| Tuesday, May 8 |
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Welcome and Keynote "The Social Grid"
(60 mins)
Mark Linesch
OGF20 Welcome by Mark Linesch, President of OGF
Keynote "The Social Grid" by Tony Hey, Corporate VP Technical Computing, Microsoft Corp
The community has been making rapid progress in defining interoperable protocols for Grid computing. We now have a Web Services-based infrastructure to manage and operate compute-related Grids. However, we should not stand still; we should be looking at our next challenge and make use of the technological advances on the Web that are taking place. In recent years, the Web has evolved to an ecosystem of data and services where users are equally consumers and producers of information. It is no longer just a distributed infrastructure for the delivery of information but, rather, a planet-wide distributed application platform. It is interesting to observe that most of the contemporary needs of Grid computing can be met by the Web and its related technologies. Grid applications could be built using simple, well-supported, mature middleware making use of the Web’s infrastructure and protocols.
This talk will make the case for future Web-based Grids that will enable the effortless composition/integration of applications and services, promote scientific collaboration through social networking, and incorporate knowledge management/representation through semantic technologies. Given that technical computing and scientific research depend on the management of huge amounts of data and cross-organization collaboration, more now than any other time, the Web may provide some of the solutions the community needs.
Location: Exchange Auditorium
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| | Slides: OGF Welcome and Opening |
| | Slides: The Social Grid |