Hi Richard,
Richard Graham wrote:
An affable and articulate guy. Young enough to make a difference too. Clearly qualified.Hello,
I was just wondering if following Ruediger's talk tonight, someone might be kind enough to post their impressions and a quick summary of what he talked about.
Linux is the platform employed for solving a practically impossible problem of data quantities, in particle studies. With scientists worldwide seeking access to the research output from European Organization for Nuclear Research <http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html> (CERN), the solution will be similarly distributed.
Clusters of clusters will be formed into a Grid (as in like electricity). But methodology is still too diverse at this stage.
Ruediger's talk was adapted from this slideshow:
"The EGEE Project - From Grid Research to Grid Deployment" <http://www.ep1.rub.de/%7Eruediger/lwce-london-10-04.pdf>
Well worth the effort, for insight into CERN.I see that he will be presenting the same talk this Friday at the Sydney LUG, and since that is where I am at the moment I should be able to go along (provided I can find the place ;-). I am a physicist myself so it would be nice to be able to think up some relevant questions before hand.
Programming language interpreters and virtual machines are what Ruediger points to as the required building blocks. They are the hook for where Linux users might be involved. Plus check out the *AliEn *distributing* program (..trawling for the link..), OpenMosix etc.*
And Lance, you are welcome. :-)
Cheers,
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