Desktop Grid computing in a clouded world
In today's world of clouds, we tend to forget, that there is a successfull category of distributed infrastructure that is wideley used in science and industry. These are desktop grids. Both the largest Grids for science and in industry are Desktop Grids. This presentation provides a short overview of Desktop Grids and their place in the infrastructure world.
Biography Ad Emmen studied physics at the university of Nijmegen. He has been active in Hihg-performance computing, and later Grid computing for more than 25 years. Currently he is director of AlmereGrid, the first cityGrid in the world, and has extensive knowledge of operating Desktop Grids, using BOINC, XtremWeb and LSF Desktop technology. He is involved in the EDGeS project (http://EDGeS-grid.eu). Ad Emmen is Member of the Board of Gridforum Netherlands. He is editor of EnterTheGrid Primeur magazine, and Virtual Medical Worlds Magazine. Apart from HPC and Grids, he is also interested in XML technology and knowledge management. He developed the knowledge base on European e-Infrastructures for the e-IRGSP(2) project. http://AlmereGrid.nl Presentation slides: |
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