Bingo! With the inclusion of grid in my blog you’re bound to have a full house. Grid is everybody’s favourite buzzword, but not many people really know what it is or what it means. Then again, most people couldn’t tell you the difference between (a) an Internet, (b) The Internet or (c) the WWW either… so this is about grid techologies and the approach towards The Grid - a single unified grid of grids, each of which is called a grid because each uses grid technologies.
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August 30th, 2005, by Rich, in Grid, Religion, Slashdot.
The worlds best selling book (after the main religious core texts) is the Da Vinci Code, which describes a hypothetical trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci. Clues that are visible to all, but disguised. More…
June 2nd, 2005, by Rich, in Grid, Science.
Science is not the private playground of people in white coats with clipboards. Popular Science is a good thing. The problem, however, with popular science is that it can introduce all kinds of misconceptions. Take, for example, this story, in which the BBC quotes Professor Frenk FRS as follows:
We are now able, using the biggest, fastest supercomputers in the world, to recreate the whole of cosmic history.
May 16th, 2005, by Rich, in Grid.
We’re all back from CCgrid 2005 in Cardiff and (I think) fully caught-up with sleep. We had a fairly strong group presence this year (as opposed to just me last year) which meant it was a far more sociable occasion. This also meant we were able to share camera duty (by borrowing Mat’s phone). Mat’s uploaded some more in-focus pics, and there’s probably more around the net.
March 4th, 2005, by Rich, in Grid.
Grid Computing has become a popular phrase: it’s too popular. It’s tossed around by companies and marketing executives who fail to grasp that many of the fundamental problems are still to be solved before real Grid Computing can become a reality.
This is a bad thing. More…
November 29th, 2004, by Rich, in Grid.
This book (co-authored by my PhD Supervisor) provides a comprehensive introduction to Grid computing, More…
September 24th, 2004, by Rich, in Grid.
IRC savvy grid researchers may be pleased to learn that there is now a #globus channel on irc.freenode.net
the channel is currently quite sparsely populated but as more people learn & lurk this will no doubt change. all are welcome.
September 24th, 2004, by Rich, in Grid.
the road to Globus Tooklit version 4 (GT4) is a long one and (to continue the metaphor a little) it is also a winding one. More…
