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| | Grid computing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Grid computing is often confused with cluster computing. | | | Grid Computing is a super set of distributed computing. | | | Grid computing is an emerging computing model that provides the ability to perform higher throughput computing by taking advantage of many networked computers to model a virtual computer architecture that is able to distribute process execution across a parallel infrastructure. |
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| | grid computing - a Whatis.com definition - see also: computational grid |
| | Grid computing can be thought of as distributed and large-scale cluster computing and as a form of network-distributed parallel processing. | | | Grid computing (or the use of a computational grid) is applying the resources of many computers in a network to a single problem at the same time - usually to a scientific or technical problem that requires a great number of computer processing cycles or access to large amounts of data. | | | Grid computing requires the use of software that can divide and farm out pieces of a program to as many as several thousand computers. |
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http://searchcio.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid19_gci773157,00.html
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| | But grid computing is not the same as utility computing. | | | Severino: Grid computing software allows you to access a lot of computing power in a way that a makes that computing power very accessible. | | | Grid computing allows us to access servers and desktops simultaneously so that we can harness that power in a way that makes it easy for us, that doesn’t force us to engineer something so complex that it could be unstable. |
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http://www.loma.org/res-02-05-grid.asp
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| | Grid computing news and resources |
| | EMC girds for grid computing with purchase of Acxiom. | | | Grid computing software vendor Platform Computing announced support for Microsoft's upcoming cluster server software Tuesday. | | | Your source for the latest grid computing news and resources. |
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| | GRID.ORG ™ - Grid Computing: The Basics |
| | Grid computing is a form of distributed computing that involves coordinating and sharing computing, application, data, storage, or network resources across dynamic and geographically dispersed organizations. | | | Grid technologies promise to change the way organizations tackle complex computational problems. | | | However, the vision of large scale resource sharing is not yet a reality in many areas — Grid computing is an evolving area of computing, where standards and technology are still being developed to enable this new paradigm. |
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| | Grid Computing Planet: FAQ |
| | Grid computing is a method of harnessing the power of many computers in a network to solve problems requiring a large number of processing cycles and involving huge amounts of data. | | | On the other end, grid computing projects use software that can divide and distribute pieces of a program to thousands of computers for processing. | | | IBM is involved in several grid computing projects. |
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http://www.gridcomputingplanet.com/faq
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| | What is grid computing? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary |
| | Grid computing does require special software that is unique to the computing project for which the grid is being used. | | | A well-known grid computing project is the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @Home project, in which PC users worldwide donate unused processor cycles to help the search for signs of extraterrestrial life by analyzing signals coming from outer space. | | | Unlike conventional networks that focus on communication among devices, grid computing harnesses unused processing cycles of all computers in a network for solving problems too intensive for any stand-alone machine. |
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http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/g/grid_computing.html
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| | Nature Web Matters > Internet Computing and the Emerging Grid |
| | Ian Foster is a Senior Scientist and Associate Division Director in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. | | | This enlisted personal computers to work on the problem of analysing data from the Arecibo radio telescope for signatures that might indicate extraterrestrial intelligence. | | | The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure. |
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| | IBM Grid Computing - What is grid computing |
| | Grid computing enables the virtualization of distributed computing and data resources such as processing, network bandwidth and storage capacity to create a single system image, granting users and applications seamless access to vast IT capabilities. | | | And because grid computing dovetails naturally with powerful developments in IBM like autonomic computing and e-business on demand, grid offers businesses a host of practical benefits for coping with — and taking advantage of — an on demand world. | | | In fact, grid can be seen as the latest and most complete evolution of more familiar developments — such as distributed computing, the Web, peer-to-peer computing and virtualization technologies. |
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http://www-1.ibm.com/grid/about_grid/what_is.shtml
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| | LinuxDevCenter.com -- Energizing Grid Computing |
| | Grid computing is the newest and hottest trend in high-performance computing, and will help companies -- eventually -- take advantage of the power of distributed systems. | | | One of the hottest areas of computing that Linux plays in has come to be called "grid computing." We used to call this variously "supercomputing," "high-performance computing," "distributed computing" and "peer-to-peer networking (P2P)." | | | Everything is discrete; this is often referred to as parametric computing. |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2002/04/25/enterprise.html
