götz from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) who is representing the Photon and Neutron community. This community consists of 17 institutes and 40.000 users in very different scientific fields. Andy Götz talked to the e-IRG community about what the Photon and Neutron community is...
Read More About Photon and Neutron Community ready to act as a go-between for the e-Infrastructures and user communities »

After the e-IRG Workshop in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, we took the opportunity to talk with Dr. Dimitrios Koureas from the Natural History Museum in London and coordinator of the Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo), a large initiative in the European landscape with the aim to bring together the natural science collections as a single research infrastructure.
Read More About Bridging socio-cultural distance in science through technical community-engaging mechanisms »

Hungary has become the 21st Member to join ELIXIR, following the signature of the ELIXIR Consortium Agreement by Dr. József Pálinkás, President of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office in Hungary.
Read More About Hungary becomes ELIXIR Member »

After the recent e-IRG Workshop, held in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, we had the opportunity to speak with the former e-IRG Chair Sverker Holmgren and the new e-IRG Chair as of January 2017, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gabriele von Voigt about the results of the e-IRG Workshop.
Read More About Former and new e-IRG Chair to discuss need to intensify collaborations with Research Data Alliance, ESFRI and European Commission »

After the recent e-IRG Workshop, held in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, we had the opportunity to speak with Erik Fledderus, Chair of the working group responsible for the new edition of the e-IRG Roadmap. Erik Fledderus explained that the Roadmap 2016 basically shows the way forward for e-Infrastructure providers. It formulates advice to the key stakeholders - the operators themselves of course...
Read More About Erik Fledderus highlights importance of ongoing dialogue and role of national nodes in realising e-IRG Roadmap 2016 vision »

The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) has published a new version of its Roadmap document. The e-IRG Roadmap 2016 is taking up the e-Infrastructure Commons concept. The document intends to define a clear route on how to evolve the European e-Infrastructure system further. The new Roadmap edition aims to turn the vision of the e-Infrastructure Commons into reality by 2020, and has...
Read More About Press Release: e-IRG publishes Roadmap 2016 as a next step towards the e-Infrastructure Commons »

On December 1, 2016 the new e-IRGSP5 project, the follow-up project of e-IRGSP4, was launched to continue the support for the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG). The nine partners in the project consortium held their kick-off meeting December 12-13, 2016. The meeting was hosted by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, one of the e-IRGSP5 partners. The e-IRGSP5 project will run for 24...
Read More About New e-IRGSP5 support project held its kick-off meeting in Barcelona »

The European Commission is organizing an eInfrastructure Proposers' Day, taking place in Amsterdam on January 19, 2017 from 09:00 to 18:00 at the Infinity facilities, Amstelveenseweg 500, 1081 KL Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The objective of the event is to allow the consortia currently preparing proposals for EINFRA-12-2017 to present their concepts and get additional input from potential...
Read More About European Commission to organize eInfrastructure Proposers' Day on January 19, 2017 »

At the Digital Infrastructures for Research Conference in Krakow, Poland, we had the opportunity to talk with Yannick Legré, Director of EGI, the European-rooted federation for advanced computing and data research. EGI's aim is to serve the research communities in Europe and provide them with the necessary resources to overcome the scientific challenges.
Read More About EGI to finalize service catalogue and ISO certification »

The Fall edition of the e-IRG newsletter is now available for download.
Read More About Fall 2016 edition of the e-IRG newsletter available »

At the Digital Infrastructures for Research Conference in Krakow, Poland, we had the opportunity to talk with Damien Lecarpentier, Project Director of EUDAT, one of the organizers of the conference. EUDAT is a network of research organisations, computing and data centres, that are working together to create and establish a collaborative data infrastructure.
Read More About EUDAT Project Director Damien Lecarpentier to expand on added value of EUDAT for data storage, the success of the first DI4R Conference »

The upcoming Open e-IRG Workshop will be organized under the auspices of the Slovakian Presidency of the Council of the European Union in Bratislava, Slovak Republic on November 15-16, 2016.
Read More About Open e-IRG Workshop in Bratislava addresses three themes »

The e-IRG has published the draft of its 2016 Roadmap. It is now requesting comments in an open consultation. It is open for everyone to provide comments. These will be collected and published and used to prepare the final version of the e-IRG Roadmap 2016. The Open Consultation closes on 2016-11-10. The final Roadmap 2016 will be published on 2016-12-05.
Read More About e-IRG requests comments on its 2016 Roadmap in open consultation »

At the Digital Infrastructures for Research Conference in Krakow, Poland, we had the opportunity to talk with Sarah Jones from the Digital Curation Centre in Edinburgh. The background of Sarah Jones originally lies in physical archives. She was working with the collections at the University of Glasgow and the National Health Board archive. Through an archive masters course she got involved with...
Read More About Digital Curation Centre collaborates with infrastructure providers to help researchers with Data Management Planning »

