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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