Keynote speakers

17th - Keynotes 1 Bill St Arnaud (Senior Director Advanced Networks for CANARIE Inc.) : How Grid Networks are pointing the way to the Internet of the Future, [slides in ppt]
Abstract: Around the world there are several initiatives to develop the next generation canonical Internet network architecture. These initiatives are bring driven by at least three significant developments, first: the concern that the current Internet is ossifying and that it is increasingly difficult to deploy new architectures, secondly: the trend towards a two tiered Internet where the owners of the network control access by third partiers, and thirdly: the demand by big science to have dedicated network resources for the data flows generated by their high end grid applications. One approach to address all these issues is being developed in Canada by CANARIE where a key assumption is that there is no longer need for a canonical network architecture. Instead, the User Controlled LightPath (UCLP) software developed by CANARIE and its partners allows users to define their own packet or switched based network architecture including topology, routing, virtual routers, switches virtual machines and protocols based on the concept of many separate, concurrent and independently managed Articulated Private Networks (APN) operating on top of one or more network substrates across different ownership domains. APNs can be considered as a next generation Virtual Private Network where a user can create a complex network multi-domain topology by binding together layer 1 through 3 network links, computers, databases, storage and virtual or real routing and/or switching nodes. This capability of UCLP is realized through by representing all such network element, devices and links as grid web services, and by using web services workflow as the tool to allow the user to bind together their various web services to create a long lived APN instantiation. The technologies developed by CANARIE and its partners to address the needs of big science grids is now being adapted for some novel last mile Internet architectures such as our Green Broadband and Free Gigabit to the Home programs

18th - Keynotes 2 Mike Fisher (BT Group Chief Technology Office): Convergence of Grid and NGN : Towards a Service Oriented Knowledge Utility
Abstract: Grid computing is successfully addressing issues of IT resource sharing within a single organisation. The potential for the technology goes far beyond what is available today. Service Oriented Knowledge Utilities (SOKU) promise to radically change the way that software is deployed and used. We are already seeing steps towards this vision but a missing piece is how IT resources and Next Generation Networks come together to deliver the predictable behaviour that will be required by users and providers of networked IT services. This talk will describe some of the issues involved and the requirements for standards to support convergence.

19th - Workshops - MetroGrid WorkShop
- Utility Computing Workshop

17th - Keynotes 1	Bill St Arnaud (Senior Director Advanced Networks for CANARIE Inc.) : How Grid Networks are pointing the way to the Internet of the Future, [slides in ppt] Abstract: Around the world there are several initiatives to develop the next generation canonical Internet network architecture. These initiatives are bring driven by at least three significant developments, first: the concern that the current Internet is ossifying and that it is increasingly difficult to deploy new architectures, secondly: the trend towards a two tiered Internet where the owners of the network control access by third partiers, and thirdly: the demand by big science to have dedicated network resources for the data flows generated by their high end grid applications. One approach to address all these issues is being developed in Canada by CANARIE where a key assumption is that there is no longer need for a canonical network architecture. Instead, the User Controlled LightPath (UCLP) software developed by CANARIE and its partners allows users to define their own packet or switched based network architecture including topology, routing, virtual routers, switches virtual machines and protocols based on the concept of many separate, concurrent and independently managed Articulated Private Networks (APN) operating on top of one or more network substrates across different ownership domains. APNs can be considered as a next generation Virtual Private Network where a user can create a complex network multi-domain topology by binding together layer 1 through 3 network links, computers, databases, storage and virtual or real routing and/or switching nodes. This capability of UCLP is realized through by representing all such network element, devices and links as grid web services, and by using web services workflow as the tool to allow the user to bind together their various web services to create a long lived APN instantiation. The technologies developed by CANARIE and its partners to address the needs of big science grids is now being adapted for some novel last mile Internet architectures such as our Green Broadband and Free Gigabit to the Home programs
18th - Keynotes 2	Mike Fisher (BT Group Chief Technology Office): Convergence of Grid and NGN : Towards a Service Oriented Knowledge Utility Abstract: Grid computing is successfully addressing issues of IT resource sharing within a single organisation. The potential for the technology goes far beyond what is available today. Service Oriented Knowledge Utilities (SOKU) promise to radically change the way that software is deployed and used. We are already seeing steps towards this vision but a missing piece is how IT resources and Next Generation Networks come together to deliver the predictable behaviour that will be required by users and providers of networked IT services. This talk will describe some of the issues involved and the requirements for standards to support convergence.
19th - Workshops	- MetroGrid WorkShop - Utility Computing Workshop