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Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at Grids 98 Drake Hotel Chicago on July 27-28 98. Foils prepared August 1 98
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We discuss most promising Grid Applications including
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We can classify opportunities according to their problem structure
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What are Computational Grids Good for? Grids 98 Drake Hotel Chicago July 27-28 98
What Applications are Grids Good For?
Grids in Crisis Management?
Examples from Recent Intranet Start Up Conference
Application Integration
Is Distance Education A Grid Opportunity?
Classes of Grid Applications
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| Geoffrey Fox |
| Syracuse University |
| NPAC |
| 111 College Place Syracuse NY 13244 4100 |
| 3154432163 |
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| Essentially all applications will use some sort of computational grid but only some will use high performance |
"High Performance" can come from several sources
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Most High Performance grids will come from scaling "ordinary grids" which will use commodity solutions.
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| Individual simulation engines (classic closely coupled parallel computers) as one (or few) components in a very large commodity grid |
| Commodity grid links databases, decision makers, anchor desks(experts), first responders (firefighters in the field) |
| High performance in grid as opposed to simulation engines is not clearly a current major requirement as state and local government don't yet have commodity tools deployed in interoperable (pentagon -- state/local databases) fashion |
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| June 30-July 1 meeting in San Francisco featured 94 of "hottest" start ups building intranet (business grid) software (http://www.tpsite.com) |
Multiple Choice Question to 500 people in audience: What is most important influence on industry?
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Which Company was most likely to Succeed?
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| Grid Middleware ? |
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Hottest General Area in Intranet conference (after electronic commerce) was "application integration" -- linking the "ᡛ" separate major (SAP, PeopleSoft ..) applications (in typical large corporation) into a "grid"
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| This is similar to classic multidisciplinary application in engineering design and manufacturing as in NASA Power Grid |
| Image processing as in DoD MSTAR program using Khoros |
| Largest opportunity of this type is perhaps SBA -- Simulation Based Acquisition -- which was major theme in recent ITEA (International Test and Evaluation) conference at ARL Aberdeen |
| SBA is plausibly built on top of DMSO HLA/RTI (CORBA like) commodity standards |
| MAPINT 98 Conference at ASC Dayton August 25-27 will discuss |
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So if the connectivity and institutional resolve existed, I could offer distance education/training in
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Need per customer a (shared) PC with CDROM and Sound card
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| "Big Queue in the Sky" -- seamless (one at a time) access to multiple heterogeneous supercomputers |
| Collaborative access to specialized scientific instruments and visualization (a few linked systems) |
| "Parameter Studies" (pleasingly parallel) |
| Application Integration (SBA etc.) |
| PC, Workstation, Origin 2000/SP2 clusters (parallel computing built from distributed components) |
| Distributed Modeling and Simulation (using geographically distributed computers to simulate geographically distributed systems) |
| TeleMedicine and Distance Education |