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Special Section - World Community Grid
- IBM LAUNCHES ITS WORLD COMMUNITY GRID
- The Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) announced that in partnership
with IBM, United Devices and the University of Washington, it has launched the
Human Proteome Folding Project on World Community Grid. This project, the
first to run on the Grid will help predict the shape of human proteins and
further efforts toward predictive, preventive and personalized medicine.
- BUNSHAFT: WORLD COMMUNITY GRID NOT ABOUT TRUMPING COMPETITORS
By Derrick Harris, Editor
- Large companies are always in the spotlight, and their motives are always
questioned. However, in an interview with GRIDtoday, IBM's vice president
of Grid computing, Al Bunshaft, makes it perfectly clear that IBM's motives
in creating the World Community Grid were all about helping mankind and
showcasing the power of Grid computing.
- UD'S PRESIDENT TOUTS IBM PROJECT, DEFENDS PUBLIC GRIDS
By Derrick Harris, Editor
- GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris was able to speak with United Devices
president Ed Hubbard about his company's role in developing the World
Community Grid, among other topics, including Grid's evolution since
SETI@home, and why skeptics need not worry about the security of public
Grids.
- LEAD SCIENTIST ON PROTEOME PROJECT ON WORKING WITH BIG BLUE
By Derrick Harris, Editor
- GRIDtoday spoke with Dr. Rich Bonneau from the Institute for Systems
Biology, lead scientist on on the Human Proteome Folding Project, about
how Grid computing will help his cause, and what it was like working with
United Devices and industry bigshot IBM.
Special Features
- GridCoord - COORDINATING EUROPE-WIDE GRID INITIATIVES
By Marco Vanneschi, Dept. of Computer Science, Pisa University
- GridCoord looks to strengthen cooperation among the funding agencies
planning future activities, enhance collaboration between the research and
user communities, and develop visionary national and EU programs and
roadmaps enabling Europe to play a leadership role in Grid technologies
and applications.
- OIF, GGF COME TOGETHER FOR OPTICAL NETWORKING WORKSHOP
- The OIF's invitation to the GGF to participate in a joint workshop arose
through recognition by several OIF member company representatives that the
GGF and the OIF share a common interest in the dynamic control of optical
networks. Grid applications utilize wide-area distributed computing
resources for large-scale computational tasks.
- TACC COLLABORATES IN LATIN AMERICAN GRID WORKSHOP
- This workshop will train Latin American computer scientists and
developers to evaluate Grid software and requirements, to develop and deploy Grid
technologies, and to port applications to Grids. Over 50 participants from
eight Latin American countries are in attendance.
- SDSC, IBM ACHIEVE RECORD TRANSFER, SORTING RATES ON TeraGrid
- The SDSC/IBM team was awarded with the highest achieved StorCloud
Bandwidth and I/Os per second for the Enzo submission. As part of the
submission, the team also broke a world record by sorting a terabyte of
random data in 487 seconds (8 minutes, 7 seconds), more than twice as fast
as the previous record 1,057 seconds (17:37). The bandwidth achieved was
15GB per second.
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