DOE SCIENCE GRIDS
Grids are super Internets for high-performance computing worldwide collections of high-end resources such as supercomputers, sotrage, advanced instruments, and immersive environments. The Globus development team has created a set of underlying Grid services and a software toolkit. YOu must know unix to be on this grid. Software for Linux and Solaris 2.7 for download here.
NEES Grid - National Virtual Collaboratory for Earthquake Engineering Research
Inforamtion Power Grid
Energy Science Network
Grid Global Forum
The NSF (Natiional Sicience Foundation)initiative consists of two teams: GRIDS, the Grid Research Integration Deployment and Support Center, and EDIT, the Enterprise and Desktop Integration Technologies consortium.
Grid Research Integration
Grid Research Integration Deployment and Support Center
EDIT Emerging Middleware Development
Enterprise and Desktop Integration Technologies consor
NMI Integration Testbed
Middleware Initiative
Globus Software Toolkit Download
Globus Software Toolkit Download
Grid News Source
Grid Computing The Next 'Killer App,' Delphi Says By Paul Shread
The next dominant computing paradigm will combine the Internet, peer-to-peer and wireless computing, according to a new report from Delphi Group that predicts a bright future for Grid computing.
"The next major revolution in business computing has already arrived, it's called Grid Computing, and will provide access within the palm of your hand to virtually every known electronic resource," according to the report, titled "Global Grid: The Quiet Revolution."
"The Grid Computing paradigm, the first 'killer app' to finally obsolesce the desktop PC as we know it today, will arrive through the ability to access a world wide network of computing power from virtually any device, including handheld devices and embedded computers," the report said.
Wladawsky-Berger: Today when people go to a Web site, that Web site may be very busy, or may even be down. One of the promises of Grid is that the system would have multiple copies of Web sites, would have redundancy built-in. Then the system will make decisions to route you to that site that can most quickly handle your request. Grid Computing is really the natural evolution of the Internet.
IBM, in collaboration with Globus, which is one of the main open community organizations for Grid Computing, submitted a specification called the Open Grid Services Architecture to do exactly that - to merge Grid Computing protocols with Web service protocols and use Web services standards like SOAP, Simple Object Access Protocol; WSDL, which is the XML based standards for exchanging content; and other standards for services. So the two are definitely coming together, and that's really good news for everybody.
Grid is cheaper than a server farm. Sun 'At Risk,' IBM On Target
A sampling of some Grid projects:
United Devices-Intel-Oxford cancer research project
GridSim
Grid Physics Network (GriPhyN)
Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS)
e-Science at Oxford University
For more projects, visit the Grid Computing Info Center, Distributed Systems Online, and Ian Foster's list of
Science and Engineering Projects.