OMII-UK

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OMII-UK is short for the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute-UK.

OMII-UK aims to provide software and support to enable a sustained future for the UK e-Science community and its international collaborators. Through their website at http://www.omii.ac.uk/ they provide mechanisms for users to share information and software that people have found useful to support their e-Science work. OMII-UK supports open-source software development by investing in community developers to produce the functionality required by our user community. OMII-UK draws upon this and other software to provide an easy to install and use open-source software distribution that provides a secure web service hosting environment, web services and the necessary tools and environments to access these services. This software is supported through comprehensive documentation and training.

The latest release of the OMII-UK software can be downloaded from http://www.omii.ac.uk/downloads/omii-distributions.jsp

1 Funding
2 Project partners
3 Project history
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Funding

OMII-UK is funded by EPSRC through the UK e-Science Core programme.

[edit] 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

The OMII-Europe project contributes to the development of the repository and testing infrastructure used by OMII-UK.

[edit] 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.