The two-day conference provides an opportunity to understand and explore the potential of Grid Computing. It discusses how Grid Computing is fast expanding from academia into the business world and producing commercial benefits.
It explains how grid Computing allows organisations to better utilize their own resources and to tap into the vast potential
of those offered by the internet in order to perform complex computing tasks faster.
By attending you have a unique opportunity to meet, exchange ideas with and learn from researchers, developers, vendors and users.
You will hear Grid Computing success stories from organisations such as Rolls Royce and QuinetiQ, the views of the major
players in this marketplace including Microsoft, Oracle and IBM plus keynote presentations from Professor Ian Foster “the
father of
Grid Computing” and Tony Hey, Director of the UKs Core e-Science Programme.
The conference chair is John Davies, Manager, Next Generation Web Research, British Telecommunications plc.
