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About the Group

The GRID & Cloud Computing Group is a part of the Information and Communication Technologies institute of the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, Fribourg (HES-SO//Fribourg).
This group, created and headed by Professor Pierre Kuonen, is working on topics related to parallel and distributed systems such as Grid and Cloud computing systems. More specifically activities of the group is mainly focusing on the following aspects:

• GRID Computing: Parallel and distributing programing, distributed and Grid architectures, Grid middelware (mainly resource management).
• Cloud Computing: Cloud architectures, Cloud programing, Security issues in Cloud systems.

The objective of the group is to be an excellence center able to provide support to industrial and to collaborate on research activities with other academic centers at national and international level.

The GRID & Cloud Computing Group has been a partner of the European CoreGRID network of excellence.