New middleware emphasises security and useability
A new middleware package which will take grid computing out of research laboratories and into industry will be pre-released on 25 October. The middleware is the first to be released by the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII), whose mission is to become the UK source for reliable, open-source Grid Middleware. view more (2004-10-22)
From the Web to Grid computing
We will soon be able to tap the processing power of mainframe computers and their high-performance software through a "grid", just as easily as we now plug in a laptop to obtain electricity from the power grid. The acclaimed SETI project (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) was one of the first instances in which computing power... view more... (2003-02-20)
Media Invitation - The Grid gets real
The European DataGrid (EDG)* project has taken a major step towards making the concept of a world-wide computing Grid a reality. Its latest release of middleware - the software that makes a Grid of computers work together seamlessly - will support production quality Grid computing. Markus Schulz, one of the chief software developers at CERN**,... view more... (2002-11-12)
UK Secures place on front row of Grid Computing
British scientists deliver key component of the Grid at major international forum in Edinburgh Edinburgh, Scotland, UK - British scientists today unveiled one of the key building blocks of the Grid, which is being hailed as the 21st century successor to the Internet. Researchers from UK e-Science Centres and IBM UK have released the specification... view more... (2002-07-22)
World's biggest computing grid launched
The world's largest computing grid is ready to tackle mankind's biggest data challenge from the earth's most powerful accelerator. Today, three weeks after the first particle beams were injected into the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid combines the power of more than 140 computer centers from 33 countries to analyze... view more... (2008-10-06)
Annoucement of e-Science Pilot Projects
In their Spending Review Settlement, SR 2000 the Government announced they would be investing £120 M in a new initiative in e-Science. As part of this, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council was allocated £17 M to set up projects aimed at testing "grid" technology in a number of distinct science and... view more... (2001-08-14)
LHC Computing Centres Join Forces for Global Grid Challenge
Today, in a significant milestone for scientific grid computing, eight major computing centres successfully completed a challenge to sustain a continuous data flow of 600 megabytes per second (MB/s) on average for 10 days from CERN in Geneva, Switzerland to seven sites in Europe and the US. The total amount of data transmitted during this... view more... (2005-04-26)
CERN awards the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics for its role in Grid development
In the presence of Minister Letizia Moratti, CERN Director General, Robert Aymar has presented the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) with an award to recognize its contributions to developing computational Grids, and its pioneering efforts to establish and promote Grid technology at the national level and in Europe. The award... view more... (2004-12-01)
Idle Computers Offer Hope to Solve Cancer's Mysteries Through Grid Computing Project
A biomedical engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin is using a concept called "grid computing" to allow the average person to donate idle computer time in a global effort to fight cancer. view more (2008-06-24)
A nimbus rises in the world of cloud computing
Cloud computing is a hot topic in the technology world these days. Even if you're not a tech-phile, chances are if you've watched a lot of television or skimmed a business magazine, you've heard someone talking about cloud computing as the way of the future. view more (2009-05-11)
Particle Physics drives new computing technology
UK scientists are to develop and test the next generation of computing technology based upon the massive amounts of data streaming from an international particle physics experiment sited in the USA. The BaBar experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre (SLAC) in California is investigating the nature of B mesons, short-lived sub-atomic... view more... (2002-02-05)
UK`s first `super internet` to launch in the summer
A massive multi-million pound computation grid system has been developed by three universities in Yorkshire. The White Rose Computational Grid (WRCG) - believed to be the first of its kind in the UK - will provide a high performance computing service for researchers in the White Rose Consortium universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York. The WRCG... view more... (2002-04-18)
UK Companies encouraged to "Go for the Grid"
UK companies are this week (5th and 6th September) given encouragement to build long term relations with CERN (the European Laboratory for Particle Physics) with a view to winning contracts, especially related to the GRID. Mr Basil Eastwood, Her Majesty`s Ambassador to Switzerland, and Professor Ian Halliday, Chief Executive of the Particle... view more... (2002-09-02)
UK Partners Benefit from 52 Million Euro Boost
Twenty-six UK partner organisations are involved in most of the twelve research projects that have just received funding from a 52 million euro budget package from the EU's Framework Programme to bring "Grid" networked computing out of research labs and into industry. view more (2004-09-15)
SpaceGrid study ends on an optimistic note
Almost two years have gone by since ESA set up the SpaceGrid study to see how the emerging use of the electronic grid could increase and improve the use of space applications. The study is now complete and last week members met with representatives of industry and academia to discuss the outcome. So what is the Grid? To paraphrase Ian Foster,... view more... (2003-05-28)
CERN recognizes UK's outstanding contribution to Grid computing
CERN's Director General, Dr Robert Aymar, today (June 2nd) formally recognized the UK's exceptional contribution to developing the next generation of computing by presenting awards for outstanding achievement to two British researchers who have been at the forefront of Grid computing at CERN. Dr Aymar also took the opportunity to praise the UK's... view more... (2004-06-02)
What to do with 15 million gigabytes of data
When it is fully up and running, the four massive detectors on the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN particle-physics lab near Geneva are expected to produce up to 15 million gigabytes, aka 15 petabytes, of data every year view more (2008-11-03)
Grid Computing Steps up a Gear
UK plans for Grid computing changed gear this week. The pioneering European DataGrid (EDG) project came to a successful conclusion at the end of March, and on 1 April a new project, known as Enabling Grids for E-Science in Europe (EGEE), begins. The UK is a major player in both projects, providing key staff and developing crucial areas of the... view more... (2004-04-01)
Intelligent sensors gear up for real-time flood monitoring
An intelligent flood monitoring system that could give advance warning of the type of rapid flood that engulfed the UK Cornish village of Boscastle in 2004, is under test in the Yorkshire Dales. view more (2006-10-19)
CERN launches Europe-wide tests of Grid technology
Budding computer experts from around the world will this week begin their own tests of the latest software developed by the European DataGrid Project. Students attending the 2002 CERN School of Computing in Vico Equense, Italy, will be submitting jobs that can run anywhere on the Project's current Grid, which is based at 10 computer centres... view more... (2002-09-16)
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