Laits' Papers

Grid Initiatives Worldwide

*** -- Computing and data Grids are emerging as the infrastructure for 21st century science and business because they are providing a common way of managing and utilizing distributed computing, data, instrument, and human resources all over the world.

Australia
	Nimrod-G -- is a tool that manages the execution of parametric studies across distributed computers. It takes responsibility for the overall management of an experiment, as well as the low-level issues of distributing files to remote systems, performing the remote computation and gathering the results.
	Gridbus -- is engaged in the creation of open-source specifications, architecture and a reference Grid toolkit implementation of service-oriented grid and utility computing technologies for eScience and eBusiness applications.
	GrangeNet -- Grid and Next Generation Network, provides the enabling technology for the development of grid and advanced communications services

Brazil
	OurGrid -- is a free-to-join peer-to-peer grid.

China
	ChinaGrid
	CNGrid -- A Test-Bed for Grid Technologies in China.

Europe
	UK eScience -- The UK Grid Operations Support Centre is a distributed "virtual centre" providing deployment and operations support for the UK e-Science programme.
	EuroGrids -- Application Testbed for European GRID computing.

India
	I-Grid --

Japan
	NAREGI -- National Research GRID Initiative, is one of the collaboration projects among industry, academic sector and goverment.

Korea
	N*Grid -- build a Grid infrastructure across S. Korea, Grid middleware, and to enhance applications to make use of these Grid technologies.

Singapore
	NGP -- To facilitate the seamless use of an integrated cyber infrastructure in a secure, effective and efficient manner to advance scientific, engineering & biomedical research and development, with the longer term goal of transforming the Singapore economy using grid.

United States
	Globus -- Buliding Grid solutions for a variety of challenges that come up when people share resources. It åis a community of organizations and individuals developing fundamental technologies behind the "Grid," which lets people share computing power, databases, instruments, and other on-line tools securely across corporate, institutional, and geographic boundaries without sacrificing local autonomy. Now, it provides an open source software toolkit used for building Grid systems and applications.
	NASA IPG -- NASA's Information Power Grid (IPG) is a high-performance computing and data grid. Grid users can access widely distributed heterogeneous resources from any location, with IPG middleware adding security, uniformity, and control.
	AccessGrid -- The Access Grid® is an ensemble of resources including multimedia large-format displays, presentation and interactive environments, and interfaces to Grid middleware and to visualization environments.
	TeraGrid -- TeraGrid is an open scientific discovery infrastructure combining leadership class resources at eight partner sites to create an integrated, persistent computational resource.

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Industry Initiatives
	IBM Grid Computing -- Gets diverse IT networks to behave as one.
	HP Grid Computing -- Harness the power of your distributed IT resources.
	Sun N1 -- offers a variety of services to support your grid computing initiatives.
	Microsoft .NET
	Oracle 10g -- The First Database Designed for Grid Computing.

Public Forum
	Global Grid Forum -- 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.
	Australia Grid Forum -- facilitates the exchange of information about Australian grid activities, and provides a focus for discussion of grid-related issues.
	China Grid -- Serve all Grid-related information in Chinese, including theory, technology, forum, conferences, books, newest papers etc.

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Conferences
	CCGrid -- IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid.
	P2P -- The IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, is an annual conference concerned with the convergence of overlay network technologies that empower the leaf-nodes. These technologies include Peer-to-Peer, Grids, Clusters, and the Web Services that ride over them. These overlay networks are converging toward a common set of protocols due to their extensive implementations on the Internet and other shared environments.
	HPDC -- High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) combines the advances in research and technologies in high speed networks, software, distributed computing and parallel processing to deliver high-performance, large-scale and cost-effective computational, storage and communication capabilities to a wide range of applications.