CCGrid 2001 Panel

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CCGrid 2001 PanelTaking the Grid to Prime Time

• Moderator
• David Abramson

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Panel Members

• Gul Agha
• Dept CS, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Editor-in-Chief, ACM Computing Surveys
• Bruce Maggs
• Vice President Research - Akamai Technologies
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Craig A. Lee
• Computer Systems Research - Aerospace Corp
• Co-chair Advanced Programming Models in Gridforum

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Panel Members

• John OCallaghan
• Director APAC
• Previous ACSys Director
• Satoshi Matsuoka
• Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Computing Center
• Network Enabled Servers Data Farming

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Taking to to Prime Time involves
Run Nimrod!
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Taking it to Prime Time involves

• What is the Grid?
• Making it work
• Grid politics

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What is the Grid?

• Isn't the grid just the internet?
• How does the Grid compare with other
  industry-backed efforts,
• Peer-to-Peer WG, CORBA, etc.
• Where do ASPs feature in the Grid?
• What high level applications do you see
  developing over next 5 years

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Making it work

• How do I make single-sign on work when we have
  different underlying security models.
• What tools do you see developing to introduce a
  new user to the grid?
• How do I estimate how much resource I need?
• How should we write programs for the Grid.
• Could we develop a common grid currency ()
• Are current protocols robust enough, and if not,
  what work needs to be done.

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Making it work

• Will Grid level services appear in OS? Or should
  it be in the OS?
• What PhD projects would you set if someone was
  interested in working in this area?

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Grid Politics

• What does the Grid have to offer a country like
  Australia
• How should enterprises embrace the Grid? Can we
  have enterprise wide grids?
• Why should I give you access to my resources?
• Should more vendors be embracing the Grid?
• What is the pathway to commercialisation?