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Tony Hey, Vice President of Technical Computing, Microsoft
Gary Beach, Group Publisher, CIO Magazine
Steve Yatko, Global Head of IT Research & Development, Credit Suisse First Boston
Takehiko Kato, President, Engineous Japan
Andrew Grimshaw, Professor of Computer Science, University of Virginia
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10/03/2005,
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
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10/03/2005,
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
 | Tony HeyVP Technical Computing, Microsoft Corp.
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This talk will briefly survey the status of e-Science and Cyberinfrastructure and give examples of projects of interest to both the academic and industrial communities. The development of a robust, secure and easily deployable cyberinfrastructure presents significant challenges for middleware development. The importance of leveraging commercial Web Services development environments for e-Science applications will be emphasized along with the need for interoperability and open standards.
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10/04/2005,
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
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10/04/2005,
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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In today's dynamic business environment, enterprises around the world are aggressively working horizontally across organizational and geographic boundaries to delivery greater customer value and competitive advantage. CIO's are challenged to increase the business value of their IT services and enable integration with customers, suppliers and partners. The opportunity is to deliver IT as a flexible service to the business while continuing to reducing costs through better resource utilization and increased automation. As large commercial enterprises transition from vertical silos to horizontally-integrated infrastructure and applications they are adopting grid solutions that enable industry collaboration while providing flexible, cost-efficient solutions for informational integration and resource sharing. In his opening keynote at GridWorld, Gary Beach from CIO Magazine will discuss the global business trends helping to shape next generation Enterprise IT. He will explore the 10 reasons IT professionals are adopting grid technologies to enable business advantage. In the process, Gary will help frame the interactive discussion between participants at GridWorld as they discuss the business case and roadmap for successful grid adoption within the Enterprise.
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10/04/2005,
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
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Ken KingVP Grid Computing, IBM.
|  | Steve YatkoGlobal Head of Research and Development IT, Credit Suisse First Boston.
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IT is seen as an asset industry-wide but is in many ways a victim of its own success. With more and more businesses becoming dependent upon IT, technology has been more widely deployed to meet increasing demand. In the process current underlying technologies have frequently proven inflexible, expensive, and unreliable. Consequently, the capacity for IT to provide innovation and bottom-line benefit has stagnated. An innovative solution is desperately required to address these problems. This solution is Service Oriented Computing.
Service Oriented Computing requires a Service Oriented Infrastructure and Service Oriented Architecture, leveraging Grid principles and technology. Standards and interoperability play an ever-increasing role in this next era of computing, which requires running IT as a service provider in order to accelerate differentiation. Automating IT will become the source of differentiation. IT must focus on the economics of IT service delivery every bit as much as it does on the technology and delivery of IT.
Trends of network-based computing coupled with the challenge of operational complexity have resulted in increased IT cost pressures. The long-term impact of ongoing cost pressures on innovation can be directly correlated to the ability of IT to enable and accelerate the business. The economics of agility will support new business opportunities and help IT fund and manage change as a competitive weapon. Service Oriented Computing will also bring a new future to business transparency, SLA's, cost allocation and asset management, thereby enabling the business to more equitably pay for the technologies enabling its future. A new means of managing technology resources against the business demand will be the Virtual Resource Market (VRM). The VRM is an economic marketplace enabling resources to be allocated efficiently to meet the changing business demand.
The benefits of this technology revolution will position IT to differentiate the business. Through virtualization, automation and the use of commodity components, IT will deliver increased availability, utilization, agility and manageability while decreasing its cost and footprint.
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10/05/2005,
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM
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Grids are making it possible for the world's engineering community to expand beyond national borders. This globalization trend is affecting the aerospace, automotive and electronics industries. Grid computing has become an important tool in this new environment, where the paradigm for engineering design processes is changing. Why Grids? Dramatic improvements in product quality, performance, and time-to-market can be achieved by deploying Grids, but are not possible through limited enhancements to computer systems. They also cannot be met by solving a single large-scale problem by applying parallel processing. Computational power must be ubiquitous to achieve enhanced performance, quality, and time-to-market.
Grid computing makes almost infinite computational power available for engineering design when companies are linked through broadband networks. This keynote describes the statistical methods and simulations that firms in Japan and around the world are using with grid computing. It explores the global collaboration that Grid computing makes possible in engineering design. The presentation also illustrates how Grids permit companies to streamline their design processes as a result of inter-company and inter-national engineering collaborations.
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10/05/2005,
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
GridWorld has focused on the life cycle of an enterprise's approach to Grid - explore, adopt, deploy. One of the last challenges of Grid deployment is getting the applications on the Grid. No organization deploys a grid for the sake of having a grid. With financial and time-sensitive pressures increasing, companies in all industries need more immediate and more accurate answers to the most critical business decisions. Companies turn to the power of grid computing to make these decisions faster and more accurately. These sensitive decisions are dependent on complex applications. Fully deployed, Grids should be transparent, invisible to the user, with the applications front and centre. That is why we end Grid World with an expert panel on applications.
The problem: most applications contain intricate algorithms that are not designed for migration to distributed environments. Companies can feel that they are left with one of two alternatives: spending thousands of dollars on re-writing the applications or rejecting grid computing as a solution.
Our panelists will discuss how a new application-centric approach to grid or distributed computing overcomes application challenges on the Grid. They will focus on the approach, their experiences, and results.
They will offer recommendations on how companies can efficiently migrate to a distributed environment - optimizing response times, increasing scalability, obtaining real-time analysis - all while saving time and costs. Altering any of the underlying logic and algorithms of an application(s); suffering through lengthy conversion times; and changing hardware configurations are all unnecessary.
End your time at GridWorld with serious, practical advice on how to move your applications towards the Grid.
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10/06/2005,
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM
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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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