Chris Smith's Blog

OGF23 was held last week in Barcelona in conjunction with the BEinGRID industry days events. OGF events, in addition to having great program content, are an excellent way to keep in touch with Grid computing practitioners all over the world, and OGF23 was no exception.

Some of the highlights for me.....

Standards Convergence

For a number of years now I have worked on specifications for interfaces to job management systems in the form of JSDL, OGSA-BES, ...

For my first blog entry I'd like to take the time to introduce myself. My name is Chris Smith, and I'm a product architect at Platform Computing. What does this really mean? I spend time looking at what sorts of problems people are trying to address in the Grid and HPC community, and I try to figure out how to either apply Platform's technologies to solve those problems, or look at new technologies that can be used with Platform's technologies and know how to solve the problem.

I also ...