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| | Grid Computing Info Centre (GRID Infoware) |
| | Grids and Grid Technologies for Wide-Area Distributed Computing, Appeared in the Journal of Software: Practice and Experience (SPE). | | | Grid is a type of parallel and distributed system that enables the sharing, selection, and aggregation of geographically distributed "autonomous" resources dynamically at runtime depending on their availability, capability, performance, cost, and users' quality-of-service requirements. | | | Several Grid middleware software systems are available for building high-end computing Grids and their applications. |
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| | Grid computing luring mainstream backers CNET News.com |
| | Grid computing is a powerful concept, its chief appeal being the ability to make sure all of a server's computing power is used. | | | Platform Computing, which has sold its in-house grid computing software for years for calculation jobs such as chip design or pharmaceutical research, has embraced the Globus Toolkit and plans to sell it along with services. | | | HP also has a business focus on grids with its planetary computing research. |
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http://news.com.com/2100-1001-841789.html
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| | A do-it-yourself framework for grid computing |
| | Large-scale grid computing frameworks can be successfully used to build computational grid infrastructures, but their sophistication can also be a barrier for software designers experimenting with entry-level grid computing. | | | nternet computing is a term commonly used to describe the use of multiple networked computers to run dedicated computing applications. | | | In other words, no generic use of the computing resources is or can be made, and all dataflow between the computing resource and the data server uses proprietary APIs. |
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http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-2003/jw-0425-grid.html
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| | Center for Parallel Computers - Grid Computing Course |
| | The course is designed to give a broad overview of the concept of grid computing and state-of-the-art grid software, understanding and practical experience of how computational grids can be used to further research in science and technology, and to review some current and future directions of grid computing research and development. | | | This course is held jointly by the national computing centers PDC, HPC2N, and NSC. | | | The course "Grid Computing" will be given August 18--26, 2003, hosted by Parallelldatorcentrum (PDC), on the |
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http://www.pdc.kth.se/training/2003/GridComputing
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| | Grid Computing Solutions |
| | The new Sun Fire V60x Compute Grid Rack System, a key component of the Sun Infrastructure Solution for Grid Computing, is a pre-integrated, ready-to-install product that provides fast, easy deployment of Linux/X86 compute nodes and management software. | | | The Sun Infrastructure Solution for Grid Computing is designed to help IT organizations architect and deploy appropriate Grid Computing infrastructure that contributes directly to their key business goals. | | | Grid Computing lets you bring together all your heterogeneous resources and allocate them efficiently to applications within the enterprise and beyond. |
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| | Grid Computing - ISOC Member Briefing #11 |
| | The logical response to these changes is to move from a model based on discrete infrastructure components to a distributed computing model which fully leverages the computing capabilities of the infrastructure. | | | Standards are being developed for Grid computing by the Global Grid Forum (GGF) (http://www.gridforum.org), using procedures directly modeled on those of the IETF. | | | The project will be powered through a massive computing "Grid" that will enable millions of computer owners worldwide to contribute idle computing resources with the goal of developing a wide collection of potential anti-smallpox drugs. |
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| | BBC NEWS Technology Sun offers processing by the hour |
| | So-called grid computing is the latest buzz phrase in a company which believes that computing capacity is as important a commodity as hardware and software. | | | Sun likened grid computing to the development of electricity. | | | Some of them want to book computing capacity of more than 5,000 processors each, Sun said. |
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| | Grid Computing at CCR |
| | Grids are now a viable solution to certain computationally- and data-intensive computing problems for the following reasons: (a) The Internet is reasonably mature and able to serve as fundamental infrastructure. | | | Many types of computational tasks are naturally suited to grid environments, including data-intensive applications. | | | Research and development activities relating to the Grid have generally focused on applications where data is stored in files. |
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http://www.ccr.buffalo.edu/grid/content/overview.htm
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| | Hardware Today: Grid Computing Means Business |
| | "Grid computing is used to increase the amount of processing power that can be applied to a single or a small number of tasks," says Dan Kusnetzky, program vice president, system software, Enterprise Computing Group at IDC. | | | Grid computing has been the province of academia, government, and science labs for most of its young life. | | | People understandably think of grid computing as a way to aggregate the performance of many systems to build a virtual supercomputer. |
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http://www.serverwatch.com/hreviews/article.php/3507151
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| | Grid Computing |
