Architect Webcast: GRID-lock
Live Event:
April 10, 2003 - 11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific Time / 2:00pm Eastern Time.Event Description:
- What's up with the Grid: fact, fiction, and the competition.
- The three models of "the Grid" and how they came to be.
- How and why Web Services will subsume the (competitions' definition of the) Grid;
- Why it is all about data and tools, not abstract computational resources;
- Show and tell: (Jim Gray and cohort's) astronomy grid populated by (.net) web services empowers more researchers to do better science;
- Microsoft's strengths and weaknesses in meeting the customers expectations of a Grid;
- Customers and their experience (w/ ours and others approaches); - Grid/HPC resources and contacts