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	grid computing
		Grid computing, which is already being used in some academic and research communities, is making its way to the life insurance industry.
		Grid computing allows us to access servers and desktops simultaneously so that we can harness that power in a way that makes it easy for us, that doesn’t force us to engineer something so complex that it could be unstable.
		Grid computing is still new, especially in the insurance industry, and while it is very viable as a technology there isn’t a lot of external help, but that will probably change in the next two or three years.
	www.loma.org /res-02-05-grid.asp (2852 words)

	Global Grid Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Grid computing is increasingly being viewed as the next phase of distributed computing.
		Grid computing enables research-oriented organizations to solve problems that were infeasible to solve due to computing and data-integration constraints.
		The key to realizing the benefits of grid computing is standardization, so that the diverse resources that make up a modern computing environment can be discovered, accessed, allocated, monitored, and in general managed as a single virtual system—even when provided by different vendors and/or operated by different organizations.
	www.gridforum.org /UnderstandingGrids/ggf_grid_understand.php (573 words)

	What is grid computing? - a definition from Whatis.com - see also: computational grid
		A well-known example of grid computing in the public domain is the ongoing SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @Home project in which thousands of people are sharing the unused processor cycles of their PCs in the vast search for signs of "rational" signals from outer space.
		Grid computing can be thought of as distributed and large-scale cluster computing and as a form of network-distributed parallel processing.
		It can be confined to the network of computer workstations within a corporation or it can be a public collaboration (in which case it is also sometimes known as a form of peer-to-peer computing).
	searchcio.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid19_gci773157,00.html (515 words)

	Grid computing made simple - The Industrial Physicist
		Grid computing is akin to established technologies such as computer clusters and peer-to-peer computing in some ways and unlike them in others.
		Computer clusters and distributed computing require a close proximity and operating homogeneity; grids allow computation over wide geographic areas using computers that are heterogeneous.
		Autonomic computing is a prerequisite to creating grids that solve connected parallel problems, because as the number of applications and the volume of data on a grid increase, the need to coordinate and set priorities grows exponentially.
	www.aip.org /tip/INPHFA/vol-9/iss-4/p31.html (2263 words)

	Nature Web Matters > Internet Computing and the Emerging Grid
		This enlisted personal computers to work on the problem of analysing data from the Arecibo radio telescope for signatures that might indicate extraterrestrial intelligence.
		Grid computing concepts were first explored in the 1995 I-WAY experiment, in which high-speed networks were used to connect, for a short time, high-end resources at 17 sites across North America.
		Ian Foster is a Senior Scientist and Associate Division Director in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago.
	www.nature.com /nature/webmatters/grid/grid.html (1663 words)

	Distributed computing gets a corporate twist \| CNET News.com
		Grids are clusters of interconnected computers that can collectively tackle large computational problems or provide quicker access to very large bodies of data.
		Grids are a close relative of distributed computing efforts to spread computational tasks among large numbers of computers, the best-known example being the SETI@home effort to search for extraterrestrial communications among radio-telescope signals.
		Big Blue is fostering development of grid technology by supporting the Global Grid Forum, which is working on standardizing some grid technologies, and the open-source Globus research effort to build grids.
	news.com.com /2100-1001-270988.html (645 words)

	LinuxDevCenter.com -- Energizing Grid Computing
		Until the term "grid computing" hit the scene, there were basically two ways to make a distributed, parallel application, and they both involved a lot of infrastructure development and a lot of programming.
		Lobster is an integrated mechanism to distribute slices of a computation across a network of computational resources (such as a collection of Linux boxes, Suns, mainframes, whatever) and to ensure that failover, recovery, and other critical services are managed on behalf of the application.
		Grid computing is the newest and hottest trend in high-performance computing, and will help companies -- eventually -- take advantage of the power of distributed systems.
	www.linuxdevcenter.com /pub/a/linux/2002/04/25/enterprise.html (1528 words)

	alphaWorks : OptimalGrid : Overview
		OptimalGrid is a research prototype of a grid-enabled collaboration framework, sophisticated management infrastructure, and problem-solving environment for grid computing that is designed to hide complexities of partitioning, distributing, and load balancing.
		Grid applications should be able to automatically reconfigure themselves in response to dynamic changes in the grid environment.
		The first is the Eden model of bacterial growth running in both a stand-alone mode (simulating a grid on one machine) and a distributed mode on multiple grid nodes.
	www.alphaworks.ibm.com /tech/optimalgrid (651 words)

