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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 started in 2006 as 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 delivered mechanisms, methods and tools that facilitate collaboration on shared information, sharing of computational resources and online visualization of instruments and experiments.

Since the project completed successfully in March 2008, BeSTGRID continues as a collegial community continuing to provide leadership and coordination in establishment and maintenance of research infrastructure in New Zealand.

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 Research Collaboration space (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 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 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. 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 28 August 2008 August 2008 Steering Committee meeting being held via EVO. Recent News and Events News 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. 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

Research Collaboration space (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

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

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.

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

28 August 2008: August 2008 Steering Committee meeting being held via EVO.

News

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.

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.