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About the Workshop

The one-day workshop being organized by C-DAC, Hyderabad is an effort to promote awareness and provide an exposure to the latest trends in Ubiquitous Computing and Grid Computing.

Ubiquitous Computing

Recent advances in embedded systems and mobile technologies are paving the way for the next revolution in computing-ubiquitous computing. Ubiquitous computing is the future towards which all the current technological developments are heading.

"Specialized elements of hardware and software, connected by wires, radio waves and infrared, will be so ubiquitous that no one will notice their presence"

-Markweiser, Father of Ubiquitous Computing

The technology trends across the globe are pointing to this direction to make intelligent devices all pervasive and effectively invisible to the user. The workshop will review the latest trends in this exciting field and other related areas like Nano computing, adhoc networks and Sensor networks.

Grid Computing

Computational grids that couple geographically distributed resources are becoming the de-facto computing platform for solving large-scale problems in science, engineering and commerce. So far, software to enable grid computing has been primarily written for Unix-class operating systems, thus severely limiting the ability to effectively utilize the computing resources of the vast majority of Windows-based desktop computers. Addressing Windows-based grid computing is particularly important from the software industry viewpoint where interest in grids is emerging rapidly. Microsoft.NET Framework has become near ubiquitous for implementing commercial distributed systems for Windows-based platforms, positioning it as the ideal platform for grid computing in this context. In this talk, we present Alchemi, a .NET-based framework that provides the runtime machinery and programming environment required to construct enterprise/desktop grids and develop grid applications. It allows flexible application composition by supporting an object-oriented application-programming model in addition to a file-based job model. Cross-platform support is provided via a web services interface and a flexible execution model supports dedicated and non-dedicated (voluntary) execution by grid nodes.

The future grids will encompass these ubiquitous computing networks. The services that conventional grid-computing framework and ubiquitous computing networks require are surprisingly similar. These include obtaining service specifications, mapping specifications to resources, discovering resources, gathering resources, configuring resources, activating services, providing a management interface and so on. Keeping this in view, the workshop will encompass technologies, both in Ubiquitous & Grid Computing.

About the Faculty

Dr. Rajkumar Buyya, Storage Technology Corporation (StorageTek, USA) Fellow of Grid Computing, and the Director of the Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Australia will be the key speaker along with speakers from C-DAC, the industry and the academia.

A brief about the Key Speaker: Dr. Buyya has authored/co-authored over 100 publications and is serving as an Associate Editor of Future Generation computer Systems: The International Journal of Grid Computing: Theory, Methods and Applications, Elsevier Press, The Netherlands. Moreover, he currently serves as the Co-Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and as a member of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP).

Workshop Outlines

Timings: 9:30am to 5:30pm (Registration on January 3, 2005, between 9.00am to 9.30am at the venue)

Venue:

Kamat Lingapur Hotel (Triveni Hall),
Opp. Shoppers' Stop,
Begumpet,
Hyderabad-500016,
Tel: +91-40-27764242

Registration

Fee: Rs. 1000/- (per participant), which includes lunch/tea during the workshop. Applications in the prescribed form should reach the address mentioned below together with the registration fee in the form of a Demand Draft drawn on any Nationalized Bank only in favor of "C-DAC" payable at Hyderabad.

Please send your registration applications to:

Director
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
Nalanda Building, No. 1 Shivabagh, Satyam Theatre Road
Ameerpet, Hyderabad - 500016
Andhra Pradesh (India)
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