A big part of what we do at UIC's Electronic Visualization Lab (EVL) working with the AccessGrid (http://www.evl.uic.edu/accessgrid/) and working on the OptIPuter project (see http://www.evl.uic.edu/research/res_results.php3?cat=6). An area of study in both cases (and others involving high speed networking) is collaboration over high speed networks.. Sj At 2:35 PM -0500 9/25/03, elijah wright wrote:
Having recently been made aware that my university is moving in a very major way into the field of e-science by bringing online a new supercomputer and intending to hook that up to the national lambdarail project as part of the terascale grid computing network, I'm wondering if anyone on the list is working on any of these topics, as they all have to do with internet research in some way, and specifically scientific uses of the internet, well at least in our case.
Our university (Indiana U) is pretty heavily invested in grid research, and becoming more so. Computer Science was awarded several fairly weighty grants in the last couple of weeks, so I expect the investment will escalate ....
I'm not convinced that "grid computing" is anything more than a word that people toss off to describe a set of paradigmatic assumptions - i've heard it used in several radically different ways by people doing computational work in different source domains.
elijah
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