National Grid Seminar Series

Overview of the Globus Toolkit 4.0

Lisa Childers
Technical Product Manager, Globus Toolkit
Globus Alliance &
Argonne National Labs, USA

22 September 2005 (Thursday)
1600 hrs @ Auditorium
Institute for Infocomm Research
21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613

Abstract

This seminar will provide an introduction to the latest release of the Globus Toolkit, version 4 (GT4). Released at the end of April 2005, GT4 is the flagship product of the Globus Alliance, which produces open source middleware used in building grids around the world. GT4 is composed of state-of-the-art libraries and components that enable the development of service-oriented Grid applications and infrastructures. Core Globus components address issues relating to security, resource access and management, data movement and resource discovery. The seminar is geared to those who want an introduction to the newest work of the Globus Alliance and how it relates to fundamental concepts in Grid computing.

Biodata




Lisa Childers has been a member of the Globus Alliance since 2002, where her responsibilities as the Technical Product Manager for the Globus Toolkit include overall coordination of toolkit development, as well as community outreach activies. In addition to regularly delivering presentations on the Globus Toolkit, Childers serves as a spokesperson for the Globus Alliance in her capacity as a Globus Alliance Board Member.

Before joining the Globus Alliance, Childers worked for several years in the Futures Laboratory of Argonne National Lab, where she was an original developer of the Access Grid, a wide-area, group-to-group collaboration technology. She began her career in the computer industry, where she worked for many years as a software engineer for the statistical software company SPSS, Inc.

Childers is currently a staff member of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Lab, and holds a joint appointment at the University of Chicago's Computation Institute.

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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 1000 hours on 21 September 2005.