GLOBUSWORLD 2004 ISSUES PRELIMINARY PROGRAM WITH FIRST SET
OF KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
The premier Grid conference featuring
the Globus Toolkit® is set for January 20-23, 2004 with
planning in full swing for the second GlobusWORLD, conference
organizers have released the advance program and announced several
keynote speakers. The annual event centers on the Globus Toolkit,
a suite of software and services that are central to the growing
field of Grid computing.
GlobusWORLD 2004 will be held January
20-23 in San Francisco. Preliminary program and other details
are at http://www.globusworld.org.
This year's conference builds on successes of the first GlobusWORLD,
which attracted more than 450 attendees, one-third of whom were
from the commercial sector. The conference will deliver a content-rich
three days with four concurrent sessions of presentations, training
and discussions for users at all levels, with an additional
day devoted solely to workshops on topics such as the Grid's
use in financial services, the life sciences and medical imaging.
Sessions will be led by users,
designers, developers, and vendors from the research, industry
and academic sectors. They will address strategic issues for
enterprise planners, such as return on investment, business
case, and strategic value of the Grid. In-depth technical issues
-- such as security, resource management, data access and integration,
autonomic computing, monitoring and discovery, service management,
provisioning, meta-scheduling, workflow and Web services --
will be addressed for architects, developers, and deployers.
"Our conference is the only
one organized by principals in the Globus Alliance, which develops
the Grid's foundational middleware," said Ian Foster, a
primary organizer of the event. "We have seen another large
surge of interest in Grid since the June release of Globus Toolkit
3.0, which is the first full-scale implementation of the Open
Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI). GlobusWORLD attendees will
get the latest and best content -- straight from the source.
The program has a good mix of speakers from industry and academia,
with the sessions focusing on Globus Toolkit-based technology
and solutions."
The first set of keynote speakers
-- with more to be announced later -- includes Foster, leader
of the Globus Alliance at Argonne National Laboratory and the
University of Chicago, a central figure in development of the
Globus Toolkit and definition of the Open Grid Services Architecture
(OGSA). Another keynote is Larry Smarr, director of the California
Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology,
known as Cal IT(2). Smarr, a pioneer in prototyping a national
information infrastructure to support academic research, governmental
functions, and industrial competitiveness, is a member of the
National Academy of Engineering and the President's Information
Technology Advisory Committee. Keynotes representing e-Business
include Mark Linesch, vice president of Hewlett-Packard's Adaptive
Enterprise Program, and Steve Yatko, Credit Suisse First Boston's
global head of research and development IT, who is one of the
Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders for 2003.
Many of the talks, panels and sessions
will focus on real-world experiences of Grid deployment, including
e-Business and Enterprise Grid deployments. "Globus Insider"
sessions will feature a mix of architect-level overviews and
in-depth developer-level content on all aspects of the Globus
Toolkit 3.0. A new Globus Development Laboratory will let attendees
interact with the toolkit's developers.
"Other GlobusWORLD corporate
sponsors to date include Hewlett-Packard, IBM Grid Computing,
inSORS Integrated Communications, and Intel. Tabor Communications
-- publisher of HPCwire and GridToday -- is the event's Premier
Media Sponsor. Other media sponsors are ClusterWorld and Linux
magazines. Research sponsors include Argonne National Laboratory,
the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern
California, the GRIDS Center (part of the NSF Middleware Initiative)
and Cal IT(2).
The Globus Toolkit's open source,
open architecture software and services have been deployed broadly
worldwide for both science and industry, attracting a strong
community of contributors and users. The New York Times has
called Globus Toolkit "the de facto standard for Grid computing"
and praised the "far-sighted simplicity" of its Grid
services architecture. MIT Technology Review named it one of
Ten Technologies That Will Change the World. Other recent acclaim
for the toolkit includes an R&D 100 Award and the Federal
Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in Tech Transfer
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Media contact: Tom Garritano, garritano@mcs.anl.gov, 630-252-7641
For information about the Globus Toolkit: http://www.globus.org
