OMII-UK
Encyclopedia
OMII-UK is an open-source organisation that empowers the UK research community by providing software for use in all disciplines of research. Their mission is to cultivate and sustain community software that is important to research.
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.
OMII-UK have a number of roles within the UK research community: helping new users get started with E-research
E-research
The term e-Research refers to the use of information technology to support existing and new forms of 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
E-research
The term e-Research refers to the use of information technology to support existing and new forms of research...
by liaising with national and international organisations, e-Research groups, standards' groups and the researchers themselves.
Software
An overview of OMII-UK's software can be downloaded from the Software section of the OMII-UK website. Downloads are available from the Downloads section.Project partners
OMII-UK is a collaboration between three bodies:- the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton
- the OGSA-DAI project at the National e-Science Centre and EPCCEPCCEPCC is a supercomputing centre based at the University of Edinburgh. Since its foundation, its stated mission has been to accelerate the effective exploitation of novel computing throughout industry, academia and commerce.The University has supported high-performance computing services since 1982...
- the myGrid project at the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester
Project history
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
- e-ScienceE-ScienceE-Science is computationally intensive science that is carried out in highly distributed network environments, or science that uses immense data sets that require grid computing; the term sometimes includes technologies that enable distributed collaboration, such as the Access Grid...
- E-researchE-researchThe term e-Research refers to the use of information technology to support existing and new forms of research...
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
- Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA)
- myGridMyGridThe myGrid consortium is a multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary internationally leading research group focussing on the challenges of eScience...
- Open Grid ForumOpen Grid ForumThe Open Grid Forum is a community of users, developers, and vendors for standardization of grid computing. It was formed in 2006 in a merger of the Global Grid Forum and the Enterprise Grid Alliance. The OGSA, OGSI, and JSDL standards were created by the OGF...
(OGF) - Job Submission Description Language (JSDL)
- Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)