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ReDReSS User Survey Has Now Ended.
The ReDReSS user survey has now ended. No more entries will be accepted for the Ipod prize draw.
The draw for the Ipod will take place in the next few days and the result will be posted on the ReDReSS web site.
Thank you to all those people who filled out the survey, which will provide very useful feedback. If you did not manage to fill out the survey we are still very interested in your comments on the web site and the services ReDReSS has to offer. Please send any feedback to redress@lancaster.ac.uk.
Date News Article Published: 01 August 2008.
Release of Sabre 5.0 Statistical Software and SabreR 5.0.
Successful Sabre 5.0 Workshop held 17th - 19th July 2007 at Lancaster University.
A new release of Sabre statistical software was introduced during a recent workshop “An Introduction to Multivariate Multilevel GLMs using SabreR 5.0” in Lancaster. Sabre is statistical software for the analysis of multi-process random effect response data. Sabre software is capable of running on high-performance parallel computers, e.g. those on the UK National Grid Serivce, and outperforms alternative software used for similar statistical analyses; see the comparisons at http://sabre.lancs.ac.uk/comparison3.html.
The workshop demonstrated the new features of Sabre 5.0 (multilevel, multivariate generalised linear models), with over 60 worked examples/ exercises from published work.
Date News Article Published: 26 July 2007.
AGORA. The Online Meeting tool.
Agora is an easy to use online meeting tool. With Agora you can take your workplace with your laptop.
Developed by the Centre for e-Science at Lancaster University in the UK, it provides Video-conferencing "many to many", Shared desktop, Whiteboard, Chat, Moviecasting and Session recording.
Agora is an Open Source project. Distributed with Apache Licence, you are allowed to modify freely this application and adapt it to your organisation.
Agora brings you the advantages of: Time optimisation, Reduced costs, Enhanced team working, Improved results and Knowledge preservation.
For more information and to download please visit the AGORA website.
Date News Article Published: 16 April 2007.
The Expected Demand of e-Collaboration tools within SMEs in the UK: Revitalising the Virtual Organisation (VO) in the Business context?
A Presentation is now available to view that highlights some of the research outcomes from the Lancaster University Centre for e-Science. The outcomes are from an e-Management project funded by the EPSRC. This project was also supported by the Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University Infolab21 and the Northern Leadership Academy. The project's aim was to seek information on the applicability of e-Collaboration tools within enterprises in Northern England. It specifically focuses on Small and Medium Sized Enterprises.
The presentation can be view by clicking on the following link: The Expected Demand of e-Collaboration tools.
A script for the presentation can be downloaded by clicking on the following link: The Expected Demand of e-Collaboration tools.
Date News Article Published: 23 February 2007.
StataCorp have released Stata/MP, a parallel processing version of Stata
In a previous news article (which can be found in the news archive) titled , "Are Current Statistical Packages Moving Towards Parallel Programming ?", StataCorp stated:
"There are some plans to investigate the extent to which it is possible to produce a commercially viable version of STATA for SMP. Some initial work has been done and small test parallel version of STATA for SMP machines has been created."
StataCorp have now released Stata/MP, which is the culmination of the work mentioned in this news article regarding Stata for SMP.
For more information please visit the STATA/MP website.
You Can View Past Workshops Presented at Lancaster Online
The presentations given at past workshops here at Lancaster University can now be viewed online. These presentations have been filmed and sychronised with their associated PowerPoint presentations to provide an online navigatable presentations. It is Lancaster's aim to film all workshops to enable online viewing for reference and to allow viewing via a wider audience. We are also filming suitable external workshops. The online presentations can be found on the workshop presentations page.
Everything you always wanted to know about the Grid and never dared to ask
New presentations entitled, "Everything you always wanted to know about the Grid and never dared to ask" have been added to the Learning Space Catalogue.
These presentations were given by Tony Hey and Geoffrey Fox authors of the book, "Grid Computing : Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality." They were delivered in the context of the CERN Academic Training Programme.
The presentations can be found on the page accessed by this link.
A significant number of archived CERN lectures are also available from: http://www.cern.ch/AcademicTraining/acad0.asp
Call for content
We are currently commissioning new materials and are interested in your contributions. For more information contact ReDReSS via p.dolby@lancaster.ac.uk. ReDReSS is JISC/ESRC funded and directed by Prof Robert Crouchley, Centre for e-Science, Lancaster University.
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