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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