Overview

The programme covers a wide range of subjects in Grid computing, focusing on Advanced Resource Connector (ARC) and its usage for applications and infrastructures.

The first part of the conference will be dedicated to plenary sessions, featuring invited speakers from various Grid projects, as well as more ARC-specific talks. These will present an overview of the existing state of the art and future development directions.

The second part will feature a Grid school and tutorials and thematic project meetings (KnowARC, NDGF, NGIn).

Invited Speakers

• Dr. Christine Morin: XtreemOS
• Dr. Marcel Kunze: D-Grid, middlewares and applications
• Prof. Brian Vinter: Minimum intrusion Grid
• Dr. Claudio Grandi: gLiTe strategy towards standards
• Emerging OGF standards & their adoption (tbc)
• Dr. Sergio Andreozzi: The contribution of OMII-Europe towards standard-based Grid middleware (tbc)
• Dr. Ted Hasselroth: Open Science Grid
• Per Oester, Baltic Grid
• Mike Gindonis, M-Grid
• Dr. Sanjay Padhi: Interoperability between EGEE, NorduGrid and OSG via Cronus
• Dr. Achim Streit: UNICORE 6