Ben M. Segal (Biography)
CERN - Information Technology Division
Switzerland

“Grid Computing for Physics and other Sciences”

Abstract

This talk will concentrate mainly on the European DataGrid Project, but will try to give a fairly general discussion of Grid technology as a whole. The aim of DataGrid is to deliver the necessary tools to the next generation of scientific explorations which require intensive calculations and the analysis of enormous data volumes in distributed databases.

Many scientific disciplines, including particle physics, biology, and earth sciences encounter such challenges. The problem is difficult to solve because of the inevitable diversity of the resources, the dispersion of scientific users, the size of the databases, and the limited speed of networks. In order to solve these problems, DataGrid is working in collaboration with the best centres of excellence in this domain, both in Europe, the US and elsewhere.