Princeton Receives 100,000 CPU Hours on Sun Grid

Dec 19, 2005 | Sun Grid helps customers and partners derive immediate benefits from an open, Grid-based computing infrastructure on a utility basis by giving them more choice and control over how they purchase and leverage IT. To date, Princeton, a leading research institution and undergraduate college, has used nearly 11,000 CPU hours on the Sun Grid Compute Utility.
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Distributed Classes For Distributed Computing

Dec 19, 2005 | Since fall semester 2004, 75 students across North Carolina have learned about Grid computing with the help of faculty from several institutions and the North Carolina Research and Education Network.
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A Look into the Future of Grid Research

Dec 05, 2005 | In this article (originally published at http://livewire.hpcwire.com, a site containing live blogs from the recent SC'05 conference), Wolfgang Gentzsch discusses the highlights of this year's Grid 2005 workshop -- from recurring themes in the paper/poster presentations to the "all-star" panel discussing the near-term future for Grid computing.
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World Community Grid Launches FightAIDS@Home

Nov 28, 2005 | Working with the Scripps Research Institute, a private, non-profit research organization engaged in basic biomedical science based in San Diego, World Community Grid will host its second major project -- the Internet-based FightAIDS@Home, an evolutionary research project dedicated to finding new AIDS therapies.
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Gates Leads Microsoft into HPC

Nov 21, 2005 | In his SC'05 keynote address, titled "The Role of Computing in the Sciences," Gates shared a vision of how the software industry can contribute to accelerating scientific research and engineering innovation, calling for broad collaboration between the computing industry, academia and government.
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Sun's Bjorn Andersson Gives Insight into Big Wins

Nov 21, 2005 | Derrick Harris spoke with Sun's Bjorn Andersson about what's going on with the company in terms of its Grid and HPC initiatives. Andersson discusses Sun's big customer wins for its Sun Grid and its largest HPC win to-date with the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He also comments on the state of the Grid market and where it's headed.
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United Devices Founder on Grids, Clusters

Nov 21, 2005 | GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris spoke with Ed Hubbard, founder and chief marketing officer of United Devices, about the company's strategy around SC'05. its recent acquisition of France-based GridXpert (a leader in the manufacturing sector), the issues of Grid standards and Grid adoption, and the differences between Grids and clusters -- a topic that arises quite often in the HPC space.
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Platform CEO: If Clusters are Trees, Grid is the Forest

Nov 21, 2005 | GRIDtoday's Derrick Harris spoke with Songnian Zhou, co-founder and CEO of Platform Computing, about the company's role in the Grid and HPC markets -- as Platform has a strong presence in both.
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Sun Opens Solution Center for HPC

Nov 14, 2005 | The facility offers customers access to world-class scientists and algorithm experts who specialize in developing and deploying large-scale HPC solutions based on best practices, and also provides them access to some of the highest-performance storage, x64 (x86, 64-bit) and SPARC processor-based systems on the planet.
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Third Oracle Grid Index Underlines Global Progress

Nov 14, 2005 | At a global level, the Oracle Grid Index has risen to 5.2 from its previous value, in April, of 4.4. All of the underlying indices making up the overall Grid Index show increases in all geographies, indicating steady progress of mainstream activity toward the implementation of modern dynamic IT infrastructures.
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Applying the Power of Grid to J2EE Environments

Nov 07, 2005 | Grid's evolution beyond its compute-intensive roots has been discussed quite a bit recently, and DataSynapse's Kelly Vizzini furthers that discussion by describing the benefits of Grid-enabling transactional applications. When applied in these environments, it is possible to achieve horizontal scale that optimizes resource utilization and reduces the need for more hardware.
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Slots Still Open for Upcoming Grid/SOA Publication

Oct 31, 2005 | Tabor Communications is offering participation opportunities for "The Emergence of Grid and Service-Oriented IT," a high-quality, full-color publication set to be released in January. The book will feature case studies, articles by thought-leaders, provider profiles, interviews and market perspectives
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Moving Beyond the Compute Grid

Oct 24, 2005 | With the compute element reasonably well understood, the next challenges in Grid computing are essentially those that are "beyond the compute Grid." In this article, William Fellows discusses those challenges, which include software licensing, data management, cultural/organizational issues, standards adoption, design models and the enfranchisement of current IT.
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Grid Computing in the Digital Media Industry

