German government heads for grid
News The German minister of science, Edelgard Bulmahn, is expected to announce the D-Grid plan in Berlin at a meeting of the Global Grid Forum, which is a grid computing standards body. D-Grid will use software from the Global Grid Forum and closely...
[March 10, 2004, 13:35]
Grid grouping draws scepticism
News Another issue the alliance faces is whether its work will duplicate the efforts of existing groups such as the Global Grid Forum or simply muddy the waters. In a statement, the Global Grid Forum hinted that the EGA may not have been needed.
[April 21, 2004, 12:35]
Weaving grid computing into Web services
News Globus and IBM will offer specifications for the forthcoming version 3.0 of its grid software tools at the Global Grid Forum, the key change from previous versions being the adoption of the Open Grid Services Architecture, Globus said.
[February 18, 2002, 12:21]
Service Oriented Architectures for Science Gateways on Grid Systems
White Papers This paper provides a brief look at the Open Grid Service Architecture, a standard being proposed by the Global Grid Forum, which provides the foundational concepts of most Grid systems. Grid computing is about allocating distributed collections of...
[August 4, 2006, 1:00]
Grid computing luring mainstream backers
News But this week's Global Grid Forum in Toronto locked grids into the business computing future. And as expected, Avaki, which sells grid software, submitted a proposal called the Secure Grid Naming Protocol at the Global Grid Forum to standardise how...
[February 21, 2002, 14:36]
UK e-science centre pushes grid computing
News Among its activities, the centre will host the Fifth Global Grid Forum and the eleventh IEEE conference on High Performance Distributed Computing in July. The UK government on Thursday officially opened the National e-Science Centre (NeSC...
[April 26, 2002, 7:31]
UK scientists complete Grid foundations
News The results were announced at the fifth Global Grid Forum, taking place this week in Edinburgh, hosted by the National E-Science Centre. British scientists on Monday announced the completion of one of the building blocks for large-scale data...
[July 22, 2002, 12:45]
Singapore hopes to lead future tech trends
News Grid computing involves connecting numerous servers at various locations to create collective supercomputers capable of performing taxing calculations, such as global climate modelling. Among the areas Singapore will focus on are grid computing...
[March 4, 2002, 11:47]
HP hops on board SmartFrog
News Robison made the announcement at the eighth Global Grid Forum (GGF) on Thursday. Hewlett-Packard reiterated its support for open standards in grid computing on Thursday and sealed its pledge by giving software to the alliance that sets standards...
[June 27, 2003, 13:37]
Grids go corporate
News The Global Grid Forum is working on grid standards. In the latest effort to put corporate teeth into the amorphous idea of grid computing, IBM, HP and Intel are banding together into a new group called the Globus Consortium.
[January 24, 2005, 8:10]
Grid-lock?
Leader Interested parties have already formed several grid-related groups: the Global Grid Forum (GGF), whose major backers include IBM and Microsoft, is broadly based, while the Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA), which was launched this April and includes...
[September 6, 2004, 13:50]
GDC: PlayStation 3 - The next generation
News Okamoto said Sony is working with IBM to apply Big Blue's research in "grid computing," a variation of distributed computing, to the next PlayStation. Go to the ZDNet news forum. What we failed to do is a usability test for a global market.
[March 22, 2002, 10:03]
Is AMD losing its supercomputing lustre?
News The cluster is connected to the UK's e-Science Grid, a project sometimes referred to as Internet 2, which is designed to give scientists high-speed access to computing resources across the UK and, ultimately, across Europe.
[April 18, 2002, 16:55]
