Krakow, Poland
O c t o b e r  22-24, 2012
A b s t r a c t s

Peter Kacsuk - Jozsef Kovacs
MTA SZTAKI, Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Hungary

Changing the Grid landscape in Europe

Abstract:

European grid infrastructures became mature enough to be used by large scientific communities but they face two major challenges. First, clouds are getting more and more popular providing another large set of computing and data resources that might distract scientists from the use of grids. Second, the user access to grids is still not as easy as expected by end-user scientists. The talk shows the results of two large European projects EDGI (edgi-project.eu) and SCI-BUS (www.sci-bus.eu) that can solve these problems and can provide a grid landscape that is easily accessible by end-user scientists and at the same time seamlessly involve many different kind of DCIs (Distributed Computing Infrastructures) like grids, desktop grids, clouds, supercomputers and local clusters.


Maciej Rak
Product Manager, Data Center Infrastructure and HP
Solutions Discovery Center Leader, Hewlett-Packard Poland

Unique features of HP CloudSystem Matrix - a practician's perspective

Abstract:

The paradigm of cloud computing is widely known, and more and more commonly used in any of its form. As any area being in early stage it evolves quickly and still waits for formal definitions and standards. The lecture will start with presenting observed market trends and directions, listing in chronological way the past and present of road way to the cloud, as well as some future possibilities will be discussed. As HP plays significant role in developing the marketplace, the vendor's approach to cloud computing will be shown, focusing on IaaS layer. Then the majority of the speech will be devoted to the architecture and unique features of ready to use implementation of IaaS in the product, HP CloudSystem Matrix with Intel processors. This topic will be extended by listing a few real use cases, where the entities from various market segments successfully utilize HP CloudSystem Matrix to offer computing power in the service mode. On the end, the lecture will discuss the evolution of computer systems architecture trying to prove that cloud is a next stage of it. The presentation will be concluded by question if we should just wait for cloud, or it's better to built it now. The first option is rather easy to implement using any available public cloud offerings, including this provided by HP. In a case of second one, the presenter will invite the listeners to HP Solution Discovery Center, where an idea could be discussed in details, and any concept can be tested in real environment.


Organizers:

AGH University of Science and Technology
AGH University of Science
and Technology
ACC Cyfronet AGH
ACC Cyfronet AGH
Department of Computer Science AGH

Department of Computer
Science AGH