Description
This session revolves around top-level challenges and technical barriers to adoption, offering insight into how these have been tackled across different sectors. Presentations evaluate a range of technical barriers and propose possible solutions to foster further industrial by diverse industry groups.
Stick around after a short break as we will conclude the Business Track with an Interactive Panel discussion which will focus on opportunities for Grid adoption, top-level challenges, with expert panellists providing recommendations on next steps and feedback on best solutions to barriers.
Robert Harakaly
(Industry Forum Steering Committee)
02/10/2007, 16:20
Industrial adoption of any Grid middleware depends on its ability to satisfy the needs of many different communities, starting from technology providers through developers to the end users. For this reason the EGEE Industry Forum Steering Committee is starting a special focus group on gLite adoption. This group will focus on analysis of the technical barriers to gLite adoption in industry and...
Mike Boniface
(IT Innovation)
02/10/2007, 16:40
The journey from proof-of-concepts and operational Grid research infrastructures to credible Enterprise technologies has significant technical, economical and cultural challenges. For the last 10 years IT Innovation has been working with industry and commerce to address these challenges from the early days of meta-computing experiments to the Grid and now Service-Oriented Infrastructures....
Silvina Grad-Freilich
(Mathworks)
02/10/2007, 17:00
MATLAB is a popular programming environment with over 1,000,000 users worldwide, primarily scientists and engineers engaged in technical computing. In 2004, The MathWorks introduced a product for distributed and parallel computing that enables MATLAB users to take advantage of high-performance environments to solve computationally or data intensive problems.
Engineers and scientists can now...
Session Chairs - ALL Participants
02/10/2007, 17:50
