Systems/Enterprise:
GlobusWorld TAKES GRID COMPUTING
TO ANOTHER LEVEL
- Media Contacts:
- GlobusWorld: Tom Garritano garritano@mcs.anl.gov
630-667-4434
Cal-(IT)2: Doug Ramsey dramsey@ucsd.edu 858-822-5825
Technology reporters and editors from around Southern California are
invited
to cover the first GlobusWorld conference, the inaugural conference on the
Globus Toolkit, a collection of open-source software and libraries that is
transforming the way online resources are shared across organizations. The
conference is co-sponsored by leading technology organizations including the
University of California-based California Institute for Telecommunications and
Information Technology [Cal-(IT)2] and San Diego Supercomputer Center
(SDSC).
WHEN: January 13-17, 2003 (program details at: http://www.glob
usworld.org/globusworld_web/program.html
WHERE: Hilton San Diego Resort, 1775 E. Mission Bay Dr, San Diego, CA
92109
WHO: 400+ leading experts in grid computing
Keynote Speakers:
- Peter Freeman, Assistant Director, Directorate for Computer & Information
Science & Engineering, US National Science Foundation
- Miron Livny, Condor Team Leader and Professor, University of Wisconsin
Dept
of Computer Science
- Scott Marshall, President and CEO, Ceyba
- Mark Ellisman, Director, USCD Center for Research in Biological Structure
(CRBS), Principal Investigator, Biomedical Informatics Research Network and
participant, Cal-(IT)2 Digitally Enabled Genomic Medicine layer
Background
The Globus Toolkit (GT) is central to hundreds of grid deployments for
science
and engineering worldwide, and it is increasingly important to corporate
strategies for overcoming obstacles to collaboration. The Globus Project is
now leading the effort to define the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA), a
standard on which next-generation Grid applications will be based.
GlobusWorld will highlight current applications of GT 2.2 and the
OGSA-based
GT3, which is nearing its alpha release.
"GlobusWorld offers an unequaled chance for system developers and decision
makers to immerse themselves in the technology driving the Grid," said Ian
Foster, associate division director for mathematics and computer science at
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and professor of computer science at the
University of Chicago.
The Globus Project is led by Foster, Carl Kesselman (professor of computer
science at the University of Southern California (USC) and director of the USC
Information Sciences Institute's Center for Grid Technologies) and Steve
Tuecke (lead architect of the ANL Distributed Systems Laboratory).
"This conference is a coming of age for the Globus Toolkit as a de facto
standard for the Grid, and a coming out party for the OGSA standards-based
GT3 that -- while still in development -- is the subject of intense
interest from our user community," said Kesselman. The event program is at: http://www.globusworld.org.
The conference will feature a keynote address by Peter Freeman, assistant
director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) for computer and
information science and engineering. NSF is planning a program in
"cyberinfrastructure" to serve scientific and engineering research. "Grid
computing -- and the software that enables it -- is absolutely essential to
building a cyberinfrastructure that will revolutionize science and
engineering," said Freeman. "The Globus Toolkit community is at the
forefront of these efforts and is to be congratulated and encouraged."
Another keynote speaker is Miron Livny, professor of computer science at
the University of Wisconsin, who leads development of the popular Condor
software. "GlobusWorld will give the scientific community a unique
opportunity to 'take stock' of the impact that the Globus Toolkit has had
so far on their computing infrastructure," said Livny. "The conference
will also set the stage for the next phase of research and development
activities to be fueled by the new capabilities offered by the next
generation of the Globus Toolkit."
GlobusWorld also boasts speakers from leading IT companies, plus tutorials
and
workshops by developers and practitioners. IBM, which is the exclusive
GlobusWorld "ambassador sponsor," has committed significant resources to
GT-based Grid offerings. Apart from Cal-(IT)2, additional sponsors include
Avaki,
CapitalOne Financial Services, Ceyba, Entropia, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft,
Oracle, Platform Computing, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), Silicon
Graphics Inc, Storage Computer Corp, Sun Microsystems, and Tabor
Communications. Oracle's recently released Grid Developer's Kit includes and
is based on the Globus Toolkit, and the other commercial sponsors have made
similar commitments to using the Globus Project' software and services.
About The Globus Project
The Globus Project conducts research and development to create the
fundamental
technologies behind the "Grid," which lets people share computing power,
databases, and other tools securely online across corporate, institutional,
and geographic boundaries without sacrificing local autonomy. The project's
open source Globus Toolkit includes software services and libraries for
resource monitoring, discovery, and management, plus security and file
management.
The toolkit is central to science and engineering projects that total
nearly a
half-billion dollars internationally, and it is the substrate on which leading
IT companies are building significant commercial Grid products. The Globus
Toolkit 2.0 received a 2002 R&D 100 Award from R&D Magazine, which further
honored the toolkit as 2002's "Most Promising New Technology." The Globus
Project is based at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Southern
California's Information Sciences Institute.
For more information on GlobusWorld, contact: planners@globus.org or visit: http://www.globusworld.org.
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