BonFIRE is a 8,5-million-Euro EU-funded initiative (EU grant agreement 257386) funded by the 7th FWP (Seventh Framework Programme) under the Future Internet Experimental Facility and Experimentally-driven Research (ICT-2009.1.6) area, aimed at designing, building and operating a multi-site cloud facility to support applications, services and systems research targeting the Internet of Services community within the Future [...]

Cloud computing is transforming the way we use the web but there’s still a long way to go before we make full use of the promise it offers. Projects Magazine – the leading research and development magazine in the areas of science and technology – interviews Professor Ignacio M. Llorente, the head of the DSA-Research group.

We are happy to announce that our proposal “HPCcloud: Distributed Virtual Infrastructures to Provision Computing Resources” (MICINN TIN2009-07146) submitted to the National Program in Basic Research of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation has been accepted.  This project, which was endorsed by several relevant companies and research centers, aims at conducting research about elastic [...]

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. What can we in the information and communication technologies area do to help? Find out in GridTalk’s latest GridBriefing, which was just released. See also article in ISGTW.
Ignacio Martin Llorente

Since the release of gridMathematica at the end of 2002, Wolfram Research stated clearly the interest for making parallel computing available for its flagship product Mathematica. Nevertheless, it has not been until the release of Mathematica 7 (six years later) when they have seriously tackled the usability of the parallel computing. Why now?
Curiously enough, the [...]

There is a growing number of posts and articles trying to show how cloud computing is a new paradigm that supersedes Grid computing by extending its functionality and simplifying its exploitation, even announcing that Grid computing is dead. It seems that new technologies and paradigms have always the mission objective to substitute existing ones. Some [...]

I would like to start the blog of the dsa-research group by describing our view of the relationships between:

Research projects
Technology products
Standardization bodies
Open-source communitties 

Research projects produce original concepts and technology, which are then subject to standardization if they are found to be relevant enough to be used in real world applications. Therefore, is obvious that research [...]