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Abstract

Over the past couple of years, APAC has been progressively deploying and enhancing key services for an interoperable grid across the statae-based members of the partnership. As grid technology is still evolving rapidly, we required effort to shield the underlying resources from the technology and to support multiple middleware stacks on the one resource. This has largely been successful, and so application developers now have a rich set of middleware and information services they can target. This talk will cover some of the technology solutions applied, the services offered and some of the applications using this infrastructure. As NCRIS capabilities become operational, we expect a significant increase in the “deep, open, wide” nature of the grid, and I will outline some of the changes we expect to see and areas where further work is needed.

About the speaker

Lindsay Hood has many years experience in advanced computing, both using and supplying such services. His original application interest in non-equilibrium molecular fluid dynamics has broadened to what is sometimes called complex adaptive systems, including spatial information systems and biology. He has used or supported many of the high performance computing systems seen in Australia, and can still read IBM JCL. Prior to joining APAC he was responsible for delivery IT services and strategic direction at the Institue for Molecular Biosciences at University of Queensland.