[e2e] GRID Network Research

[Dmitri Krioukov]

Recent news from the commercial deployment front:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/05/09/ibm.butterfly.reut/index.html
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dima.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: end2end-interest-admin at postel.org
> [mailto:end2end-interest-admin at postel.org]On Behalf Of David G. Andersen
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 10:49 PM
> To: Hesham Elbakoury
> Cc: end2end-interest at postel.org
> Subject: Re: [e2e] GRID Network Research
>
>
> On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 02:23:21PM -0700, Hesham Elbakoury mooed:
> > Hi Jon
> >
> >    What GRID stands for and what is its web site ?
> >
> >    Hesham
>
> Grid computing is a concept.  Take more conventional cluster computing
> and supercomputing, and then locate the resources around the world.
> Add a high-performance long-distance interconnect of some flavor
> (usually invovling the Internet).  Use.  The grid computing initiatives
> came more from the high-performance computing crowd than from the
> Internet crowd, and (perhaps IMO), much of the research tends to
> have a goal of furthering people's ability to do large-scale,
> high-performance computation.  While there's definitely some crossover
> between the two groups, there's also quite a bit of disconnect;
> hence, Jon's mail.
>
>   See http://www.gridcomputing.org/  - not all of their proceedings
> are online, but you might find the following reference informative.
> It describes a "mini-GRID" as a testbed for a real, global grid.
>
> http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~rajkumar/Grid2000/grid2000/book/19710156.ps
>
>   The kind of hardware they're talking about -- an SGI Origin 2000,
> a Cray T3E, and a Fujitsu VPP3000-8 vector processing supercomputer --
> should be informative about some of the things people envision connecting
> up into a global grid.
>
>    -Dave
>
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