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From www.isgtw.org, updated 3 March, 2010:

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Grid-Ireland News

Playstation goes from games to Grid
February 15 2010 11:21:09. Posted by Brian Coghlan
The Sony PlayStation 3 is no longer just for games. Grid jobs may now be submitted to a cluster of eight PS3s in TCD. See: http://www.isgtw.org/cms/?pid=1002344
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Downtime 2nd February 08:00-14:00
January 29 2010 16:09:05. Posted by David OCallaghan
To facilitate software upgrades, the Grid-Ireland National Services and the site at Trinity College Dublin will be in downtime from 8am to 2pm on Tuesday 2nd February. As the national services are affected, the usual job submission and access to data will be unavailable much of this time.
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Downtime 21st January 08:00-17:00
January 15 2010 10:44:49. Posted by Geoff Quigley
To facilitate software upgrades and switching to a new NFS server, the Grid-Ireland National Services and the site at Trinity College Dublin will be in downtime from 8am to 5pm on Thursday 21st January. As the national services are affected, the usual job submission and access to data will be unavailable much of this time.
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Downtime 30th September 09:00-13:00
September 29 2009 09:13:08. Posted by David OCallaghan
The Grid-Ireland Operations Centre at TCD and the grid cluster at TCD will be unavailable from 9am until 1pm on Wednesday 30th September to allow for software maintenance. Some services may be available before the end of the scheduled period, but they should be considered "at risk".
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Grid Downtime for TCD network testing
July 22 2009 10:26:12. Posted by David OCallaghan
In order to test the functionality of recently implemented network architecture, a period of network downtime during which College will have no internet connection is scheduled from 8am to 9am on Thursday, 23rd July 2009. The following hour, from 9am to 10am, should be considered as an 'at risk' period during which we will specifically monitor the network for any instability in service and take any necessary action to restore this service.
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Downtime - 20th May 11:00-12:00
May 14 2009 13:23:53. Posted by John Ryan
Downtime to complete electrical upgrade.
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Grid Downtime 15/04/2009
April 14 2009 15:01:48. Posted by John Ryan
Grid-Ireland & TCD site downtime from 07:30--08:30 on 15th April 2009
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Grid-Ireland in EGI eNewsletter
April 01 2009 21:03:02. Posted by David OCallaghan
Grid-Ireland is featured in the latest EGI eNewsletter.
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Grid-Ireland in LHC news coverage
September 26 2008 09:25:46. Posted by David OCallaghan
Grid-Ireland was in the news in much of the Irish coverage of the LHC first beam event. See our Press page for more information.
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LHC Grid Fest on Oct 3
September 11 2008 10:20:44. Posted by Brian Coghlan
On 3rd October, 2008, the Worldwide LHC Grid consortium will announce the readiness of their WLCG grid, designed specifically to support the LHC.
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CERN LHC countdown
September 06 2008 14:07:48. Posted by Brian Coghlan
The CERN LHC first beam start-up will take place on Wednesday 10-Sep-08, see: LHC countdown. Two Irish research groups are excited participants.
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Grid Course
August 08 2008 17:53:42. Posted by John Ryan
TCD will be hosting a EELA Grid Tutorial & Workshop from the 15th to the 19th September
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New version of eLGrid and new course released
April 25 2008 16:52:14. Posted by Kathryn Cassidy
A new version of the eLGrid Grid eLearning system has been released along with a new course on the P-GRADE portal.
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SQL course released
January 02 2008 14:23:20. Posted by Kathryn Cassidy
An adaptive course on the SQL database query language has been released at http://www.grid.ie/elgrid/
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End-2007 status update for the European grid
December 18 2007 18:12:08. Posted by Brian Coghlan
The European grid infrastructure (EGEE), of which Grid-Ireland is an integral part, grew steadily during 2007.
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Job Description Language (JDL) course released
December 18 2007 12:51:38. Posted by Kathryn Cassidy
An adaptive Job Description Language (JDL) course has been released at http://www.grid.ie/elgrid/
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Adaptive Grid eLearning R-GMA theory course
November 14 2007 17:46:48. Posted by Brian Coghlan
An adaptive Grid eLearning R-GMA theory course has been released at http://www.grid.ie/elgrid/
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Adaptive Grid eLearning system beta release
August 30 2007 18:37:27. Posted by Kathryn Cassidy
The Grid-Ireland Adaptive Grid eLearning system (eLGrid) is now available at http://www.grid.ie/elgrid/
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e-INIS obtains PRTLI4 funding
August 10 2007 18:06:33. Posted by Brian Coghlan
The DIAS-led national facility, e-INIS, which includes ICHEC, Grid-Ireland and HEAnet as major partners, will be funded under PRTLI-4.
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EGEE handles more than 100,000 jobs per day
July 06 2007 12:44:00. Posted by Brian Coghlan
In May 2007 the European Grid infratructure, EGEE, was used to submit over 100,000 jobs per day, or more than 3 million jobs during May. In 2007 it is likely to handle more than 40 million jobs.
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MPI User Course at TCD
May 29 2007 11:27:51. Posted by Stephen O. Childs
TCD will be running a course on June 25-26 for application developers who would like to run MPI jobs on the Grid.
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Interactive European Grid wins demo prize at Open Grid Forum
May 15 2007 09:16:11. Posted by David OCallaghan
An application integrated in the Interactive European Grid was chosen as the best demo at the international Open Grid Forum in Manchester.
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Interactive European Grid project user survey
March 08 2007 16:55:30. Posted by Stuart P. Kenny
The Interactive European Grid project would like to gather information from those interested in the Grid and the int.eu.grid project.
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e-INIS: White paper on the Irish e-Infrastructure submitted to HEA
September 15 2006 12:16:11. Posted by John Walsh
A Roadmap for Irish Research and Development
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How to join the virtual revolution
June 29 2006 12:31:22. Posted by David OCallaghan
For cost-effective computing it’s hard to beat virtual machines. Stephen Childs and Brian Coghlan from Trinity College Dublin describe the solution offered by Grid-Ireland in this month's CERN Courier.
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Problems accessing the CA or other Grid-Ireland websites over HTTPS with Firefox/Mozilla
June 12 2006 11:21:29. Posted by David OCallaghan
If you are having problems accessing the CA or other Grid-Ireland websites over HTTPS with Firefox/Mozilla please view this information
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TCD Computers Come Together to Fight Avian Flu
May 04 2006 11:20:53. Posted by David OCallaghan
During April, computers in Ireland have been working overtime in the fight against avian flu. As part of an international collaboration, computers at Trinity College Dublin have put in 6.7 thousand hours of time searching for possible drug components against the avian flu virus H5N1. The analysis used a computing Grid, a new network that brings together worldwide computer resources to solve scientific problems.

