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2004 Stories
Here are some stories from 2004 about Grid
computing projects that are based primarily on components in the GRIDS
Center Software Suite.
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A ClusterWorld article on the Biomedical Infomatics
Research Network (BIRN): "Harnessing
the Power of the Globus Toolkit." (2004)
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An
InfoWorld article
describes NMI efforts in developing and
hardening core middleware for research and education. The
story cites successful applications of GRIDS software
such as the Globus Toolkit and
Condor-G. (6/2004)
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NSF
announced availability of NMI-R5 (including the GRIDS Center
Software Suite) with a
news
release describing middleware-based application successes
for research and education. (5/2004)
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Members
of GRIDS contributed to a pair of new papers describing,
respectively, significant developments in the
Grid3 and
NEESgrid deployment
projects. (4/2004)
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A recent
"On the Grid" column in ClusterWorld magazine gives some helpful
rules of thumb for
setting up your own Grid. Other PDFs are
archived three months after publication. (4/2004)
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The
NEESgrid integration project within NSF's Network for Earthquake
Engineering Simulation conducted a
successful experiment with colleagues in Japan, creating new
opportunities for international collaboration. (4/2004)
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The
second International
Summer School on Grid Computing will be held in Naples,
Italy, July 18-30. Leading experts will lecture on middleware,
deployment and applications for students, who will perform
hands-on practical exercises. (3/2004)
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WIRED has a lengthy feature about progress in the
large-scale Grid deployment by CERN's Large Hadron Collider
project, which is preparing for massive amount of data that the
high energy physics instrument will produce. (3/2004)
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IEEE Distributed
Systems Online interviewed the GRIDS Center's Ian Foster regarding
the recently announced WS-Resource
Framework, a set of specifications hastening the convergence of Grid and Web
services. (2/2004)
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EWeek
offers analysis of Grid opportunities and obstacles, citing the NMI-based
ROCKS cluster demo at SC03 as evidence that grids are increasingly simple to
install. (2/2004)
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LinuxJournal lists four reasons that Linux could become the basis for
ubiquitous Grid computing. (2/2004)
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GRIDS co-sponsored the highly successful GlobusWORLD 2004,
the premier conference on Grid computing. A wealth of presentation
materials has been posted in the conference's
program section,
and the news section has numerous
stories centering on a major announcement about the new WS-Resource Framework.
(2/2004)
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Announcement of the WS-Resource Framework prompted extensive press coverage,
including
InfoWorld,
CNet,
Internet
News,
Cover Pages and
Information Week. For related press coverage, see the
GlobusWORLD news
archive. (1/2004)
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IBM
and Charles Schwab announced results of their joint research and develoment
efforts to apply Grid technologies to financial services problems.
(1/2004)
2003 Stories
Here are some stories from 2003 about Grid
computing projects that are based primarily on components in the GRIDS
Center Software Suite.
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The NSF Middleware Initiative issued a
press release
to announce NMI Release 4.0, which includes important new contributions from the
GRIDS Center. (12/2003)
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The annual Supercomputing (SC) conference is ascendant,
according to this
article in The New York Times. Among the factors cited is
widespread adoption of the Grid for research and business.
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GRIDS Center members were
well-represented at SC03 in Phoenix, November 15-21. At the
opening gala, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
helped create
a cluster from scratch in under two hours using NMI's
packaged software. (11/2003)
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Organizers of GlobusWORLD 2004 issued a
press release announcing preliminary program details for the conference, scheduled for January 20-23 in San Francisco.
(10/2003)
Silicon.com issued its list of
Agenda Setters
2003, the top 50 people driving IT. Ian Foster of the Globus
Alliance is at number 28, ahead of some very prominent technology leaders.
(10/2003)
Oracle's new 10G
flagship suite will include the Globus Toolkit, writes
Government Computer News.
(10/2003)
The
National Coordination Office for Information Technology Research and
Development has issued its annual
Blue Book supplement to the President's budget, noting NSF's pivotal
role in the widespread adoption of Grid computing. The report
cites "visionary support" from NSF and partner agencies such as the
Department of Energy, NASA and DARPA. (10/2003)
The National Science Foundation has announced a slate of
new awards from the
NSF Middleware Initiative. Besides new awards to the GRIDS Center
and NMI-EDIT consortium, NMI will fund two additional large-scale
Grid-related projects in the areas of portals and instrumentation.
