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10/06/2005, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Speaker:
Andrew Grimshaw, Professor, University of Virginia.
Grid - like computing in general - is a place where many different worlds interact. There is the computer science world, where issues such as virtualization, object models, security, consistency, and so on dominate discourse. There is the system administrator world - where keeping the infrastructure going and preventing disasters reigns supreme. Then there are the myriad application domains: physics, the life sciences, business intelligence, and financial services, to name a few. Each application domain has their own world-view with disparate requirements, nomenclatures, and
community processes and standards. The challenge is to bring these communities together so that each can learn from the other, and collectively build solutions that deliver results relevant to their own world. For example: for computer scientists, successful software and papers; for systems administrators, happy users and smoothly running systems; and for application domain areas new discoveries, capabilities, or cost savings. In this talk I will discuss the challenges of bringing these communities together in the context of the Global Bio Grid. The GBG is a collaboration of computer scientists and life scientists that brings grid technology to life sciences research and medical informatics.
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