Gridbus Project Releases GridSim 2.1
The Gridbus Project, led by the Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia, releases the next version of its open-source Grid simulation software, the GridSim 2.1 toolkit.
Greetings from Tokyo: Notes from CCGrid 2003
The Third IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid) was held May 12-15, 2003, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Toshi Center Hotel. This article provides an account of the conference, and summarizes its key points.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Data Challenge
This article summarizes the data management challenges of CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, which will go into production in 2007.
Distributed Computing Economics
Computing economics are changing. Today there is rough price parity between
(1) one database access,
(2) ten bytes of network traffic,
(3) 100,000 instructions,
(4) 10 bytes of disk storage,
and (5) a megabyte of disk bandwidth.
This has implications for how one structures Internet-scale distributed computing: one puts computing as close to the data as possible in order to avoid expensive network traffic.
