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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