EGEE'08 Istanbul

Session

Business Track - Grid and Business Plenary

22 Sept 2008, 14:00

Harbiye Askeri Museum

Description

This session focuses on trends in distributed computing as we move towards new frontiers.
EGEE will outline its business programme, showcase current achievements and chart the course to face the new challenges ahead.
This opening session to the Business Track provides an analyst perspective around the market place for Grids, Cloud Computing and future computing platforms, including analysis of key commercial pressures and their likely impact.
The programme is complimented by an example of knowledge exchange between industry and research with a case study on a grid-enabled distributed signal search system. Imense, a UK-based SME, presents a use case illustrating how grid access can level the playing field for new companies wishing to demonstrate internet scale technology.

112. EGEE and gLite: an opportunity for business

Erwin Laure (CERN)

22/09/2008, 14:00

EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-sciencE) is Europe's flagship Grid infrastructure project now in its third 2-year phase. The EGEE infrastructure brings together more than 120 organisations to produce a reliable and scalable computing resource available to the European and global research community. At present, it consists of 260 sites in nearly 50 countries and more than 79,000 CPU cores available...

97. The Forrester View on Grids, Cloud Computing and Ultra Modular Computing in a Commercial Environment

Charles Brett (Forrester Inc.)

22/09/2008, 14:20

Charles Brett will present concepts and ideas that Forrester is researching and/or encountering in the market place in the context of Grids, Cloud Computing and future computing platforms. This will include analysis of 5 key commercial pressures and their likely impact.

99. gLite-based Grid computing for large scale image indexing and retrieval

David Sinclair (Imense Ltd.)

22/09/2008, 14:40

Dr David Sinclair, co-founder Imense Ltd will present Imense's experience of the grid as a case study that shows how grid access can level the playing field for new companies wishing to demonstrate internet scale technology. Imense Ltd has benefited greatly from its involvement with EGEE grid and the STFC PIPSS program. Before our projects with EGEE and the STFC we were an un-funded UK start...