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Gossip at the Grid Café

 



 





WELCOME TO THE GridCafé!

I'm Max Munny. I'm looking for novel business opportunities based on this new technology. I'm betting that it's going to be much bigger than the overhyped dotcom revolution a few years ago, because the underlying technology is much more powerful.
My favourite links are:

the reality (an overview of today's computing solutions)
the evolution (are we ever going to get there?)
from scientific to commercial Grids (something for my company)
Qui paiera la grille?
Organisations virtuelles (a new way of working?)

I'm in charge of the links on the Grid Café


I'm RoboGeek the waiter! I think the Grid is the greatest thing since the transistor, and love to read C++ code and talk about terabytes and petaflops. Would you like a latte? And how many molecules of sugar would you like with that?
My favourite links are:
the Internet and the Web (have you ever wandered about the difference?)
Éléments constitutifs (hardware, middleware, architecture,...)
La grille - Que peut-elle faire ? (the kind of applications we will be able to run)
La grille au CERN (finally my terabytes!)

I collect demos and games for the Grid Café.


My name is Sophia Fillo, and I am mainly interested in the impact of technology on science and society. Could the Grid represent a paradigm shift in computing, and will it lead to qualitatively new ways of doing science…or even affect our daily lives?
My favourite links are:
the dream and the dreamers (a scientist's view of the Grid)
La grille et vous (how the Grid will impact our everyday life)
the "power grid" analogy (to finally understand why this name)
Cinq grandes idées behind the Grid (keys to the Grid success)
Grid projects worldwide (who is doing what in the Grid world)

I gather interviews with experts for the Grid Café.


I'm Sorsu Oppennen a benign hacker, fascinated by the possibilities that the Grid may open up for collaborative software creation, yet skeptical about the intentions of people like Max, who seem to want to control the Grid for commercial purposes….
My favourite links are:
Réfutation de la loi de Moore (misused concepts in the Grid community)
Open Standards
Qui utilisera la grille ?
Points de vue sceptiques
Qui paiera la grille?
Grid projects worldwide (who is doing what in the Grid world)

I run an on-line forum at the Grid Café.