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Grid Computing Promoted By IBM,HP, Sun, Intel
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Article Date: 2005-01-24
The NY Times reports that a "handful of technology companies including I.B.M., Intel, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems plan to announce ...
... today that they are forming a consortium to accelerate the adoption of utility-like grid computing in the corporate world.
The group, called the Globus Consortium, will cooperatively develop software tools more suited for business uses of grid computing, and educate companies about the technology and its potential.
Globus' software pools computing resources from many machines, in the fashion of a virtual supercomputer, to focus on one task. The Globus project was started in 1996 by scientists at research laboratories and universities."
CRN adds ...
"The Globus technology road map will be led by the original authors of the Globus Toolkit: Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman and Steve Tuecke, who developed the core architecture for the grid at Argonne National Laboratory. Greg Nawrocki, who also worked on the Globus Toolkit at Argonne, will serve as president of the consortium.
Nawrocki told CRN the consortium will collaborate with the authors and provide engineering talent to enhance the Globus Toolkit for enterprise use. "We have a lot of recent traction in the enterprise and share a common goal getting the Globus toolkit and aggregating them in a vendor-neutral setting." he said.
One partner said grid computing will be important in the next-generation data center, but utility computing will play a more important role in the immediate future.
"There is a fundamental difference between grid computing and utility computing," said Douglas Nassaur, president and CEO of True North Technology, Alpharetta, Ga."
From CNET, "The consortium won't intrude on that standards-setting work, Nawrocki said. "We're not trying to be a standards body and compete with GGF and EGA," he said. "Our goal is not to develop standards, but to...accelerate adoption of standards through the open-source Globus Toolkit.""
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