UNICORE Summit 2008

Workshop, 26 August 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

The goal of the UNICORE Summit is to bring together researchers and practitioners working with UNICORE in the areas of Grid and distributed computing, to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and latest research results on all aspects of UNICORE.
The UNICORE Summit 2008 took place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, on August 26, 2008. The Summit was held in conjunction with the European Conference on Parallel Computing 2008 (Euro-Par 2008).

The main topics of the UNICORE Summit 2008 were:

• High-performance scientific and engineering Grid applications
• End user experiences
• Service-oriented designs adopting Grid and Web standards
• Grid scheduling, resource management, and brokering
• Theoretical models and algorithms
• Reliability, fault-tolerance, and autonomy
• Interoperability
• Security
• Performance evaluation
• Architecture extensions and new components
• Scientific and economic scenarios
• Business models and service provisioning
• Tools and environments for development, deployment, and configuration