The Eighth IASTED International Conference on
Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks
~PDCN 2009~
February 17 – 18, 2009
Innsbruck, Austria
TUTORIAL SESSION
Grid Database Management: General Concepts and the CMCC Data Grid Use Case
Qualifications of the Instructor(s)s

Sandro Fiore received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from the Istituto Superiore Universitario di Formazione Interdisciplinare (ISUFI) at the University of Lecce in 2004. His research activities focus on high performance computing, distributed and grid computing, in particular on distributed data management. Since 2001, he is the Principal Investigator of the Grid Relational Catalog (GRelC) project (www.grelc.unile.it). In 2006, he joined the Scientific Computing and Operations Division at the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change (CMCC). He is author and co-author of more than 50 papers in refereed books/journals/proceedings on parallel and grid computing and holds a patent on advanced data management. He is a Member of ACM.

Alessandro Negro was born in S. Pietro Vernotico (Brindisi) in 1981. He received a summa cum laude bachelor degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Lecce, Italy in February 2004 and a summa cum laude master degree in Computer Engineering from the same University in April 2006. His research interests include GUI Development, Data Management, Distributed, Grid Computing and Web Services. He is also interested in web and pattern-oriented design. Since 2003 he is a Team Member of the GRelC Project. Since July 2008 he holds a contract position in the CMCC project.