| | Utility Computing allows an infrastructure to be managed analogously to an electric utility, applying a pay-per-use model, thereby optimizing and balancing the computing needs of an enterprise, and allowing it to run at maximum efficiency. | | | Client Manageability Tool Reduces Intel TCO and Intel® Virtualization Technology are just two of the technologies that simplify Grid computing as well as the movement toward the emerging concept of the Service-Oriented Enterprise. | | | This sharing of computing capacity is transforming a number of business processes in a variety of industries. |
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| | Distributed Computing |
| | Distributed computing is a science which solves a large problem by giving small parts of the problem to many computers to solve and then combining the solutions for the parts into a solution for the problem. | | | These projects are so large, and require so much computing power to solve, that they would be impossible for any one computer or person to solve in a reasonable amount of time. | | | It also does not cover grid computing: if you are looking for information about grid computing, Grid Café is a good place to start. |
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| | World Community Grid - Home |
| | When you are ready to use your computer, the grid software will shut itself off until the next time your computer is idle. | | | Simply donate the time your computer is turned on, but would normally lie idle, for projects that benefit humanity. | | | World Community Grid's mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. |
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| | IEEE Distributed Systems Online |
| | The clusters are located at Manchester (data cluster), Oxford (compute cluster), CCLRC (data cluster) and the White Rose Grid (compute cluster). | | | Grid computing papers and articles are welcomed for inclusion within DSOnline. | | | To include project and conference details, etc, within the Grid Computing section, please contact Mark Baker directly. |
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| | Platform Computing and IBM Push the Boundaries of Supercomputing Performance | | | Platform™ Computing is the industry leader in enterprise grid software solutions. | | | Platform Computing Extends High Performance Computing Capabilities Throughout the Enterprise with Microsoft |
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| | Global Grid Forum |
| | Meet the international community leading the pervasive adoption of grid computing in research and industry. | | | Learn more about grids, who is using them, and why grids are the next phase in distributed computing. | | | Our community believes that standards-based grid computing is critical to new scientific discovery, better business processes, lower IT costs and regional economic development. |
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| | Wired News: Grid Computing Good for Business |
| | Some use a more limited form of grid computing known as a "cluster" to harness the energy of companywide computers that would otherwise be idle. | | | Speaking of aliens, the SETI@home project -- which taps the power of thousands of home computers in the search for extraterrestrial life -- is a primitive version of grid computing. | | | The grid is about sharing resources," said Tom Hawk, general manager of grid computing for IBM. |
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| | Grid Computing |
| | Grid computing vendor Platform Computing emerges as one of the first ISVs to use Macrovision's FLEXnet Connector, a set of connections that lets ISVs tap directly into Macrovision's platform for managing software licensing. | | | Although pharmaceutical companies need high-performance computing to do drug research, a new report finds that the vast majority are in the early stages at best when it comes to learning about grid computing. | | | Through its Solutions Grid for Business Partners Initiative, IBM is helping seven ISVs prepare their applications for grid computing. |
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http://www.eweek.com/category2/0,1874,1413661,00.asp
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| | ORACLE: Grid Computing |
| | Enter the Grid Computing Technology Center on OTN | | | Like any technology, grid computing has a specialized lexicon of terms, acronyms, and concepts. | | | Join a panel of experts for more information on how you can initiate the move towards grid computing and what changes IT organizations will need to make to get on a grid path. |
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http://www.idgpartners.com/oracle/grid.jsp?action=done
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| | Grid Computing |
| | Grid technology allows disparate systems to be pooled and managed as a common computing resource, optimizing the throughput of workloads across the computing infrastructure and providing access to resources that were previously unavailable. | | | Results show that SAND's nearline storage solution coupled with a blade or grid computing architecture, is the perfect way to achieve the level of on-demand performance customers look for. | | | When it comes to risk assessment, there's only one way to get better and more timely information, and that's to increase compute power. |
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| | Wired News: Grid Computing Spreads to SARS |
| | Many people who had volunteered their computers to find a treatment for tubular sclerosis have temporarily switched to supporting the SARS effort, said Tian Xu, a professor of genetics at Yale University as well as a scientific adviser at the Rothberg Institute. | | | Distributed computing, also called grid computing, can screen potential drugs much faster than researchers in a laboratory. | | | Sans promotion, 15,000 computer users have already downloaded the D2OL software that allows them to donate their processing power to search for a cure for SARS. |
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http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,58678,00.html
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| | GRID.ORG ™ - Grid Computing Projects - Home |
