| Charlie Catlett Chair, Global Grid Forum Executive Director, TeraGrid project |
| Q: | What is the importance of the Global Grid Forum? | |
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| Bill Feiereisen Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory's Computer and Computational Sciences Division (effective April 2002) Former Director, NASA's Numerical Aerospace Simulation Systems Division |
| Q: | How will the grid change? | |
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| Q: | How will the grid keep up with other technological advancements? | |
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| Rick Stevens Chief Computational Architect, National Computational Science Alliance Director, Argonne National Laboratory's Mathematics and Computer Science Division |
| Q: | How have visions of the grid evolved? | |
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| Q: | What follows the current vision? | |
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| Paul Messina Chair, Global Grid Forum Advisory Committee Former Director, California Institute of Technology's Center for Advanced Computing Research |
| Q: | Why now? | |
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| Q: | How do we make the grid commonplace? | |
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| Dan Reed Director, National Computational Science Alliance Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
| Q: | Why is the TeraGrid critical to grid development? | |
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| Q: | What aspect of the grid will be most important for tomorrow's users? | |
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| Francine Berman Director, National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center |
| Q: | Why is the grid the next big thing? | |
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| Q: | What is the role of data on the grid? | |
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| Ed Seidel Head, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics' Numerical Relativity Group Senior Research Scientist, National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
| Q: | What might a big simulation on the grid look like? | |
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| Miron Livny Professor, University of Wisconsin Head, Condor high-throughput computing project |
| Q: | Why build the grid? | |
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| Q: | How do researchers ensure the grid will work? | |
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| Ian Foster Associate Director, Argonne National Laboratory's Mathematics and Computer Science Division Professor, University of Chicago |
| Q: | What's the importance of middleware? | |
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| Bill Johnston Project Manager, NASA's Information Power Grid Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Q: | How might a research scientist use the grid? | |
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