Grid Computing News : Grid Trends Highlight Barcelona Conference

Several grid computing trends came to the fore this week at the BEinGRID Industry Days event in Barcelona, Spain. The conference -- held in conjunction with the Open Grid Forum’s OGF23 meeting – was attended by more than 500 participants. BEinGrid, Business Experiments in GRID, is the European Union’s largest project funded by the Information Society Technologies (IST) research body. Other highlights of the conference included:
BEinGRID coordinator Santi Ristol, from Atos Origin, put in perspectives the BEinGRID project’s central goal to foster the adoption of grid technology in commercial situations and described the project’s strategy of “catalyzing the grid market through the findings of our business consultants, technical specialists, and the Gridipedia website, as well as promoting a knock-on effect of each of the 25 pilots run as part of the project. ”
Charles Brett, principal analyst at Forrester discussed the latest trend for what he called “Ultra Modular Computing” -- the prediction of Forrester for a cloud-like infrastructure offered within the organization -- eliminating problems such as security concerns and the ignorance of the actual environment the virtualized instance is running on.... read more