Dennis Gannon
(University of Indiana)
01/02/2008, 09:00
A virtual organization is a community of people that come together to solve a problem, share knowledge or a common interest. Grid infrastructures can support this concept. In the TeraGrid (the U.S. National Science Foundation supercomputer grid) this is done through the Science Gateway program. A different model is based on social networks, which allow people to easily form common interest...
Gianni De Fabritiis
(Pompeu Fabra University)
01/02/2008, 09:40
The new Cell processor of the PlayStation3 is capable of improving Performances of computing intensive applications by more than one order of magnitude, as recently demonstrated by the full-atom CellMD program for molecular dynamics (MD) applications to bio-molecules. We have used CellMD to exploit such computational power using distributed computing over the Internet provided by the...
Dr
Ignacio Blanquer
(UPV)
01/02/2008, 10:20
Sharing and organising medical imaging knowledge is a key issue in medical research and training. Evidence-based medicine is also demanding high-quality well-organised knowledge bases to check for second opinion and drive diagnosis. However, sharing and organising medical imaging data is not straightforward. Technological and legal problems on exchanging data make it difficult or even...
Dieter Kranzlmueller
(University of Linz)
01/02/2008, 11:20
The European Grid Initiative (EGI) represents an effort to establish a
sustainable grid infrastructure. Driven by the needs and requirements of the
research community, it is expected to enable the next leap in research
infrastructures, thereby supporting collaborative scientific discoveries.
The main foundation of EGI are the National Grid Initiatives (NGIs), which
operate the grid...
Erwin Laure
(EGEE/CERN),
Wilfried Gansterer
(University of Vienna)
01/02/2008, 12:40
