Organisers

Gavin Pringle and Andrew Richards

Description of workshop

Objectives: To bring together scientists who deploy or employ Grids of High Performance Computers (HPC) to share experiences of their own Grids through open sharing of related issues.

Intended Audience: End-users who are interested in what HPC Grids can offer or end‑users who currently employ HPC Grids who want to share their experiences and feedback directly to the service providers. Existing service providers of HPC Grids and developers of such HPC Grid infrastructures from institutes and national projects who wish to share experiences of running such a service and who are interested in interoperability of such HPC Grids.

Outline: Scientists today can find that single supercomputing services can not offer the computing power sufficient to make their simulations tractable. More and more, these scientists are turning to Grids of Supercomputers, otherwise known as ‘HPC Grids'. As supercomputers are expensive, these HPC Grids typically have continental scope, at least. These HPC Grids exist today or are in development and these projects face considerable deployment issues. This workshop aims to bring together both service providers and end-users within an environment that permits the free exchange of ideas regarding the issues of running such HPC Grids of Continental Scope.

Call for papers

We invite contributions around (but not limited to) the following themes relevant to this area:

• The provision of fast inter-platform connectivity,
• The speed and ease of data movement between platforms,
• Robust and transparent middleware,
• Presenting the user with an homogeneous access to a heterogeneous environment,
• Security and political restrictions,
• And interoperability of HPC Grids.