Oct 10, 2005 | Jim Davis, senior analyst with The 451 Group, gives a deeper look into the company's recently released report on the effects of Grid computing in the digital media industry. Among the many insights Davis gives is that while the underlying technologies of Grid computing are not foreign to the industry, the term often times is.
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DataSynapse Boss on Company's Success

Oct 03, 2005 | In a recent interview with GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris, DataSynapse CEO Peter Lee discusses the company's path to success in the Grid market -- a path that led to record revenues in the first half of the year. Lee also gives an introduction to FabricServer, DataSynapse's new product that brings Grid's benefits to transactional applications.
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eXludus CEO Speaks His Mind ... and Then Some

Oct 03, 2005 | In this captivating interview with GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris, eXludus CEO Benoit Marchand not only covers the usual suspects -- who he is, why his company is innovative, etc. -- he also expresses his views on issues like global economics, how off-shoring affects the North American economy, and the aesthetic aspects of software development.
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Bringing Optical Networking to the World

Sep 19, 2005 | From Sept. 26-30 in San Diego, iGrid 2005 will focus the world’s attention on the promise of, and challenges to, working at the state of the art in optical networking in a Grid-aware world. In this article, Stephanie Sides, director of communication at Calit2, previews the next installment of the international, biennial event.
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From Brazil, with Love: A Look at OurGrid

Sep 19, 2005 | GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris recently spoke with Walfredo Cirne, leader of the Brazil-based OurGrid -- a project to which HP has contributed a fair amount of resources, and that has become one of the largest computational Grids in Brazil. Cirne will be presenting at the next Gelato Federation meeting, which will take place Oct. 2-5 in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
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iGrid Chair DeFanti: 'Not at the End of the Rainbow Yet'

Sep 12, 2005 | In a recent interview for GRIDtoday, Doug Ramsey of the University of California, San Diego spoke with Tom DeFanti about the upcoming iGrid 2005 workshop and symposium, which DeFanti joked he thinks of as "the visualization, networking and Grid computing equivalent of a Grateful Dead concert."
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Tackling Data Management in an Enterprise IT Environment

Aug 29, 2005 | William Fellows of The 451 Group gives us a look into the details of the firm's recent report "Grid Computing -- Managing Data on Grids." Fellows discusses the importance of managing data on Grids, and gives some insight into how the leading Grid vendors are addressing the issue.
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The Sweet Sound of Grid Computing

Aug 15, 2005 | Brooklin Gore, a senior fellow with Micron Technology, discusses how upgrading the performance of an organization's desktop PCs can have a major impact of the effectiveness of a Grid infrastructure. Gore also answers the question: If a PC is sitting on a desk, but no one is around to use it, does it make a sound?
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United Devices to Acquire GridXpert

Aug 15, 2005 | The acquisition establishes United Devices as a premium Grid solution provider in two of the top three High Performance Computing (HPC) segments -- life sciences and manufacturing/design. GridXpert currently leads the manufacturing industry in providing enterprise Grid middleware and meta-scheduling solutions.
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Shining a Light on Enterprise Grid Security

Aug 08, 2005 | GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris recently spoke with Glenn Brunette -- vice chair of the EGA Grid Security Working Group and a distinguished engineer and chief security architect for the client solutions division at Sun Microsystems -- about the Enterprise Grid Security Requirements document released by the EGA last month.
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Who's Afraid of Grid Computing?

Aug 08, 2005 | It's been glanced over in a couple of recent GRIDtoday articles, but here is the real thing: Kelly Vizzini, chief marketing officer of DataSynapse, delivers her top five reasons why companies are not adopting Grid computing. However, Vizzini also acknowledges that things are changing for the better as the list of proud Grid adopters grows longer.
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EGA Defines Grid Security Requirements

Jul 25, 2005 | Building on the EGA's Reference Model, the technical results from the Grid Security Working Group empower end-users by illustrating the risks and threats inherent in enterprise Grid computing and outlining a set of security requirements to better equip organizations with the information needed to protect themselves.
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The Grid-Based Proof-of-Concept Project

Jul 18, 2005 | In this article, Rich Wellner, enterprise architect at Univa Corp., discusses how a good proof-of-concept (POC) project can help enterprises determine the efficacy of a Grid solution in a way that doesn't expose the business to an overly large risk. Examples include compute Grid, embarrassingly parallel and data Grid POCs.
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Defining Grid a Hot Topic at VIP Summit

