The Grid BlogGrid Computing and Utility Computing News and AnalysisGrid Computing Books: Grid Computing - The Savvy Manager’s Guide- May 25, 2006 Title: Grid Computing - The Savvy Manager's Guide Authors: Pawel Plaszczak & Rich Wellner, Jr. Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann ISBN: 0127425039 Sample Chapter: NA Online Companion: http:www.savvygrid.com Review: Taken from the...http://www.gridblog.com/index.php?id=P230 Grid Computing Book: IBM Redbooks - "Patterns: Emerging Patterns for Enterprise Grids"- May 18, 2006 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: NA Book Description:...http://www.gridblog.com/index.php?id=P234 Grid Computing Competition from Grid Computing Now!- May 17, 2006 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...http://www.gridblog.com/index.php?id=P233 GGF launches Grid standards wiki- May 16, 2006 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...http://www.gridblog.com/index.php?id=P232 NMI Release 9 and OGCE Version 2.0 Released- May 16, 2006 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...http://www.gridblog.com/index.php?id=P229 Lessons learned from the TeraGrid- May 14, 2006 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: Manage a large geographically distributed grid Managing a big data set on a...http://www.gridblog.com/index.php?id=P227 Call for Participation: GlobusWORLD 2006- May 13, 2006 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...http://www.gridblog.com/index.php?id=P231 Infinband primer- May 12, 2006 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 IO architectures initially developed to address high bandwidth, low latency requirements for High Performance Computing (HPC) environments....http://www.gridblog.com/index.php?id=P228 |