- OMII-UK
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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.
Contents
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.
Funding
OMII-UK is funded by EPSRC and JISC.
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 EPCC
- 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-Science
- E-research
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
- Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA)
- myGrid
- Open Grid Forum (OGF)
- Job Submission Description Language (JSDL)
- Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
External links
Categories:- Information technology management
- Middleware
- Software stubs
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