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I will give a lecture introducing the basic concepts of grid computing tomorrow. The lecture consists of a talk and a demo, more specifically:

• What is grid computing? Demo of Unicore included!
• Grid security
• Grid resource management
• Grid data management

It will take place at the TU Kaiserslautern, Feb. 9, 2005, 10 a.m., in room 36-438. You’re welcome to attend it.

This is the material I created, you may reuse it under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Germany License. I think this is version 0.6 of the final talk, so I’ll have to refine it next year.

• Presentation handout: The presentation along with my notes. Recommended for printing. Please use the Adobe Reader, Ghostscript et al will scramble the text, e.g. on Linux.
• Presentation as PDF (1 slide/page), no notes
• Presentation as PDF (4 slides/page), no notes
• Flash Presentation

During my talk, I mention the Unicore testbed, available here: Unicore Test Grid. You can easily play around with Unicore, just follow the instructions give there.

Another easy way to look at grid technology is the Instant Grid project: you can download a Knoppix”-based live CD that allows you to build a Globus Toolkit 4-based home grid.