| Thursday, June 5 |
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BEinGRID: Successful stories in Grid III
(90 mins)
Santi Ristol (Atos Origin)
In this session we focus on how Grid technologies can be combined with innovative business models to leverage benefits across an organization – and beat the competition. eBay’s Paul Strong will discuss the role of Grid in his company and how enabled them build the enormous online marketplace we all know today. This session also features a live demonstration from the BEinGRID pilot Visualisation and Virtual Reality which has investigated how the application of Software-as-a-Service and Grid technology to a problem faced in the architect sector promises to change the competitive landscape.
Agenda:
Paul Strong
Distinguished Research Scientist, eBay
"eBay - Very Large Distributed Systems, AKA Grids, At Work"
eBay is the world's largest virtual economy, enabling its 240+ million registered users to trade a vast array of goods, with something like 110 million individual items available on the site at any one time. Whilst extreme in terms of actual size eBay's infrasructure is an example of how large distributed systems (Grids) can be put to work, and provides a view into the future for many more typical data centers. It offers incredible scale and resiliency, yet is built out of essentially commodity components. This presentation will provide a brief overview of eBay, it's infrastucture, how it has evolved, what this tells us about future applications (Clouds, SOA et al)the data center infrastructure that support this brave new world and the challenges ahead.
BEinGRID Case Study
LIVE DEMO
"Visualisation and Virtual Reality"
Grid technologies combined with innovative business models can have a disruptive effect on industry practice. In the architectural sector, customers are demanding ever more detailed and speedy simulations. These require large and expensive computer infrastructures, which Grid technology could potentially reduce. However, most European architect firms employ less than 10 people and cannot justify the cost of a Grid infrastructure for the low throughput they would require of it. Consequently, they struggle to compete with the larger players who can offer this added service. Now Belgian research centre CETIC, in collaboration with commercial partners Art & Build and Mental Images, can provide Grid-enabled rendering for architectural design on an on demand basis. This slot will feature a live demo and explication of this pilot.
Location: Barcelona A
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| | Slides (PDF): BEinGRID Case Study - BE03 Visualisation and Virtual Reality |
| | Slides (PDF): Paul Strong - eBay - BEinGRID Industry Days |
| | Slides (PDF): Phil Walston - Layer7 - BEinGRID Industry Days |