Jul 18, 2005 | If the attendees of the GRIDtoday VIP Summit take one thing away from the event's first day, it might very well be that Grid computing -- both the technology and the market -- is desperately in need of a standard definition.
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Genworth Financial Meets Grid

Jul 18, 2005 | Kelly Vizzini, chief marketing officer of DataSynapse, tells about how Genworth Financial was able to better leverage resources and increase its competitive advantage by deploying a Grid computing solution. After it's success with a departmental strategy, the company opted for an enterprise-wide deployment.
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Grid Computing: Square Pegs, Round Holes and a Good Cigar

Jul 11, 2005 | In his latest column, Mike Bernhardt seeks to gain a fresh perspective on the state of Grid adoption by speaking with various vendors, end-users and experts, including a lengthy discussion with an anonymous IT executive over coffee and fine cigars. Bernhardt's conclusion: By incorporating a new way of thinking, we might find that square pegs can, in fact, fit into round holes.
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Digipede Seeking to End Windows Neglect

Jul 04, 2005 | GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris recently spoke with Digipede Technologies CEO John Powers about what the company is expecting with its product launch next quarter, how it plans to infiltrate users from the bottom up and, perhaps most importantly, why Digipede is focused on bringing Grid to mainstream Windows users -- a market Powers calls "gigantic and lightly contested."
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DRI Resource Exchange Exceeds 1M CPU Hours per Month

Jun 27, 2005 | Digital Ribbon Inc. has added a high speed 97-node Beowulf cluster at the University of Central Florida Institute for Simulation and training (IST) to its stable of potential resources. This addition brings Digital Ribbon's total capacity to more than 1,030,000 CPU hours per month at the market rate of around 60 cents per hour.
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It's Alan's Turn to Cry: Report from WS-I Spring Meeting

Jun 27, 2005 | GRIDtoday contributing author Alan J. Weissberger left the WS-I Spring Community Meeting feeling a little disappointed, and he tells you why in this detailed report from the conference. Not all was disappointing, however, as Weissberger discusses an IBM-led session on creating a business-to-business profile of emerging Web services standards.
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Ian Foster on the Impact of 'Service-Oriented Science'

Jun 27, 2005 | In an exclusive agreement with Science magazine, GRIDtoday is able to bring you an article by by Ian Foster in which he discusses the enormous potential for service-oriented science, a term that he defines as "scientific research enabled by distributed networks of interoperating services." ** E-mail edition readers, access can only be granted through the Web edition of this article, which can be found at http://news.taborcommunications.com/msgget.jsp?mid=404460&xsl=story.xsl.
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Grid: The Future of Enterprise Information Processing

Jun 20, 2005 | Michael J. Andrescavage, chief software architect of Andrescavage Software Inc., discusses how enterprise information processing systems have become so complex and why Grid computing is the key to reining in the ever-increasing complexity.
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Pharma Grids Facing Obstacles Aplenty

Jun 20, 2005 | If you haven't had the chance to read The 451 Group's recently released report on Grid adoption in the pharmaceutical industry, don't panic. GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris spoke with Steve Wallage, director of research at The 451 Group, about it. Wallage offers some great insights into who's using Grids, why some are not and what vendors can do to get a foothold in this potentially large Grid market.
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Edinburgh Offering Postgraduate Degree in e-Science

Jun 13, 2005 | The University of Edinburgh is offering the world's first postgraduate degree program in e-Science. Students will study the principles of distributed computing underlying e-Science and the Grid, as well as gaining practical experience in using current Web and Grid services technologies.
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Grid and the Migration to SOA

Jun 13, 2005 | In this article, Kelly Vizzini, chief marketing officer at DataSynapse, discusses the complementary nature of Grid computing and service-oriented architecture, and lays out the case for adopting them. Benefits include improved application performance, improved flexibility and API independence, and, perhaps most important, a reduction in overall TCO.
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Grid Hailed as Key to EU Competitiveness

Jun 06, 2005 | Watch out rest of the world, Europe is looking to improve its already cutting-edge Grid program. In a recent speech, Viviane Reding, a member of the European Commission's commission responsible for information society, called for an increase in funding and effort -- including doubling the research budget to more than 70 billion Euros ($85 billion) -- to create a truly transnational research and Grid program.
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Melbourne Offers Advanced Degree in Distributed, Grid Computing

Jun 06, 2005 | The world's first postgraduate degree in the emerging field of distributed computing and Grid technology, which enables users to access resources through a virtual network of computer applications, was recently launched at the University of Melbourne.
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Security, Security, Security

