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Grid Computing as a Managed Service

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:44:58 GMT

"Grid computing is the latest to join the bandwagon of managed services. It's a good way of avoiding an expensive infrastructure investment", writes Bob Violino in his article Grid Computing Comes Around in this edition of Global Services...

Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

Sat, 26 Aug 2006 03:52:28 GMT

A few weeks back I blogged about Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) and how it was gaining traction in the market. Well, it turns out that Amazon has even greater ambitions than just providing loads of hosted and managed storage! Today they announced their...

Software shops get SaaS-y

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 00:37:11 GMT

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) that venture into the SaaS world have taken on two distinct sets of responsibilities. First, like traditional software companies, SaaS vendors are responsible for continually delivering innovative and relevant software products.

Back to Grid Blogging - OGF, Airbus deal

Sun, 16 Jul 2006 10:15:41 GMT

Recently, I have been busy at work so stopped blogging for a while. During the period of inactivity, there had been numerous news items and grid related activities that I have been starring in my reader and mails. The following are highlights of this somewhat longer post.

EGA - GGF Merger
Airbus into Grid Computing
A good Computational Grid Intro

Amazon Simple Storage Service - Gaining Momentum

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:31:12 GMT

What do Microsoft and SmugMug have in common? Both rely on the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) for cheap and reliable web-scale storage. With Amazon S3, growing companies now have the resources to look and feel like a Fortune 500 enterprise. Today, Amazon announced a variety of customers that together are storing more than 800 million data...

Grid Computing Books: Grid Computing - The Savvy Manager’s Guide

Thu, 25 May 2006 03:43:18 GMT

Title: Grid Computing - The Savvy Manager's Guide Authors: Pawel Plaszczak & Rich Wellner, Jr. Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann ISBN: 0127425039 Sample Chapter: N/A Online Companion: http://www.savvygrid.com/ Review: Taken from the...

Grid Computing Book: IBM Redbooks - "Patterns: Emerging Patterns for Enterprise Grids"

Thu, 18 May 2006 19:41:27 GMT

Title: Patterns: Emerging Patterns for Enterprise Grids Authors: John Easton, David Kra, Michael Osias, Donald Pazel, Rob Vrablik, David Chisholm, Matthew Haynos, Luiz R. Rocha, Avi Saha, Ellen Stokes, Roberto Jimenez, Richard Appleby, Shweta Gupta, Joachim Dirker, Luis Ferreira, and Jean-Pierre Prost Publisher: IBM Redbooks ISBN: N/A Book Description:...

Grid Computing Competition from Grid Computing Now!

Wed, 17 May 2006 18:40:47 GMT

DTI Knowledge Transfer Network Grid Computing Now! and the British Computer Society have announced a competition for innovative solutions to challenges of the 21st century using the capabilities of grid computing technologies. See the competition site for details. The Competition in Outline The competition is to develop a...

GGF launches Grid standards wiki

Tue, 16 May 2006 19:57:06 GMT

From Grid Meter:

The SCRM working group within the GGF has launched a Wiki that attempts to corral the work done by the many different organizations that have their fingers in the cake of emerging grid computing standards. SCRM stands for 'Standards...

NMI Release 9 and OGCE Version 2.0 Released

Tue, 16 May 2006 17:29:25 GMT

From Grid Today: NSF Releases NMI-R9,

Providing new event diagnostic, privilege management and portal-building tools, the ninth release of the National Science Foundation Middleware Initiative (NMI-R9) makes further progress in addressing the challenge of collaborating online in a shared cyberinfrastructure environment. NMI-R9 is available to the public for downloading under open-source...

Lessons learned from the TeraGrid

Sun, 14 May 2006 14:44:15 GMT

IBM Developer Works is running a series on "Lessons learned from the TeraGrid". Up till now, two articles belonging to this series have been published:

Call for Participation: GlobusWORLD 2006

Sat, 13 May 2006 19:00:57 GMT

The GlobusWORLD Community Program at GridWorld. Join the Globus Software Community and GGF18 Participants at GridWorld 2006 at the Washington Convention Center. Whether you're a Globus expert with technical advice to share, or an executive with visions for the future of open source enterprise Grid computing, GlobusWORLD is the premier event for delivering your message to the Grid community. In 2005 hundreds of...

Infinband primer

Fri, 12 May 2006 14:48:51 GMT

A nice primer on Infinband appeared in Computer Technology Review. The author, Dave Ellis, is the director of HPC Architecture, Engenio Storage Group, LSI Logic Corporation.

InfiniBand is one of a few I/O architectures initially developed to address high bandwidth, low latency requirements for High Performance Computing (HPC) environments....