The International Desktop Grid Federation, in collaboration with the EU-funded DEGISCO and EDGI projects, has presented:

MAJOR DESKTOP GRID COMPUTING EVENTS

at the  EGI User Forum, Vilnius, Lithuania, 11-15 April 2011

All EGI User Forum participants were kindly invited to attend the following Desktop Grid programme items:

1. EDGI demonstration: Utilising Desktop Grid resources through gLite
    12 April 2011 10:30 - 19:00  

Three demos have been displayed:  
a. the applications portal featuring Tamas Kiss, University of Westminster, London
b. the portal based gLite infrastructure featuring Jozsef Kovacs, MTA SZTAKI, Budapest
c. the command line based infrastructure featuring Jozsef Kovacs, MTA SZTAKI, Budapest
    
2. IDGF workshop: Desktop Grids for scientific applications
    chaired by Robert Lovas, MTA SZTAKI, Budapest
    14 April 2011 11:00 - 12:30     Epsilon

Programme:
a. General introduction - Tamas Kiss, UoW, London, Peter Kacsuk, MTA SZTAKI, Budapest
b. Presentations of applications ported and running on the IDGF/EDGI/DEGISCO infrastructure
c. DEGISCO Road Map - Robert Lovas, MTA SZTAKI, Budapest
d. Wrap-up  

3. EDGI presentation by Jozsef Kovacs, MTA SZTAKI
    The EDGI infrastructure and its usage for the European Grid user communities
    14 April 2011 14:00 - 14:30     Alfa

4. DEGICO presentation by Robert Lovas, MTA SZTAKI
    Integration, sharing and exploitation of national and international e-Infrastructures
    14 April 2011       15:00 - 15:30     Alfa