	grid computing - Webopedia.com
		Unlike conventional networks that focus on communication among devices, grid computing harnesses unused processing cycles of all computers in a network for solving problems too intensive for any stand-alone machine.
		A well-known grid computing project is the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @Home project, in which PC users worldwide donate unused processor cycles to help the search for signs of extraterrestrial life by analyzing signals coming from outer space.
		Grid computing does require special software that is unique to the computing project for which the grid is being used.
	itmanagement.webopedia.com /TERM/G/grid_computing.html (276 words)

	Grid Computing Info Centre (GRID Infoware)
		In June'02, I attended the Grid Computing Planet conference in San Jose, California and I was surprised to learn that people even call clusters as grids.
		Grid is a type of parallel and distributed system that enables the sharing, selection, and aggregation of geographically distributed "autonomous" resources dynamically at runtime depending on their availability, capability, performance, cost, and users' quality-of-service requirements.
		A dedicated course on Grid Computing has has been taught at a number of universities, including the University of Melbourne, University of Minnesota, University of Southern California, Vrije Universiteit, and University of Leiden.
	www.gridcomputing.com /gridfaq.html (1080 words)

	Grid Computing Planet: FAQ
		Grid computing is a method of harnessing the power of many computers in a network to solve problems requiring a large number of processing cycles and involving huge amounts of data.
		In November 2001, IBM announced it is building a computing grid for the University of Pennsylvania designed to bring advanced methods of breast cancer diagnosis and screening to patients across the nation, while reducing costs.
		Intel and Compaq are also involved in grid computing, as are a number of private companies.
	www.gridcomputingplanet.com /faq (694 words)

	GridCafé - What is "the Grid"? - Grid computing
		Grid computing can be seen as the evolution of local Grid computing to the global scale, made possible by the advent of very high-speed Internet connections, and of powerful computer processors that are able to run quite complex middleware in the background without disturbing the task that the computer is trying to handle.
		And by developing sophisticated middleware which makes sure widely distributed resources are used effectively, Grid computing gives the user the impression of shrinking the distances further still.
		Another distinction is that a Grid could in principle have access to parallel computers, clusters, farms, local Grids, even Internet computing solutions, and would choose the appropriate tool for a given calculation.
	gridcafe.web.cern.ch /gridcafe/whatisgrid/reality/grid.html (441 words)

	SAS \| Grid Computing
		It is designed for CIOs, IT managers, data center managers or grid computing architects seeking to improve performance of SAS jobs and optimize use of all appropriate resources.
		The Grid Manager plug-in, which is integrated into the SAS Management Console, provides a visual interface for monitoring and managing hosts, jobs, users and queues in the SAS Computing Grid.
		The programs are then distributed in the computing grid using platform computing middleware to provide dynamic load balancing.
	www.sas.com /technologies/architecture/grid/index.html (669 words)

	Grid 2005 - 6th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing
		Grid 2005 will be held in conjunction with SC05, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking and Storage.
		Grid 2005 is an international meeting that brings together a community of researchers, developers, practitioners, and users involved with the Grid.
		The objective of Grid 2005 is to serve as a forum to present current and emerging work as well as to exchange research ideas in this field.
	pat.jpl.nasa.gov /public/grid2005 (354 words)

	Grid computing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Data Grids or the controlled sharing and management of large amounts of distributed data.
		Buyya defines Grid as "a type of parallel and distributed system that enables the sharing, selection, and aggregation of geographically distributed autonomous resources dynamically at runtime depending on their availability, capability, performance, cost, and users' quality-of-service requirements".
		Substantial experience is being built through the operation of various Grids, most notable of them being the EGEE infrastructure supporting LCG, the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grid_computing (2404 words)

	Grid Computing
		Modular computing, especially in the data center, minimizes and simplifies the infrastructure using building blocks that address higher density, lower power, lower thermals, simplified cabling, and ease of upgrading and management.
		Utility computing allows an infrastructure to be managed analogously to an electric utility, applying a pay-per-use model, thereby optimizing and balancing the computing needs of an enterprise, and allowing it to run at maximum efficiency.
		As grid computing gains momentum and is more widely accepted across multiple industries worldwide, Intel's unique value will continue to move further up the grid solution stack.
	www.intel.com /business/bss/technologies/grid (560 words)

