News-blog Leslie Versweyveld http://desktopgridfederation.org/news-blog/-/blogs/registration-now-open-for-8th-idgf-workshop 2011-07-22T14:29:04Z 2011-07-22T09:25:16Z

The 8th IDGF Workshop will be held August 17, 2011, 14h-18h in Hannover, Germany. This workshop is organized by the International Desktop Grid Federation and by SZTAKI for the European chapter. It is

Leslie Versweyveld 2011-07-22T09:25:16Z Leslie Versweyveld http://desktopgridfederation.org/news-blog/-/blogs/new-edition-of-desktop-grids-for-escience-road-map-now-available 2011-07-13T10:09:10Z 2011-07-13T10:06:39Z

DEGISCO has released a new edition of the Desktop Grids for eScience Road Map on July 11, 2011. The document is comprised of two parts. The first part constitutes a bird view of all the relevant

Leslie Versweyveld 2011-07-13T10:06:39Z Leslie Versweyveld http://desktopgridfederation.org/news-blog/-/blogs/idgf-welcomes-renderfarm-fi-and-laurea-university-of-applied-sciences-as-member-organisation 2011-07-08T12:35:48Z 2011-07-08T12:29:15Z

IDGF recently has welcomed Laurea University of Applied Sciences as a member organisation. Since 2007, the LaureaSID Networks laboratory located in Espoo, Finland has been doing applied R&D in the

Leslie Versweyveld 2011-07-08T12:29:15Z Ad Emmen http://desktopgridfederation.org/news-blog/-/blogs/register-for-the-dci-summerschool 2011-06-03T11:35:02Z 2011-06-03T11:35:02Z

Do not forget to register for the Distributed Computer Infrastructure Summerschool in July in Budapest. It featurs a complete EDGI technology day. But you learn also about DEGISCO Desktop Grids, EMI

Ad Emmen 2011-06-03T11:35:02Z Ad Emmen http://desktopgridfederation.org/news-blog/-/blogs/it-is-idgf-party-time:-100-persons-and-25-organisations-now-member 2011-05-19T08:28:25Z 2011-05-19T08:15:52Z

The International Desktop Grid Federation is now in existence since one year. In this week we reached two important milestones: we now have more than 25 organisations and more than 100 persons that

Ad Emmen 2011-05-19T08:15:52Z Ad Emmen http://desktopgridfederation.org/news-blog/-/blogs/desktop-grids-at-interview-during-dutch-future-media-week 2011-05-17T12:43:33Z 2011-05-17T06:38:48Z

An Interview at the AlmereLive channel about Desktop Grids, AlmereGrid and Contrail Cloud federation during the Future Media week in the Netherlands.

Ad Emmen 2011-05-17T06:38:48Z Leslie Versweyveld http://desktopgridfederation.org/news-blog/-/blogs/idgf-demonstrations-at-the-award-winner-booth-of-mta-sztaki-at-fet11 2011-05-11T06:25:48Z 2011-05-10T07:07:11Z

The thousand visitors to the The European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition (FET11) that was held last week in Budapest, could see a robot reading IDGF information. His actual work on the

Leslie Versweyveld 2011-05-10T07:07:11Z Leslie Versweyveld http://desktopgridfederation.org/news-blog/-/blogs/desktop-grids-at-the-egi-user-forum 2011-04-22T09:52:11Z 2011-04-20T11:48:06Z

The IDGF workshop at the EGI User Forum attracted 20 attendees from 7 countries by representing various existing and potential new communities as well as the funding unit from the EC. The participants

Leslie Versweyveld 2011-04-20T11:48:06Z Leslie Versweyveld http://desktopgridfederation.org/news-blog/-/blogs/register-now-for-the-joint-european-dci-summer-school 2011-04-14T09:50:59Z 2011-04-14T09:50:59Z

EDGI will organize a joint DCI Summer School with EMI, IGE, EGI-Inspire, StratusLab and DEGISCO in Budapest between 11-16 July 2011. The subject of the summer school is to give insights to the

Leslie Versweyveld 2011-04-14T09:50:59Z Leslie Versweyveld http://desktopgridfederation.org/news-blog/-/blogs/edgi-submits-10-000-jobs-to-desktop-grid-at-egi-user-forum 2011-04-13T16:38:38Z 2011-04-13T16:38:38Z

At the EGI User Forum, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, the EDGI project for the first time demonstrated a brand new feature. The feature is called the MetaJob mechanism by which users are enabled to

Leslie Versweyveld 2011-04-13T16:38:38Z Ad Emmen http://desktopgridfederation.org/news-blog/-/blogs/desktop-grids-at-russian-hpc-conference 2011-04-12T16:22:26Z 2011-04-12T16:16:27Z

The DEGISCO ISA RAS team - founding member of IDGF - participated in a PAVT'2011 which is commonly recognized as a largest HPC event in Russia. The main objective of the conference - provide an

Ad Emmen 2011-04-12T16:16:27Z Ad Emmen http://desktopgridfederation.org/news-blog/-/blogs/desktop-grids-at-egi-uf-in-vilnius-final-programme-available 2011-04-08T09:11:58Z 2011-04-07T18:54:30Z

For the attendees of the EGI UF in Vilnius, Lithuania we created a virtual document bag. But even if you are not going to Vilnius it contains useful up-to-date information on Desktop Grids. There is

Ad Emmen 2011-04-07T18:54:30Z Ad Emmen http://desktopgridfederation.org/news-blog/-/blogs/slides-tapei-tutorial-available 2011-03-28T15:57:01Z 2011-03-28T15:01:14Z

The slides from the presentations of the 6th IDGF tutorial in Taiwain are now available. So if you want to learn about the latest developments in Desktop Grids, check them out.

