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Date: Friday 13th December 2002
Venue: The Brunei Gallery of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
| Scope | Speakers | Agenda | Registration | Sponsors |
The meeting will provide an update on the technologies being developed to provide super-computer performance on commodity machines and the science being enabled by these technologies. Topics will include the use of Linux Clusters and Farms, Screen-saver type technologies as used in some recent high profile virtual screening exercises, novel hardware such as Blade computing and applications talks.
The meeting will open with a presentation from Pat Leach, CIO at Inpharmatica, who will give an overview of the field and discuss the background to Inpharmatica's own solutions.
Other confirmed speakers include Dr. David Boyd Deputy Director of the CLRC e-Science Centre, that hosts the UK Grid Support Centre, Keith Davies, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Oxford University and head of Treweren Consultants who run find-a-drug.com on a not for profit basis and Phil Butcher from the Sanger Centre.
In addition, technical experts from several of the leading software and hardware vendors have accepted invitations to speak, including Entropia, United Devices, IBM, RLX, Platform Computing and Blackstone Computing.
In addition to the presentations, there will be exhibition stands manned throughout the lunch break.
| Time | |||
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| 9:00-9:55 | Registration | ||
| 9:55-10:00 | Introduction | ||
| 10:00-10:45 | Pat Leach | CIO, Inpharmatica | |
| 10:45-11:20 | Keith Davies | Treweren Consultants/Oxford Univeristy | |
| 11:20-11:40 | Davin Potts | United Devices | |
| 11:40-12:00 | Maya Natarajan | Director of Life Sciences, Entropia | abstract |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch and Vendor Exhibits | ||
| 1:30-1:50 | Stuart Henderson | IBM | |
| 1:50-2:10 | Bob van Steenberg | CTO, RLX | |
| 2:10-2:45 | David Boyd | Deputy Director, CLRC e-Science Centre | abstract |
| 2:45-3:05 | Tea | ||
| 3:05-3:25 | Richard Groves | Blackstone Computing | abstract |
| 3:25-3:45 | Richard Watkins | Platform Computing | |
| 3:45-4:20 | Phil Butcher | Sanger Centre, Cambridge | |
| 4:20 | MEETING CLOSES |
It is planned to make this a free meeting, including a buffet lunch. Registration for this meeting is now closed. Please let us know if you are no longer able to attend the meeting.
| MGMS | |
| GlaxoSmithKline | Inpharmatica |
| Accelrys | Platform Computing |
| United Devices | Blackstone Computing |
| RLX | Entropia |
| Tripos | Chemical Computing Group |
| Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre | ClearSpeed |
| ClearCube | IBM |
| BladeTec | InforSense |