A Question of 'Gridgistics'

Dec 17, 2007 | In this interview, several members of the gridGISTICS management team tell GRIDtoday how the company's Aware Server product creates a "high-performance, all-encompassing" grid/utility computing environment that takes advantage of both virtualization and SOA.
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Low-Lying (Blue) Clouds

Dec 17, 2007 | While most of the hype around cloud computing has been focused on grand visions of globally interconnected fabrics of computing resources a la Google, the reality is that the first incarnation of commercially accessible cloud solutions (at least labeled as such) will be localized. Due out in the spring, IBM's first Blue Cloud offering will take the form of a BladeCenter.
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Computation on Demand: The Promise of Dynamic Provisioning

Dec 10, 2007 | What is lacking from many virtualization efforts is a high-quality provisioning model. It is one thing to take a large number of existing servers and consolidate them, but it is quite another to leverage virtualization to achieve the promise of on-demand computing. One platform, or model, for accomplishing this is Amazon's EC2 service.
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451 Group: Virtualization Competition Heating Up

Dec 10, 2007 | The 451 Group | The 451 Group believes that competition in virtualization technology is heating up and has moved to the management layer. Thanks to open source projects, the hypervisor has become a commodity. As a result, hypervisor vendors have become virtualization management vendors and are now selling virtualization administration.
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A New Face in Data Caching

Dec 03, 2007 | In this Q&A, ScaleOut Software founder and CEO William Bain discusses his company's distributed data caching solutions, including how they are being adopted by e-commerce and financial services customers, as well as how ScaleOut's products differentiate themselves from the competition.
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Data Storage the Web 2.0 Way

Nov 26, 2007 | GRIDtoday recently spoke with Layered Technologies president and COO Todd Abrams to get the scoop on the company's DynaVol on-demand storage solution. Utilizing virtualized containers and based on LayeredTech's popular grid hosting platform, Abrams believes it offers more than competitors such as Amazon's S3.
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Grid.org Relaunches as Open Source Community

Nov 19, 2007 | UnivaUD | An online community for open source grid and cluster users, administrators and developers debuted today on the Internet at Grid.org. Grid.org provides the single aggregation point for information and interaction by the community of users, administrators, and developers interested in a complete open source grid and cluster stack.
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OGF Spec Makes Grids Interoperable

Nov 19, 2007 | Open Grid Forum | The HPC Basic Profile will enable users of Microsoft's Window's HPC Server 2008, Altair's PBS Professional and Platform LSF products to achieve interoperability and manage resources across multi-site, multi-vendor grids. The profile also will be implemented in open source software running some of the world's largest production grids in North America, Europe and Asia.
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Yahoo Advancing R&D for Internet Computing

Nov 19, 2007 | Yahoo! Inc. | First it was Google, and now it is Yahoo providing resources to university researchers who want to advance development of systems software for distributed computing. Yahoo's program is intended to leverage its leadership in Hadoop to enable researchers to modify and evaluate the systems software running on a 4,000-processor supercomputer provided by Yahoo.
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A Job Scheduler for the Ages

Nov 12, 2007 | One might be a little underwhelmed by Advanced Systems Concepts Inc.'s (ASCI) decision to market its ActiveBatch software as a "job scheduler," even though its list of capabilities lends the product to far sexier (and more nebulous) labels. Among its plethora of features are dynamic reallocation of agents and mobile management, as well as a seemingly infinite number of scheduling options.
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TACC Partners with World Community Grid

Nov 12, 2007 | The Texas Advanced Computing Center recently announced its partnership with the World Community Grid and will assist the project by running World Community Grid software on its employee PCs, installing the client on the new Stampede cluster -- helping scientists scale their research for the World Community Grid -- and allowing other large TACC clusters to run grid computations when there are idle processors.
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Gartner IDs 14 Delivery Models that Will Transform IT

Nov 05, 2007 | Gartner Inc. | Gartner Inc. has identified 14 alternative delivery models that will completely transform the IT market in the next five years. They include: business process utilities; infrastructure utilities; storage as a service; grid computing; communications as a service; utility computing; capacity on-demand; remote management services; SaaS; Web platforms; community source; software streaming; software-based "appliances"; and user-owned devices.
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Folding@home Recognized by Guinness World Records

Nov 05, 2007 | Folding@home program has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the most powerful distributed computing network in the world. The record was initially set on Sept. 16, as Folding@home surpassed one petaflop -- a computing milestone that has never been reached before by a distributed computing network.
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Tales from a Trading Desk: Resiliency Made Easy