Ad Emmen 2011-03-28T15:01:14Z Leslie Versweyveld http://desktopgridfederation.org/news-blog/-/blogs/sign-up-for-our-7th-idgf-tutorial-colocated-with-the-egi-user-forum-in-vilnius 2011-03-10T13:51:30Z 2011-03-10T13:40:04Z

The seventh IDGF tutorial is scheduled for April 14th, 2011 at the EGI User Forum in Vilnius. Robert Lovas and Ad Emmen will address the topic of "Desktop Grids for scientific applications". Desktop

Leslie Versweyveld 2011-03-10T13:40:04Z Leslie Versweyveld http://desktopgridfederation.org/news-blog/-/blogs/register-now-for-the-6th-idgf-tutorial-taking-place-march-21-at-isgc-2011-in-taipei 2011-03-09T15:33:03Z 2011-03-09T15:21:34Z

The main goal of the sixth IDGF tutorial is to provide an introduction into Desktop Grid computing, deployment of Desktop Grids, application development for the infrastructure, and connecting Desktop

Leslie Versweyveld 2011-03-09T15:21:34Z Leslie Versweyveld http://desktopgridfederation.org/news-blog/-/blogs/the-next-milestone-for-slinca-home:-peak-performance->-1-tflop-s 2011-03-02T10:21:48Z 2011-03-02T10:20:55Z

Owing to the fervent supporters IDGF member and DEGISCO partner G.V. Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics (IMP) improved its SLinCA@Home work and reached the remarkable level of >1 Tflop/s (>500

Leslie Versweyveld 2011-03-02T10:20:55Z Ad Emmen http://desktopgridfederation.org/news-blog/-/blogs/call-for-paper-for-the-isgc-2011-and-ogf-31-extended-to-jan-7 2011-01-04T10:41:17Z 2011-01-04T10:39:01Z

The International Symposium on Grids and Clouds in Taiwain has an extended deadline at Jan 7. There is a session on Distributed Desktop Grids. http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2011/

Ad Emmen 2011-01-04T10:39:01Z Ad Emmen http://desktopgridfederation.org/news-blog/-/blogs/idgf-tutorial-in-novosibirsk 2010-12-05T20:06:25Z 2010-12-05T10:03:29Z

An IDGF tutorial has been organised by DEGISCO at DICR2010 in Novosibirsk (http://conf.nsc.ru/dicr2010) – the largest conference in eastern Russia on parallel and distributed computing. Also a

Ad Emmen 2010-12-05T10:03:29Z Ad Emmen http://desktopgridfederation.org/news-blog/-/blogs/idgf-tutorial-in-moscow 2010-11-07T08:39:43Z 2010-11-07T08:34:04Z

The next IDGF tutorial is going to be held in Moscow (co-located with Modern Information technology and IT-education Conference http://2010.it-edu.ru). The training will be held on Wednesday, Nov 10

Ad Emmen 2010-11-07T08:34:04Z Ad Emmen http://desktopgridfederation.org/news-blog/-/blogs/desktop-grids-at-softool-in-russia 2010-11-03T09:50:18Z 2010-11-03T09:40:34Z

The International Desktop Grid Federation and DEGISCO project were presented at Softool ( – the largest IT Exhibition in Russia. Established in 1990 Softool is now the most influential Russian show

Ad Emmen 2010-11-03T09:40:34Z Ad Emmen http://desktopgridfederation.org/news-blog/-/blogs/idgf-member-yuri-gordienko-receives-the-second-best-poster-award-at-cracow-grid-workshop 2010-10-12T20:12:36Z 2010-10-12T20:10:56Z

IDGF member and DEGISCO partner Yuri Gordienko did receive the second best poster award at the 10th Cracow Grid workshop for the paper he and his team wrote entitled Simulation of City Population

Ad Emmen 2010-10-12T20:10:56Z Ad Emmen http://desktopgridfederation.org/news-blog/-/blogs/fp7-project-edgi-searches-for-subcontractors 2010-10-01T09:50:54Z 2010-10-01T09:50:54Z

The EDGI (European Desktop Grid Initiative) project is looking for four subcontractors. Two subcontractors should bring in new application user communities; Two subcontractors as infrastructure

Ad Emmen 2010-10-01T09:50:54Z Ad Emmen http://desktopgridfederation.org/news-blog/-/blogs/press-release-international-desktop-grid-federation-will-assist-to-get-millions-of-volunteers-at-home-donating-computing-time-to-science 2010-09-29T09:47:20Z 2010-09-15T15:17:23Z

International Desktop Grid Federation will assist to get millions of volunteers at home donating computing time to science Addressing European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda Neelie

Ad Emmen 2010-09-15T15:17:23Z Ad Emmen http://desktopgridfederation.org/news-blog/-/blogs/press-invitation-international-computing-infrastructures-ready-to-tackle-the-big-scientific-issues-facing-us-today 2010-09-29T09:47:40Z 2010-09-10T10:34:33Z

We did invite the press to our media event: Media event and press tour 15 September Amsterdam, 12:30 Beurs van Berlage, Damrak International computing infrastructures ready to tackle the big

Ad Emmen 2010-09-10T10:34:33Z Ad Emmen http://desktopgridfederation.org/news-blog/-/blogs/registration-open-for-2nd-idgf-tutorial-on-desktop-grid-computing 2010-09-29T09:48:02Z 2010-08-03T14:36:57Z

The registration is open for the 2nd IDGF Tutorial - Using Desktop Grids in an eScience environment . It will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (co-located with the EGI Technical Forum) on

Ad Emmen 2010-08-03T14:36:57Z