Audience:

The target audience for this course is either application developers who are not familiar with desktop grid systems but have a generic understanding of programming and application development, or "expert" end-users who wish to understand the underlying principles and requirements towards an application that is capable to utilise desktop grid resources.

Contents:

The course gives an overview regarding the requirements of applications to be ported to desktop grid infrastructures, outlines the major scenarios to run applications on desktop grid resources, and gives an introduction to the tools and methods that can be applied when porting an application to a desktop grid or combined service grid/desktop grid platform.

	Phase	Prerequisite	Where to get	Documentation	Learning results
1	Introduction to application porting tools and scenarios to desktop grids	Basic understanding of desktop grids (General introduction to Desktop Grids and IDGF, or equivalent)	See course titled General introduction to Desktop Grids and IDGF	http://portal.desktopgridfederation.org/documents/10508/80393/Introduction+into+parallel+computing+for+DGs+.ppt	Understands the requirements towards an application to be ported to DG, aware of the tools that can be used

 

Project mainly responsible for creating the module's content in this document DEGISCO

Project mainly responsible for maintaining the module and its materials DEGISCO