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09/11/2006, 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Speaker:
Lee Liming, Technology Analyst, Argonne National Lab.
Recommended for first-time GlobusWORLD attendees, this workshop provides an introduction to Grid computing, the Globus Toolkit, and provides an overview of what a new attendee can expect throughout the week of the conference.
The Globus Alliance is working to provide solutions to some of the most persistent and vexing problems that come up in Grid projects and applications. Our solutions to date are collected in the Globus Toolkit and these solutions are being used in many of today's major Grid infrastructures and applications.
While the Globus Toolkit can make Grid projects and products significantly easier, the challenges themselves are far from easy and the Globus Toolkit does not provide a turnkey solution. Success in a
Grid project depends on a clear vision of the problems that need to be solved, awareness of existing technologies that can contribute to the solutions (both within and beyond the Globus Toolkit), and a
strategy for using the technology to overcome the challenge.
This workshop provides answers to critical questions for Grid project planners and product developers, including:
What is the Grid?
How are Grids built and used today?
What Grid software is available and what does it do?
How have others succeeded?
The Globus Toolkit will be put into context, and examples and roadmaps for the most common uses of the Globus Toolkit will be provided.
Who should attend?
Project leaders, team leaders, managers, IT executives, product managers, principal investigators, researchers, program managers, scientists, engineers Anyone who has recently or soon will accept a position of responsibility in a current or potential Grid project or product development activity
What you should already know:
Attendees should be familiar with the basic principals of information
technology. For example: general computer and network architecture, general software engineering processes, client/server systems, databases, current types of commercial IT products, basic internet
concepts.
What you will learn:
Attendees will learn answers to the questions posed in the abstract above. In summary, attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how the Grid and the Globus Toolkit fit within their plans for producing useful products and/or applications and for planning successful Grid
projects.
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