May 30, 2005 | Security is a major issue in Grid computing, and in this article, Tony Hey, director of the U.K. e-Science Program, gives his two cents on the issue. He also recaps a recent meeting in London where experts from around the world gathered to discuss the various problems and issues surrounding Grid security.
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ASPEED Exec Teaches Lesson in Grid-Enablement

May 30, 2005 | In this interview, Kurt Ziegler, ASPEED Software's executive vice president of marketing and product management, speaks with GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris about Ziegler's recent whitepaper, "Designing Distributed Parallel Programs for Performance," and about the Grid market in general -- especially from ASPEED's position as a provider of application acceleration software.
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IBM Looking to Localize Grid

May 23, 2005 | Although it's not on a philanthropic level with Big Blue's World Community Grid, IBM's Economic Development Grid initiative does seek to help out local governments and economies by bringing them the power of the Grid. Projects have already been announced in Cleveland, and IBM's Ken King says the wheels are in motion in other cities, as well.
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Grid, HPC and SOA: The Real Thing?

May 23, 2005 | In this article, Labro Dimitriou, a Grid specialist with Platform Computing, discusses why Grid and SOA are here to stay. He also describes the technology "product stack" in order to identify strategic from tactical, and proposes best practices techniques for securing ROI and offering resilience to change and early adoption risks.
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CCGrid 2005 Recap: The Closest Thing to Being There

May 23, 2005 | If you missed the 5th IEEE Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2005), which was held May 9-12 in Cardiff, Wales, fear not. This article gives a detailed summary of the meetings and sessions that took place during the event, where the Grid portion "dominated" despite an effort to have equal cluster representation.
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Grids Playing Prominent Role in Life Science Research

May 16, 2005 | In this article, Salvatore Salamone discusses the effect Grid computing is having on the life science community, and goes on to detail the most common applications running on Grids in the field. Also discussed are internal Grids, like those in place at Novartis and Johnson & Johnson, and philanthropic Grids, such as the Smallpox Research Grid Project and the World Community Grid.
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EGA Reference Model: A Closer Look

May 16, 2005 | Fresh off last week's Reference Model for enterprise Grids release, Paul Strong, chairman of the EGA technical steering committee and systems architect at Sun Microsystems, spoke with GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris about what people can expect to find within its pages, how it will help clear up confusion among those in the Grid space, and how the alliance's first deliverable will "serve as proof of the intent and value of the EGA."
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Where Will Grid Go for Reliable Messaging?

May 16, 2005 | The advantages of Web services reliable message delivery for e-Commerce and e-Business has been well documented. However, there has been almost nothing published on how Grid data, control and management messages will be reliably delivered to one or more endpoints. In this article, Alan Weissberger describes some of the specs (including WS-RM and WS-RX) being discussed right now, and calls on the GGF to provide guidance.
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Globus Consortium Launches Three New Development Projects

May 09, 2005 | The Globus Consortium announced three new enterprise-level development projects for the Globus Toolkit: Priority Bug Fixing; Web Services Execution Management; and Increased Documentation for International Development Community.
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Globus Toolkit v. 4.0 Released

May 09, 2005 | GT4 is the most stable, "enterprise ready" version of the Globus Toolkit ever -- incorporating the latest Web services standards, new security and authorization features, and the collaborative efforts of a global community of open source Grid developers.
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Fermilab's DZero Experiment Crunches Record Data

May 02, 2005 | Using Grid computing, facilities in six countries around the globe have begun to provide computing power equivalent to 3,000 one-gigahertz Pentium III processors to crunch more experimental data than ever before. In six months, the computers will churn through 250TB of data -- enough to fill a stack of CDs as high as the Eiffel Tower.
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Gelato Brings 'Linux on Itanium' Message to GridAsia

May 02, 2005 | GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris speaks with Gelato director Mark K. Smith about the organization in general, what Gelato and its members are up to at GridAsia, why Asia is such a hotbed for Grid, and why Linux on Itanium is the way to go.
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World Community Grid Powered by 100,000 Devices

May 02, 2005 | Recently, World Community Grid enlisted its 100,000th computer and its first university partner, Marist College, in the humanitarian effort to find answers to the world's most daunting scientific problems through unparalleled computational research provided by IBM.
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Industry, Academia Meet on the Grid