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS),
a major experiment for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at
CERN, is an important e-Science application of the Grid and tools such as the Globus Toolkit and Condor. (8/2003) -
NEESgrid carried out an important experiment
that generated useful data for earthquake engineers, demonstrating
capabilities of the latest Grid technologies that include the Globus Toolkit
3.0. (7/2003)
The Globus Toolkit is featured in The New York Times,
which
cites the software's "farsighted simplicity" as key to
widespread implementation of the Grid. (7/2003)
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InfoWorld magazine's list of the
Top Innovators for 2003 includes two GRIDS Center
principal investigators: Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman.
(5/2003)-
GridToday
featured the
GRIDS
story about NEESgrid, the major systems integration aspect
of the Network for Earthquake Engineering and Simulation.
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The associate director
of the White House Office of
Science and Technology Policy told the Interop conference that commercial adoption of the Grid
is "one
of the most exciting developments to come from federally funded
research." (5/2003) -
The National Science Foundation (NSF) issued a
press
release about NMI-R3, the third release from the NSF
MIddleware Initiative, featuring the GRIDS Center Software
Suite. (4/2003) -
In a
keynote address at the
InfoWorld
conference, Ian Foster of the GRIDS Center described the
importance of open standards for Grid Services. (4/2003) -
The Grid
promises "nirvana" for geneticists, according to
GenomeWeb. (4/2003) -
NEESgrid has created a
multimedia web
page describing how earthquake engineers are able to
design safer buildings through distributed Grid systems.
(3/2003) -
The GRIDS
Center's Ian Foster writes about "The
Grid: Computing Without Bounds" in Scientific
American. (Abstract is free; full article via one-time
fee or subscription.) (3/2003) -
Carl Kesselman of GRIDS is
quoted in a
Chicago Tribune story about the NSF-funded Network for
Earthquake Engineering and Simulation (NEES). -
The New
York Times featured
Ian Foster's review of "A Shortcut Through Time," a book
on quantum physics by science writer George Johnson.
(3/2003)-
GRIDS is featured in a new publication,
GRIDSTART (Acrobat
reader required) and in the
IEEE Taskforce on
Cluster Computing. (2/2003)
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The GRIDS Center's Miron Livny is
featured in a
GridToday interview about the Grid and Condor-G, his
team's contribution to the GRIDS Center Software Suite.
(2/2003)
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Globus software sets standard for machine communication, enabling Grid development, in
WIRED
News.
(1/2003)
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Grid computing is good for business
as open source Web Services gears into play, in
WIRED
News.
(1/2003)
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The University of Chicago News Office
issued a
news
release highlighting
MIT Technology Review's
profile of Ian Foster in its story hailing the
Grid as one of "Ten Technologies That Will Change the World."
(1/2003)
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ISI News and Events
also
highlighted Carl Kesselman
for his role in the same MIT Technology
Review feature. (1/2003)
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IBM launches supercomputing on demand,
in
The Register.
(1/2003)
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Self-healing computers
are a good 'fix' to defray rising management costs,
in Chicago Tribune Online.
(1/2003)
2002 Stories
Here are some stories from 2002 about Grid
computing projects that are based primarily on components in the GRIDS
Center Software Suite.
InfoWorld described
Oracle's new Grid engine, said to be based on the Globus
Toolkit. Says one industry analyst, "Oracle's mantra that
customers should use its entire application suite need not
conflict with the heterogeneous nature of grid computing if
Oracle adheres to emerging specifications, such as the Open
Grid Services Architecture." (November 2002)
The Globus Toolkit is central to the
#1 project on the
InfoWorld 100 list of technical innovations. The
application is a Grid-enabled mammogram archive created by the
University of Pennsylvania with help from IBM. (November
2002)
To coincide with NMI-R2 in October 2002, the National Science
Foundation issued a
press
release emphasizing several applications of NMI
technology.
