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Dear colleague,

On Thursday February 3rd Dr. Tamas Kiss from the University of Westminster, London, will present talks about the topic "desktop grids":

• 11h, Science Park (NIKHEF): Desktop/volunteer grid systems in support of e-science
• 15h, AMC: Applicability and value of desktop grids for advanced biomedical research

More details can be found on http://www.bioinformaticslaboratory.nl/twiki/bin/view/EBioScience/VisitTamas...

You and colleagues are welcome to attend. If possible, could you kindly let us know how many people are planning to attend from your organization/group?

Looking forward to meeting you next week Thursday during the talks!

Best regards,

Silvia Delgado Olabarriaga Assistant Professor

Academic Medical Center +31 20 566 4660 University of Amsterdam

S.D.Olabarriaga@amc.uva.nl

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Tamas Kiss is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Business Information Systems, and a researcher at the Centre for Parallel Computing at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Westminster, London. His research interests include parallel and Grid computing, and he has extended experience in the area of legacy code deployment, interoperation of Grid systems, and application porting to service and desktop Grid systems. He led the design and development activities resulting in the Grid Execution Management for Legacy Code Architecture (GEMLCA) solution, now a Globus incubator project, within the UK EPSRC founded OGSA Testbed project. He contributed to the CoreGrid Network of Excellence project as the leader of the Legacy Code Wrapping and Deployment Methodologies Research Group within the Institute on Grid Systems, Tools and Environments, and led the Grid Application Support Service activity within the European EDGeS project. He is currently work package leader in the European EDGI (Enabling Grids for e-Science) and DEGISCO (Desktop Grids for International Scientific Collaboration) projects coordinating application porting and user support activities.