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GlobusWORLD Features Grid
Computing For E-Science, E-Business
Organizers of GlobusWORLD 2004 have issued new program details for the
conference, which features top experts in Grid computing for e-Business and
e-Science. The latest keynote speakers include leaders of companies and
organizations that are at the forefront of deploying the Globus Toolkit(GT),
the de facto standard middleware that drives the Grid.
To be held Jan. 20-23 in San Francisco, the second annual GlobusWORLD (www.globusworld.org) is the only
conference organized by designers and developers of GT. Grid computing lets
people share computing power, databases, and other tools securely online
across corporate, institutional and geographic boundaries without sacrificing
local autonomy.
Among the e-Business keynotes will be vice presidents from major IT
companies
that are aggressively pursuing GT-based solutions. IBM vice president for
software development, strategy and architecture Daniel Sabbah will discuss the
convergence of Web services and Grid standards, and its relationship to the
company's middleware strategy. Hewlett-Packard vice president for adaptive
enterprise programs Mark Linesch will also give a keynote, addressing the
Grid's applicability to commercial workloads.
E-Science keynotes include Ian Foster of Argonne National Laboratory and
the
University of Chicago and Larry Smarr of the California Institute for
Telecommunications and Information Technology. As leader of the Globus
Alliance, Foster will speak about the "State of the Union" of Globus and the
Grid, describing new developments in the software's open-source,
open-architecture community and opportunities on the horizon. Smarr will
address technologies enabled by dedicated optical networks whose widespread
deployment will maximize bandwidth for moving large data objects across
virtual organizations.
A number of the main conference sessions include top independent analysts
who
will discuss factors that are hastening or hindering deployments. Because
financial services are among the most aggressive commercial users of GT, in
several sessions Wall Street experts will describe how that market may be a
harbinger of things to come across e-Business as organizations begin tapping
the Grid for increased power and efficiency. Steve Yatko, global head of
Research and Development IT for Credit Suisse First Boston, will give a
keynote on Grid computing for financial services.
"GlobusWORLD 2004 will address near- and long-term prospects for the Grid
from
multiple perspectives," said program co-chair Steve Tuecke, lead architect of
the Globus Alliance in the Distributed Systems Laboratory at Argonne. "Our
attendees come from organizations that are at widely varying stages of
deploying the Grid -- some still considering how to proceed, and many fully
engaged in making open Grid services work for them. Users and decision makers
at all levels will find the conference essential as a way to learn about the
latest developments and to interact with top Grid developers and
deployers."
In response to feedback from last year's attendees, GlobusWORLD has added
"Meet the Developers" sessions to provide unique access to the people
responsible for each of the Globus Toolkit's components. These sessions will
be held in the casual atmosphere of a Cyber Café, sponsored by Intel, to
promote one-on-one discussions about issues that matter most to users in
areas, including: GT administration; GT core libraries such as Open Grid
Services Infrastructure (OGSI) and XIO; Grid Resource Allocation Manager
(GRAM) and WS-Agreement; data services including GridFTP, RFT, RLS, and
OGSA-DAI; Monitoring and Discovery Services (MDS); and Grid Security
Infrastructure (GSI).
A fourth day adds GlobusWORLD workshops to address specialized topics for
attendees who want even more details. The "Build a Grid Service with GT3"
workshop will teach developers and technical managers to build a Grid service
compliant with the OGSI specification. Another workshop will cover the latest
aspects of GT Security, including current and future releases and their
relationships to authorization tools such as WS-Security, VOMS, CAS, PERMIS,
Akenti and Shibboleth. The Financial Services workshop organized by
DataSynapse will be an interactive session to identify common themes and
define requirements relative to the Grid and GT. And the Life Sciences and
Medical Imaging workshop organized by IBM will feature talks from the
pharmaceutical industry (including Johnson & Johnson) and medical imaging
(including Siemens Research and Harvard Medical School), along with an
emphasis on the Grid's use for life sciences in academia and government.
Corporate sponsors are Intel, IBM, HP, Platform Computing, Sun
Microsystems,
inSORS, DataSynapse, Enigmatec, Nortel Networks, Optena and Qwest. Research
sponsors include Argonne, UofC, the Information Sciences Institute at the
University of Southern California, Cal IT2, the GRIDS Center and the Global
Grid Forum. Media sponsors are Tabor Communications (HPCwire and GRIDToday),
ClusterWorld, Linux Magazine, Supercomputing Online and GridBlog.
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