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The Globus Alliance http://www.globus.org/ is an international collaboration that conducts research and development to create fundamental Grid technologies. The Grid lets people share computing power, databases, and other on-line tools securely across corporate, institutional, and geographic boundaries without sacrificing local autonomy.
The Globus Alliance has produced a broad collection of papers on the Grid, distributed computing, applied computer science, and related topics.
Go here for documents. http://www.globus.org/alliance/publications/papers.php
The Global Grid Forum (GGF) http://www.ggf.org/index.php is the community of users, developers, and vendors leading the global standardization effort for grid computing. The GGF community consists of thousands of individuals in industry and research, representing over 400 organizations in more than 50 countries. Together we work for the pervasive adoption of grid computing worldwide because we believe grids will lead to new discoveries, new opportunities, and better business practices. http://www.ggf.org/ggf_abt_overview.htm
One of the primary purposes of the Global Grid Forum (GGF) is to publish documents. These documents provide information and specifications to developers and others involved with Grid computing. http://www.ggf.org/ggf_docs_process.htm
Go here for documents. http://www.ggf.org/ggf_docs_final.htm
Post Date: June 11, 2005 at 8:00 AM CDT; 1300 GMT
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- Grid Computing Looking Forward," Enrique Castro-Leon and Joel Munter, Grid Computing http://www.intel.com/business/bss/technologies/grid/, Technology@Intel Magazine http://www.intel.com/technology/magazine/index.htm, Intel Technology and Research http://www.intel.com/technology/index.htm, Volume 3, Issue 5, June 2005
Abstract URL here: http://www.intel.com/technology/magazine/computing/grid-computing-0605.htm
Full Report (PDF) here: http://www.intel.com/technology/magazine/computing/grid-computing-0605.pdf
Post Date: June 6, 2005 at 10:30 AM CDT; 1530 GMT
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- "What is the Grid? A Three Point Checklist," Ian Foster http://www.larryblakeley.com/experts/ian_foster/ian_foster.htm, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago, Global Grid Forum http://www.ggf.org, Understanding Grids http://www.ggf.org/ggf_grid_understand.htm, July 20, 2002
Directory: http://www.larryblakeley.com/Articles/clusters_grids/
Abstract: http://www.larryblakeley.com/Articles/clusters_grids/ian_foster20020720_abstract.htm
File Name: ian_foster20020720.pdf
Post Date: June 4, 2005 at 12:55 PM CDT; 1755 GMT
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- "Web Search for a Planet: The Google Cluster Architecture," Luiz Andre Barroso, Jeffrey Dean http://labs.google.com/people/jeff/, Urs Holzle, Google Labs Research Papers http://labs.google.com/papers/index.html, IEEE Computer Society http://www.computer.org/, IEEE Micro http://www.computer.org/micro/, Vol. 23, No. 2, pages 22-28, March, 2003 http://www.computer.org/micro/mi2003/m2022.pdf
Directory: http://www.larryblakeley.com/Articles/clusters_grids/
Abstract: http://www.larryblakeley.com/Articles/clusters_grids/barroso_dean_holze200304_abstract.htm
File Name: barroso_dean_holze200304.pdf
Post Date: June 4, 2005 at 10:10 AM CDT; 1510 GMT
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This paper - the first in a two-part series - discusses the various considerations that go into planning a high performance computing cluster. Among the questions to ask yourself:
What applications will run on your cluster? The answer will help determine whether you deploy 64-bit Intel® Itanium® 2 processors, 32-bit Intel® Xeon™ processors or Intel® Xeon™ processors MP.
Are your applications fine-grained or coarse-grained? Granularity refers to the ratio of compute time to communication time and can determine what networking technology your cluster requires.
How many nodes do you require? The number of simultaneous users and the size of the projects will help determine the number of nodes. It's also important to understand how many processes your applications can run in parallel.
These questions and several others — including what industry standards, operating system, and software tools you require — are addressed in depth.
- "Building High-Performance Computing Clusters with Intel Architecture Part 1: Planning HPC Clusters"
File URL here (HTML) http://www.intel.com/business/bss/swapps/hpc/clusters1.htm
Post Date: March 21, 2005 at 10:15 PM; March 22, 2005 at 0415 GMT
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This paper - the second in a two-part series - describes the process of deploying a cluster based on Intel® processor-based systems. Cluster software, such as SCYLD* and OSCAR* for the Linux* operating system, and Microsoft's Computational Cluster Technical Preview Kit (CCTP)* for Windows 2000 Advanced Server* and Windows XP*, makes building a cluster fast and easy.
This paper describes how to build a Linux-based cluster from scratch and then delves into the components of SCYLD and OSCAR that make them powerful HPC clustering tools.
- "Building High-performance Computing Clusters with Intel Architecture Part 2: Planning HPC Clusters"
File URL here (HTML) http://www.intel.com/business/bss/swapps/hpc/clusters2.htm
Post Date: March 21, 2005 at 10:15 PM; March 22, 2005 at 0415 GMT
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This paper looks at the value of enterprise application clusters in the application and database tiers and lists considerations for a cluster solution. Clusters are also applied to high-performance computing (HPC) to address solving very large problems using parallel computing.
- "Intel® XeonTM Processor MP Enabling Enterprise Application Clusters for High Availability and Performance"
File URL here (PDF) http://cache-www.intel.com/cd/00/00/10/29/102949_wp023301_sum.pdf
Post Date: March 21, 2005 at 10:15 PM; March 22, 2005 at 0415 GMT
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- "What's different between grid computing and P2P, CORBA, cluster computing, and DCE?" Perspectives on grid: Grid computing (Next Generation distributed computing), Matt Haynos, Program Director, Grid Marketing and Strategy, IBM http://www.ibm.com/us, January 27, 2004
File URL here (html): http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/gr-heritage/
Post Date: March 10, 2005 at 6:30 AM CST; 1230 GMT
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"... You can find many definitions of Grid computing (see Resources), but the essence of the grid is the federation of computing resources to accelerate application processing, plus the virtualization of these resources. At its core, the grid is all about distributed computing and resource management ...," "A visual tour of Open Grid Services Architecture," Jay Unger, IBM Senior Technical Staff Member and Matt Haynos, Program Director, Grid Strategy and Technology, IBM http://www.ibm.com/us/
File URL here (html) http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/grid/library/gr-visual/
Post Date: March 8, 2005 at 9:20 AM CST; 1520 GMT