ERCIM News No.45, April 2001

ERCIM News No.45, April 2001
Contents

by Lord Sainsbury of Turville, UK Minister for Science and Innovation

SCHOLNET and CYCLADES: Two New Digital Library Projects
- by Donatella Castelli
EU-DL All Projects Concertation Meeting
- by Vittore Casarosa
Working Group on Soft Computing proposed
ERCIM offers Postdoctoral Fellowships

SPECIAL THEME: GRIDS e-Science to e-Business

Introduction: GRIDs in ERCIM
- by Keith G Jeffery
UK Grid: Management and Architecture
- by John Taylor
UK e-Science Grid Programme
- by David Boyd, Julia Goodfellow and Lois Steenman-Clark
Italian Initiatives in Grid Computing
- by Bruno Codenotti and Domenico Laforenza
grid-ireland
- by Brian Coghlan and Michael Manzke
grid-ireland - New Execution Models and Different Algorithms
- by John Morrison and Andy Shearer
Grid-related Activities in the Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems of SZTAKI
- by Péter Kacsuk and Ferenc Vajda
MetaCenter - Building a Virtual Supercomputer
- by Ludek Matyska, Michal Vocú and Ales Krenek
Metacomputing Applications in All-optical Networks
- by Thomas Eickermann, Helmut Grund, Wolfgang Ziegler and Lothar Zier
The Distributed ASCI Supercomputer Project
- by Henri Bal
Meta: A Web-based Metacomputing Problem- Solving Environment for building Complex Applications
- by Ranieri Baraglia and Domenico Laforenza
DIET: A Distributed Interactive Engineering Toolbox for Client-Server Applications in a Grid Environment
- by Frédéric Desprez
Co-allocating Compute Resources in the Grid
- by Gerd Quecke and Wolfgang Ziegler
Open Services for Information Sharing among Legacy Systems
- by Mark Roantree
Grid for Remote Sensing
- by Giovanni Aloisio
Factoring Large Numbers on a Grid of Computers
- by Herman te Riele and Walter Lioen
The DataGrid Project
- by Robin Middleton and David Boyd
The NL Datagrid Initiative
- by Kors Bos
The Particle Physics Grid Programme at CLRC
- by John Gordon and David Boyd
e-Science and Grids at CLRC
- by David Boyd and Paul Jeffreys
Grid Computing with Off-the-Shelves Middleware Technologies
- by Christian Perez and Thierry Priol
ServerGrids: Available and Scalable Global Computing Platforms
- by Evangelos Markatos
The M3-Project - Living in Simulated Worlds
- by Helge Rosé and Matthias Jugel
The CLRC Data Portal
- by John Ashby, Juan Bicarregui, David Boyd, Kerstin Kleese-van Dam, Simon Lambert, Brian Matthews and Kevin O'Neill
BioOpera: Grid Computing in Virtual Laboratories
- by Gustavo Alonso
A University Ph.D. Course on Cluster and Grid Computing
- by Ferenc Vajda

Collection and Management of EMG Examination Cases
- by Mária Bieliková, Pavol Návrat and Mária Smolárová
Similarity Hashing for Metric Data
- by Claudio Gennaro, Pasquale Savino and Pavel Zezula
Quantum Computing Pioneers in Amsterdam
- by Henk Nieland
Ecological Modelling meets Interactive Geovisualization at GMD
- by Oleg Chertov, Alexander Komarov, Natalia Andrienko, Gennady Andrienko and Peter Gatalsky

CIPRESS – Cryptographic Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement SyStem
- by Christoph Busch
Efficient Computation of Ship Waves
- by Piet Hemker
Collaboration between IEI-CNR and Ericsson Lab Italy
- by Antonia Bertolino

Reports

SOFSEM 2000 Conference Report
- by Václav Hlavác and Gabriela Andrejková
Conference in Honor of Alain Bensoussan
- by Agnès Sulem

Announcements

2nd International Workshop on User Interfaces to Data Intensive Systems
- Zurich, Switzerland, 31 May - 1 June 2001
e-Smart 2001
- Cannes, France, 19-21 September 2001
ISDL 2001 - First DELOS Summer School on Digital Libraries Technologies
- Pisa, Italy, 9-13 July 2001
Cross-Language Evaluation Forum
SIM2001 - Trade Fair for Simulation and Visualisation: The Virtual Product: from Automobile to Zeppelin
- Freiburg i.Br., Germany, 17-21 June 2001
TestCom 2002 - Testing Internet Technologies and Services - The IFIP 14th International Conference on Testing of Communicating Systems
- Berlin 19-22 March 2002