Next week: Chat live with experts about computational resources

Next week: Chat live with experts about computational resources

What makes a grid perfect for one project, but a cloud better for another? When is a high-performance computer wasteful overkill, or a small cluster underpowered? To answer these questions, iSGTW has invited experts from around the world to join us on Wednesday, 14 July 2010 at 10:30 a.m. CDT/4:30 p.m. CEST for a one-hour live chat - and you’re invited.

Can’t make it to the chat? No problem. For a week following the chat, an even larger host of experts will join us in our online forums to answer questions. To volunteer to serve as an expert, please email us at Esta dirección electrónica esta protegida contra spambots. Es necesario activar Javascript para visualizarla .

We’ll be announcing the identity of our experts throughout the week by adding them to this page. But in the meantime, we’d like to offer you a preview of some of the experts you can expect to hear from next week.

Steven Newhouse

Director, EGI.eu

In addition to serving as the director of EGI.eu, Steven Newhouse is an active member of Open Grid Forum, the largest standards body within the grid community. Most recently, Newhouse worked at Microsoft as a program manager in the High Performance Computing group. Newhouse has also been the director of Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK, a collaborative e-Science project between the University of Southampton, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Manchester.

Philip Blood

Senior Scientific Specialist, PSC, Campus Champion, TeraGrid

Philip Blood received his Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology from Brigham Young University in 2001 and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah in 2008. At the University of Utah he joined the research group of Greg Voth where he used massively parallel molecular dynamics simulations to study how proteins remodel cellular membranes. In 2007 Blood joined the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center as a Senior Scientific Specialist in the Scientific Applications and User Support group. He currently works with scientists in the fields of computational chemistry, biophysics, and various other disciplines to advance science through supercomputing.

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