Computational and Applied Math Proseminar

Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Arizona State University

Monday, May 5, 2003, 1:00 p.m. in CPCOM 120

Wolfgang Gentzsch

Sun Grid Computing

Sun Grid Computing, Vision, Strategy, and Technology

Abstract Recent advances in networking, hardware and software provide a powerful 'Grid' infrastructure for computing, communication and collaboration. Sun's grid software stack enables users to build grid environments in an evolutionary way, starting with Cluster Grids on a departmental level, to Campus Grids, and eventually to Global Grids as part of the Internet. In the presentation, we outline Sun's grid computing strategy, describe the grid technology, and present customer solutions.

Bio: Dr. Gentzsch is Director of Grid Computing at Sun Microsystems, Inc, in Menlo Park, California. He joined Sun in July 2000, with Sun's acquisition of Gridware, a US/Germany based software company exclusively focusing on grid computing. He was cofounder and CTO of Gridware in 1999, and founder and president of its predecessor Genias Software, in 1990. After his studies of mathematics and physics in Aachen, and PhD in Darmstadt, he was a professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Applied Sciences in Regensburg, Germany, from 1985 to 2000, and at the same time a consultant for many vector, parallel and distributed computing companies.

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