DSG - Distributed Systems Group, University of Portsmouth, UK
Mark Baker, who in December 2005 moved to the University of Reading,
founded the Distributed Systems Group (DSG), in 1998. The DSG was
involved in the research and development of middleware libraries and
tools for Grid and Cluster-based systems using Open Source software
and commodity technologies. In October 2006, most of the remaining
members of the DSG moved to the Centre for Advanced Computing and
Emerging Technologies (ACET) at
the University of Reading.
Effectively, from the 1st October 2006, the DSG no longer exists, its
staff and research has moved to the University of Reading.
Latest News
- Rahim Lakhoo gave a talk on Integrating Legacy Applications via Portal Bridges at the NeSC Portals and Portlets 2006 Workshop in Edinburgh, UK, held on 17-18 July, 2006.
- Aamir Shafi presented a paper "An Approach to Buffer Management in Java HPC Messaging" at the International Conference on Computational Science ICCS 2006 in Reading, UK, held on 28-31 May, 2006. The slides can be seen here.
- Mat Grove gave a talk on Tycho: A General Purpose Registry and Asynchronous Messaging System at the Centre for Advanced Computing and Emerging Technologies (ACET) at The University Of Reading, on 28th February 2006.
- Mark Baker gave an keynote talk at the Euro-American Conference on Telematics and Information Systems EATIS 2006 in Santa Martha, Colombia (South America), held on 7-10 February 2006.
- Mark Baker organised the VRE Developers Workshop that was held in Portsmouth at the Queens Hotel on 18th and 19th January. More than forty people attended the workshop; material presented at the workshop can be found on the events Web pages. A collection of photos from the workshop is also available.
- The National Grid Service application, Distributing Multi-Terabyte Sky Survey Database: Experimenting with the SDSS, has been successful. The project has been allocated 5 terabytes of file space. This is a DSG-led proposal involving Portsmouth's Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation and Edinburgh's Wide-Field Astronomy Unit (WFAU).
- The DSG and ICG members enjoyed their Christmas lunch at the Bridge Tavern, Old Portsmouth.
- Mark Baker chaired the panel session at the NW Grid Seminar that was held in Daresbury Laboratory, UK.
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