	Grid Computing Solutions
		Grid Computing lets you bring together all your heterogeneous resources and allocate them efficiently to applications within the enterprise and beyond.
		Using N1 Grid Engine (formerly Sun Grid Engine) to create a Cluster Grid, engineers in Ford Motor Company's Powertrain division are now able to divide up the jobs and complete work in 15 minutes that used to take days.
		The Sun Infrastructure Solution for Grid Computing is designed to help IT organizations architect and deploy appropriate Grid Computing infrastructure that contributes directly to their key business goals.
	www.sun.com /software/grid (579 words)

	Grid Computing - ISOC Member Briefing #11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Standards are being developed for Grid computing by the Global Grid Forum (GGF) (http://www.gridforum.org), using procedures directly modeled on those of the IETF.
		However, Grid computing will only be adopted by commercial users if they are confident that their data and privacy can be adequately protected and that the Grid will be at least as scaleable, robust and reliable as their own in-house IT systems.
		Grids raise a number of other issues of societal importance: research investment; usage for education, government, and regional development; liability and antitrust questions; intellectual property; universal access; and taxes and tariffs.
	www.isoc.org /briefings/011/index.html (1757 words)

	Grid Computing
		Grids and data clusters are the latest thing in database technology and companies want to extend the reach of this technology with managed services.
		Several major grid computing systems are applying their combined power to find effective candidates against a common research target in the most prevalent and harmful type of avian flu.
		Although pharmaceutical companies need high-performance computing to do drug research, a new report finds that the vast majority are in the early stages at best when it comes to learning about grid computing.
	www.eweek.com /category2/0,1874,1413661,00.asp (3922 words)

	Grid computing TechIndex
		That may mean walking out to the edge of grid computing to garner greater compute performance, or it may involve management challenges such as accommodating a mobile workforce or connecting hundreds of far-flung offices.
		She points to the statistic that the Netherlands is poised to overtake South Korea as the most wired nation by the end of this year as well as her country's existing strengths in grid computing, embedded systems, and nanotechnology.
		Their goal is to boost the adoption of grid computing by hammering out technology specifications that allow customers to mix and match products from a variety of suppliers.
	www.infoworld.com /techindex/grid_computing.html (5133 words)

	Ian Foster
		Computational Grids, Chapter 2 of The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure, 1999.
		The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure was published in July 1998 by Morgan-Kaufmann.
		The objective of the Global Grid Forum is to promote and develop Grid technologies and applications via the development and documentation of "best practices," implementation guidelines, and standards with an emphasis on rough consensus and running code.
	www-fp.mcs.anl.gov /~foster (999 words)

	List of distributed computing projects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The World Community Grid is an IBM philanthropic initiative which aims to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity.
		DIMES — is a distributed computing project which maps the structure and evolution of the Internet infrastructure, allowing users to see how the Internet looks from their home.
		Grid MP — an infrastructure created by United Devices, used to run grid.org, and is one of the infrastructures used by World Community Grid.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects (1540 words)

	The GRIDS Lab and the Gridbus Project
		He is named in the article as someone “to watch” during 2006, and the article says 2005 confirmed his place as one of the world’s leading grid computing researchers.
		Alchemi (http://www.alchemi.net/) is an "open source" software framework that allows you to painlessly aggregate the computing power of networked machines into a virtual supercomputer (computational grid) and to develop applications to run on enterprise grids.
		It has signed an agreement with Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, to collaborate in grid computing, which is a way to achieve high computational power by using collective resources of many networked computers.
	www.gridbus.org (401 words)

	developerWorks : Grid computing tutorials, code, and forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Learn more about the grid computing community through workshops, conferences, and other valuable resources with this reading list compiled for new users, programmers, and administrators.
		Load testing a grid, Part 2: Learn how to create different types of load tests for a grid using a sample testing framework.
		Load testing a grid, Part 1: Learn how to identify limits and bottlenecks in your grid before they cause problems by examining the methodology for a framework to test the operation of your grid.
	www.ibm.com /developerworks/grid (236 words)

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