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November 08, 2006
Grid computing gets small
IEEE Distributed Systems online, November 2006
The United States and Japan have successfully demonstrated one of grid computing's long-standing holy grails—dynamic, on-demand provisioning of bandwidth and interoperability between high-performance resources in two national research testbeds. Recent grid computing deployments have gone beyond the "big science" of specialized research projects to the regional and even individual enterprise level. For example, the OneCleveland project in Cleveland, Ohio is a community-based ultrabroadband grid network meant to foster economic development. Lev Gonick, who first proposed OneCleveland and now chairs its board, says the grid concept must be presented in a wider context to obtain buy-in from nontechnical decision makers. "We, in our own thinking, define the grid as provisioning, in a just-in-time way, a combination of spinning disc, network services, and, obviously, cycles," says Gonick, chief information officer at Case Western Reserve University. Read article.