Workshop "Grid and Cloud Computing for Computational (Bio-)Statistics"

In this workshop experiences with Grid and Cloud Computing especially for applications from computational (Bio-) statistics and in combination with the R language are exchanged. People from other research areas are welcome, too.

Some speakers are invited to present their latest results and experiences. In an open round table example scenarios and requirements for Grid and Cloud Computing in computational (Bio-) statistics will be discussed.

Participation in the workshop is free of charge. There were 35 participants. Thanks a lot to all speaker and participants for the great workshop.

10:15 - 10:30 : Welcome (Harald Binder, Markus Schmidberger)

Technical Talks
10:30 - 11:00 : "Grid vs. Cloud Computing - an Introduction -" (Markus Schmidberger, Rostlab, TU Munich)
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11:00 - 11:30 : "GRID in view of a resources provider" (Helmut Heller, LRZ, Munich)
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11:30 - 12:00 : "Pros and Cons of HPC Cloud Computing" (Dr. Nils gentschen Felde, LMU)
[slides, paper]

12:00 - 12:45 : Lunch break

Application Talks
12:45 - 13:15 : "Challenges and requirements for Biostatistics/Bioinformatics applications" (Benno Pütz, MPI of Pschiatry, Munich)
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13:15 - 13:30 : "Is Grid- or Cloud-Computing Suitable for Normalization of Microarray Data and Resampling Approaches for SNP Data? (Christoph Bernau, LMU, Munich)
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13:30 - 13:45 : "wu.cloud: Insights Gained from Operating a Private Cloud System at WU" (Stefan Theussl, WU Wien)
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13:45 - 14:00 : "Cloudnumbers.com - Your calculation cloud" (Moritz v. Petersdorff-Campen)
[slides, link]

14:00 - 14:45 : Coffe break

R Talks
14:45 - 15:00 : "Using the Simple Parallel R INTerface (SPRINT) in the cloud" (Terry Sloan, The University of Edinburgh, UK)
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15:00 - 15:15 : Skype Talk: "The 'segue' package" (James Long, Chicago, IL, USA)
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15:15 - 15:30 : "Cloud Computing - Herausforderungen und Rechtsfragen" (Thomas Hofer, Rechtsinformatikzentrum, LMU Munich) 
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15:30 - 16:30 : Round table - Requirements for Grid and Cloud Computing in computational (Bio-) statistics
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TUM Institute for Advanced Study (TUM-IAS)
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85748 Garching
Tel. +49 89 289 10550

Traveling & Contact

Local: Dr. Markus Schmidberger schmidb. ( at ) .rostlab.org, Manuel Eugster

Content: AG Statistical Computing (GMDS and IBS-DR), PD Dr. Harald Binder (Freiburg, binderh. ( at ) .fdm.uni-freiburg.de) and Dr. Matthias Schmid (Erlangen)

Travelling & accommodation: IAS - Sandra Schmidt Schmidts. ( at ) .zv.tum.de