On October 4th 2016, ESFRI launched its Roadmap 2018 update to identify new Research Infrastructures of pan-European strategic value for the long-term needs of the European science and innovation communities in all areas of research.
Read More About Towards the ESFRI Roadmap 2018 Update »

16 major European research organisations, data and computing centres signed an agreement to sustain the EUDAT - pan European collaborative data infrastructure for the next 10 years.
Read More About EUDAT landmark agreement sustaining the pan European Collaborative Data Infrastructure for the next 10 years »

In Cape Town (Kaapstad) South-Africa, ICRI 2016 started. This event brings policy makers from accross Europe and Africa together to discuss the progress and developments of research Infrastructures. e-IRG has a joinded booth with ESFRI. We also created a virtual goody bag with background information and impressions.
Read More About ICRI 2016 started in South-Africa »

After the workshop on International Cooperation following ISC 2016 in Frankfurt, Germany, we had the opportunity to talk with Thomas Schulthess from the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) and from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - ETH Zurich about Piz Daint, Europe's fastest supercomputer ranked at no. 8 in the June 2016 edition of the TOP500, which is located at CSCS.
Read More About Piz Daint excellent in weather forecasting on GPU accelerators using high resolution COSMO model »

The European Commission - DG CONNECT, Unit "Cloud and Software" - is consulting all interested stakeholders on the future research and innovation challenges in the area of Cloud Computing to be addressed in the forthcoming H2020 LEIT ICT Work Programme 2018-2020.
Read More About Consultation on Cloud computing research innovation - Challenges for WP 2018-2020 »

After the workshop on International Cooperation following ISC 2016 in Frankfurt, Germany, we had the opportunity to talk with Paul Carpenter, a senior researcher in the Computer Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) about the ExaNoDe project. Paul Carpenter is working in system architectures and programming models. The ExaNoDe project is building a prototype of an HPC...
Read More About ExaNoDe project is looking for chiplet solutions stacked on an active silicon interposer »

Germany has become the latest country to join ELIXIR, following the ratification of the ELIXIR Consortium Agreement by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF).
Read More About Germany joins ELIXIR »

After the workshop on International Cooperation following ISC 2016 in Frankfurt, Germany, we had the opportunity to talk with Happy Sithole, Director of CHPC, the Centre for High Performance Computing in South Africa, about the new Lengau supercomputer, the Student Cluster Competition and the upcoming International Conference on Research Infrastructures - ICRI 2016, which will be organized in...
Read More About South Africa's CHPC in the picture with new Lengau supercomputer, Student Cluster Competition victory and upcoming ICRI 2016 Conference »

On April 26, 2016, the e-IRG Executive Board has endorsed a new "Mission and Vision" statement for the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group, as well as a new and adapted version of the e-IRG bylaws.
Read More About e-IRG Executive Board has endorsed new Mission and Vision statement and adopted new bylaws »

Under the auspicies of the European Commission, 24 EU-funded projects that in various ways address e-Infrastructures, under which also the e-IRGSP4 supporting project for e-IRG, have contributed to a brochure explaining the fundamental role of e-Infrastructures in the life of European researchers and innovators.
Read More About European Commission issues booklet on e-Infrastructures as the foundation of the European Open Science Cloud »

At the EGI Conference 2016 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, we had the opportunity to talk with Eckhard Elsen, Director of Research and Computing at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Eckhard Elsen talked about some of the programmes that are being performed at CERN. The main business at CERN is fundamental physics and particle physics in which the researchers collide protons at very high energy and...
Read More About CERN technology for Large Hadron Collider to evolve from computing Grid to scientific Cloud »

The Spring edition of the e-IRG newsletter is now available for download.
Read More About Spring 2016 edition of the e-IRG newsletter available »

At the e-IRG workshop in Amsterdam, we had the opportunity to talk to Rene Belsø, Head of Development and International Relations of the Danish e-Infrastructure Cooporation (DeIC), about the future of e-Infrastructures. Rene Belsø explained that one needs to adapt to the changing structural setting for the infrastructure providers. A few dynamics are becoming more and more evident. For example,...
Read More About Rene Belsø pleas that organized high level scientists have their say about funding the e-Infrastructure »

At the occasion of the joint e-IRG/ESFRI meeting in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on March 11, 2016, we had the opportunity to perform a triple interview with Sverker Holmgren, e-IRG Chair; John Womersley, current ESFRI Chair; and Giorgio Rossi, current vice-president and future president of ESFRI. All three had been present at several adjacent events addressing e-infrastructures and research...
Read More About e-IRG's Sverker Holmgren and ESFRI's John Womersley and Giorgio Rossi on mutual collaboration between e-IRG and ESFRI »

At the e-IRG workshop in Amsterdam, we had the opportunity to talk to Barend Mons who is chairing the High Level Expert Group on the European Open Science Cloud, an advisory group to the European Commission. To be successful, the European Science Cloud needs a lot of experts to operate it, Barend Mons told us. Data stewards that have a lot of knowledge about managing and maintaining data....
Read More About We need 500.000 respected data stewards to operate the European Open Science Cloud »

