Current events

27 November 2008: November 2008 Steering Committee meeting being held via EVO.
11 November 2008: Anthony Beitz from the Monash eResearch Centre will be presenting to BeSTGRID members on his work at Monash, and with data repositories and the AAF.
30 October 2008: October 2008 Steering Committee meeting being held via EVO.

30 May: The Bioinformatics Institute New Zealand at the University of Auckland and Biomatters Limited announce the Version 2 of Geneious software for grid computing on BeSTGRID, the Broadband enabled Science and Technology Grid running on KAREN, the Kiwi Advanced Research & Education Network that provides high-speed, high-capacity internet to New Zealand academics, researchers and educators. Read the complete press release: Geneious Grid-Aware Bioinformatics Software Version 2 Now Available for BeSTGRID
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.

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.