Bernhards Ogutu, a Kenyan pediatrician who went on to found a malaria diagnosis center, says expensive microscopy kits, complex technical training and electrical grid requirements limit how much the nonprofit can do to diagnose malaria in Africa.
Our priorities for the coming months include facilitating more hands-on training on the use of grid computing technology, publicizing its application, connecting to existing grid and getting more experts from the Diaspora to participate in the project.
The training provided the participants with the overview of the grid network, the architecture of the gLite middleware, an introduction to job submission, data management and grid workflows, the concept of virtual organizations and the virtual organisation management system, as well as practical exercises on the use of gLite on the GILDA testbed.