The latest GRIDS Center software release is included in NMI-R8.0,
issued October 18, 2005, by the NSF Middleware Initiative. More information
here.
Read a revised report of the UK Engineering Task Force (ETF) Globus Toolkit 4
(GT4) Middleware Evaluation team on the current state of the GT4
toolkit.
The final "On the Grid" articles from
ClusterWorld magazine, which ceased publication August 2005, are
available.
Globus Toolkit 4.0 (GT4),
the newest stable release, is available for
download.
Read the
release notes.
The GRIDS Center develops core competencies, or service offerings, that can be
appropriately employed in specific projects. Read the
Summary of GRIDS Center Services to
learn more.
Meeting Updates
High-Performance
Grid Computing Workshop
April 29, 2006
Rhodes Island, Greece More information
7th LCI Conference:
The HPC Revolution 2006
May 1-4, 2006
University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma, USA More information
GRIDS Technology in Use
GRIDS Center Software Suite
An evolving Grid Projects and
Deployments System shows the widespread adoption of technologies
featured in the GRIDS software distribution. Community submissions
to the database are strongly encouraged.
GRIDS Center Software Suite
The GRIDS software technology overview gives new users and enterprise decision makers a high-level
summary of how the components interact.
A Grid Computing Primer If you're new to distributed computing, read this
Grid primer. It will introduce you to basic applications, including
portals, large-scale data analysis, computer-in-the-loop instrumentation and more.
Acknowledgements
Primary support for GRIDS comes from the
National Science
Foundation Middleware Initiative (program 4089, awards 0123961,
0123973, 0330685, 0330670, and 0330634). GRIDS software
developers wish also to acknowledge support from:
NSF Partnerships for
Advanced Computational Infrastructure (for Globus Toolkit,
Condor-G, Network Weather Service, MyProxy, GSI-OpenSSH, Grid
Packaging Tools and GridConfig)
U.S. Department of
Energy (for Globus Toolkit,
Condor-G, NWS and MPICH-G2)
Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (for Globus Toolkit and Condor-G)