Robert Jones conclusions about ISGC 2010

Bob Jones is the EGEE-III Project Director.
Here are his conclusions about ISGC 2010:

An introduction to social simulation

As mentioned in earlier blog posts, one of the first sessions at ISGC 2010 was a full day tutorial on social simulation.

But what exactly is social simulation? Alex Voss explains in the video below..



You can find out more about social simulation here.

ISGC 2010: Alexander Voss' talking

Alexander Voss is a SICSA Advanced Research Fellow in the School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews

ISGC 2010: Royol CHITRADON on climate prediction

Royol CHITRADON is the director of Hydro and Agro Informatics Institute in Thailand (HAII).
In this video, he is explaining on what they are currently working: climate prediction.

Their observations for this year are a bit worrying, and we would take care about what they discovered...

Steven Newhouse talks about grid relations between Europe and Asia

Steven Newhouse is the Technical Director of EGEE-III Project. He is also the Project Director of EGI-InSPIRE Project, which is starting in May 2010.

Marco Paganoni's talk

Marco Paganoni, from the University of Milano-Bicocca, is the Project Manager of the EUSIAGRID Project, and he is working for INFN too.
He is talking about the projects he is involved in, and how he discovered the grid computing worlds...

Talking to Anthony Williams

Anthony Williams took some time out from lunch to talk to us about e-infrastructure in Australia. Find out what he said below:

An interview with Kenichi Miura

Kenichi Miura from the NAREGI project at the National Institute of Informatics gave one of the keynote speeches at the opening day of ISGC 2010. He kindly agreed to let the GridTalk team interview him for GridCast and in the video below he tells us about e-infrastructure development in Japan as well as a 10 petaflop machine they're currently working on.

Interview with Ludek Matyska

Here comes video number two from ISGC 2010. Watch below for our interview with Ludek Matyska of CESNET.

Simon Lin's interview

We proudly present our first video from ISGC 2010:
Simon Lin, the ASGC director, in a few words, tells us more about his organization.

Asia@home storms brains in Taipei

Ni hao!

Here's the first report LIVE from ISGC 2010, courtesy of francois@home.

I arrived in steaming hot Taipei last night on a direct flight from freezing cold Beijing. Today I helped to organize a special Asia@home brainstorming session at ISGC. The goal of Asia@home is to encourage researchers in Asia to use volunteer computing and volunteer thinking technologies for their research (think SETI@home and Stardust@Home).

We started the session with presentations by Derrick Kondo of INRIA (FR) talking about volunteer computing and clouds, and clever ways to combine the two. This was followed by Daniel Lombrana of U. Extremadura (ES) talking about Jarifa, a neat approach to using the volunteer computing platform BOINC to build a campus grid.

The brainstorming was a chance to follow up on the seeds sown at an Asia@home workshop we held here a year ago at ISGC 2009. Simon Lin, the host of the ISGC conferences and an enthusiastic supporter of Asia@home, has got a young team here working on a number of exciting projects. You can listen to them introduce themselves and their work in the video below.

I'll fill you in on some of the cool ideas generated by this brainstorming in my next GridCast entry.