UNICORE Summit 2009

Workshop, 25 August 2009, Delft, The Netherlands

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 2009 took place in Delft, The Netherlands, on August 25, 2009. The UNICORE Summit was held as a workshop at the European Conference on Parallel Computing 2009 (Euro-Par 2009).

The main topics of the UNICORE Summit 2009 were:

• 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
• Cloud and virtualisation
• Data management, access, transfer, control and governance