National Grid Seminar Series
Jointly organized
with Singapore Computer Systems & United Devices Inc

"Grids for Real: Experiences from Operational Public and Enterprise Grids"

Sravish Sridhar
Country Head, India Operations
(United Devices, Inc)

16 April 2004 (Friday)
1400 hours @ Auditorium
Institute for Infocomm Research
21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613

Abstract of talk

United Devices operates some of the largest Internet-wide public Grid projects at grid.org. These include the Anthrax and Smallpox Research Projects in collaboration with Intel, Microsoft, University of Oxford and IBM. It supplies the software platform to NTT Data's broadband Internet grid, Cell Computing project, involving more than 12,000 computers. Among its corporate customers are pharmaceutical company Novartis and Johnson & Johnson, which operate their own enterprise grids. In this talk, Mr. Sridhar will share the experiences and perspectives from those operational grids.

Biodata

Sravish Sridhar is currently Country Head, India Operations, United Devices. He has been part of the founding development team of United Devices that managed, architected and implemented the Grid MP and the Global MetaProcessor software from the very beginning. He has worked with Grid teams on the US TeraGrid project, UK eScience Grid initiative and India I-Grid Project, to create country wide grids in the respective countries. He has also worked with many enterprise grid projects, including those in the life sciences industry and financial services.

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This seminar series is organized by the National Grid Office located at 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613.

Admission is Free. All are Welcome. Please email to Miss Vasugi (email: vasu@ngp.org.sg) to register a place by 1200 hours on 15 April 2004.