EGEE'07

Session

Technical Plenary

Oct 2, 2007, 9:00 AM

Europe Congress Center

7. EGEE Grid Operations – 3 years of progress

Dr Ian Bird (CERN)

10/2/07, 9:00 AM

The EGEE grid infrastructure has grown over the 42 months of EGEE and EGEE-II from around 40 sites to over 250. It is now in daily use on a significant scale with continuous workloads of over 100,000 jobs per day, and is acting as the primary source of computing and storage for several application communities. Although this growth has been impressive, with the LHC coming on-line less than a...

4. A Grand Challenge for the Information Age

Dr Francine Berman (San Diego Supercomputer Center)

10/2/07, 9:45 AM

The information Age has created a paradigm shift for research, education, commerce, and modern life. Current estimates are that in 2006, 161 exabytes (10^18 bytes) of digital data were created, and by 2010, the torrent of digital data generated will reach a zettabyte (10^21 bytes). Critical to the success of efforts in the Information Age is the ability to use, access, manage, and preserve...