Published
20 March 2008, 01:29 PM
We recently published anew podcast on our Brain Drain projects with UNESCO (United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural organizations). We partner with UNESCO to reduce the emigration of trained and talented people (students, academics, professionals) to other countries by providing grid computing technology so that universities can easily connect among each other.
In 2002 we launched the project: Alleviating Brain Drain in South East Europe and in 2006 the second brain drain project “Reversing brain drain into brain gain in Africa” was launched. Here are the latest news regarding our Brain Drain Project in Africa:
March 2008: we organized a training for the 5 selected universities. The workshop took place at the HP learning center in Johannesburg and had 2 main objectives: to train the University representantive on how to install and manage HP servers and to give them an overview of GRID, and gLite Grid middleware. For this second part of the training, we were supported by experts from CERN-EGEE and INFN at the Cagliary University, Italy.
I also met with representatives of CHPC (Hight Performance Computing Center) in Cape Town to check with them how the RSA national grid could join our grid project. We are hoping that South Africa can become a best practice centre in Africa for Grid computing and will be able to start offering support for extending Grid computing networks and expertise in other African countries.
For initial discussions on that, I met Bruce Becker from INFN/ CERN – EGEE who is in charge of coordinating the creation of the South African National Grid.
Arnaud Pierson, EMEA Strategic Business Programme Manager, HP University Relations
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