- Events:
- Those I plan to attend/attended:
- International Symposium on Grid Computing 2009
- NGS Roadshow at the University of Bath
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- Other relevant events:
- Events on the horizon:
- Adding Semantics to Geographic Data Models
- Funding Opportunities
- EPSRC
- Complexity Science for the Real World
- http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/CallsForProposals/complexsciencecall.htm
- The EPSRC Cross-disciplinary Interfaces Programme invites proposals for internationally leading, cross-disciplinary programmes of research which will develop and apply the tools and techniques of complexity science for tackling major societal research challenges. Grants funded against this call may be up to six years long, and will provide funding to support a suite of related research activities focusing on one major theme. Up to £10 million has been earmarked for this targeted activity; it is anticipated that we will fund three or four proposals.
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- Completed the University of Leeds Careers in Research Online Survey (CROS) 2009
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- Attended the NGS Road Show in Bath
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- Investigating Mercurial Git and distributed repository for source code management
- Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git
- Wondering about relationship between Maven and Git
- I think the idea I had to use hash checksums for version control and security is a Git idea
- So it was a good idea even if I did not implement ;-)
- Attempt to elaborate on the plan (I may have done this earlier in my blog, but it may only be in the comments...)
- Create sha1checksum_0 of the content
- Add sha1checksum_0 to the content
- Create sha1checksum_1 of the content
- Replace sha1checksum_0 in the content with sha1checksum_1
- Create sha1checksum_2 on the content
- Now sha1checksum_0 is like you private key or thing to check...
- Now sha1checksum_1 and sha1checksum_2 are the public key tokens...
- e-Science
- Preparing for NGS Roadshow in Bath
- NeSS
- Meeting with June Finch
- Agenda
- Nature of census portlet and email to David Hall
- Bringing MoSeS portlets across to NCeSS Sakai Portal
- Security workpackage
- Other workpackages
- AoB
- Notes going through the agenda
- Nature of census portlet and email to David Hall
- Andy to respond to David Halls' email on 2009-03-27 March
- Need to provide documentation on how GLS configured to use census data works...
- Bringing MoSeS portlets across to NCeSS Sakai Portal
- The future of the portal is too uncertain to push for this...
- Security workpackage
- Pascal leading this from Manchester side and Junaid leading this from Leeds
- June says that NCeSS are having to register with ONS to be allowed to check shibboleth attributes of who is registered to use the census
- I thought the Shibboleth attributes did this for us somehow!
- I think I need to talk to Junaid to check my shibboleth understanding...
- Other packages
- Decided not to do this now as June did not have her notes available.
- AoB
- Ne-ISS
- Website
- Farzanna wanting to use Drupal and a server based in Leeds for this work.
- I'm not sure what Mark has planned, but I have bought a domain and for now, the following URL points to the NCeSS Sakai Portal : e-ISS Worksite : Wiki Home Page:
- I still question the need for having a domain name and even a web content that is not public view wiki content...
- Maintaining the NCeSS Sakai Portal (and user community)
- It is both our hopes that Mark will underwrite this if it is no longer supported by ESRC.
- Back end database is currently supported by NGS without any direct costs :-)
- Front end hosted at Daresbury
- Hopefully Mark will find some way to support Rob in doing this.
- Need for someone to do portal administration
- Maybe Steve Swinsberg will be available :-)
- Hub 2 and the current effects of ESRC funding withdrawl
- Major effects on two projects:
- Node building
- Capacity Building
- Effects on the NCeSS e-Infrastructure for Social Sciences project
- GENESIS, PhD
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- Trying to sign up for Google App Engine Java testing
- http://appengine.google.com/promo/java_signup
- I got excited by this:
- I should probably tell Richard Sinnott and Junaid Arshad to have a look at the Secure Data Connecter (SDC)
- Google Web Toolkit on App Engine looks very useful :-)
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- Completed Publication and dissemination behaviour of researchers and the influence of research assessment survey
- Contributed to review consultation for Stats 19 Data
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- EUAsiaGrid
- Development with Gabor Szmetanko
- Trying to work out why job completes with pbs, but not with globus wrapper...
- Reporting for Alex
- Hours worked in March
- 3 Days at OGF25/EGEE User Forum during period (2009-03-02 to 2009-03-06).
- 1 Day working with Gabor Szmetanko in Leeds 2009-03-31.
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- A musing on validation, proof and truth
- I wrote this about half way through my first reading of I Am, A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
- I recommend this book to anyone with an interest in this topic.
- The only validation I know is that of mathemetical proof which leads from a conjecture to a theorem and is based on the axioms and theorems of the system.
- It is an abstract validation that leads to consistency, but is incomplete. There are many conjectures that although true, we cannot prove, or turn into theorems.
- This is a basic tennet of computability and unsolvability.
- We owe it to Kurt Godel for showing us the mathematical systems are unable to guide us to all truth, but just a subset.
- We have learned that at the scale of atomic interactions, the concept of object boundaries, such as that of a biological cell are irrelevant.
- But to understand how a biological cell works, we do not analyse things at the sub-atomic/molecular level.
- To understand how a brain or an animal operates, we look even larger scale, to understand how society works, we look at even greater scale, when we try to understand the stars and the universe we round the loop and have to consider the very small again where dimensions give way, so that it is hard to separate space and time and its nature.
- We end up understanding with reference to our understanding of what happens at the other end of the scale.
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- Meeting with Gabor Szmetanko
- Gabor applying for more NGS Resource
- Coding lessons for Andy
- Modified uk.ac.leeds.ccg.andyt.projects.moses.utilities.FileCreator.copyFile(File,File) to use a byte[] to speed up
- Logging
- Developed uk.ac.leeds.ccg.andyt.projects.moses.utilities.Logging.java to explore logging APIs:
- Considered using org.apache.commons.logging
- Opted to directly use org.apache.log4j
- Commons Command Line Interface (CLI)
- More coding advice
- Andy to use System.exit(1); rather than letting the system struggle with null pointer exceptions etc...
- Andy to remove all hard coded file paths
- It maybe those that remain are legacy from creating data and should be kept for historical reasons...
- It was agreed that none should be in the execution path of current code.
- NIO
- Executing latest code and reproducing non-termination issues with globus/P-GRADE...
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