8.20 |
Registration and breakfast |
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| 8.50 |
Chairman’s opening remarks
Barry Childe, Director, Head of High Performance Computing, BARCLAYS CAPITAL |
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| 9.00 |
Presentation: Grids and future automated trading technology: plug in, turn on, and cop out?
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Using Grid technologies and utility-style computing on demand to enable ‘intelligent’ automation in trading systems |
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Building software autopilots capable of real-time operations beyond human capacity |
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Grid Management strategies to effectively match supply with demand of compute and storage resources |
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Mapping the road ahead: How technology will revolutionize our understanding of buy-side and sell-side firms
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Dave Cliff, Professor of Computer Science, UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL and former Director of FX Trading Room, DEUTSCHE BANK |
| 9.40 |
Panel discussion: Overcoming barriers to global scalability: Dynamically reallocating resources
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Building an architecture that reallocates grid resources on demand |
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Desktop and data-centre scavenging |
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Low latency solutions on a global grid |
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Monitoring performance and developing accurate metrics to evaluate scalability |
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Overcoming barriers to scalability on outsourced grids |
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Moderator: Bob Giffords, Independent Banking and Technology Analyst
Bill Fraser Campbell, Chief Architect, CLS BANK
Yomi Abatan, Enterprise Architect, DEUTSCHE BANK
John Van Uden, Senior Vice President, Capital Markets and Banking Technology, CITIGROUP
Willy Ross, Senior Vice President EMEA, DATASYNA PSE
Lewis Foti, Manager, HPC/Grid, ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND |
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| 10.30 |
Morning break |
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| 11.00 |
Panel discussion: Growing the grid: Effective capacity planning |
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Evaluating the impact of increasing capacity and application performance
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Strategies to cut costs while increasing resources
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Ensuring compatibility of software of new nodes
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Reducing the carbon footprint: Green alternatives
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Marina Cismas, AVP Capacity Planning and Performance Management Engineer, BANK OF AMERICA
Peter Holditch, Senior Systems Engineer, AZUL SYSTEMS
Jay Rajarathinam, Vice President, Head of Business Services Integration, WACHOVIA
Frank Wang, Senior QA/HPC Architect, BARCLAYS CAPITAL
Further panellists to be confirmed |
| 11.50 |
Panel discussion: Using the grid to run innovative and more powerful applications |
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Increasing the power of the grid to generate simultaneous risk analysis scenarios |
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Boosting efficiency in pricing, trading, and processing of derivatives and structured products |
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Evaluating the feasibility of hosting trading applications on the grid |
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Moderator: Barry Childe, Director, Head of High Performance Computing, BARCLAYS CAPITAL
James Burns, Chief Technology Officer, MICROSOFT
Geva Perry, Chief Marketing Officer, GIGASPACES
Terry Spitz, Director, Architecture, CITIGROUP
Mike Stolz, VP of Architecture, GEMSTONE SYSTEMS
Lewis Foti, Manager, HPC/Grid, ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAN D |
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| 12.50 |
Lunch |
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| 2.10 |
Panel Discussion: Running the grid as a business- when to productize the grid server farm |
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Criteria for server prioritization and task scheduling |
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Creating the right incentives to discourage server hugging |
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Building a cooperative relationship with vendors |
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Integrating outsourced and in-house grid technology
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Setting and enforcing SLA’s |
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Ensuring viable and low cost upgrades
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Barry Childe, Director, Head of High Performance Computing, BARCLAYS CAPITAL
Songnian Zhou, Chief Executive Officer, PLAT FORM COMPUTING
Further panellists to be confirmed |
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| 3.10 |
Afternoon break |
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| 3.40 |
Presentation: The next step: Transaction applications using data grids |
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Aims and challenges of integrating an interactive grid service |
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Addressing data saturation and starvation issues |
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Ensuring low latency data availability throughout the enterprise |
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Harmonizing data throughout the enterprise |
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Using grid power for complex event processing and transaction analysis |
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Steven Grill, Chief Architect, HSBC |
| 4.20 |
Panel discussion: New frontiers: Overcoming challenges for total processing virtualization capability |
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Virtualization challenges |
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Virtualizing desktops, networks, and servers |
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Provisioning data and software |
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Virtualization to achieve global HPC strategy |
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Gabriel Sallah, Grid Architect/HPC, BARCLAYS CAPITAL
Carey Jack, Grid Architect, Investment Banking IT, CREDIT SUISSE
Lawrence Ryan, Director, Grid, WW Financial Services Industry, HEWLETT PACKARD
Adam Vile, Head of Grid and HPC, EXCELIAN |
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| 5.20 |
Chairman's Closing Remarks |
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| 5.30 |
Cocktail reception |
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