Grid Computing: Going Green While Getting Serious with IT May 16, 2007

You and your staff are cordially invited to a complimentary breakfast briefing to discuss how to conserve energy and bring the promise of grid computing to your organization.

Opening the dialogue will be a presentation from Dale Sartor, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, who will talk about the Data Center in the 21st Century. Dale will discuss research and benchmarking studies performed for the California Energy Commission and PG&E that will tell you where your company stacks up in its energy usage, and he will identify best practices associated with the most energy frugal centers. He will also highlight EPA's draft report to Congress, and describe a new DOE program to help data center operators improve their energy performance.

Following Dale's talk, you'll hear from AMD about the impact processors have on server efficiency; from Oracle about the evolution of grid computing; and from Sun Microsystems with examples of grid computing applications.

Agenda
8:30 Registration and breakfast
9:00 Dale Sartor, P.E., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Data Centers for the 21st Century: Working with Industry to Improve Energy Efficiency in Data Centers

9:30 Evolving Grid Architecture: Why Processors Matter
Peter Hwang, Asia Manager, Advanced Micro Devices

10:00 Enterprise Grid Computing
Gordon Smith, Oracle Corporation

11:00 Grid Solutions Unwrapped
Paul Milo, Director, Partner Marketing, Sun Microsystems

11:45 Adjourn

About AMD, Oracle and Sun Microsystems:
AMD (NYSE: AMD) is the customer-centric innovation company, a processing powerhouse that offers smarter choices for its customers and makes technology more accessible to the world. Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company. A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- guides Sun in the development of technologies that power the world's most important markets.

Free, RSVP to Peg Hosky, [email protected], 202-237-0300.

Official Website: http://www.hosky.com/Oracle_AMD_Sun_Grid_Computing_SF.htm