{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"UCT HPC","provider_url":"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za","author_name":"Andrew Lewis","author_url":"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/author\/andrew-lewis\/","title":"EGEE User Forum in Sweden - UCT HPC","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"OCQ3Nu1YDn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/2010\/04\/23\/egee-user-forum-in-sweden\/\">EGEE User Forum in Sweden<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/2010\/04\/23\/egee-user-forum-in-sweden\/embed\/#?secret=OCQ3Nu1YDn\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;EGEE User Forum in Sweden&#8221; &#8212; UCT HPC\" data-secret=\"OCQ3Nu1YDn\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/*! 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It took a while to get used to the weather, frequently well below zero  with occasional light snow.&nbsp; As it was the last EGEE forum (the project  phase is now closing and it will now be EGI) the coordinators decided to  make it a memorable event and on Tuesday night we enjoyed a spectacular  dinner in Uppsala Castle.&nbsp; Over the course of the forum the South African delegates attended discussions in bioinformatics, Earth observation, scietific gateways and portals, computational chemsitry, high energy physics, parallel processing and MPI architecture.&nbsp; Dr Bruce Becker gave a very well recieved talk on the South African National Grid in the Regional Projects session.&nbsp; Two windfalls to come out of the forum were the implementation of gqsub (a qsub like wrapper for gLite developed by a Scottish University) and a graphical monitoring tool for the grid using Google Earth.    Unfortunately on the 2nd last day of the conference ash from the  Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallaj&ouml;kull shut down air traffic over Europe and  we found ourselves stranded indefinitely in Sweden.&nbsp; Luckily we had not  booked out of our hotel yet, or found ourselves stuck in the 'departure  hall limbo' as so many unfortunate travellers did.&nbsp; The Swedish home  affairs were extremely helpful and granted us temporary residency.&nbsp; We  took full advantage of the situation and visisted the HPC data center at Uppsala Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Computational Science (UPPMAX), went on a brief visit to Stockholm and a walking tour of a  Viking village at Gamla Uppsala.&nbsp; We also visited the spectacular Uppsala&nbsp; University Museum housing a collection of Viking and Egyptian exhibits,  a huge display dedicated to Carl Linnaeus as well as first editions of  Newton's Principia and Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius.  On the 2nd Friday we took a chance and managed to wangle our way onto an  aircraft heading for Doha.&nbsp; 48 hours later we were back in SA to find  that our director had kindly given us the Monday off in consolation for  all our hardships ;-)","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Untitled-6.jpg"}