Nov 05, 2007 | Today's electronic world has resulted in a major shift in terms of how organizations think about resiliency. Firms of all sizes are not only faced with the challenge of determining how resilient their mission-critical systems need to be, but also how they can efficiently and cost-effectively architect a "resilient" system. With millions of dollars per minute running through electronic channels 24x7, traditional high availability and disaster recovery notions are no longer good enough.
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Balancing Peformance and Simplicity for Wall Street

Oct 29, 2007 | GigaSpaces has made a name for itself by creating a platform that focuses on simplicity while delivering the low latency and high availability that today's financial services firms require. One such firm is Germany's Commerzbank, who made the switch to GigaSpaces this year and already is looking for new applications to run on it.
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Summit Puts Spotlight on High-Performance Grid Computing

Oct 22, 2007 | HPC and grid computing, and the promises and challenges for biomedical applications, were the focus of the first annual Biomedical High Performance Computing Leadership Summit. Charles Coleman and Cheryl Doninger of the SAS Institute recap the event's themes and presentations, which spanned the spectrum of industry applications.
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Google/IBM Initiative Tackles Internet-Scale Challenges

Oct 15, 2007 | IBM; Google | The goal of this initiative is to improve computer science students' knowledge of highly parallel computing practices to better address the emerging paradigm of large-scale distributed computing. IBM and Google are teaming up to provide hardware, software and services to augment university curricula and expand research horizons.
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Gartner Identifies Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2008

Oct 15, 2007 | Gartner Inc. | Gartner analysts highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations. The list includes familiar distributed technologies such as business process modeling, virtualization 2.0, WOA and computing fabrics.
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How to Pair Grids and Databases

Oct 01, 2007 | On Sept. 27, IBM and Objectivity sponsored a webinar called "Unleashing the Power of Grid." For anyone thinking about implementing a grid, or anyone just interested in learning more about grid-enabled databases, this webinar should be very informative.
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On the Origin of Utility Computing, Pt. 2

Oct 01, 2007 | Since the idea utility computing first came to be, the assumption by most was that it had to be an outsourced service, just like the energy utility from which it takes it name. As is prone to happen, however, utility computing has evolved into some forms -- including some located within a user's own datacenter -- that bear little resemblance to their not-so-ancient ancestors.
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On the Origin of Utility Computing

Sep 24, 2007 | Part 1 of this two-part series on the various incarnations of utility computing examines two big names in on-demand resource, Sun's Network.com and Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The article explores what makes them unique, who's using them, how they work and how they will continue to evolve in the years to come.
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Digipede: 2.0 and Beyond

Sep 17, 2007 | Digipede president and CEO John Powers took some time to answer our questions about Digipede Network v.2.0 -- which sees improvements around developer-friendliness, latency and interoperability with Microsoft products -- and how it will set up the company for future growth.
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Taking Over the Reins: New OGF President Craig Lee

Sep 17, 2007 | In this interview, new OGF president Craig Lee (of Aerospace Corporation) discusses a variety of topics, ranging from what he thinks will be his key focuses and challenges during his tenure to the importance of working with other bodies and embracing new technology areas.
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When HPC Meets Wall Street

Sep 10, 2007 | GRIDtoday spoke with Peter Harris, chair of next week's High Performance on Wall Street conference, about the event and about the technologies that are allowing financial services firms to take their computing needs to the next level. Hot topics this year include low latency, hardware acceleration and grid technologies.
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A Match Made in Hosting Heaven

Sep 03, 2007 | By combining their core hosting businesses with the capabilities of grid platforms, hosting companies are hoping to cash in on the increasing push for simplicity and savings in the datacenter. Today, providers like Layered Technologies and ServePath are leading the charge, offering their growing, Web 2.0-heavy customer bases ease of use, scalability and on-demand functionality in an outsourced model.
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Evening the Satellite Imaging Playing Field

Aug 27, 2007 | Believe it or not, when it comes to processing and presenting geospatial images, Google doesn't have the market cornered in terms of scale. One glowing example of this is GeoEye, who has experienced a computing revolution since making the switch to Appistry's Enterprise Application Fabric. A leading provider of geospatial data, GeoEye has many customers in the intelligence and commercial sectors, including Microsoft for its Google Earth/Google Maps rival Live Search Maps.
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Citrix Acquires XenSource

