Monday 16th July 2007

Day one of the workshop
Meal times at AIMS represent a whole new dimension.
Breakfast at starts at 7:45 in the morning and it is a very good time to get to know people because early in the morning most people are very relaxed. One of the first people I got to know was Pervash whose is an Iranian resident in South Africa and working in Durban, she is one of the academicians who attended the workshop.

There workshop started with an overview of distributed and volunteer computing presented by Ben Segal and François Grey followed by a presentation of a climate modelling application to be which is to be ported to IBM World Community Grid. This morning session answered the question about the type of applications which would be suitable for Volunteer Computing.

The afternoon session was about the volunteer computing environment and credit system. Then we started the real hands on approach by creating a BOINC client attaching to a server and competing for credit!!!! This was a taste of the real BOINC experience.