GridCast - Blogging behind the scenes of grid computing

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These GridCast podcasts and blogposts give you a grassroots view of the hottest news at the cutting edge of scientific grid computing.

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GridCast takes you behind the scenes of the most exciting grid computing events. Share in the excitement as renowned speakers reveal the latest in grid technologies and grid-powered scientific results. Also check out what happens after dark at the post-conference parties - it's where much of the real networking happens...

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More GridCasts...

16-20 May 2011
The Role of e-infrastructure for Climate Change Research
Trieste, Italy

4-6 May 2011
FET11
Budapest, Hungary

11-14 April 2011
EGI User Forum 2011
Vilnius, lithuania

19-25 March 2011
OGF 31/ISGC 2011
Taipei, Taiwan

19-25 March 2011
OGF 31/ISGC 2011
Taipei, Taiwan

24- 27 January 2011
PRACE/Link SEEM Winter School
Nicosia, Cyprus

9-10 December 2010
Euro-Africa e-Infrastructures Conference
Helsinki, Finland

4-5 November 2010
8th e-Infrastructure Concertation Meeting
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

27-29 October 2010
e-Challenges 2010
Warsaw, Poland

27-29 September 2010
ICT 2010
Brussels, Belgium

14-17 September 2010
EGI Technical Forum 2010
Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam

2-3 September 2010
Citizen Cyberscience Summit
London, UK

7-9 July 2010
WLCG workshop
London, UK

28-30 June 2010
HealthGrid 2010
Paris, France

12-15 April 2010
5th EGEE User Forum
Uppsala, Sweden

5 - 12 March 2010
ISGC 2010
Taipei, Taiwan

7 - 11 December 2009
All Hands/IEEE
Oxford, UK

21th - 24th September 2009
EGEE 09
Barcelona, Spain

16th - 17th July 2009
4th BELIEF International Symposium
São Paulo, Brazil

29 June - 1st July 2009
HealthGrid 2009
Berlin, Germany

2-6 March 2009
EGEE User Forum 09/OGF25 & OGF Europe's 2nd International Event
Catania, Italy

13-15 January 2009
SSOKU09 - Cloudscape
Brussels, Belgium

15-21 November 2008
SC08: Super Computing 2008
Austin, Texas

22-26 September 2008
EGEE'08 Conference
Istanbul, Turkey

6-18 July 2008
ISSGC08
Balatonfüred, Hungary

2-6 June 2008
23rd Open Grid Forum, OGF23
Barcelona, Spain

16-22 July 2007
AIMS workshop on volunteer computing
Muizenberg, South Africa

9-11 May 2007
EGEE User Forum
Manchester, UK

13-17 November 2006
SuperComputing 06
Tampa, Florida, U.S.

PRACE/LinkSCEEM Winter School

	Despina Saparilla Despina is the Project Manager of the Computation-based Science and Technology Research Centre (CaSToRC) at the Cyprus Institute. She holds a PhD in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and has ten years experience in industry working as a software and network engineer at Cisco Systems and network operators in Cyprus.

Michael Frank
Michael Frank received his MEng in computer science from the university of Bristol in 2009. His Masters project involved developing an efficient algorithm for simulating quantum computations by contracting tensor networks. He is currently a research associate with the Computational-based Science and Technology Research Center (CaSToRC) of the Cyprus Institute. His research interests are quantum computation and quantum information theory.

Christos Nicolaou
Christos is the Scientific Coordinator for LinkSCEEM-2, responsible -among others- for coordinating user networking and training activities and implementing the allocation of computational resources. He is also the CaSToRC representative for training activities for the PRACE-1IP project. Christos is a Computer Scientist by training, holding a PhD from the University of Cyprus, MSc and BSc from Florida State University, with substantial industrial experience in developing research informatics applications.

	Fotis Georgatos Fotis Georgatos holds a degree in Computer Engineering, with applied specialization in Systems. Next to regular systems administration work, he has contributed during EGEE projects undertaking the role of assisting others in grid technologies and gave numerous technical trainings. Currently, Fotis functions as Computational Science Support Specialist for CaSToRC.

	Manisha Lalloo Hailing from a chemistry background, Manisha now puts her science communication skills to good use in the world of grid computing. She joined the GridTalk and e-ScienceTalk teams following a stint in Brussels, helping the European Parliament promote their many events. Manisha also works as a freelance chemistry writer and in her spare time likes to dance