CCGrid 2007 is the seventh in a series of successful international symposia and for the first time will take place in South America – in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Please notice that a visa is required for some travelers to Brazil, including U.S. and Canadian citizens. More information about visas and passport here.)

• Oct. 2nd, 2006 - Up-to-date list of CCGrid workshops!

Grid Computing started as a generalization of Cluster Computing, promising to deliver unprecedent levels of parallelism to high-performance applications by crossing administrative boundaries. Subsequently, this vision evolved to support on-demand access and composition of any computational service, provided by multiple independent sources. Under this new vision, Clusters gained renewed importance as the "super-servers" of the emerging Grid infrastructure. Meanwhile, the use of computational and data resources in high-performance applications, undertaken over Grid infrastructure, have started to now become a reality. Today we face the huge challenge of making on-demand access to any computational service, the "computing as service" vision, a wide-spread reality. The CCGrid Symposia have been part of this journey, bringing together researchers and practitioners and enabling them to share their insight, results, and experience in the multi-faceted areas of Grid and Cluster computing.

The areas of interest in CCGrid 2007 include, but are not limited to, the following:

Selected papers will be invited to a Special Issue of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.