Workshop to Focus on Desktop Grids

released November 04, 2003

DGRID 2003, a workshop focused on desktop grids, will be held Nov. 17 in Phoenix. The workshop is sponsored by the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP) at the University of California, San Diego and NPACI.

Desktop grid computing, exploiting unused resources in the Intranet environments and across the Internet, can deliver massive compute power to investigate complex and demanding problems in a variety of scientific fields.

Building robust, secure and scalable desktop grid environments for computationally demanding applications requires a combined effort of researchers in both system engineering and application development communities and raises new conceptual and practical challenges.

This advanced topics workshop is a forum for the discussion and presentation of recent advances and major challenges for desktop grid computing to reach higher levels of capability. The workshop goal is to bring together application scientists and desktop grid system researchers to assess the current state-of-the-art, identify major needs and opportunities, and to exchange ideas and chart future directions.

The workshop features invited talks from researchers in the field and comprises two major sections: (1) application requirements for desktop grids and (2) frontiers of desktop grid systems. Each section will be followed by a discussion in which the participants will be able to directly ask the speakers questions, raise issues, or even provide the other participants with information.

Registration is available online at http://www-csag.ucsd.edu/DGRID03/. For more information, email dgrid03@csag.ucsd.edu.

 

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