Aug 20, 2007 | Citrix Systems Inc. | Citrix Systems announced a definitive agreement to acquire XenSource, a privately held leader in enterprise-grade virtual infrastructure solutions, for approximately $500 million in a combination of cash and stock
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Grid in Financial Services: Past, Present and Future

Jul 30, 2007 | Marc Jacobs makes his living building applications for financial services customers, and here he shares his thoughts and experiences with distributed computing in the financial sector. Says Jacobs, "For financial services, distributed computing isn’t a luxury: it puts food on the table."
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E-Mail Archiving and Grid: A Perfect Match

Jul 23, 2007 | When it comes to grid computing and finding the proverbial "needle in a haystack," many people think to the grand ambitions of research-based distributed computing projects, but Mimosa Systems is looking to prove that grid technologies can help with a far more practical -- and, often, legally required -- application: e-mail archiving. As recent scandals have proven, tracking down subpoenaed e-mails might not be easy, but it is the law. The question is: How much time and money are you willing to spend searching?
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Data Solutions Provider Finds Utility-Based Business Model

Jul 16, 2007 | By running its customers' data matching and de-duplication jobs across the Sun Grid Compute Utility, Infosolve Technologies said it has discovered a new business model that allows it to save upward of $300,000 per year versus maintaining its own datacenter.
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SOA and Grid: A Successful Marriage of Two Paradigms

Jul 09, 2007 | Due to the tremendous evolution in SOA infrastructure (BPEL process managers, Web services security and business process analytics) and the adoption of enterprise grid in datacenters, the collaboration between these two solutions has become increasingly beneficial. This article explains how SOA and grid collaborate and empower each other to optimize IT systems.
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A Refresher Course on SOA

Jul 09, 2007 | Service-oriented architecture, or SOA, is a well-known acronym in the software industry. SOA has made quite a long journey from being a buzzword to being put into practice to solve enterprise business problems. Yet, arriving at a common definition of SOA is not easy. This article too does not aim to define SOA, but explains the concept of SOA. Understanding the concept is good enough to get a quick start on SOA and its applicability.
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Microsoft's Burton Smith Keynotes on Reinvention of Computing

Jul 02, 2007 | Microsoft Corp. | In a keynote address at the International Supercomputing Conference, Microsoft technical fellow Dr. Burton Smith talked about new approaches to software development where everyday computer programs must be able to execute in parallel on multiple microprocessor cores, allowing developers to build more powerful, humanistic software applications that incorporate speech, conversation, rich visualization and anticipatory execution of tasks.
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First Financial ISV Brings App to Sun's Network.com

Jul 02, 2007 | With the addition of its CDOSheet price modeling and risk analysis application to the catalog at Network.com, CDO2 became the first financial industry ISV to make its software available to the public via the Sun Grid. CDO2 sees a bright future for banking applications on utility models, and Sun hopes this addition sparks industry demand for its service.
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Orchestrating Virtualization

Jun 25, 2007 | Using virtualization technology to turn physical machines into ghost boxes for cost savings and enhanced green efforts is only half the story -- datacenter automation tools are necessary to truly bring the benefits of this technology to life, especially in distributed environments.
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To Grid or to Evergrid, That Is the Question

Jun 25, 2007 | With a software suite promising to manage distributed resources from "cradle to grave" while guaranteeing timely job completion and SLA enforcement, Evergrid is looking to make traditional resource managers a thing of the past in both HPC and enterprise datacenters, for both batch and transactional applications.
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Virtualization for Business Continuity

Jun 25, 2007 | Virtualization is enjoying a period of explosive growth, and an increasing number of enterprises are becoming converts. IDC estimates about 750,000 virtual servers were in operation in 2004, and it expects this to rise to more than 5 million by 2009. Why the surge of interest? Virtualization as a concept has been around for years, if not decades, but only recently has its potential for business continuity been truly understood.
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Taking Licensing to the Next Level

Jun 18, 2007 | With the new licensing model for the company's PBS Professional 9.0 grid management software, Altair Engineering is looking to change the face of software licensing. Altair's customers, at least, should be happy, as they will have the ability enable all of their resources while only buying licenses (at $13.50 apiece) for what they want to use, and those licenses can be utilized wherever needed, including on resources outside of the firewall.
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Grid a Safe Bet for Hedge Funds

