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报告题目：CAS@home – volunteer science for China（志愿计算）
报 告 人：Prof. Francois Grey, CERN
主 持 人：陈 刚 研究员，计算中心主任
时　  间：2010年1月22日（周五）下午3：00
地　  点：高能所化学楼三楼阶梯教室
报告内容简介
One of the major trends in distributed computing in the last decade, alongside grids and clouds, has been volunteer computing. Over 1 million people around the globe, including many in China, have contributed to more than 100 online science projects via the Internet. In the process, these volunteers have produced petaflops of free computing power for scientists – much more, in fact, than any grid or cloud computing resource. As well as providing computing power, such projects help stimulate public interest and support for science, especially amongst the younger generation. But so far, the scientists who have benefitted are based almost uniquely in North America and Europe. In this talk, I will outline how Chinese scientists could benefit from volunteer computing, too. I will discuss a number of important issues for the success of such distributed computing in China, including what type of science projects are best adapted to this computing model, and how security, reliability, and volunteer interest can be maintained. I will also discuss a new trend, volunteer thinking, which is potentially of even greater relevance to Chinese science.

报告人简介
Francois Grey is a physicist who worked at CERN from 2002-2008 as head of IT Communications. Since summer 2008, he has been Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, Physics Department. He was also appointed Honorary Professor at University College London in 2009. As of January 2010, he is Visiting Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to assist with the project CAS@home. Francois Grey has a B.Sc. in Physics from Imperial College London and a Ph.D. from Copenhagen University, for work carried out at DESY, the German Electron Synchrotron. He has worked in the USA, Japan, Germany, Denmark and Switzerland, in the fields of synchrotron X-ray physics, micro- and nanotechnology and distributed computing.

高能所科研计划处、党委办公室、研究生部
2010年1月12日