The Globus Project and Computational Grids? 8
SigmoidCurve asks: "The latest issue of The Economist (sorry no URL, using the quaint paper version) has an article about software used to create 'computational grids' like those used with SETI@home. They mention the Globus project which is released under an open source license. The Economist article speculates on the future of the Grid and what kinds of projects would benefit from becoming massively parallelized. What does the Slashdot community think of this and similar projects? Does anyone have any comments about Globus or other such software? What projects do you know about that could take advantage of the untold billions of idle processor cycles lying in wait?" For those of you looking for more information on the Globus Project, you can check out their FAQ.
Free Link (Score:1)
Furthermore, "Grid Computing" != SETI@Home. Grid Computing is quite a bit more than just donating your spare CPU cycles to something like SETI@Home, distributed.net and such. Grid computing is going to happen. It may not include everyone and their grandmother's desktop machines as cycle providers.
Additional information (Score:2)
I remember a seminar that I attended at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center regarding Globus and the Grid, and thinking "uau, THIS is the future of computing". It was presented by people from NCSA ( National Center for Supercomputing Applications ) who were extremely knowledgeable and open to all kind of questions. Among other things ( 3 days of seminar ) they showed how they connected multiple Crays and SGI Origin computer across the world that were running Globus ( one from Germany, one from PSC and I believe one from UCSD or NCSA ) for a real-time calculation for a phyical experiment.
Welcome to the Twilight Zone (Score:1)
The world has gone mad, unplugged, and I am for some reason the only person able to access Slashdot.
I'm afraid.
Hold me.
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Re:electronic version + my thoughts (Score:1)
The series. Some articles are short -- a couple paragraphs -- but most are pretty in depth, like "Computing Power On Tap" as linked to above:
Sorry if I was being a wiseass with the not-first-post. I'm interested in the subject, and was disappointed that no one had commented yet. I browse via the search page now just so that all the articles that never make it to the front page don't slip through; often they're more interesting & the discussion is at a more interesting level. Or not, this is Slashdot after all. Anyway...
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Risks of distributed computing (Score:1)