Keynote
1: Service-Oriented Science
Infrastructure
Charles E. Catlett,
TeraGrid Director, University of Chicago and
Argonne National Laboratory
Keynote
2: The Steady Path to
Services-Oriented Computing
Dr. Alfred Z. Spector
Independent Consultant
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Service-Oriented Science Infrastructure
Charles E. Catlett,
TeraGrid Director, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory
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TeraGrid is a nation-wide infrastructure providing high-performance computing and related services to thousands of scientists. Nine institutions provide computing, storage, visualization, and other
resources integrated with middleware, policy, and services.
Initially established in 2002 as a computational grid system with an emphasis on a coordinated application development and runtime environment, TeraGrid is today providing a heterogeneous, service- oriented science infrastructure. Catlett will describe the evolution of the TeraGrid system, its architecture today, and planned enhancements to catalyze national-scale cyberinfrastructure.
Biography
Charlie Catlett is a Senior Fellow at
Computation Institute at the University
of Chicago and Argonne
National Laboratory and Director of the NSF TeraGrid
project, a $150M initiative involving a distributed .Grid. of information
technologies at eight major supercomputing centers and universities. Prior to
joining Argonne in 1999 Charlie was Chief Technology Officer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications,
where he had worked since 1985. From
1999 to 2004 Charlie directed the State of Illinois
funded I-WIRE optical network
project, deploying optical fiber infrastructure to interconnect ten locations
in Illinois. From 1999 through 2004 he founded the Global
Grid Forum, an international technical standards body with participants from
over 40 countries. With Larry Smarr, Charlie
co-authored the seminal paper .Metacomputing,. in
1992 in the journal Communications of the ACM, which initiated what would
become the concept of .Grid. computing.
In 1996 he was a co-Investigator, along with Smarr
as well as Rick Stevens, Dan Reed, and Ian Foster, of the $180M NCSA Alliance
project, in which the term .Grid. was first coined. Charlie is a Computer Engineering graduate of
the University of
Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
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The
Steady Path to Services-Oriented Computing
Dr.
Alfred Z. Spector
Independent Consultant
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We have been climbing the path to services-oriented computing since the dawn of
the field of computer science. Contributing factors to our rate of
progress have been the availability of hardware infrastructure, the
availability of appropriate software infrastructure, and economic viability --
usually a function of the achievable economies of scale of re-usable services.
Clearly our progress is also a function of the type (complexity) of
service which is to be provided. In this presentation, I will provide
perspective on this services-oriented computing quest from a historical
perspective, illustrate the very ambitious goals we should set for ourselves
and their societal implications, and then highlight the great research and
engineering problems we must solve if we are to continue to make great
progress.
Biography
Dr. Alfred Spector is currently an
independent consultant working with IBM and a few small companies, and
performing some government service. In his previous position as vice
president of Strategy and Technology for IBM.s
Software Group, Dr. Spector was responsible
for its technical and business strategy, standards, software development
methodologies, advanced technology, and leading-edge technical engagements.
Prior to this position, Dr. Spector was vice president of IBM.s worldwide
services and software research, general manager of marketing and strategy for
IBM's middleware business, and general manager of IBM's transaction software
business. Dr. Spector was also the
founder & CEO of Transarc Corporation, a
pioneer in distributed transaction processing & wide area file systems and
a tenured faculty member in the Carnegie
Mellon University
computer science department.
Dr. Spector received his
Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford
University and his A.B. in Applied
Mathematics from Harvard
University. He is a
member of the National Academy of Engineering recognized for his contributions
to the design, implementation, and commercialization of reliable, scalable
architectures for distributed file systems, transaction systems, and other
applications. Dr. Spector is also an IEEE
Fellow and the Recipient of the IEEE Kanai Award in distributed computing.
He is married and a father of three young children.
