{"id":63,"date":"2007-01-08T02:02:05","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T18:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=63"},"modified":"2007-01-08T02:07:50","modified_gmt":"2007-01-07T18:07:50","slug":"enterprise-grid-architect-certification-program-by-smu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise Grid Architect Certification Program by SMU"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"Oracle Logo\" title=\"Oracle Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/admin\/images\/ocom\/oralogo_small.gif\" \/>               ~ <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"SMU Logo\" title=\"SMU Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sis.smu.edu.sg\/images\/common\/sis_02.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A few months back, I got arrowed to attend this interesting 4 day training to be a Grid Architect. Normally, I would have just accepted it as it&#8217;s a great break from work, but I thought I wasn&#8217;t even ready for it. Turns out that the course was a pilot run, where <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smu.edu.sg\">SMU<\/a> is still trying to figure out how to structure the course. The attendees was an interesting mix, with 4 from Oracle R&#038;D Allan, Lennard, Srini and Ram, then Marcus from NCS, Lionel from Ingram Micro, Hon-Chung from StanChart and myself from SCS, together with the lecturer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sis.smu.edu.sg\/faculty\/visiting\/anindya.asp\">Anindya  Datta<\/a> who rocks, Mok the super course administrator, Mohit with all the India vs Pakistan @ Kashmir stories and Alvin who can&#8217;t stop selling me Oracle \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is just to say that the course is now official. You can get information about this course on SMU&#8217;s website:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sis.smu.edu.sg\/programme\/diagram\/grid_certification_1206.htm\">Enterprise Grid Architect Certification Program<\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sis.smu.edu.sg\/programme\/diagram\/grid_certification_1206.htm\">http:\/\/www.sis.smu.edu.sg\/programme\/diagram\/grid_certification_1206.htm<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if Anindya and Mohit will still be teaching, but the course is one the shortest and most compact course to understand the status of today&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grid_computing\">Grid<\/a> technology and the application of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/technologies\/grid\/index.html\">Oracle Grid<\/a> with lots of discussion about other stuff like <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globus.org\/\">Globus<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globus.org\/toolkit\/\">toolkit<\/a>, the huge difference between the various definition of Grid (especially in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/technology\/tech\/grid\/index.html\">Oracle speak<\/a>, enterprise vs HPC speak and other major <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grid.org\/about\/gc\/\">industry<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gridalliance.org\/\">initiatives<\/a>), and of course some hands on to convince you that Oracle is not all command line, but got nice GUI if you pay for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/technology\/tech\/grid\/OEM_GC10g.html\">right licenses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you ask too much questions, you&#8217;ll go home feeling like you&#8217;ve just had 3 buffet meals in a day. But all is good otherwise, the notes are great (think they beefed it up more after all the feedback) but you won&#8217;t get to go deep into those case studies due to the shortness of the course. And like you know (if you&#8217;ve actually done any &#8220;system architecture&#8221; thing before), anything more complicated than just <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/technology\/products\/database\/clustering\/\">RAC<\/a>ing up a bunch of Oracle DB to provide <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/High_availability\">HA<\/a> is pretty much a hunter gathering style architecture (yeah feel free to rebutt me&#8230;). Just be prepared to morph it slowly as the business demands grows.<\/p>\n<p>Great work <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informit.com\/authors\/bio.asp?a=e5eeeeae-867b-4a71-b5aa-dda4ab67587d&#038;rl=1\">Mok<\/a> \ud83d\ude42 Hope you find many students for the course.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, if you&#8217;re looking to talk more about application\/services virtualization in general (i.e. what <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sap.com\/platform\/netweaver\/index.epx\">SAP Netweaver <\/a>la, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ud.com\/products\/gridmp.php\">United Devices<\/a> la, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softricity.com\/products\/index.asp\">Microsoft Softgrid<\/a> la, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.appistry.com\/\">Appistry Fabrics<\/a> la etc. etc. etc.) ring me up and buy me dinner. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><!--amm_getMediaID('amm_jj_output',19)--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~ A few months back, I got arrowed to attend this interesting 4 day training to be a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singapore","category-technology","content-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}