| | This project will run in parallel on World Community Grid sponsored by IBM (which is powered by United Devices software). | | | On February 5, 2003, United Devices along with IBM and Accelrys launched the Smallpox Research Grid Project: a joint research effort to identify candidates for developing new drugs that, for the first time, would combat the smallpox virus post-infection. | | | GRID.ORG ™ - Grid Computing Projects - Home |
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| | Information Kit: Grid Computing - a Whatis.com definition |
| | Grid computing has attracted the interest and become part of the strategy of almost every major IT product developer and has also spawned some new ones. | | | Grid Computing: A New Technology for the Advanced Web? | | | Since the Internet is a network of computers, often waiting for work in their spare time, why not treat the Internet (or some subset of it) as an extension of the enterprise, farming out number churning, customer management, expert services, even certain special kinds of thinking to other companies? |
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| | Grid Computing from Sun |
| | Sun grid technologies make data, compute, and visualization resources available to high-performance technical computing applications. | | | The Sun Grid Rack System is a collection of x64-based servers, interconnect hardware and easy-to-use management software. | | | Sun offers a variety of services to support your grid computing initiatives. |
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| | Grid Computing Info Centre (GRID Infoware) |
| | The Grid Computing Information Centre (GRID Infoware: http://www.gridcomputing.com) aims to promote the development and advancement of technologies that provide seamless and scalable access to wide-area distributed resources. | | | Master of Engineering in Distributed Computing - Call for Admissions. | | | Grid 2006: 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing |
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| | alphaWorks : Grid computing |
| | Grid Wrapper for WebSphere Information Integrator: A tool that allows Websphere Information Integrator to access data grids using OGSA-DAI data grid middleware. | | | Grid Wrapper for WebSphere Information Integrator allows Websphere Information Integrator to access data grids using OGSA-DAI data grid middleware. | | | Distributed Parallel Programming Environment for Java: A set of tools and technologies for developing simple, distributed, parallel applications using the Java programming language. |
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| | Grid computing |
| | Grid solutions virtualize your heterogeneous resources—servers storage, network devices, data stores, and application services—so you can collaborate efficiently across organizational boundaries and even outside the corporation.&; Grid computing is a key enabler of the Adaptive Enterprise, where IT is an agile service aligned with business to help you capitalize on change. | | | HP is driving the technologies, standards and solutions that make grid computing a powerful strategy for the enterprise today. | | | Imagine linking your IT components into one virtual resource that can be shared across your global enterprise and provided as a service, on demand. |
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| | The Globus Alliance |
| | The Globus Alliance is a community of organizations and individuals developing fundamental technologies behind the "Grid," which lets people share computing power, databases, instruments, and other on-line tools securely across corporate, institutional, and geographic boundaries without sacrificing local autonomy. | | | The Globus Alliance is an active member in the community of Grid Software developers. | | | The Globus Toolkit is an open source software toolkit used for building Grid systems and applications. |
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| | IBM Grid Computing home page |
| | Grid continues IBM's history of IT innovation for business, offering a full line of solutions backed by deep expertise. | | | IBM and Universities Launch Latin American Grid Computing Initiative | | | Stimulate economic growth in your community using grid and Linux |
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| | IEEE Distributed Systems Online |
| | Researchers at the Technology Research, Education and Commercialization Center are developing system software for just that purpose: scheduling computing cycles on demand. | | | The authors propose a fully localized algorithm, Fault-tolerant Local Spanning Subgraph (FLSS), that can preserve k-vertex connectivity and is min-max optimal among all strictly localized algorithms. | | | The need for on-the-go communication is motivating application developers and service providers to target smart phones as a universal end point for data access and networked computing. |
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| | developerWorks : Grid computing tutorials, code, and forums |
| | Perspectives on grid: Improving data access performance: How do you intelligently manage data in distributed grid environments? | | | developerWorks : Grid computing tutorials, code, and forums | | | Building a grid using Web services standards, Part 2: In Part 2, we build the framework for a movie grid application using WSDL, and we add security using the WS-Security standard. |
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| | IBM Systems Journal - Vol. 43, No. 4, 2004 - Grid Computing |
| | Within the last few years grid computing has evolved from a research concept into an important component of information technology, with hundreds of operational grids throughout the world. | | | Evolution of grid computing architecture and grid adoption models | | | A non-topical paper describes MyMED, a database system for biomedical research. |
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| | Subtraction: Grid Computing… and Design |
| | I spent a tremendous amount of time fine-tuning the CSS so that it would match up very carefully with the grid, and so it would work across all modern browsers — and Internet Explorer too, though with decidedly less faithfulness. | | | You might be interested in Grid systems by Josef Mueller-Brockmann. | | | The new grid suggests graphics of a logical width, for a change. |
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