European Horizons in Paris
Posted on October 25, 2006
Filed Under European Web 2.0 pipeline |
Platform European Grid is a Euro conference on GRID applications and it’s supposed to be looking at real life problems currently being resolved by GRIDs.
For the uninitiated a GRID is a piece of distributed computing power. It’s like sharing out idle processing and running it across hugely complex tasks. I was the rapporteur on a GRID workshop a couple of years back and yawned my way through the meeting.
Take a look at the P.E.G. website and find out how not to be inspired. In the workshop I attended I actually found inspiration, just: a small company seling GRID consultancy. But GRIDS in Europe have the dead hand of the EU on them.
I’m waiting for some poetic language, some concepts, some story. Where is the compelling narrative, the back-story, where are the characters?
The problem is bigger than it seems because the EU is about to spend several billion on IT developments and what comes out the other end is often a bit like PEG. It’ll be 18 months yet before the EU spends any of those billions and decisions on where to spend it were set down 18 months ago.
3 years of chin rubbing is suicide in the convergence business. Techrunch was born and became a star in half that time.
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