Jun 11, 2007 | Taking a deeper look at III Offshore Advisors' move to the Digipede Network, it becomes clear why more and more hedge funds are choosing to optimize their IT resources with grid software. Aside from increased speed in complex risk analyses, III Offshore Advisors believes its grid paid for itself in a matter of days.
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Altair Unveils On-Demand Model, Tackles Multi-Core Licensing

Jun 04, 2007 | Altair Engineering | Altair Engineering unveiled its new software business model to enable the first on-demand computing software environment that tackles the challenges of multi-core processor licensing. In response to industry changes, Altair's innovative and patented software licensing model for PBS Professional allows users to only pay for what they use, thus powering a pure on-demand computing environment.
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'Not So Fast, Supercomputers,' Say Software Programmers

May 28, 2007 | Purdue University | Despite the promise of almost unimagined computing power that comes with multi-core processors, even computing experts wonder whether this time the hardware developers have raced too far ahead of many programmers' ability to create software.
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Connecting the Dots: Applications and Grid Infrastructure

May 28, 2007 | This article examines how grids built around a service-oriented architecture focusing on business tasks, business flows, and service delivery will significantly shorten the time and efforts in application deployment and configuration, while delivering the greatest efficiencies.
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University of Sunderland Makes Grid Computing Green

May 28, 2007 | University of Sunderland | One of world's first environmentally friendly grid computers has been designed by experts at the University of Sunderland (England). The new computer system will not only offer the processing power of a multi-million-dollar computer at an affordable price to small businesses, but will do so without damaging the environment.
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DataSynapse Lays Out Application Virtualization Vision

May 21, 2007 | DataSynapse | DataSynapse has laid out its vision of creating a real-time infrastructure that helps large organizations align their IT resources with their business objectives.
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GemStone, Rogue Wave Better Positions With Partnership

May 21, 2007 | GemStone Systems and Rogue Wave Software last week announced a partnership that will look to leverage the symbiotic nature of their respective software solutions, GemFire Enterprise Data Fabric and Hydra Suite. If successful, the partnership could add some fire to the companies' sales pitches in the distributed data caching and more-inclusive grid-based application platform markets.
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Platform's Chris Smith Named OGF VP of Standards

May 14, 2007 | Platform Computing | A long time member of the Open Grid Forum, Smith will now be overseeing a large and important function within OGF as the new vice president of standards. He will be responsible for leading the development of architecture, specifications, roadmaps and related activities associated with the standardization and interoperability of grid software.
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Access Control in Grid Computing Environments

May 07, 2007 | Microsoft has recently focused on the problem of complexity in grid access control, and has developed a solution called the Security Policy Assertion Language (SecPAL). The project -- undertaken by the advanced technology incubation group of Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Officer and Microsoft Research Cambridge -- resulted in a declarative, logic-based language.
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Sun Grid Expanded to 24 More Countries

May 07, 2007 | Sun Microsystems Inc. | In addition to the United States, the $1/CPU-hr, pay-per-use Network.com utility offering is now available in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom.
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Financial Services and Beyond: Platform's Grid Roadmap

Apr 30, 2007 | From its recently announced focus on financial services to its long-term vision of enabling adaptive datacenters, Platform Computing has its eyes on the future. One customer that epitomizes the company's vision is Lehman Brothers, the financial bigshot that expects its Symphony-powered infrastructure to evolve well beyond the traditional batch-processing model.
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Utility Computing Tears Down the Water Wheel

Apr 23, 2007 | In an Xtalks Web conference on April 11, Nicholas Carr, former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review and acclaimed business writer, discussed the emergence of grid computing in a broader, historical context. Analyzing the rise of what Carr called the "Third Age" of IT from a strategic and economic standpoint, he took his audience through an IT timeline aiming to explain the rise and ultimate need of grid computing by comparing the modern IT sector to the water wheel of industrialization.
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Platform Increases Financial Services Investment

Apr 16, 2007 | Platform Computing | Platform Computing announced the appointments of Jim Mancuso and Charles Jarvis as vice presidents of financial services for United States and EMEA, respectively. The hiring of Mancuso and Jarvis is the latest in a series of investments designed to further bolster Platform's position in grid computing for the financial services market.
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Legal Data Meets the Grid

Apr 16, 2007 | In this interview with GRIDtoday, Grant Peterson, vice president of product development for the LexisNexis Litigation Services group, discusses how the company's Applied Discovery application is able to handle twice the number of legal documents in the same timeframe since moving to a grid environment powered by DataSynapse and its application virtualization technology.
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Nancy Lynch Honored for Work in Distributed Computing

