OGF

Grids have matured to production infrastructures in academic and commercial usage scenarios. In addition, Cloud computing is evolving as a promising new paradigm for infrastructure provisioning. For academics, such distributed computing and service infrastructures are considered key enablers for the future of eScience.

D4Science was present at the joint 4th EGEE User Forum, OGF25, and OGF-Europe 2nd International Event held in Catania (Italy) from 2-6 March 2009. The event gathered people from the EGEE and OGF communities and helped in promoting the relationship and collaboration on a European and global level between different research communities while driving forward the evolution of distributed computing and open standards. The conference covered a wide number of aspects not only related to grid computing but also to cloud computing or even green IT.