CCGrid 2007, Brazil Conference Report
For the first time, the Cluster Computing and Grid (CCGrid 2007) conference was held in Latin America, specifically in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event, which took place May 14-17, included strong participation from the Latin American grid community. Overall, 330 people attended the event, a number greater than any other CCGrid event in its six-year history...
e-Science 2005 Conference Report
The 1st International Conference on e-Science and Grid was held in Melbourne, Australia. The event, jointly with Sensor Networks conference, has attracted over 350 delegates from all over the world. The conference featured three tutorials, over 50 papers in the main track, three workshops, and a range of invited talks. This brief article summarizes the key activities at e-Science 2005. By Ron Perrott (Belfast e-Science Centre, Queen's University, UK) and Raj Buyya (GRIDS Lab, University of Melbourne, Australia).
Fifth IEEE Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid Conference Report
The 5th IEEE Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2005) was held in Cardiff, Wales. The event attracted over 300 delegates from the United States, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. The conference featured four tutorials, over 75 papers in the main track, nine workshops, and a range of invited talks. This brief article summarizes the key activities at CCGrid 2005. By Omer Rana, Linda Wilson, David Walker, John Oliver, Ali Shaikh Ali, Simone Ludwig, Ian Wootten (Cardiff University, United Kingdom), Adarsh Patil (University College, Cork, Ireland), and Brian Foley and Ligang He (Warwick University, United Kingdom).
Cluster Computing: A High-Performance Contender
Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth Rajkumar Buyya, Monash University Dan Hyde, Bucknell University
When you first heard people speak of Piles of PCs, the first thing that came to mind may have been a cluttered computer room with processors, monitors, and snarls of cables all around. Collections of computers have undoubtedly become more sophisticated than in the early days of shared drives and modem connections. No matter what you call them—Clusters of Workstations (COW), Networks of Workstations (NOW), Workstation Clusters (WCs), Clusters of PCs (CoPs)—clusters of computers are now filling the processing niche once occupied by more powerful stand-alone machines.
Cluster computing: A glance at recent events
Ishfaq Ahmad Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Computing is an evolutionary process. Five generations of development history—with each generation improving on the previous one’s technology, architecture, software, applications, and representative systems—make that clear. As part of this evolution, computing requirements driven by applications have always outpaced the available technology. So, system designers have always needed to seek faster, more costeffective computer systems.
Cluster Computing R&D in Australia
ATIP/Australia
This report provides overview of Cluster Computing R&D activities in the Asia-Pacific region with particular focus on Australian research activities. We give details of R&D at ten Australian universities as well as highlights of research at several other sites in Asia.
