Technology Talk

From: Flemming Videbaek (videbaek@sgs1.hirg.bnl.gov)
Date: Mon Sep 16 2002 - 09:33:36 EDT

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    RCF is organizing a set of talks on computing technology -
    FYI is enclosed an abstract for the talk on Wednesday.
    
    Subject: Technology Talk
    
    
    >
    > Dantong Yu (ACF/RCF) will begin a series of talks on the Grid starting
    > this Wednesday, 18 September 2002.  Please post on the appropriate
    > collaboration mailing lists.
    >
    > Regards,
    > Tom
    >
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    > Thomas G. Throwe       E-mail: throwe@bnl.gov
    > RCF -- RHIC Project -- Brookhaven National Laboratory
    > WWW: http://www.rhic.bnl.gov/RCF/
    > Phone: (631) 344-3110  Fax: (631) 344-7616
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    >
    > Technology Talk
    > Dantong Yu (ACF/RCF)
    > "Grid Computing"
    > Wednesday, 18 September 2002
    > 9:00 am
    > Room 3-192 (Bldg. 510)
    > Bridge circuit (x6261)
    >
    > Abstract:
    >
    > Recent advances in computing power, computer network
    > and storage systems make possible the accumulation of
    > huge amounts of data. Leading edge collaborative science
    > experiments such as RHIC, ATLAS and several other LHC
    > experiments are at the point of generating petabytes (10^15)
    > of data annually. This corresponds to the storage volume
    > of several million of today's CD-ROMs. This leads to
    > important technical challenges in data storage, data
    > management, access and processing.
    >
    > Grid computing has emerged as an important new field,
    > distinguished from conventional distributed computing by
    > its focus on large-scale resource sharing, innovative
    > applications, and, in some cases, high-performance
    > orientation.  In this tutorial, we define this new field.
    > First, we review the Grid problem,  which we define as
    > flexible, secure, coordinated resource sharing among
    > dynamic collections of individuals, institutions, and
    > resources what we refer to as virtual organizations.
    > Next, we present an extensible and open Grid architecture,
    > in which protocols, services, application programming
    > interfaces, and software development kits are categorized
    > according to their roles in enabling resource sharing.
    > Finally, we discuss how Grid technologies relate to
    > other contemporary technologies, including enterprise
    > integration, application service provider, storage service
    > provider, and peer-to-peer computing. (The second paragraph
    > refers to Ian Foster's paper).
    >
    > The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations. I.
    > Foster, C. Kesselman, S. Tuecke. International J. Supercomputer
    > Applications, 15(3), 2001.
    > http://www.globus.org/research/papers/anatomy.pdf
    



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