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GridWorld/GGF15
October 3-6, 2005
Boston, MA, USA
"Grid - Where Worlds Collide"
Thursday, Oct 6 at 9:00a - 10:30a
Andrew Grimshaw GGF Architecture Area Director, Professor, University
of Virginia
Presentation
Grid - like computing in general - is a place where many different
worlds interact. There is the computer science world, where issues
such as virtualization, object models, security, consistency, and
so on dominate discourse. There is the system administrator world
- where keeping the
infrastructure going and preventing disasters reigns supreme. Then
there are the myriad application domains: physics, the life sciences,
business intelligence, and financial services, to name a few. Each
application domain has their own world-view with disparate requirements,
nomenclatures, and community processes and standards. The challenge
is to bring these communities together so that each can learn from
the other, and collectively build solutions that deliver results
relevant to their own world. For example: for computer scientists,
successful software and papers; for systems administrators, happy
users and smoothly running systems; and for application domain areas
new discoveries, capabilities, or cost savings. In this talk I will
discuss the challenges of bringing these communities together in
the context of the Global Bio Grid. The GBG is a collaboration of
computer scientists and life scientists that brings grid technology
to life sciences research and medical informatics.
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