Grid Computing: a new tool for Science and Innovation

Session

Lectures (Thursday afternoon)

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27 Aug 2009, 17:30

Kulturni Dom of Veli Lošinj

14. Computational challenges for the Planck mission

Fabio Pasian (INAF OATrieste)

27/08/2009, 17:30

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Planck is an ESA mission, launched on 14 May 2009 with a payload of two instruments, and is dedicated to the mapping of the microwave sky in 9 frequency bands in the 30-850 GHz range. After an introduction describing the basics of the Planck mission and the technical characteristics of the instruments, the continuing activities needed to perform end-to-end simulations of the full mission are...

15. Grid and Astrophysical Research: current activities and future perspectives

Claudio Vuerli (INAF OATrieste)

27/08/2009, 18:15

Astronomy and Astrophysics

The interest of the astronomical community for the Grid technology dates back early 2000s when various initiatives were undertaken in several countries to set up national Grid infrastructures. In the meanwhile some European projects were funded by the European Commission aimed at creating and maintaining a stable European Grid Infrastructure for the benefit of several astronomical...

26. Simulations at the nanoscale on the Grid using Quantum ESPRESSO

Paolo Giannozzi (University of Udine and CNR/INFM Democritos)

27/08/2009, 19:00

First-principle simulations based on density-functional theory have become quite common in the study of the matter at the nanoscale. Simulations for quite complex and realistic models are now within our reach, but such simulations are still considered HPC applications, requiring large vector or parallel computers with specialized hardware. In this talk I report on our experience on Grid...