Grid tutorial

What is this Thing Called the Grid?Or: Is the Emperor Naked?Leif Nixon22 oktober 2003Please, interrupt whenever you have questions.These slides will be available from http://www.nsc.liu.se/lcsc/1/44The Google Hype Measurement2/44Some quotesIrving Wladawsky-Berger, Vice President, IBM:Grid Computing is really the natural evolution of the Internet. This isreally looking at the Internet with all it’s promise of universal connectivityand reach, and making it work far better [. . . ][. . . ] the promise here is our customers will be able to have their cakeand eat it too.Wolfgang Gentzsch, Engineering Director, Sun:19th Century: Steam Engine20thy: Combustion Engine21st Century: Grid EngineHolly Korab, NCSA:Cyberspace on steroids.3/44News clippingsIBM Takes Sony PlayStation Gaming to the GridThe new online gaming network, based on grid technology, will be unveilednext week at the Game Developer’s Conference in San Jose, California. It willallow developers to engineer games directly onto a grid and will make it easierfor them to support online gamers.(Hey, let’s build a cluster of Playstations and hook them up to the grid! Wait,that’s already been done. . . )Sun Unveils Grid Computing Solutions Program[. . . ] more than 6,000 grids have been deployed worldwide – over 2,500 inEMEA alone(It seems Sun have their very own definition of what a grid is.)4/44Money makes the world go aroundSome EU funded grid projects:• ’ASP-BP’: Development of a ...