Date: 2006-08-04 Category: Events

Evolving Applications in Grid Computing for e-Business

Tuesday 5^th September 2006
6pm - 8pm Doors open 5.30pm

Technium CAST
Parc Menai, Bangor

Grid computing is an emerging form of distributed computing in Business, commonly associated with high-performance and large scale processing and the sharing of idle resources.

Tom Kirkham will give a presentation on how Grid technology has merged with web services to create an open set of guidelines and standards for the use of distributed applications over the internet. This has created what is cited as an emerging Business Application Layer of standards suited to a new generation of e-Business applications. For the SME in North Wales research into Grid Services hosted at the university as a means to enable this new type of e-business application is being investigated. This talk will introduce this research, and chart the development of Grid Computing over the past few years and into the future.

This event forms part of the ITWales Software Developers programme and is FREE to attend, however advance booking is required.

To book your place online click here or e-mail info@itwales.com.
Alternatively you can contact Rob or Judith, ITWales Bangor on 01248 388245