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July 3, 2006
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From the Editor
Goodbye, GGF and EGA. Hello, OGF.
While there certainly wasn't a lot of Grid computing news this week, the community did learn even more about one of the biggest Grid stories in some time. That news? Why, the announcement of the Open Grid Forum, of course. Mathematically speaking, I don't know how GGF+EGA=OGF, but I guess I'll just have put that aside and learn to embrace yet another acronym.
I've been involved with GRIDtoday for almost three years now, and one of the first things I learned when I walked in the door was the importance of the Global Grid Forum. It seems strange to think that an organization so integral in the development and advancement of Grid technologies no longer exists (technically, at least -- much of the GGF's current work will be continued in the OGF).
I guess the same could be said about the Enterprise Grid Alliance, which, although it doesn't have the history of the GGF, has made some big waves in its two-year existence. Spearheaded by Oracle and developed to address the near-term issues crucial to commercial users, the EGA was in many ways the anti-GGF, which tended to focus on a more distributed, large-scale view of grids.
At any rate, the organizations believed it was in their best interests, and the those of the Grid community at large, to merge and form a new organization, which they announced earlier this year they would be doing. And, judging from the response from many in that community, it was a very good idea. Which brings us to this week's issue of GRIDtoday, which features a Q&A with Mark Linesch, who will be carry his leadership position with the GGF over to the OGF, where he will serve as president and CEO. Linesch answers questions a fairly broad range of topics and lays out what's next for the Open Grid Forum.
However, not everyone is wholly optimistic about this new organization. Ian Lumb, former Grid solutions manager at Platform Computing, contributed an opinion piece questioning whether the OGF will be able to overcome the obstacles faced by the Grid market. While most in the Grid community are singing the praises of the OGF -- and for good reason -- it is nice to have a little balance, and to be reminded, quite honestly, that it will take a lot of work to get Grid computing to the place where many believe it should be.
In non-OGF news, we have a noteworthy customer win, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers choosing Digipede and its Windows-based solution to speed storm-modeling applications, and we have the launch of the second phase of the Human Proteome Folding project on IBM's World Community Grid.
Finally, make sure to check out next week's issue, where you will find, among other articles, Intel's Tom Gibbs taking a look into how online gaming communities are utilizing Grid technologies, and Devesh Sharma and John Deeb of Oracle outlining the role of Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) technology in improving collaboration between business and IT.
I've been involved with GRIDtoday for almost three years now, and one of the first things I learned when I walked in the door was the importance of the Global Grid Forum. It seems strange to think that an organization so integral in the development and advancement of Grid technologies no longer exists (technically, at least -- much of the GGF's current work will be continued in the OGF).
I guess the same could be said about the Enterprise Grid Alliance, which, although it doesn't have the history of the GGF, has made some big waves in its two-year existence. Spearheaded by Oracle and developed to address the near-term issues crucial to commercial users, the EGA was in many ways the anti-GGF, which tended to focus on a more distributed, large-scale view of grids.
At any rate, the organizations believed it was in their best interests, and the those of the Grid community at large, to merge and form a new organization, which they announced earlier this year they would be doing. And, judging from the response from many in that community, it was a very good idea. Which brings us to this week's issue of GRIDtoday, which features a Q&A with Mark Linesch, who will be carry his leadership position with the GGF over to the OGF, where he will serve as president and CEO. Linesch answers questions a fairly broad range of topics and lays out what's next for the Open Grid Forum.
However, not everyone is wholly optimistic about this new organization. Ian Lumb, former Grid solutions manager at Platform Computing, contributed an opinion piece questioning whether the OGF will be able to overcome the obstacles faced by the Grid market. While most in the Grid community are singing the praises of the OGF -- and for good reason -- it is nice to have a little balance, and to be reminded, quite honestly, that it will take a lot of work to get Grid computing to the place where many believe it should be.
In non-OGF news, we have a noteworthy customer win, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers choosing Digipede and its Windows-based solution to speed storm-modeling applications, and we have the launch of the second phase of the Human Proteome Folding project on IBM's World Community Grid.
Finally, make sure to check out next week's issue, where you will find, among other articles, Intel's Tom Gibbs taking a look into how online gaming communities are utilizing Grid technologies, and Devesh Sharma and John Deeb of Oracle outlining the role of Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) technology in improving collaboration between business and IT.