Overview & Focus

The 2nd EchoGRID Strategic Workshop takes place 29-30 October 2007 in Beijing, China and features New Programming Paradigms; Trust & Security; New Forms of Plugtest; Grid Workflows; and Grid Middleware for Industrial Applications. EchoGRID Thematic Workshops focus on key Grid topics defined by a team of experts with the aim of defining the perspectives for R&D developments in both China and Europe in the years ahead.

The Workshop sessions put the spotlight on:
•    alternative programming paradigms for Grid infrastructures
•    key mechanisms that should be embedded within Grid middleware
•    the latest scientific advances in the area of Grid workflows
•    the most recent user experiences in adopting several Grid middleware systems, including Globus, Unicore, gLite; CNGrid and CROWN.

Workshop participants are high-profile experts with the skills and resources needed to carry out Grid research projects, and plans to collaborate with other research teams world-wide.

This event will generate direct feedback from business and research communities and establish a dialogue and exchange between diverse stakeholders from both Europe and China, strengthening links between the two regions and helping to define a collaboration roadmap that sets a clear co-operation agenda for the short-, medium-, and long-term.

The Workshop is organised by 2 EC-funded projects, GridCOMP (http://gridcomp.ercim.org/) and BRIDGE (http://www.bridge-grid.eu/), in parallel with the 4th Grid Plugtest (http://www.etsi.org/plugtests/grid/grid.htm) jointly organised by ETSI, INRIA and ERCIM, bringing together almost 100 Grid experts from across Europe and China.Workshop Hosts: CNIC, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China.

For more information visit: http://echogrid.ercim.org/content/view/3/4/