Inaugural Seminar Series

Grid Technology as a Competitive Weapon

Dr. Andrew Grimshaw
Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Avaki Corporation

8 January 2003 (Wednesday)
1630 hours @ Auditorium
Institute for Infocomm Research
21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613

Abstract

Organizations are increasingly faced with the challenges of securely accessing and sharing data, computational and application resources throughout the enterprise and with selected business partners. This is particularly true in the Life Sciences, Financial Services and Manufacturing industries. Grid technology simplifies how resources are accessed, and reduces cost and execution time by better utilizing IT resources. In this presentation, Dr. Andrew Grimshaw will discuss how grid technology can overcome the numerous IT challenges facing organizations, and provide them with significant competitive advantage.

Biodata

Long considered one of the true visionaries in the distributed computing movement, Dr. Andrew Grimshaw is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Avaki. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he joined the University of Virginia as an assistant professor of Computer Science, and became a full professor in 1998. As the chief designer and architect of both the Mentat and Legion projects, and the author of over 50 publications and book chapters, Dr. Grimshaw is a strong believer in open standards and industry-wide collaboration. He is a founding member of the Global Grid Forum (GGF), where he serves on the Steering Committee and works within the Open Grid Service Infrastructure Working Group (OGSI-WG).

An avid presenter on the global lecture circuit, Dr. Grimshaw has spoken at hundreds of conferences and tradeshows worldwide. In addition to his role of visionary and strategist at Avaki, Dr. Grimshaw has worked on numerous industry initiatives such as the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) Executive Committee, the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Office (DoD HPCMO) Program Environment & Training (PET) Executive Committee, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Information Technology Library (ITL) review panel, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences (CESDIS) review panel, and the editorial board of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing.