Grid Computing News : Euro Researchers to Showcase Grid Projects

The BEinGRID initiative is drawing attention from top businesses interested in the use of grid solutions, utility-like models, and enterprise computing. It’s the European Union’s largest project funded by the Information Society Technologies (IST) research body. The project, which has been running since June 2006, is organizing an event that will be attended by big names from both sides of the Atlantic. The research project will be showcasing the most relevant results from 18 pilot implementations that are employing grid technologies in practical, innovative and profitable ways within a number of economic sectors -- including those not traditionally associated with grid, such as filmmaking and architecture, as well as advancing capabilities in the industries already associated with the technology, such as finance, chemistry and computational fluid dynamics. The opening keynote presentation will be delivered by Werner Vogels, vice president and CTO of Amazon.com, together with Diego Pavia, CEO Atos Origin Iberia.... read more