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GRID COMPUTING: STATE OF THE ART REPORT
HP'S FIORINA MAKES GRID COMPUTING A STRATEGIC PRIORITY
POWERING UP THE SUPER GRID
Please visit us at booth #907 at SC2002
Special Features
- GRID COMPUTING: STATE OF THE ART REPORT
By Mark Baker, Rajkumar Buyya, and Domenico Laforenza
- The early efforts in Grid computing started as a project to link
supercomputing sites, but have now grown far beyond their original intent.
In fact, many applications can benefit from the Grid infrastructure,
including collaborative engineering, data exploration, high-throughput
computing, and of course distributed supercomputing.
- HP'S FIORINA MAKES GRID COMPUTING A STRATEGIC PRIORITY
- Specifically, the company said it will center its cross-company R&D
investments in IT management and utility computing software, mobile
infrastructure and devices, security technologies, and the creation,
distribution and management of new kinds of rich media, including images,
audio and video, across networks.
- RESEARCH LAB TO ACCOMMODATE GRID CLUSTER GROWTH
- Clustering is a method of linking multiple computers, or compute nodes,
together to form a unified and more powerful system. Linux NetworX is in the
process of building three systems for national laboratories in the United
States that are expected to rank within the top ten supercomputers in the
world.
- NSF HELPS EXPAND TERAGRID PROJECT
- The National Science Board [NSB] approved awards of about $35 million to
be made by the National Science Foundation [NSF] to three research
institutions to expand the previously funded TeraGrid project, a multi-year
effort to build and deploy the world's largest, fastest, most comprehensive,
distributed infrastructure for open scientific research.
- WILL THE GRID BRIGHTEN THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET?
- The difference will be a wave in IT as businesses buy computer processing
power in grids -- like electricity -- to get more of it cheaply, says IBM
Global Services, Australia and New Zealand, chief executive officer Brendon
Riley.
- HPC IS COMMERCIAL GRID TESTING GROUND
- The HPC market is where vendors test out the ideas that will drive
tomorrow's commercial products. The current generation of servers from all
of the major vendors -- IBM, Sun Microsystems, HP, Fujitsu Siemens -- may look
on the outside like vanilla symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) servers, but
under the covers, they more closely resemble the parallel machines favoured
by supercomputer buyers today.
- POWERING UP THE SUPER GRID
By Pauline Tam
- Bill St. Arnaud and Wade Hong are helping to build a virtual grid of
supercomputers to bolster the next wave of e-science. Together with 2,000
physicists from around the world, Carleton University professor Gerald
Oakham is working on an experiment that will run on a colossal atom-smashing
machine.
- APPLE'S GRID EFFORTS BEARING FRUIT
By Salvatore Salamone, Bio-IT World
- For years, Apple's desktop systems have been widely embraced by the
scientific community for their ease of use, high performance and affordable
price. Yet most serious life science computation today is done on computers
from other vendors.
- GRID KEY TO THINKING COMPUTERS
- IBM plans to announce that it has established a new Autonomic Computing
group, which will act as Big Blue's hub for research and product development
in computers that incorporate abilities like self-diagnostics.
- YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED -- ABOUT THE GRID & MORE
- And if anyone believed that future HPC systems would all move towards a
homogenous structure, it seems that they will be disappointed.
Systems/Enterprise
- Folding@home REPORT FIRST DISTRIBUTED GRID COMPUTING SUCCESS
- As you read this sentence, millions of personal computers around the world
are working overtime - performing complex computations on their screensavers
in the name of science.
- BIENNIAL iGrid EVENT UNVEILES GLOBAL IGITAL VIDEO
- The International Center for Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR) at
Northwestern University and Path1 Network Technologies have demonstrated an
innovative capability for global, high-quality, high-performance digital
video at the recent international iGrid2002 Conference in Amsterdam.
- NUS RIGS UP HOMEGROWN GRID
By Tang Weng Fai
- THE National University of Singapore (NUS) has cobbled together an
innovative high-end computer that could just make it into the ranks of the
500 most powerful supercomputers in the world. The entire exercise cost NUS
just $500,000.
- QUADRICS GRID SOLUTION NOW SUPPORTS INTEL SERVER CHIPS
By Ashlee Vance
- Quadrics, based in Bristol, England, has provided its QsNet network card
to research institutions to create massive clusters of servers running the
Linux operating system.
- Universia & GridSystems TO PROVIDE RESEARCHERS GRID ACCESS
- The Universia.net portal CEO, and Joan Massó, GridSystems president, have
signed a collaboration agreement with the goal of provide access to all the
university research groups to the new Grid technology.
Scientific Applications
- UNIV OF ALBERTA TO BUILD A MOLECULAR CHEMISTRY GRID
By Scott McKeen, Journal Staff Writer - The Edmonton Journal
- A serious shortage of world-class computing power in Canada prompted
University of Alberta scientists to create the next best thing -- a
countrywide, virtual supercomputer.
- WILL THE SOFTWARE GAMING INDUSTRY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE GRID?
- The developing technology of grid networks is getting early commercial use
in gaming as Martinsburg, W.Va.-based Butterfly.net has deployed a server
grid for multiplayer games. Butterfly.net's grid is among the first to allow
multiplayer games to scale and support unlimited players.
- GLOBAL SIGNED NEW GRID CONTRACT WITH CERN IN EUROPE
- This announcement provides further proof of Global Crossing's capabilities
in GRID computing and in supplying research and education globally with the
highest quality network capabilities and performance.
- AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT FUNDS ADVANCED GRID NETWORK
- The grid network will support a number of Australia's research communities
that require major bandwidth such as computational physics and engineering,
bio-informatics, environmental and climactic modelling, media services, and
astronomy.
- STANFORD GIVES DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING AN A
By Evan Hansen Staff Writer, CNET
- Scientists at Stanford University have demonstrated tangible proof that
scientific experiments can be conducted using thousands of low-end PCs
wrangled together into loosely linked networks.
Breaking News
- Security
-
AMD's Hammer Takes Steam Out Of Intel
By Michael Singer
An Inovative Approach To Grid Computing Disaster Recovery
By Sumner Lemon
- Platforms
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Future Computer Architectures - Heading Towards The Grid
Intel Offers Another Chip-More Support For Grid Computing
By Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com
- Storage
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Web Office Unveils Virtual Private Grid Storage Network
- Operating Systems & Middleware
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Powerllel Claims Go-Faster Algorithms For Grid
- General
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Ian Foster To Receive 2002 Lovelace Medal
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