Presented at
The Fifth HOPE (2004),
July 10, 2004, 3 p.m.
(60 minutes)
One of the biggest projects in computing for big science and enterprises these day is computational grids. Grid computing is at the heart of marketing plans from Oracle, IBM, Sun, and other big companies. For them, "grid" is mostly a buzzword that describes various ways of tying computers together. A more specific use of "grid" is found in big science, however. The national TeraGrid, based on the National Science Foundation's Middleware Initiative (NMI), uses the Globus toolkit and a variety of other packages to run some of the world's largest supercomputers. It's also used to tie many smaller computers and clusters together in the academic and business worlds. Can this "big iron" be hacked? This talk will examine real and potential weaknesses in Globus and other elements of NMI, as well as the promise and reality of end-to-end security for Grid-enabled computers.
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Dr. Greg Newby
as Greg Newby
Dr. Greg Newby is an information scientist with an interest in hacker ethics and education for hackers. He has taught college courses ranging from Unix security to systems administration, and has also published papers and led workshops. He has helped organize the last few HOPE conferences and still believes in the promise of information technology for a free and empowered society.
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Porkchop
Porkchop has been involved with 2600 since 1997 helping with the HOPE conferences, the Off The Hook radio show and the documentary Freedom Downtime. He earns his bread at a liberal arts college in New York toying with grid computing infrastructure and writing software for collaboration between research scientists in the field of bioinformatics.
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