Visit Tamas Kiss to the AMC

Dr. Tamas Kiss visited the e-Bioscience group of the AMC in Amsterdam on February 2-3, 2011 for collaboration on Desktop Grid computing. He presented talks at the AMC and at the Amsterdam Science Park.

This is an activity of the European Desktop Grid Initiative (EDGI) project.

Dr. Tamas Kiss

Tamas Kiss is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Business Information Systems, and a researcher at the Centre for Parallel Computing at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Westminster, London. His research interests include parallel and Grid computing, and he has extended experience in the area of legacy code deployment, interoperation of Grid systems, and application porting to service and desktop Grid systems. He led the design and development activities resulting in the Grid Execution Management for Legacy Code Architecture(GEMLCA) solution, now a Globus incubator project, within the UK EPSRC founded OGSA Testbed project. He contributed to the CoreGrid Network of Excellence project as the leader of the Legacy Code Wrapping and Deployment Methodologies Research Group within the Institute on Grid Systems, Tools and Environments, and led the Grid Application Support Service activity within the European EDGeS project.

He is currently work package leader in the European EDGI (Enabling Grids for e-Science) and DEGISCO (Desktop Grids for International Scientific Collaboration) projects coordinating application porting and user support activities.

Talk at the Science Park

Desktop/volunteer grid systems in support of e-science

The EDGI (European Desktop Grid Initiative) FP7 project develops middleware that consolidates the results achieved in EDGeS (Enabling Desktop Grids for e-Science) concerning the extension of Service Grids with Desktop Grids in order to support EGI and NGI user communities that are heavy users of DCIs and require extremely large number of CPUs and cores. EDGI goes beyond existing DCIs that are typically cluster Grids and supercomputer Grids, and extends them with public and institutional Desktop Grids and Clouds. EDGI integrates software components of ARC, gLite, Unicore, BOINC, XtremWeb-HEP, 3G Bridge, and Cloud middleware (such as OpenNebula and Eucalyptus) into SG->DG->Cloud platforms for service provision.

The presentation gives and overview of the existing production level EDGI infrastructure, outlines its development roadmap, and describes how user communities can utilise this combined EGI/desktop grid infrastructure to run computation and data intensive applications.

Talk at the AMC

Applicability and value of desktop grids for advanced biomedical research

Desktop grids consist of otherwise unused computing resources, that are collected and made available for scientific applications. A desktop grid can, for instance, consist of office/laboratory machines in a University forming a Local Desktop Grid. Desktop Grids can also consist of unused computing time donated by citizens. These are called Volunteer Desktop Grids.

The European EDGI (Enabling Desktop Grids for e-Science) project connects desktop grid infrastructures to EGI, Europe's main grid infrastructure.

The presentation gives an overview of the applicability of desktop grid technology and explains via examples how researchers can utilise this technology to run computation and data intensive applications.

Full program

Feb 2, Wednesday

Feb 3, Thursday