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• Architecture group Grid and Web Services at USFD
• Ref. IBM Redbook Intro to Grid/Globus. Summary
  big, isnt it?
• Why are we here? The spread of IP has kicked the
  distributed computing people.
• Two tracks Grid Web Services
• Relevance to us e-science Semantic WS
  distribution for systems integration and load
  balancing
• Whos doing what?
• Hardware available and needed
• Software Globus (Sun or IBM?), Grid vs. SOAP,
  OGSA, Beowulf?
• Group tradition and reputation reuseable open
  source software
• Can we make a contribution in this area? How
  to coordinate?