  Download the news release (PDF).
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Dell supplies eLearning infrastructure
April 20 2006 12:24:38. Posted by Brian Coghlan
Dell and CosmoGrid continue to support Grid-Ireland. The infrastructure planned for the future Grid-Ireland eLearning environment has now been purchased from Dell under very favourable terms and generously funded by CosmoGrid.
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Course for application developers
February 20 2006 15:52:10. Posted by Stephen O. Childs
Grid-Ireland will run an introductory course for researchers wanting to develop Grid applications. This course will take place at Trinity College Dublin on March 14th and 15th 2006.
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SoloVO resources now available at TCD
July 15 2005 15:43:01. Posted by Stephen O. Childs
A shared cluster has been made available at TCD for use by unaffiliated Grid users. 11 nodes are currently available and it is hoped to extend the cluster in the near future. It is primarily intended for researchers who want to use the Grid but are not part of an existing Grid project. Email grid-ireland-help@cs.tcd.ie if you would like to access the SoloVO cluster.
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Grid-Ireland downtime
July 15 2005 15:39:43. Posted by Stephen O. Childs

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Grid-Ireland Downtime
June 17 2005 11:46:20. Posted by David OCallaghan
Grid-Ireland servers, including the web server, will be unavailable from 12.00pm on Friday 17th June until 12.00pm on Monday 20th of June due to a power outage at TCD
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Grid-Ireland gateways for 10 new grid sites
January 25 2005 17:55:52. Posted by Brian Coghlan
In collaboration with HEAnet, Grid-Ireland has announced ten new sites to which the grid gateways donated by Dell Ireland Limited in April 2004 will be deployed, subject to contract.
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Gateways now open for job submission
November 04 2004 10:52:40. Posted by Brian Coghlan
The Grid-Ireland Grid Manager announced that Gateways are now open for job submission
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Grid Ireland v1.0.0
November 11 2004 18:04:26. Posted by Geoff Quigley
We are pleased to announce v1.0.0 of the Grid Ireland infrastructure
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Website Down Time
June 17 2004 13:15 Posted by David OCallaghan
The Grid-Ireland webserver, cagraidsvr06.cs.tcd.ie, will be down for maintenance today at 17:00 for under 1 hour.
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Website Down Time
June 9 2004 14:59 Posted by David OCallaghan
The Grid-Ireland webserver, cagraidsvr06.cs.tcd.ie, will be down for maintenance today at 17:00 for around 1 hour.
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Mini-gateways delivered
May 18 2004 18:11 Posted by Brian Coghlan
Dell has delivered 11 mini-gateways to Grid-Ireland.
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Dell donation
May 4 2004 21:58 Posted by Brian Coghlan
Dell donates 11 Mini-Gateways to Grid-Ireland.
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EGEE
May 4 2004 21:54 Posted by Brian Coghlan
EGEE Contract now signed.
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WebCom-G
May 4 2004 21:48 Posted by Brian Coghlan
WebCom-G has executed intercontinentally for the first time!
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Downtime
February 18 2004 Posted by David OCallaghan
The Grid-Ireland website was down for a few hours today due to a hardware failure. The system has been restored on new hardware.
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Grid Event 2004
August 06 2003 Posted by David OCallaghan
The Irish Grid community will host a major international Grid Computing event in 2004.
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The Grid-Ireland website is hosted on cagraidsvr06.cs.tcd.ie in the Department of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin.