Many faces of grid computing

Abstract

High Performance Computing and Grid Computing are among the fastest growing server workloads worldwide, driven by enterprises and academic adoption. HPC features some of the most demanding and exciting application scenarios that drive innovation in distributed system development, large scale management, parallel computing, networking and storage. This talk will take a hard look at the various forms of HPC and Grid Computing and attempt to distill hype from reality. The talk will compare and contrast high performance computing clusters, desktop scavenging, "data-grids", and cooperative grids and how each approach can be used. Microsoft’s view and efforts in this space will also be discussed.