OMII-UK
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OMII-UK is an open-source software organisation for the UK research community.
OMII-UK have a number of roles within the UK research community: helping new users get started with E-research, providing the software that is needed and developing, that software if it does not exist. OMII-UK also help to guide the development of E-research by liaising with national and international organisations, e-Research groups, standards' groups, and the researchers themselves.
Funding
[edit]OMII-UK is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Jisc.
Project partners
[edit]OMII-UK is a collaboration between three bodies:
- the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton
- the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA)-DAI project at the National e-Science Centre and EPCC
- the myGrid project at the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester
Project history
[edit]The OMII (Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute) started at the University of Southampton in January 2004. In January 2006, the Southampton group joined forces with the established myGrid and OGSA-DAI projects to form OMII-UK - an integral part of the UK e-Science programme.
See also
[edit]- e-Science
- Open Grid Forum (OGF)
- Job Submission Description Language (JSDL)
- Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
External links
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