11 - 14 March 2008: PRAGMA14 Workshop, Taiwan Region

Established in 2002, PRAGMA,  www.pragma-grid.net, is an open organization that focuses on how practically to create, support, and sustain international science and technology collaborations via multidisciplinary teams of researchers. PRAGMA plays a critical role as an international conduit for professional interactions, ideas, information, and grid technology.
As a founding institutional member of PRAGMA, CNIC has been actively participating in the organization's activities and promoting international cooperation around the Pacific Rim. CNIC researchers are involved in most PRAGMA working groups, providing a 36-CPU IA64 cluster for the PRAGMA testbed; participating in remote visualization activities with other PRAGMA members with a 5x4 tiled display wall situated at CNIC; and organizing science applications in such disciplines as astronomy, biology, and high-energy physics in China.
CNIC delegates attended the PRAGMA14 workshop and disseminated the BRIDGE project.


28 August 2007: 4th International Workshop, Gecon 2007, Rennes, France

This workshop invited researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to present current results and original research in the area of Grid economics. In particular, the workshop facilitated the discussion of new business models for Grid and the capability of existing Grid middleware to allow the economics-aware operation of Grid applications. The purpose of this discussion workshop was to suggest directions of research and amendments to existing technologies, aiming at the successful deployment of a global commercial Grid system. In order to create the critical mass of Grid users and providers for a global commercial Grid system, many issues have to be resolved.
For more information please visit  http://it.i-u.de/schools/altmann/gecon/


14 - 15 June 2007: 2nd DEGREE workshop

'Grid Portals and Data Management techniques for Earth Science Applications' held at CRS4, Pula (Cagliari), Italy.
Workshop on Grid Portals and Data Management techniques for Earth Science Applications in order to bring together members from the Grid community and the Earth Science community over two days, aiming to inform, cross-fertilize and bridge gaps between the two communities. The needs and requirements of selected key ES applications concerning the emerging middleware technologies of interest, as well as key state-of-the-art solutions, approaches, techniques and products from the Grid middleware community were presented.
For more information please visit  http://www.eu-degree.eu/DEGREE/internal-section/wp5/2nd-degree-workshop-pula-14-15-june-2007 


12 June 2007: International Symposium on Grids for Science and Business

This one-day International Symposium aims at bringing together a number of active parties and everyone interested in the short to medium-term evolution of grid technologies. The target audience includes industry as well as academia and public institutions, as future grid applications may apply in different fields and involve many parties.This event is organized by the Flemish Interdisciplinary institute for BroadBand Technologies (IBBT) and Ghent University (UGent) in collaboration with the Brussels universities (ULB and VUB), with the support of the projects BEgrid, EGEE and EUROLABS.
For mare information please visit  http://events.ibbt.be/grid2007/.