Apr 25, 2005 | Industry and academia are not always the most natural of collaborators, but in the field of Grid computing, things may be changing. This week Owen Appleton looks at CGG, a geophysical services company, and speaks to Dominique Thomas, its software development manager.
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Australian College Developing 'Cycle-Stealing' Software

Apr 25, 2005 | Supported by a grant from Microsoft, researchers from Queensland University of Technology have developed a framework called G2, which supports the creation of secure "cycle stealing" networks on the Internet. It allows people to contribute computing power using nothing more than a Web browser.
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A Grid By Any Other Name

Apr 25, 2005 | At the recent HPCC conference, "Grid" was undoubtedly one of the hottest topics and is viewed by a number of industry leaders as enabling a possible convergence of HPC and mainstream computing. In this column, GRIDtoday columnist Mike Bernhardt discusses recent observations -- and his opinion that it's important not to get hung up on the definition of Grid.
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Grid Computing: How Europe is Leading the Pack

Apr 18, 2005 | With funding for Grid projects into the hundreds of millions of dollars and a continental research network connecting more than 3,000 sites, Europe truly is dedicated to the Grid. Here, Wolfgang Gentzsch lays out the "hows" and "whys" of Europe's Grid dominance, even going so far as to call the European Grid effort "a coordinated, single economic engine preparing to compete with Asia and the United States."
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Cisco to Acquire Topspin for $250 Million

Apr 18, 2005 | This acquisition strengthens Cisco's ability to provide customers with specialized networking technology and services to allow them to build their data centers in a flexible, Grid-like fashion. The Topspin product line will extend Cisco's data center switching solutions to include InfiniBand-based server switching and will complement Cisco's existing network switching and storage switching solutions.
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Grid Project Seeks to Reduce 'Brain Drain' in SE Europe

Apr 18, 2005 | Over the past decade, Southeastern European countries affected by conflict have not only lost lives on a massive scale but also intellectual capacity. By providing state-of-the-art Grid computing technology and seed money for exchange visits abroad to universities, the joint UNESCO and Hewlett-Packard project aims to encourage young scientists to remain in the region and cooperate with the diaspora.
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asiGRID 'Breathing New Life' into Obsolete Machines

Apr 11, 2005 | GRIDtoday recently spoke with Michael Andrescavage, chief software architect of Andrescavage Software Inc. (www.gridnow.com), about his namesake company and it's goal to ease Grid-enablement for organizations in all fields. The company recently announced its flagship solution, asiGRID, which is capable of controlling a heterogeneous configuration of computing resources.
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Grid Index Shows Adoption Rising Worldwide

Apr 11, 2005 | Oracle unveiled the results of its latest Oracle Grid Index research, which measures global adoption of Grid computing technologies. The overall Oracle Grid Index score for businesses across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific is 4.41, on a scale of zero to 10. North America had the highest score of the three regions with 4.50, Europe scored 4.39 and Asia Pacific scored 4.37.
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Two Sets of 'Composable' Web Services Specs to be Tested

Apr 11, 2005 | For Grid applications, Web services messages must be reliably and securely delivered. Various Web services specifications and standards have been developed for this purpose. Two different sets of specifications which address the required functionality will be soon tested for interoperability.
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Working Toward a Semantic Grid

Mar 28, 2005 | In this article, Tony Hey, director of e-Science for the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council, discusses a recent paper wherein the authors outline the 12 key concepts for the semantic Grid, and five key technologies that some U.K. e-Science projects are using to address these requirements.
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The 451 Group: Licensing an Obstacle to Grid App Deployment

Mar 21, 2005 | The 451 Group believes current enterprise software licensing models are throttling Grid computing deployments and that these models, which have been built around legacy concepts of enterprise application use, are presenting an increasing problem for enterprise IT managers as they pursue implementations of Grid applications.
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The Path to Grid-Friendly Software Licensing

Mar 21, 2005 | In this article, Brooklin J. Gore, senior fellow at Micron Technology Inc., discusses how different licensing models might be used in Grid environments. Gore suggests the most expeditious path to fully-Grid-enabled applications is for application vendors to first address Grid-unfriendly licensing models and then address the associated technical issues.
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WS-I Advances BSP Documents, Explores New Items

Mar 21, 2005 | Alan Weissberger attended the WS-I Community Meeting, which was held March 8-11 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and offers a report of what was covered. Among the highlights was a representative of the Burton Group who stated that over 70 percent of its Fortune 300 clients recognize the value of WS-I deliverables and are including them in their IT requirements.
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New Solutions Extend SGI'S Drive to Advance Grid Computing

Mar 14, 2005 | Recent SGI product introductions mark the latest in SGI's long track record of contributions to Grid computing standards bodies and at university, government and commercial sites.
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Why is Project MegaGrid so MegaQuiet?