Apr 09, 2007 | Association for Computing Machinery | Professor Lynch is the first woman to receive this award since its inception in 1996. She was cited for her seminal impact on the reliability of distributed computing systems, which are used to power traditional wired networks, modern mobile communications systems, and systems with embedded computers, including factory machinery, vehicles, robots and other real-world devices.
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Back to the Future

Apr 02, 2007 | In his latest article, Tom Gibbs gets behind the wheel of a certain nuclear-powered DeLorean automobile and takes us on a journey through the last 40 years of high-performance computing, only to find out that in the world of processor development, history seems to be repeating itself.
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The Industry's Viewpoint on Oracle-Tangosol

Apr 02, 2007 | While most believe that Oracle's acquisition of Tangosol will serve to validate the distributed, in-memory data grid market -- a key enabler of extreme transaction processing -- there is much speculation among analysts, fellow vendors and industry watchers over what it will mean for competition in the space, as well whether this purchase will be the impetus for a spate of acquisitions.
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Oracle Buys Data Grid Leader Tangosol

Mar 26, 2007 | Oracle announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Tangosol Inc., a leading provider of reliable in-memory data grid software. Coupled with Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle TimesTen and Oracle Database, the combination will provide an integrated platform for businesses moving to this new model of transaction processing.
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B2B Goes On-Demand With Trading Grid

Mar 26, 2007 | With its highly successful Trading Grid infrastructure, GXS seems to dominate the business-to-business transaction market, boasting 41,000 customers worldwide. The Trading Grid itself is a collection of hardware and software services that manages information sharing between GXS customers and their trading partners (buyers or sellers).
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Sun Grid Takes Big Step Forward

Mar 19, 2007 | Sun Microsystems has added "click and run" functionality to its Sun Grid offering at Network.com by providing end-users with a catalog of applications from ISVs and open source communities. In the past, users were required to develop their own applications.
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UD Names Frank Falcon 2007 Grid Visionary

Mar 12, 2007 | United Devices | United Devices conferred its annual Grid Visionary Award on Frank Falcon of COLT Telecom in London. Falcon is a senior product manager within COLT's Managed Services team and is recognized in key international Grid forums as one of the leading evangelists for the deployment of Grid computing to create new innovative business models for enterprise customers and telecommunications companies.
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On Our Radar: A Conversation With Grid-X

Mar 12, 2007 | Although the company is still in stealth mode, we were able to conduct a brief Q&A with two members of the Grid-X team: Bill Poires, board member and acting director of business relations; and Mike, a source close to the company who wished to remain anonymous. The two shed some light on the company's 100 GbE offload technology, its target markets and what led to its formation.
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Majitek Brings Services to the Grid

Mar 05, 2007 | In this interview with GRIDtoday, Majitek Director of Marketing Rob Cumming discusses his company's Grid application platform, Software-as-a-Service and Device- as-a-Service solutions, as well as where he sees the future heading in terms of Grid and virtualization intersecting in the service-oriented environment.
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e-Science IDs New Weapons in Superbug Battle

Mar 05, 2007 | JISC/EPSRC | E-Therapeutics, a spin-out company from Newcastle University, announced the discovery of three drugs that are effective against antibiotic-resistant superbugs, such as that scourge of hospitals, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
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Leveraging the Volunteer Spirit

Mar 05, 2007 | Since its inception in November 2004, IBM's World Community Grid initiative has perhaps become the gold standard for volunteer Grid computing projects, already boasting more than 265,000 members and 536,000 devices. Robin Willner, vice president of global community initiatives at IBM, shares her thoughts on this success and what to expect in the future.
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Grid Meets Web 2.0 at OGF19

Feb 19, 2007 | Pamela Fox's Web 2.0 developers' tutorial -- entitled "Web 2.0 Mashups: How People Can Tap into the "Grid" for Fun & Profit" -- was one of several invited talks at the workshop organized through the eScience OGF function, on Web 2.0 and the Grid organized at OGF19 by David De Roure.
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Geneticists' Gateway to the Grid

Feb 19, 2007 | Open Science Grid | In the field of genetics, the answers to scientists' questions are buried under mountains of complex data. Comparing new genomes to huge, and still growing, databases has become a task that is larger than one computer, even a supercomputer, can handle. Grid computing has stepped up to meet the challenge, with the help of the Genome Analysis Database Update tool.
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Second Workshop on Grid Reliability and Robustness

