I am gratified to see that GRIDtoday's summary of SC06 gave prominence to two UK projects - the social science simulation of population trends and the Grid monitor based on Google Earth. (I've mentioned both of these on this blog). The UK e-Science stand was only one of many in a large exhibition, so it's good to see that we made an impression.
On October 14th, I will be hosting a Grid Computing Now! web seminar on the topic of Cloud Computing. We have lined up two very interesting speakers who are using Cloud now to make businesses work. Ross Cooney had a good technological solution to sell but couldn't make it economic until Cloud Computing allowed him to pay for his computation only when he needed it. He will discuss the instant benefits and long term impact of cloud computing to the development, competitiveness and scalability of your application. Alan Williamson created the BlueDragon Java CFML runtime engine that powers MySpace.com. He advises several businesses and will give an overview of the different types of services available and how to avoid being locked-in to a single supplier. You can register for this event here .
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