On April 19, the European Commission presented a vision for the European Science Cloud that will bring together current and future data infrastructures. The European Open Science Cloud will be created for European researchers and their global scientific collaborators by integrating and consolidating e-infrastructure platforms, federating existing scientific clouds and research infrastructures,...
Read More About Press release: e-IRG Roadmap will help shape the European Open Science Cloud proposed by the European Commission »

At the Open Science Conference, organized April 4-5, 2016 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, e-IRG Chair Sverker Holmgren participated in the panel under the theme "Open Science - Dare to Share". Sverker Holmgren presented e-IRG as a body of national delegates from Member States and associated countries. e-IRG reflects on the future of e-Infrastructures in Europe, on what type of resources are...
Read More About Open Science needs a coherent data infrastructure system, says Sverker Holmgren »

During the SURFsara Super D Event, recently held at Felix Meritis in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, we had the opportunity to talk with Anwar Osseyran from the SURFsara supercomputing centre, about the new legal structure for Dutch e-Infrastructures.
Read More About SURF in a new cooperative structure provides members with e-Infrastructure and IT services »

On 10 February 2016, the European Commission has launched an open consultation in the context of preparation of the next Horizon 2020 e-infrastructure Work Programme 2018-2020. The objective of this consultation is to gather input from e-infrastructure stakeholders on the challenges they face which the future work programme could address.
Read More About European Commission launches consultation on e-infrastructures for the Horizon2020 Work programme 2018-2020 »

During the e-IRG Open Workshop, held in November 2015 in Belval/Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, we had the opportunity to talk with Rasim Alguliyev, Ramiz Aliguliyev, and Vugar Musayev from the Institute of Information Technology, which is part of the National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) in Azerbaijan. The Institute of Information Technology was founded in 1971. Azerbaijan is building a national...
Read More About Azerbaijan e-infrastructure is developing fast thanks to project partnership with European Community »

The next edition of the Open e-IRG workshop about "Progress of the e-Infrastructure Commons: integration and interoperability - funding and revenue models" is approaching fast but you can still register.
Read More About Prepare for the upcoming e-IRG Workshop in Amsterdam »

The next Open e-IRG Workshop, titled "Progress of the e-Infrastructure Commons: integration and interoperability - funding and revenue models" will be organized under the auspices of the Dutch EU Presidency of the European Union in Amsterdam on 9 March 2016.
Read More About Do not forget to register for the upcoming e-IRG Workshop »

Science Europe has released a Survey Report on "Strategic Priorities, Funding and Pan-European Co-operation for Research Infrastructures in Europe".
Read More About Science Europe to issue Research Infrastructures Survey Report »

The next e-IRG Workshop will be organized in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on 9 March 2016. The title of the workshop is "Progress of the e-Infrastructure Commons".
Read More About e-IRG Workshop will focus on the Progress of the e-Infrastructure Commons »

On March 10th, the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) will present the 2016 ESFRI Roadmap on Large Scale Research Infrastructures during a one-day conference in Amsterdam. The venue will be the Trippenhuis Building, the headquarters of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Read More About ESFRI to organize Roadmap 2016 launch event »

The most recent edition of the e-IRG Workshop was organized 24-25 November 2015 at the new Belval campus in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. The theme of the meeting was "The Building Blocks of the e-Infrastructure Commons". For those of you who want to refresh their minds on the topics presented by the different speakers at the workshop and want to relive the sparkling panel discussion, the...
Read More About Belval e-IRG Workshop videos now available »

At the Third eScience Symposium, recently held at the ArenA in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, we had the opportunity to talk with Tony Hey from the eScience Institute at the University of Washington in Seattle about eScience and the fourth paradigm for scientific discovery.
Read More About eScience and open access are really taking off now globally, according to Tony Hey »

Twice a year the e-IRG delegates meet to discuss e-Infrastructure policy developments. The 42nd Delegates Meeting was held in Luxembourg on September 17, 2015. At this meeting, the "hot topics" included the relation between e-Infrastructures and Research infrastructures. e-Infrastructures are represented by e-IRG and the Research Infrastructures by ESFRI, hence the collaboration between e-IRG...
Read More About 42nd Delegates Meeting in Luxembourg focused on e-IRG/ESFRI collaboration and new e-IRG roadmap on future e-Infrastructures development »

At the Third eScience Symposium, recently held at the ArenA in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, we had the opportunity to talk with Dieter Kranzlmüller, Professor in Computer Sciences at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and also a member of the Board of Directors of the Leibniz Supercomputer Center. Dieter Kranzlmüller presented an introduction into exascale computing at the eScience...
Read More About Preparing for exascale requires some hard thinking about energy consumption, scalability, complexity and reliability »