The Great Academia/Industry Grid Debate

Pannel Discussion

Date:

Distinguished Speakers:

Geoff Brown, Director, Grid Technologies, Oracle Corporation (talk in ppt)
Dan Fay, Manager, .NET and Grid Research Evangelism, Microsoft Corp. (talk in ppt)
Geoffrey Fox, University of Indiana (talk in ppt)
Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology (talk in ppt.zip)
Jay Unger, IBM Distinguished Engineer, Grid Technologies (talk in ppt)
Michela Taufer, University of California, San Diego (talk in ppt)
moderated by: Craig Lee, Section Manager, High Performance Computing, The Aerospace Corp.

The main discussions topics will cover the following questions:

What will make Grids a Reality (with a big "G")? If it requires "deploying core services with tolerable reliability in enough places", what does the this mean really mean and how do we get there?
What grid products would users really like to see from vendors that would make their grid efforts easier? (What commercial-off-the-shelf Grid products could you piggy-back on?)
What does industry really need to see standardized (specifics beyond just simply OGSA) in order to build grid products that can brought to market?
What has to happen to make Grid systems easier to install and use (e.g., "Grids for Dummies")?
What is the real scalability and performance of grid information systems? Is it good enough and scalable enough?