Feb 19, 2007 | The Open Grid Forum (OGF) recently held its Second Workshop on Reliability and Robustness in Grid Computing Systems at OGF19 in Chapel Hill, NC on January 31, 2007. The workshop organized through the eScience OGF function, brought together researchers and engineers actively working on Grid computing systems with the goal of promoting better understanding of reliability issues and requirements.
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A Distributed Happy New Year

Feb 12, 2007 | What do the Chinese New Year, the Gregorian Calendar, the Great Western Railway of Britain, YouTube, and Bob Dylan have to do with Grid computing? Quite a bit if you're Tom Gibbs. In his wrap up of the year past and look ahead at 2007, Gibbs brings his considerable metaphoric talents to bear on the state of Grid computing.
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Grid Initiatives Part 2

Feb 05, 2007 | Part one of this article, which appeared in last week's issue of GRIDtoday, focused on the major results of the study on large community grid initiatives. The second and final part contains additional general information about these six grid initiatives: The ChinaGrid, D-Grid, EGEE, NAREGI, TeraGrid, and the UK e-Science Initiative.
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UD Embraces Virtual Infrastructure Management

Feb 05, 2007 | United Devices Chief Executive Officer Ben Rouse recently paused to talk about the future of his company in the growing world of infrastructure virtualization. It turns out UD's expertise earned while building global research grids over the past seven years produced technologies and know-how that are exactly what data centers and IT service providers need to manage the growing, complex, and costly infrastructure of physical and virtual resources.
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Crosswalk CEO Explains Storage Grid Solution

Jan 29, 2007 | Crosswalk Inc., a provider of intelligent storage grid systems that scale performance, access to data, capacity and resiliency, was recently voted the Most Innovative HPC Storage Technology or Product for 2006 by HPCwire readers. HPCwire asked storage industry pioneer Jack McDonnell, founder and CEO of Crosswalk, to provide his view on storage grids and their present and future impacts on HPC.
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Grid Initiatives Part 1

Jan 29, 2007 | Over the past 12 months, major grid projects have been studied to better understand how to successfully design, build, manage and operate large Community Grids, based on the experience of early adopters and on case studies and lessons learned from these grid projects. For this purpose, we have selected and analyzed the UK e-Science Programme, the US TeraGrid, Naregi in Japan, the ChinaGrid, the European EGEE, and the German D-Grid initiative.
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An Interview with TCI President and CEO, Debra Goldfarb

Jan 22, 2007 | Tabor Communications Inc. (TCI), publisher of HPCwire and GRIDtoday, named industry veteran Debra Goldfarb as president and CEO. The company also announced a significant business expansion effort with the launch of three new operating companies. In this interview, Goldfarb explains her decision to accept her new role as TCI president and CEO, and outlines a vision for the expanded organization.
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Making the Case for Enterprise Grids

Jan 22, 2007 | Last month Grid Computing Now! hosted an informative webcast seminar entitled "The Business Case for Next Generation IT Architecture." In the seminar, Steve Wallage, Research Director for the 451 Group, provides an analysis of the current state of Grid and Virtualization, while Shahid Mohammed, EMEA Database Team Manager for Marsh, gives an account of a Grid implementation for an eCommerce company and the benefits that were achieved.
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Protein Wranglers

Jan 15, 2007 | Kathleen Ricker & Herb Morgan, NCSA | NCSA staff and UIUC biophysics researchers collaborate on new techniques for studying molecular dynamics involving managing large numbers of simulations with a powerful Grid application.
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Grid Computing Moves from Research to Industry

Jan 08, 2007 | CORDIS  | From 27th November to 1st December, ETSI, INRIA and the European Network of Excellence CoreGRID, led by ERCIM, co-organised at ETSI the 3rd "GRIDS@WORK" event and Grid Plugtests. Over 200 delegates, representing 25 countries from all over the world, came to Sophia Antipolis, France, to discuss research projects and industrial requirements towards the implementation of grids as a key driver of tomorrow's 'Network-of-networks.'
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Purdue Offers Condor Resources to TeraGrid Community

Jan 08, 2007 | Purdue University, Steve Tally | Purdue University's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing has become the largest provider of high-throughput computing cycles on the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid. More than 4,300 computers of all sizes -- from desktop machines used by students to do homework and check e-mail, up to large, powerful research computers -- are linked together using the open source application Condor.
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