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Supported by MoRST
Supported by MoRST
What is BeSTGRID? - Media and Presentations

BeSTGRID delivers services and tools to support research and research collaboration, on shared data sets, and in accessing non trivial amounts of computational resources.

BeSTGRID is funded from early 2009 to June 2010 from the Ministry of Research Science & Technology eResearch budget, to further evolve eResearch infrastructure in New Zealand, including specialised applications and services for both Geo and Bio sciences, and lower levels of middleware. The project will publish several reports defining plans for implementation of these applications, services, and middleware, along with a final report to outline the current and possible future eResearch infrastructure strategies.

Services News and Events

Advanced Video Collaboration Centre

New Zealand researchers engaged in video conferencing and collaboration are supported by the Advanced Video Collaboration Centre, a MoRST funded national centre providing support for a range of frequently used applications and services including:

  • Room based hardware and desktop software systems - H.323 based
  • EVO multi platform desktop software
  • Access Grid room based software systems

Learn more on the AVCC website ...


Research Collaboration space (VRE)
Research Collaboration space (VRE)

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


Data GRID
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.

Computation Grid
Computation Grid

Computational Platform

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

Tools : use our featured Grid Tools to use the grid services.

Resources: see what Computational Resources are available on the grid.



Running over KAREN
Running over KAREN

Upcoming Events

29 June - 1 July 2009
BeSTGRID Winter Retreat hosted at The University of Auckland. Three successive days workshoping strategies and priorities for Bio and Geo science applications and services, and grid middleware.

Recent News and Events

News

2009
25 May
BeSTGRID member Landcare Research led by Robert Gibb, The University of Auckland, and The University of Canterbury to develop Federated Identity Management resources kit for NZ Research Institutions: Today MoRST awarded the contract to Robert Gibb to develop a Federated Identity and Access Management resources kit along with some initial services for the NZ research sector.
12 May
BeSTGRID member The University of Auckland, led by Matthew Cocker to develop Federated Identity Management Strategy for NZ Research Institutions: Today MoRST awarded the contract to Matthew Cocker to facilitate development of a Federated Identity and Access Management Strategy for the NZ research sector.

Recent News and Events...



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