Sept 12, 2009
Our very own D2aian Akash Deep Shakya won the Best Paper of the conference in the 6th National Students Conference on Information Technology (NASCOIT 2009)
NASCOIT 2009, a SAARC level Regional Conference with Open Source as the main theme, was held this Saturday in Park Village Resort, Kathmandu.
Papers were invited from the university/college students (including recent graduates, Ph.D. degree holders) in a wide variety of information and technology related areas including, but not limited to eHealth, eEducation, eLibrary, eCommerce and eGovernance.
Akash Deep Shakya presented his paper on “Java API for Grid Computing”, and his paper was judged the Best Paper of the conference among the 24 different papers submitted.
Akash is an active figure in the FOSS Nepal initiative, and his project was also featured in the recently concluded Open Software Challenge Nepal (OSCN).
Congratulations Akash, keep your efforts flowing!
Abstract of Akash’s paper:
“With the evolution of digital world, the amount of data produced every instance is very large. Large amount of data require huge amount of computation time. Furthermore, a big portion of this data remains idle most of the time. Therefore, processing of data sequentially one after another takes unusually long time. Realizing this, the concept of grid Computing was implemented in projects such as SETI@home, CERN etc., where mammoth amount of data were generated every instance. These projects were successful in implementation of Grid Computing. But their API design does not support other grid-enabled applications. Java API for Grid Computing is a generic framework to develop grid-enabled application in Java. It provides a set of java classes which is useful to make a sophisticated grid computing application. We have developed an application for prime number checking using this framework to demonstrate this paper.
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