Rao, Group Coordinator, C-DAC, Pune welcomed the workshop participants.
Thirty participants who are faculty members of different engineering colleges, ...
Two-day Workshop on
An Overview of Current Trends in Grid Computing at Department of Information Technology MIT Campus, Chrompet, Anna University
Aug 05 (Thursday) ~ Aug 06, 2004 (Friday)
1. Inauguration of the Workshop Dr. S. Thamarai Selvi, Professor and Head of the Department of Information Technology, MIT Campus, Chennai, delivered welcome address for two-day Grid Computing Workshop. The workshop was inaugurated by Dr. K. Jayaraman, Registrar, Anna University, Chennai. The distinguished faculty member, Dr. P. Kanagasabapathy, Dean, M.I.T. Campus, Anna University and Dr. VCV. Rao, Group Coordinator, C-DAC, Pune welcomed the workshop participants. Thirty participants who are faculty members of different engineering colleges, affiliated to Anna University registered for the workshop. The Registrar delivered the Grid Computing Workshop inauguration address. He summarized the need of Grid Computing technology in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering applications, in which computation requirements exponentially increase as the time progresses. He advised participants to understand the Grid Computing technology, in which computing resources are geographically distributed. The Dean, MIT Campus of Anna University emphasized that understanding of new grid computing technologies is important and projects can be planned with mutual collaboration of institutions and Industries. Dr. S. Thamarai Selvi expressed that working seriously on Grid Computing is a great challenge and faculty members can utilize the opportunity of learning various aspects of Grid Computing from this workshop. She discussed certain advancements in this new area of Grid Computing. She also expressed that working with C-DAC is very good and joint projects on Grid Computing technology with C-DAC will give immense benefits to participants and students. Dr. Rao highlighted that C-DAC and Anna University faculty members can jointly work together to meet challenges of Grid Computing Technology. He expressed his team’s happiness to deliver lectures of Grid Computing Workshop and he conveyed to the participants of Workshop that it is a unique opportunity for members to get good exposure to rapidly changing Grid technology that propels forward to understand complex situations of Grid Computing. Participants felt that it was an excellent inauguration of the Grid Computing workshop and many participants are serious in this workshop. The class room lectures of the Two-day Grid Computing workshop started at 10:00 AM on August 05, 2004.
2. Participant’s Feedback Faculty members of various Engineering Collages of Anna University, situated in Chennai registered for this two-day workshop.
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The two-day workshop on Grid Computing was very interesting. Even though there is scope to do excellent research work but participants of Grid Computing felt that covering various topics of Grid Computing in two days is very difficult to understand. 2. Arrangements for Grid Computing Workshop were excellent. 3. It is a good starting step to quickly identify the important areas of research work on Grid Computing and participation in Grid Computing Workshop is much better than self-study of Grid Computing. 4. Dr. S. Thamarai Selvi did an excellent job to bring C-DAC experts for this workshop and it was good opportunity for various faculty members of Colleges, affiliated to Anna University. 5. Dr. S. Thamarai Selvi’s lectures on Grid Computing were excellent and many participants require continuous guidance on Grid Technology for M.Tech. and Ph. D. programmes 6. This kind of course is very specialized and hence increasing the number of participants for this course may be beneficial to research community. 7. Dr. Rao and his young C-DAC faculty members designed the interesting course and it is equivalent to CRASH course. 8. Grid Programming is very useful and it is necessary to write grid programs so that projects for M.Tech and Ph. D. program can be started at the earliest. The grid programming can be taken up in workshop schedule. 9. Demo Sessions, focusing on Grid Applications, and Tools is required 10. The design of Grid Computing Course can be taken up seriously and should be included as a part of M.Tech. / Ph. D. course curriculum. Training faculty members on teaching aspects of this course should be emphasized in such workshops. 11. The interest on Grid Computing should continue with interaction of Dr. S. Thamarai Selvi and CDAC experts. 12. Choosing interesting topic for research on Grid Computing can be considered, keeping participants background in mind. Also, Dr. S. Thamarai Selvi and C-DAC experts should have devoted sufficient time to narrow down the area of interest. 13. This workshop provided an opportunity to explore new areas of research and projects.
3. Valedictory Function Shri M.R. Rajagopalan delivered invited talk on glimpse overview of two-day Grid Computing Workshop. The objective of the workshop was well designed to help participants working on new style of grid programming, exposure to solve problems and getting to state-of-the-art technology as quickly as possible, in minimum time. Dr. S. Thamarai Selvi believed that the commitment from participants was very good and it should be continued for success on Grid Technology. Dr. Thamarai Selvi advised all participants to pursue Grid Computing to its conclusion to get immense benefit for research community in MIT Campus. Dr. Rao advised participants to design Grid Computing technology Course in M.Tech. level and he is willing to provide assistance to course faculty. He also requested participants to form Anna University Grid Computing News Group so that Grid Computing technological issues can be shared across participants. Dr. Rao and his team members were quite happy about the hospitality and the care that was taken by department staff. Dr. Rao and Shri M. R. Rajagopalan conveyed, “C-DAC will continuously provide good exposure to rapidly changing Grid technology that propels forward to understand complex situations of Grid Computing. This technology is an important and hot research issue”.
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