AusGrid 2009

Date: 20 - 23 January '09

7th Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research - AusGrid 2009

AusGrid 2009 is being held in conjunction with the Australasian Computer Science Week, Wellington, New Zealand, 20 - 23 January, 2009.

Scope of the symposium

Interest in Grid computing in Australasia and internationally is rapidly growing, driven by real-world applications of increasing scale and complexity.

In both New Zealand and Australia eResearch and Grid computing have been recognised as strategic technologies for driving their moves towards knowledge economies. A number of projects and initiatives are underway in both countries in these areas. There is a natural interest in tools which support collaboration and access to remote resources given the challenges of the countries location and sparse populations.

Topics of interest for the symposium include:

  • Grid applications and e-Research
  • Grid computing middleware and tools
  • Data Grids - applications, middleware, infrastructure, data and metadata management and integration
  • Grid infrastructure - experiences with building, managing and using grids
  • Grid portals and problem-solving environments
  • Grid economy
  • Web services
  • Semantic Web and Semantic Grid
  • Collaboration using the Grid and Access Grids
  • Performance evaluation and modelling
  • Next generation grid

The symposium is primarily targeted at researchers from Australia and New Zealand, however in the spirit of grid computing, which aims to enable collaboration of distributed virtual organisations, we encourage papers and participation from international researchers.

Australasian Computer Science Week

The Australasian Computer Science Week is the annual meeting for computer science researchers and educators held in the Australasian region. It includes the Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC), the premiere generalist forum for Australasian computer science academics, as well as several specialist conferences and workshops.

Further information

AusGrid website

Australasian Computer Science Week website