Welcome to CONCORD

CONCORD (Collaborative Online Computing for Research and Development) is a COST Action dedicated to advancing research in large-scale public distributed computing infrastructures and their practical applications.

The Action brings together experts from academia, industry, and public institutions to investigate emerging opportunities in volunteer computing, grid infrastructures and collaborative research platforms.

Latest News

18 March 2011
WG4 workshop completed successfully in Brussels.

12 February 2011
Deliverable D4.2 available for registered participants.

24 January 2011
New participant institution joins the Action.

Objectives

CONCORD aims to:

Promote research on volunteer computing platforms.
Improve reliability of distributed processing systems.
Support collaborative scientific applications.
Encourage cross-border research cooperation.
Investigate future large-scale computing models.

Working Groups

WG1 - Infrastructure and Platforms

WG2 - Scientific Applications

WG3 - Security and Privacy

WG4 - Reliability, Error Handling and Anomaly Detection

The CONCORD Action currently involves participants from more than ten European countries and several associated research organisations.