Meeting with IBM Life Sciences team

Scope of Meeting

We will discuss with Virinder Batra and Terry O'Brien, of the IBM Life Sciences team, his team's work on the North Carolina Bioinformatics Grid and the UNC project and myGrid's related work on workflows and frameworks. Virinder will be with us in Southampton and Terry will join via telephone.

Time and Place

01 May 2003, UK: 1400-1700 (GMT+1), US: 0900-1200 (East), 0800-1100 (Central)

Via Access Grid. At Southampton, the AG room is the Committee Room (Access Grid room) on the ground floor of the Electronics and Computer Science department. See travel directions.

Agenda

1. IBM's Life Science NC BioGrid/UNC Application: Grids,Framework and Workflow (Virinder Batra)
2. myGrid's objectives and plans (Carole Goble, Matthew Addis, Simon Miles)
3. How do we work together
4. GGF opportunities in Life Science Grid

Presentations and Related Documents

• PresToMyGrid.ppt: Virinder Batra's presentation (agenda item 1)

• IBMLifescienceGrid.doc: The IBM Life Science Grid/Workflow project, a background paper by Terry O'Brien

-- NickSharman - 30 Apr 2003