Mar 14, 2005 | When Project MegaGrid was announced at OpenWorld late last year, it was executed with all the ingredients of an industry-shaking and –shaping blockbuster. Peter Meade seeks to find out why there hasn't been a steady stream of progress reports made on MegaGrid detailing all that has been accomplished since Michael Dell made his introductory speech that day in San Francisco?
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IBM Provides Access to Blue Gene Supercomputer On Demand

Mar 14, 2005 | IBM announced the availability of its Blue Gene supercomputing system at its newest Deep Computing Capacity on Demand Center in Rochester, Minn. The new Center will allow customers and partners, for the first time ever, to remotely access the Blue Gene system through a highly secure and dedicated Virtual Private Network and pay only for the amount of capacity reserved.
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Walter Stewart on SGI's Role in Ever-Evolving World of Grid

Mar 14, 2005 | A lot has changed since 1997, when SGI put on the first public Grid demonstration at the Supercomputing show. Walter Stewart, SGI's business development manager for Grid, spoke with GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris about just what has changed since then, as well about the company's tactics in the battle against increasingly large data spikes.
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Platform Computing Drives Grid Adoption in China

Mar 07, 2005 | Platform's Grid solutions have been selected by the Shanghai Supercomputer Center, recently ranked as the 17th most powerful computer system in the world, and the Chinese government's influential National High Technology Research and Development Program, known as the "863 Program," which is evaluating Grid applications for China's aerospace industry.
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View from the GlobusWORLD Floor

Mar 07, 2005 | You couldn't make the GlobusWORLD conference in Boston? That's OK. Hal Hensley took notes for you. Read his report and find out why he says the Grid is growing and spreading beyond academia and laboratory into the world of commercial business.
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GRIDtoday Launches Technology-Diplomacy Initiative

Feb 28, 2005 | Responding to a desire for cooperation among Latin American high-technology leaders, Tabor Communications Inc. (TCI) hosted the first GRIDtoday VIP Summit on Grid Computing, Latin America, which took place Feb. 21-22 in San Jose, Costa Rica.
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IBM Awards Grant to Univ. of Texas for Grid Project

Feb 28, 2005 | Led by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), the goal of the UT Grid project is to facilitate advanced research and new educational applications by developing and deploying software technologies to integrate the diverse computational, storage, visualization, data and instrument resources of The University of Texas.
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Romancing the Grid

Feb 21, 2005 | Welcome to "The Business of Grid," an opinion column by Mike Bernhardt, CEO of Grid Strategies Inc. and long-time contributing writer to GRIDtoday. In this recurring column, Bernhardt will provide opinion and insight on timely topics deemed of interest to the readers of GRIDtoday. We hope you enjoy this column and we welcome your feedback.
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Sun to Award Grid Research Grants

Feb 21, 2005 | Just weeks after Sun announced its vision for a new era in network computing and unveiled major elements of its new Sun Grid utility offering, Sun is announcing its intent to award spare cycles to deserving research efforts. Sun has already begun planning with two of the world's leading research universities: University of California-Berkeley and University of Southern California.
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Sun to be Part of First Online Compute Exchange

Feb 14, 2005 | Based on the new Sun Grid and Archipelago's electronic matching technology, the companies plan to introduce a new electronic trading environment that will allow customers to bid on CPU usage cycles. Being able to dynamically bid for open compute cycles will provide companies across the globe with unprecedented flexibility in planning for the purchase and use of compute power.
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Managed Network Services: The Way to Interconnect Grid Sites?

