The topic of this presentation is about fastest growing open source Java grid computing framework called GridGain and how its focus on elegant simplicity and Enterprise Java integration is helping to revolutionize the grid computing for Java in the same way as Spring or JBoss have changed Enterprise Java landscape. The presentation will start with an introduction to grid computing and specifically data and compute grids. MapReduce will be discussed. Real-life examples will be discussed as well as common pitfalls, patterns and anti-patterns of using grid computing in real life. After introduction a comparison between GridGain and Hadoop (another popular MapReduce implementation) will be given with usual pros and cons of both projects. To underscore the topic of presentation it will also include live demonstration of writing a simple application and grid enabling it to run on a small grid right in front of the audience. All coding during demonstration will be done live. Detailed and in-depth explanations will highlight that grid computing in Java can be fun, simple and productive to use in everyday applications and systems.

GridGain is the fastest growing open source Java grid computing framework. In the first 6 months since the first release in august 2007 GridGain has been downloaded over 15000 times, used by more than 500 unique projects and grid node with GridGain starts somewhere around the globe every 60 seconds.

GridGain has active production and testing users on all continents and in over several dozen different countries. GridGain project has financial sponsorship of GridGain Systems that sponsors the development and provides commercial services around it.

Audience is expected to include developers, architects and technical managers who are interested in grid computing technology that breaks away from traditional mold and makes Java grid computing fun, simple and productive to use. We are expecting this talk to be really interesting and popular among the attendees as it includes a live end-to-end demonstration of something that not so long ago would require weeks and months of just configuration and was part of only privileged projects in the government research and large corporate sectors.