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Thursday, May 10, 2007
The business of grids
I spent most of yesterday on our stand. We're part of a new research council, the Science and Technology Funding Council, and it's good to share a stand with our new colleagues. The exhibition is fairly busy, though not massively so, but we had some really good discussions.

As usual with GridPP stands, we're showing the latest version Real Time Monitor developed by Imperial College. The monitor has really escaped our clutches now, with lots of people in EGEE and LCG using it too. So, a successful result for dissemination - but we'll have to work on it so we have something new for the next conference!

I spent time talking to a representative from Fujitsu about the security constraints on businesses using grids. He explained how a company usually has an all or nothing approach to cluster security - either you're trusted, and can access all their resources, or you're not and can access nothing. Not like in a science grid such as EGEE, where the system of VOs gives people access to some resources and not others, down to individual files if necessary. It will be interesting to see if security in industry develops down the same lines.

In the evening I had dinner with people from the EGEE project and a technology transfer officer from the UK. They were talking about the possibilities for commercial work with gLite. EGEE is scientific and not for profit, and will remain so, but there seem to be interesting opportunities for spin-off companies around the edges. It would be great if we could get some our more business-oriented people interested in this, and maybe discourage them from leaving for pots of money in the city.

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