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The conference opened with a keynote by Ed Seidel from LSU. He
started out by laying out the vision for the grid: an environment of
virtualization for transparent access to resources.

He made an interesting point about the growth of network bandwidth
versus the growth of computation power. Computing power has been
doubling every 18 months, but network capacity has been doubling every
9 months. The bandwidth rapidly outstrips the the computational
increases to the point where bandwidth effectively becomes
infinite. While latency will always be a consideration, we should

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The SURA Grid Workshop, January 2005, was an enjoyable event with a good collection
of people with different levels of expertise and an excellent exchange
of ideas. There were around 100 or so attendees (rough personal
estimate), a size which allowed for plenty of direct involvement with
conference presenters.

What follows are some impressions about and notes from the
presentations I attended. I try to follow with order of presentation
at the conference. You can find the schedule and the presentation
slides here:

http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwacs/suragridconf/

Update 2005.03.23:

Click for all of the NMI/Grids Review Summaries, taken from "NMI Component Testing Guidelines"

I've added a vocabulary for our NMI work. This vocab will show up when you add content to the site and will allow you to select to which NMI component the post belongs.

We now have three vocabularies available: section, project, and nmi. Content can belong to any one, one of each, or none of the terms in those vocabs. It defaults to none.

Please don't be confused by this feature, all you are doing is tagging your post with an area of work it applies to (if any). In a sense, it accounts for what you spend your time on. In the end, it gives us a powerful way to recombine our data.