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| Title
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The Trends, Challenges and Benefits of Grid Computing
(slides) |
| Speaker
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Jim Himer, CTO for Grid and HPTC
SUN Canada
27 Allstate Parkway, 7th Floor
Markham, Ontario L3R 5L7
Canada
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| Day and Time
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Thursday, September 21, 2006 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
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| Location
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Ryerson University
Room ENG 106, George Vari Centre for Engineering and Computing
(located at the south east corner of Church and Gould Streets)
Toronto, Ontario map
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| Organizers
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IEEE Toronto Computer Chapter
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| Contact
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Visda
IEEE members and guests are welcome, no registration required.
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| Abstract
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Grid Computing has had an interesting etymology. Decades ago, a Grid
referred primarily to clustered systems for distributed computation
performing "big science". The rise of the Internet, and standardized
protocols and middleware, later helped institutions share resources
giving rise to geographically dispersed Grid ecosystems.
Today, Grid Computing has additionally become synonymous with topics
such as virtualization, consolidation, SOA, portal computing, utility
computing, and the suggests a whole-scale transformation of the
datacenter and how we access and use information. This refactoring of
"What is Grid Computing", it's benefits and challenges will be explored.
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| Biography
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Jim Himer has a degree in Astrophysics from the University of Calgary.
After post-graduate work in geophysics and 15-yrs in the petroleum
industry in Calgary, he joined Sun Microsystems in 1996 focusing on High
Performance Computing. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer for
High Performance and Grid Computing at Sun Microsystems of Canada.
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