Grid Computing News : Grid-X Quietly Collects Cash

Grid-X has nabbed additional funding — but the stealthy startup still isn't saying much about what it's up to (see Grid-X Grabs Cash ). The 100GigE grid company has added more than $800,000 "in new government contracts, customer contributions, and seed investments," bringing total funding to more than $2 million. Grid-X is using the money to develop its series of offload engines, which the company says "uses patent-pending algorithms and coding to implement what will be the lowest cost, fastest offload engine on the market." Beta sites include aerospace firms, government laboratories and defense firms that need "ultra high-speed offload and networking within their data centers, clusters, and grid computing systems." Grid-X "is being developed in stealth mode by engineers, computer scientists and seed investors from the grid computing community." For more information, visit Grid-X.com . Gridbus Makes Sensors Work Harder The GRIDS Lab at the University of Melbourne and National ICT Australia have released SensorWeb 2.0 software, which unites sensor networks and grid computing with the Web so users can access sensors using Web services. The software allows sensor networks to off-load heavy processing activities to the grid and allows grid-based sensor applications to create advanced services for smart-sensing.... read more