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OMII-UK is an open-source software organisation for the UK research community.
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.
Funding edit
OMII-UK is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Jisc.
Project partners edit
OMII-UK is a collaboration between three bodies:
Project history edit
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 edit
- e-Science
- Open Grid Forum (OGF)
- Job Submission Description Language (JSDL)
- Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
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