Grid Computing News : Microsoft Takes An Interest In Gridbus

Microsoft and the Australian Research Council are funding work by the Gridbus Project on next-generation enterprise grids. Microsoft is contributing about $500,000 in cash and in-kind services to the .NET-based grid computing project, and the ARC is pitching in another $250,000. The Gridbus Project at the University of Melbourne is developing a .NET-based enterprise grid computing framework called Alchemi ( www.alchemi.net ) that simplifies the development and execution of applications in networked environments by aggregating the power of multiple desktop computers to form a virtual supercomputer that accelerates applications on the Windows platform. With help from ARC and Microsoft, the project, headed by Raj Buyya of the University of Melbourne, will further develop the .NET-based grid platform to allow rapid implementation of different parallel models and scheduling techniques. It also lacks the flexibility required for implementing various types of widely employed parallel models such as message passing and dataflows."
The project "will revolutionize the computing field by enhancing the productivity of software engineering for enterprise applications and accelerate their execution on enterprise grids," he said.... read more