Description
This session sets the scene for entire business track, kicking off with presentations from the EGEE upper management and the EC and concluding with contributions from upper-tier organisations highlighting challenges and opportunities for grid adoption by businesses.
Continuing after the networking coffee break will divulge into a session showcases examples of joint collaboration work between EGEE and enterprise, and success stories of gLite adoption, EGEE's next-generation Grid middleware, highlighting achievements, future challenges and new opportunities for the broader adoption of gLite.
Bob Jones
(CERN - EGEE Project Director)
01/10/2007, 14:00
EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-sciencE) is Europe's flagship Grid infrastructure project now in its second 2-year phase. The EGEE Grid now combines the processing power of more than 30.000 CPUs, a storage capacity of about 5 million GB on a global network established by GEANT and its extensions connecting more than 200 sites in 48 countries. This Grid is already providing an essential daily...
Kyriakos Baxevanidis
(European Commission)
01/10/2007, 14:20
Csilla Zsigri
(Atos Origin)
01/10/2007, 14:40
Businesses concentrate on activities where they can gain a competitive advantage. The main focus of NESSI is that of service. All definitions of service are based on the same principle: a service consumer does not own the service and therefore does not need to be concerned with all the aspects generally associated with ownership such as infrastructure, technology, integration and maintenance....
Bernhard Schott
(Platform)
01/10/2007, 16:00
Yearlong working relations between EGEE consortium members and Platform Computing lead to systematic collaboration since 2005, officially manifested as an EGEE Business Associate at EGEE’06. EGEE as the worldwide leading research Grid and Platform Computing as the leading provider of commercial Grid software underwent intensive joint investigations in order to achieve best possible performance...
Pawel Plaszczak
(GridwiseTech)
01/10/2007, 16:25
As Grid installations worldwide enter production phase, they become an attractive target for industry looking to either replicate the technology internally, or outsource their processing and data operations externally. Reliability in Grids is not a trivial issue. On one hand we face a degree of uncertainty due to distribution, while on the other, applications and users require certain quality...
Raffaele Sgherri
(Avanade)
01/10/2007, 16:45
Avanade solution offering includes a proprietary Grid environment, based on .NET but supporting other platforms. From the project launch, three years ago, we built various projects on the platform, including mission critical computations and heavy load financial computations. On this speech, Avanade will present a short overview of his achievements on the Grid space, business requirements to...
Ronald Van Driel
(Philips Research)
01/10/2007, 17:05
For Philips Research an IT infrastructure geared towards the needs of researchers is an indispensable element. In recent years Philips Research has undergone a number of major changes. As a result of the focus shift at Philips, Philips Research has also changed its programme considerably. The adoption of the open innovation concept has resulted in an open organisation that enjoys strategic...
