2nd Göttingen Grid Seminar
"Grid at your finger tips" was this year's slogan of the Göttingen Grid Seminar. Accordingly, aproximately 60 attendees, mainly from the academic field, could test and evaluate the community grid software of the projects MediGrid, Instant-Grid and TextGrid.
The lecture part was opened by Klaus-Peter Mickel (DGI coordinator) with a contribution on "Grid applications in Germany" (presentation). Another introductory talk on "e-Infrastructure" was held Laurent Romary (Director of Max Planck Digital Library, presentation). It was followed by talks on both general and community-spedific use cases from the natural sciences, life sciences and the humanities (the individual presentations can be found here).
Recently, a new member joined the Göttingen Grid community: a Tier-2 center is currently being built in Göttingen for HEP-Grid. Arnulf Quadt (2nd Institute of Physics at Georg-August-Universität of Göttingen) is responsible for the management of this project. His 
presentation provides information about the status and plans of this project.
In a panel discussion, a keen interest in the work of the Göttingen Grid community became evident. At the end, moderator Prof. Dr. Ulrich Sax, Department of Medical Informatics, MediGrid) invited all participant to the next event in 2008. This year's program and all presentations can be found 
here.