Feb 14, 2005 | With all the talk about enterprise Grid computing, Alan Weissberger finds it "surprising how little discussion has occurred detailing exactly how enterprise Grid sites will be interconnected." In this article, he proposes that managed network services might be the answer to this important, but oft-neglected, question.
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Preparing for the Grid

Feb 14, 2005 | Entering the world of the Grid can be an exciting decision process, and there are many issues which must be considered when considering a Grid deployment. In this article, Rich Wellner, enterprise architect for Univa Corp, discusses the CPU requirements and the balance that can be struck between TCO and improved performance with Grid based applications. Figures present in Web version only.
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SUN LIGHTS UP $1/CPU/HR HOUR 'SUN GRID'

Feb 07, 2005 | Sun Grid allows customers and partners to derive immediate benefits from an open, Grid-based computing infrastructure on a utility basis by giving them more choice and control over how they purchase and leverage IT.
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LATIN AMERICA GRID SUMMIT TO RAISE HEMISPHERIC COOPERATION

Jan 31, 2005 | Responding to a growing sense of common cause among high-technology leaders in Latin America, Tabor Communications Inc (TCI) has organized the first "VIP Summit on Grid Computing: Latin America," to take place Feb. 21-22 in San Jose, Costa Rica. The event will look to build an inter-regional high-tech community.
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SHANGHAI TO BUILD CHINA'S FIRST CITY-WIDE GRID FOR RESEARCH

Jan 31, 2005 | The goal of this ambitious project is to provide a city-wide infrastructure for sharing and exploiting scientific information contributed by industry and research organizations across the Shanghai Municipality.
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GLOBUS SETS ITS EYES ON THE ENTERPRISE

Jan 31, 2005 | GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris recently spoke with Greg Nawrocki, president of the Globus Consortium, about the newly-formed industry group. Nawrocki laid out the goals for the consortium, and also commented on the absence of Oracle and Microsoft, and the "symbiotic relationship" between the Globus Consortium and the EGA.
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HP, IBM, INTEL, SUN LAUNCH GLOBUS CONSORTIUM

Jan 31, 2005 | Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel and Sun Microsystems announced the formation of the Globus Consortium, a new industry group dedicated to the commercial advancement of the Globus Toolkit, an open standards building block for enterprise-level Grid implementations.
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GRID PLUGTEST: INTEROPERABILITY ON THE GRID

Jan 31, 2005 | ETSI and INRIA organized a three-day Grid Plugtest, which started on Oct. 18. The objective was to learn, through user experience and open discussions, about the future features needed for the ProActive Grid middleware as well as to get important feedback on the deployment and interoperability of Grid applications.
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UCSD EXPANDS CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM TO CHINA, THAILAND

Jan 31, 2005 | PRIME was launched in June 2004 with a $156,000, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the program secured additional funding from Cal-(IT)2 and the Geosciences Network. Organizational participants in PRIME include Sixth College, UCSD's Academic Internship Program, and PRAGMA.
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ROBUST, INDUSTRIAL-STRENGTH TOOLKIT KEY TO ENTERPRISE GRIDS

Jan 31, 2005 | HP is one of the charter members of the Globus Consortium, and GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris recently spoke with Sara Murphy, HP's Grid marketing manager, about the company's role in the group and about the role that a robust Globus Toolkit will play in the future of enterprise Grid computing.
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COMPUSYS HPC, GridXpert SIGN NEW PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT

Jan 24, 2005 | Compusys HPC will be installing GridXpert Synergy Products across the organization, to connect four HPC cluster resources in three European countries, creating a unique Grid technology demonstration facility, that will be available via the Compusys HPC Labs.
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WiMAX MAY BE USED TO ACCESS GRID COMPUTER SITES

Jan 24, 2005 | A new application of WiMAX is now just emerging -- one that has great potential for use in providing broadband access to Grid computer sites. AT&T and other long distance carriers have been interested in using WiMAX to extend their long haul private line and broadband data networks to business customers.
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WELL-KNOWN HPC VETERAN SEES GRID AS BIG DEAL IN 2005

Jan 24, 2005 | Of the marketing service providers interviewed by Mike Bernhardt's Grid Strategies, all of whom have clients in the HPC or Grid computing space, 94 percent of the firms have confirmed forecasts for revenue growth attributed to clients increasing their Grid computing marketing efforts in calendar year 2005.
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IBM SPONSORS NEW GRID COMPUTING WORKSHOPS

Jan 10, 2005 | The workshops will be led by a team of IBM technical architects from the IBM Innovation Centers, with a mission to help Business Partners understand the business value of and take advantage of Grid technologies.
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TONY HEY ON THE NEED FOR WEB SERVICES STANDARDS

Jan 10, 2005 | Tony Hey, director of e-Science for the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council, discusses the need for standards in regard to Web services and Grid computing, as The presently accepted Web services certainly do not constitute a satisfactory basis to construct a robust, international Cyberinfrastructure.
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