Grid computing

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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. This article uses a Java custom ClassLoader, a Tomcat servlet container, and the Axis SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) implementation to demonstrate a simple-to-use framework that supports minimal grid requirements, including machine independence, abstracted compute-task distribution and execution, and a secure, scalable infrastructure."

JavaWorld, 04/25/03.
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A practical introduction to OptimalGrid
"OptimalGrid -- a research prototype middleware from IBM Almaden -- aims to simplify creating and managing large-scale, connected, parallel grid applications. It optimizes performance and includes autonomic grid functionality. It's not a toolkit, and you don't need to be a Grid infrastructure expert to use it. You supply the code that represents your basic problem algorithm, and OptimalGrid manages everything else -- problem partitioning, problem piece deployment, runtime management, dynamic level of parallelism, dynamic load balancing, and even system fault tolerance and recovery. If you're a Java programmer and you're working with a grid, or if your'e thinking about getting started with grid, read the first part of the tutorial. It describes OptimalGrid and the kinds of problems it's designed to handle. If you determine that, in fact, OptimalGrid and your problem are a good match, then you can complete the tutorial to download and install OptimalGrid and play with it." From IBM developerWorks.
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A visual tour of Open Grid Services Architecture
"A wide array of heterogeneous resources comprise a grid, and it's important that they interact and behave in well-known and consistent ways. The need for open standards that define this interaction and encourage interoperability between components supplied from different sources was the motivation for the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA). ... In this article, we lay out the components of OGSA and explain their significance." From IBM developerWorks.
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Breaking grid computing news
Latest grid computing news and analysis from Network World.
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Gauging the network effect of grids
As more companies pilot grid-based applications, the question for network executives is what effect grid computing will have on the design and performance of their infrastructures.
Network World, 04/28/03.
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Global Grid Forum
A forum of individual researchers and practitioners working on grid technologies. Working groups, links to grid initiatives and events.
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Globus Project
The Globus Project is developing fundamental technologies needed to build computational grids.
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Grid Computing - A Technology/Market Overview
Intel paper that covers: What grid computing is; What grids are designed to do; How grids are architected; How grid differs from other similar technologies (such as clusters and peer-to-peer); How grids are moving from scientific/research environments into the commercial marketplace. Free registration required.
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Grid Corner
Focuses on grid computing at IBM, has background info and grid news from both IBM and other companies.
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Grid security: state of the art
"Grid computing soon could be central to your enterprise's networking strategy. But what about security? Author Anne Zieger explores advances in grid security that are beginning to address critical security issues." From IBM developerWorks, 08/03.
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Gridblog
Weblog: "The objective of the Gridblog is to take advantage of the inherent speed and relative informality of the blogging genre of knowledge distribution and create an active space where thoughts and ideas – with a very obvious focus on grid computing and utility computing market – can be shared with the viewing public."
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GRIDtoday
Daily grid-computing news.
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Internet Computing and the Emerging Grid
Overview of the concept from Nature magazine.
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TeraGrid
"A multi-year effort to build and deploy the world's largest, fastest, most comprehensive, distributed infrastructure for open scientific research. When completed, the TeraGrid will include 13.6 teraflops of Linux Cluster computing power distributed at the four TeraGrid sites, facilities capable of managing and storing more than 450 terabytes of data, high-resolution visualization environments, and toolkits for grid computing."
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The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure
"The grid promises to fundamentally change the way we think about and use computing. This infrastructure will connect multiple regional and national computational grids, creating a universal source of pervasive and dependable computing power that supports dramatically new classes of applications. The Grid provides a clear vision of what computational grids are, why we need them, who will use them, and how they will be programmed."
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