Grid Computing and Contributed by Organizations or Campuses
Beyond Being There: A Blueprint for Advancing the Design, Development, and Evaluation of Virtual Organizations
| Title: | Beyond Being There: A Blueprint for Advancing the Design, Development, and Evaluation of Virtual Organizations (ID: CSD5376) | | Source: | National Science Foundation | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (05/30/2008) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | This report is based primarily on a workshop involving 42 people from academia and industry.
The goal of the workshop was to share systematic knowledge about the components, characteristics,
practices, and transformative impact of effective VOs; identify topics for future research that will
inform the ongoing design, development, and analysis of VOs for science and engineering research
and education; and create a new cross-disciplinary VO research community to conduct research across
a range of important topics. A subsequent workshop brought together more than 200 practitioners and
VO researchers to discuss how to build effective virtual organizations, and some of the material from
that workshop is represented here. | | View this resource: | |
Open Science Grid: Building and Sustaining General Cyberinfrastructure Using a Collaborative Approach
| Title: | Open Science Grid: Building and Sustaining General Cyberinfrastructure Using a Collaborative Approach (ID: CSD5052) | | Author(s): | Paul Avery (University of Florida) | | Source: | First Monday | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (06/15/2007) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | The author describes in this paper the creation and operation of the Open Science Grid (OSG [1]), a distributed shared cyberinfrastructure driven by the milestones of a diverse group of research communities. The effort is fundamentally collaborative, with domain scientists, computer scientists and technology specialists and providers from more than 70 U.S. universities, national laboratories and organizations providing resources, tools and expertise. The evolving OSG facility provides computing and storage resources for particle and nuclear physics, gravitational wave experiments, digital astronomy, molecular genomics, nanoscience and applied mathematics. | | View this resource: | |
GPN: Integrating Shibboleth, Grid, and Bioinformatics
| Title: | GPN: Integrating Shibboleth, Grid, and Bioinformatics (ID: EPS295) | | Author(s): | Gordon K. Springer (University of Missouri-Columbia) | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2006) | | Type: | Effective Practices | | Abstract: | The Great Plains Network (GPN) is a regional consortium of public universities in seven states: Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and South Dakota. This effective practice is a companion to "GPN: Building the Regional Middleware Infrastructure" (#294). It describes the creation of applications using middleware tools being developed as part of the NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI). These tools support collaborative research projects and the sharing of resources in a multi-institutional, virtual organization environment. This report is part of the NMI-EDIT Identity and Access Management Case Study Series. | | View this resource: | |
Top Researchers Ask Web Users to Join Science Grid
| Title: | Top Researchers Ask Web Users to Join Science Grid (ID: CSD3515) | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2004) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | A team of researchers is set to unveil the latest distributed computing project, called the World Community Grid, which will use idle computer power from millions of volunteers to study such topics as genetic codes and complex weather forecasting. Like other distributed computing projects, the World Grid asks individuals to download a program to their computers. The program uses available processing power to work on small parts of very large projects. Up to 10 million users will initially be able to participate in the project; if the number of volunteers exceeds that, organizers will expand the program. Network security is a consideration that could deter some users or push some network administrators to forbid participation. Linda Sanford of IBM, one of the organizations involved in the project, said, "We are looking for the individual, not the institution, per se, to contribute. [Companies] will let their employees know when they can participate."In addition to IBM, the project is supported by the United Nations, the Mayo Clinic, Oxford University, and others. | | View this resource: | |
China Grid Project Goes Live
| Title: | China Grid Project Goes Live (ID: CSD2999) | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2003) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | Chinese education officials this week will launch a grid-computing project they say might one day cover 200,000 students at 100 universities around the country. The China Education and Research Grid, managed by the Chinese Ministry of Education, will initially include 12 universities and will be capable of 6 trillion FLOPS (floating point operations per second) by 2005. The power of the grid is expected to increase to 15 trillion FLOPS. Al Bunshaft, vice president of sales and development for grid computing for IBM, which is building the new Chinese grid computer, said it will be used for a University of Hong Kong Web-based language instruction application, video software developed by Peking University, and a suite of bioinformatics applications. The Chinese grid will not be as large as some, such as the U.S. National Science Foundation's TeraGrid, but Bunshaft said it could become the largest grid for remote learning. | | View this resource: | |
The 2nd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '03)Proceedings
| Title: | The 2nd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '03)Proceedings (ID: CSD2737) | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2003) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports, Presentations/Speeches | | Abstract: | The goal of this workshop is to examine peer-to-peer technologies, applications and systems, and also to identify key research issues and challenges that lie ahead. In the context of this workshop, peer-to-peer systems are characterized as being decentralized, self-organizing distributed systems, in which all or most communication is symmetric. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -peer-to-peer applications and services
-peer-to-peer systems and infrastructures
-peer-to-peer algorithms
-security in peer-to-peer systems
-robustness in peer-to-peer systems
-anonymity and anti-censorship
-performance of peer-to-peer systems
-workload characterization for peer-to-peer systems
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