|
August 2005
15-17, First Nordic Grid Neighborhood Conference, Oslo, Norway
22-26, ACM SIGCOMM 2005, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
23-27, 20th APAN Meeting: Advanced Network Conference in Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
29-30, Open Science Grid Blueprint Meeting, Buffalo, New York
30-31, Bridging the Gap: End-to-End Networking for Landmark Applications, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Full Calendar
|
Illustration of GLIF infrastructure. (Click on image for much larger version.)
Visualization by Robert Patterson, NCSA/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; data compilation by Maxine Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago; Earth texture http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/.
GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility, is an international virtual organization that
supports persistent data-intensive scientific research and middleware development on
LambdaGrids.
Learn more...
|
37
Percent of 149 firms surveyed by Forrester Research that are piloting, rolling out or have implemented some form or fashion of grid technology.
Source: Network World
|
|
 |
nanoHUB Makes Nanotech Tools Easily Accessible
Multi-million atom quantum dot simulation.
Image Courtesy G. Klimeck and nanoHUB |
A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter—25,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. At that tiny scale, matter can exhibit some strange, new behaviors. Nanotechnology researchers harness those behaviors to create new devices and materials, and the nanoHUB allows researchers and students to harness simulation tools, educational materials and computing resources necessary to study matter at the nanometer scale.
"The nanoHUB provides access to nanotechnology applications as well as traditional chemistry, semiconductor and circuit design tools through a Web interface," said Sebastien Goasguen from Purdue University. "Since the beginning, our philosophy has been that users shouldn't have to go through the painful process of downloading code, compiling it and installing additional packages to make it run."
The Network for Computational Nanotechnology, which includes Purdue and six other universities, develops, operates and maintains the nanoHUB through a grant from the National Science Foundation. The simulation tools and applications created by NCN researchers and other groups are made available through the hub. Anyone can set up a free account and run simulations using the nanoHUB cyberinfrastructure. NCN and Purdue researchers can access an expanded range of simulation tools, and soon will use grid technology to harness additional computing resources.
Read more...
|
IBM offers starter pack for grid computing
Computerworld, August 8, 2005
By China Martens
IBM plans to unwrap a bundle of software, hardware and services called Grid and Grow at the LinuxWorld show in San Francisco today.
Read More...
SDSC Launches Data Central
SDSC Press Release, August 1, 2005
Today, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) launched Data Central, the first program of its kind to support a number of large community data collections and databases.
Read More...
|
|
|
Oxana Smirnova: Physicist and NorduGrid Expert
Oxana Smirnova
|
Particle physicist Oxana Smirnova has been the local grid computing expert for her department at Sweden's Lund University since the year 2000. In addition to teaching physics at the university as an associate professor, she develops monitoring software and tests grid technology from a user perspective for the NorduGrid collaboration.
"The switch from physics to computing was rather smooth," said Smirnova. "I had been doing data analysis, which is mostly programming and data processing, before I switched to grid computing. Of course I was also doing some hardware work and detector shifts, but most of my work was already on computers. Now, as a user, I explain to the computer science programmers what I need from them, which is a complicated task."
Read more...
|
International Grid School Attracts Students from Five Continents
Vico Equense's coastline.
Image Courtesy Alison McCall |
For the third summer running, students from all over the world traveled to Vico Equense, Italy, to extend their knowledge of grid computing.
The Third International Summer School on Grid Computing's 64 participants from 17 countries on five continents—young researchers from technical industries, research laboratories, and academic environments—received an in-depth introduction to grid technologies and applications. More than seventy hours of lectures, practical exercises, directed reading and reports from leading researchers covered the main topics in grid development and technology, worldwide grid efforts and emerging key grid applications. The curriculum of the school, which took place over two weeks in July, was designed and delivered by an international committee of experts.
"Once again the international summer school demonstrated the power of openness, sharing and collaboration which are the pillars of grid computing," commented Miron Livny, chair of this year's Programme Committee. "Students and instructors with a broad spectrum of interests and expertise came together to get exposed to new ideas, share requirements and collaborate on addressing the challenges we face in translating the concepts of distributed computing into dependable tools."
Read more...
|
|