A European news site, Enter the Grid, picked up
the GRIDS Center's story about
KX.509 deployment across the University of Southern
California. (November 1, 2002)
The New York Times
describes IBM's role in pushing Grids toward the mainstream.
(October 28, 2002)
The Globus
ToolkitTM 2.0 won an "Editors' Choice" award
for "Most Promising New Technology" at the R&D 100 Awards
ceremony on October 16 at Navy Pier in Chicago. The software
toolkit was being honored, along with other R&D 100
recipients, as one of 2002's most significant technological
innovations. The new issue of Research and Development
Magazine features stories about the winners. See
http://www.rdmag.com/features/0209dma_hpc23.php.
Red Herring
features the GRIDS Center's Ian Foster.
(October 2002)
Newsweek
has an extended
feature about the future of Grid computing, in which one
industry leader says, "The 19th century was about the
steam engine, and the 20th century was about the combustion
engine. I believe that the 21st century will be about the grid
engine." (September 2002)
JavaWorld describes the genesis
of IBM's partnership with the Globus Project. (September
2002)
Web Services Journal has
a feature on "Grid
Computing Electrifying Web Services." (September
2002)
PC Magazine reviews
current Grid software from commercial and non-profit
communities. (September 2002)
USA
Today on August 28, 2002, had a story about how "Computer
Grids promise leap in computing power."
GridToday
on August 26, 2002,
featured
NCSA's
Grid Packaging Technology, software that makes the GRIDS
Center software components easier to use.
NMI
and the GRIDS Center
are
praised in this Bio-IT World story
on P2P computing. (July 2002)
IBM
announced in July 2002 its
Grid Toolbox for Linux and AIX, a commercial version of
the Globus Toolkit with IBM service and support.
The
Platform Computing company announced in July 2002 the first
major contract in its deployment and support of Platform
Globus, a commercial
version of the open-source Globus Toolkit.
A
new paper by Ian Foster of the GRIDS Center answers the
question: "What
is the Grid?"
Grid
Today and Computerworld
covered IBM's announcement that it is offering commercial
support of the Globus Toolkit.
The
UK e-Science Program announced its commitment
to the emerging OGSA specification and to provide
database-interface source code to the Globus Toolkit.
One
analyst in Network
World Fusion estimates that "intragrids" can
reduce R&D costs by 25 percent, bringing a similar
reduction in the time for companies to bring a new product to
market. "Grid technology will leave its mark
beginning in 2004," he says.
The
Sydney Morning Herald calls Grid computing The
Next Big Thing.
NSF announced
NMI-R1, the NSF Middleware Initiative's
initial release, including specially packaged versions of
GRIDS software components -- the Globus Toolkit, Condor-G and
Network Weather Service.
Is
the Globus Toolkit "the Next Internet?" Decide
for yourself, but that's what top IT financial analyst Steve
Milunovich says in this Merrill Lynch
technology advisory.
Information
Week's June 17, 2002, cover story is "Living
On The Grid."
"Who
Needs Supercomputers?" from Business Week,
June 2002.
In
June 2002, ExtremeTech published stories describing how
new versions of operating systems from IBM
and Sun
include support for the Globus Toolkit.
"IBM recruits students for grid computing
effort," from InfoWorld Daily News, May 29, 2002
"Grid computing: a 6.5 on the
hypemeter?" from Hoover's On-Line, May 2002.
Byte
Magazine's issue
of April 22, 2002 is all about distributed computing. (Requires Adobe Acrobat.)
"Girding for the Grid,"
from Federal Computer Week, March 2002.
Distributed
computing shifts focus to self-managed systems, reported EETIMES
in April 2002.
EWeek
reported in March that
Microsoft
is bringing .NET to Grid Computing.
In
a January 2002 guest column for Washington Technology,
Ian Foster and Tom Garritano of GRIDS wrote about "Grid
Computing: Supercomputing at your desktop."
In
September 2001, the National Science Foundation announced its
first
NMI awards, leading to formation of the GRIDS Center.
Physics
Today's issue of February 2002 has an
overview
of Grid computing by Ian Foster of the GRIDS Center.
Cnet
News in February 2002 featured an
article
on the growing interest in Grid computing.
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