[menog] FW: ASREN e-Newsletter, April 2013

Thu Apr 18 09:43:17 UTC 2013

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Dear Partners, Colleagues and Friends,

We are pleased to announce the issue of April 2013 of our quarterly e-Newsletter which covers the news and updates from ASREN and from partners in the fields of R&E e-Infrastructures. More news and more details can be found at http://www.asrenorg.net/media/news.html.

We would like to thank all who contributed to this newsletter.

Yousef Torman

ASREN, a step closer to setting up a pan-Arab R&E network

ASREN Issues Arab e-Infrastructure Status Report

ASREN participated in Hawaii in the TIP2013 meeting

As a first concrete step towards the Pan-Arab R&E network, ASREN is proud to announce its first R&E PoPs to serve the Arab NRENs get connected to the global R&E networks. ASREN will complete the installations of its own rack space in London Telecity (Europe's industry-leading provider of premium carrier-neutral data centers) Read more...<http://www.asrenorg.net/media/news/320-asren-a-step-closer-to-setting-up-a-pan-arab-rae-network.html>

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ASREN has participated in the Global Compendium consultation meeting attended by regional partners in e-Infrastructures. The goal is to produce a global publication on the basis of the information collected using the common model. It was concluded that the networking organizations committed themselves to working together  Read more...<http://www.asrenorg.net/media/news/318-asren-participates-in-hawaii-in-the-tip2013-meeting.html>

ASREN's Science Gateway

ASREN to hold a technical workshop on Building Federated Identity Infrastructure

The CHAIN-REDS project is on the move

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eI4Africa and CHAIN-REDS debated at the High-level Conference on 'Promoting Africa-EU Research Infrastructure Partnerships'

Medea University first to introduce high performance computing (HPC) service in Algerian University

eFADA to stimulate the UAE's knowledge economy

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LinkSCEEM-2: A computational resource for the Eastern Mediterranean

EUMEDGRID Infrastructures provided 41000 jobs for one researcher

First-ever backup agreement for R&E traffic around the globe

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Dr. Saleem Al-Ashhab from Al Bait University in Jordan submitted over 410000 jobs to the GRID network and used around 3 TB of Disk Space. Dr. Saleem Al-Ashhab said: "As a GRID user since 2012. I submitted so far over 41000 jobs to GRID. A job has five values as input. The first three values (a, b, e) represent the center of a magic square. We have 3429 possible centers. The other two values Read more...<http://www.asrenorg.net/media/news/310-eumedgrid-infrastructures-provided-41000-jobs-for-one-researcher.html>

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Egypt's EUN is now connected to GLORIAD and EUMEDCONENCT3 through ENSTINET

Arab Multi-stakeholder Internet Governance Meeting Wraps Up in Dubai

SESAME a regional research Opportunity in Jordan

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Arab States Research and Education Network - ASREN

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