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Grid-Related Stories
Here are some stories from this year about Grid
computing projects that are based primarily on components in the GRIDS
Center Software Suite.
See our archive of stories from
previous years.
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An
InfoWorld article
describes NMI efforts in developing and
hardening core middleware for research and education. The
story cites successful applications of GRIDS software
such as the Globus Toolkit and
Condor-G. (6/2004)
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NSF
announced availability of NMI-R5 (including the GRIDS Center
Software Suite) with a
news
release describing middleware-based application successes
for research and education. (5/2004)
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Members
of GRIDS contributed to a pair of new papers describing,
respectively, significant developments in the
Grid3 and
NEESgrid deployment
projects. (4/2004)
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A recent
"On the Grid" column in ClusterWorld magazine gives some helpful
rules of thumb for
setting up your own Grid. Other PDFs are
archived three months after publication. (4/2004)
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The
NEESgrid integration project within NSF's Network for Earthquake
Engineering Simulation conducted a
successful experiment with colleagues in Japan, creating new
opportunities for international collaboration. (4/2004)
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The
second International
Summer School on Grid Computing will be held in Naples,
Italy, July 18-30. Leading experts will lecture on middleware,
deployment and applications for students, who will perform
hands-on practical exercises. (3/2004)
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WIRED has a lengthy feature about progress in the
large-scale Grid deployment by CERN's Large Hadron Collider
project, which is preparing for massive amount of data that the
high energy physics instrument will produce. (3/2004)
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IEEE Distributed
Systems Online interviewed the GRIDS Center's Ian Foster regarding
the recently announced WS-Resource
Framework, a set of specifications hastening the convergence of Grid and Web
services. (2/2004)
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EWeek
offers analysis of Grid opportunities and obstacles, citing the NMI-based
ROCKS cluster demo at SC03 as evidence that grids are increasingly simple to
install. (2/2004)
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LinuxJournal lists four reasons that Linux could become the basis for
ubiquitous Grid computing. (2/2004)
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GRIDS co-sponsored the highly successful GlobusWORLD 2004,
the premier conference on Grid computing. A wealth of presentation
materials has been posted in the conference's
program section,
and the news section has numerous
stories centering on a major announcement about the new WS-Resource Framework.
(2/2004)
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Announcement of the WS-Resource Framework prompted extensive press coverage,
including
InfoWorld,
CNet,
Internet
News,
Cover Pages and
Information Week. For related press coverage, see the
GlobusWORLD news
archive. (1/2004)
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IBM
and Charles Schwab announced results of their joint research and develoment
efforts to apply Grid technologies to financial services problems.
(1/2004)
Grid-Related
Papers
Want to learn more about Grid
computing? Read various papers that
provide an overview of grid computing, grid software components,
higher-level services and tools, applications, and Grid-related
research. Articles are generally available in GNU-zipped postscript (PS) and in Adobe Acrobat PDF formats.
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