Welcome to the Sun Grid Developer Community!

The Sun Grid Developer Community is a catalyst for the emergence of standards, infrastructure, architecture and partnerships for the Sun Grid pay-as-you-go, utility computing ecosystem. There are many tools and resources available in our community to help you get started using Sun Grid technology. Check out the projects in our project space for useful utilities and examples.

The Sun Grid is an a open, grid-based computing infrastructure available on a pay-per-use basis. This utility model gives you more choice and control of how you purchase and leverage IT power, enabling you to use Sun's computing power as you need it, without the long-term lifecycle costs related to capital, management, depreciation, and floor space. Sun Grid can radically simplifies the way you select, acquire, and use next generation IT infrastructure.

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Digital Mammography on The Grid
MyNDMA portal is expanding its On Demand portal offerings that help more women store their digital mammography in a secure place.

Java.NET Sun Grid Eco-system Development
Sun Grid looks like a traditional IT stack, exposing common interfaces to enable developers and ISV's to target different abstraction layers: —

UniNet: Using JXTA to create an open and platform independent GRID network

Today the development of Java and JXTA technology enable developers to create a worldwide network to start developing software in a different way... a decentralized way...
UniNet want to enable developers to simply create application that use power of an open worldwide GRID network without thinking about all communication/grid specific functions.

GridForge: News

Revised JSDL 1.0 (draft 25) re-submitted to GGF Editor on October 23. Check out the revised specification draft!

Grid Standards Groups Weigh Merger

The Global Grid Forum and Enterprise Grid Alliance are in discussions that could lead to a merger.
(Nov 16, 2005)

Grid Computing FAQ

Utility Computing Gears Up

Sun Grid Resources -

The Sun Grid wiki contains many resources that will help both novice and experienced developers. If you have your own, all you need is a java.net id to add your favorite references!
(Nov 09, 2005)

Grids move mainstream with enterprise system deployments

Companies have started deploying grid technology to run business systems, according to analyst firm Quocirca. Its Grid Index survey, commissioned by Oracle, found growing demand for the technology.
(Oct 31, 2005)

Grid technology stalls Wiki vandals

A Manchester scientist has developed an open source tool for the Grid Computing Project that could put an end to the vandalising of collaborative websites, known as Wikis.
(Sep 22, 2005)

Online Movie Festival Powered by Grid Technology

Kaneva, pioneer of the world's first digital entertainment marketplace, and Ideas United, founders of Campus MovieFest (CMF), the world's largest student movie-making events, have joined forces to launch Independence MovieFest (iMF) at www.independencemoviefest.com.
(Nov 09, 2005)

Overview of Grid Technology
Whereas the Web is a service for sharing information over the Internet, the Grid is a service for sharing computer power and data storage capacity over the Internet. The Grid goes well beyond simple communication between computers and aims ultimately to turn the global network of computers into one vast computational resource. That sounds a dream. However, the Grid is a work in progress, with the underlying technology in a prototype phase, and being developed by hundreds of researchers and software engineers around the world. —

Grid Resources
Grid Resources (GridResources.info) is a Subject Tracer Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for grid resources. Definately worth checking out!

Will Open Standards Drive Grid Adoption?

As grid computing makes its way from academia into the enterprise, open standards should pave the way for wider adoption but, like all things IT, it's not that simple.
(Nov 03, 2005)

MVAPICH for Solaris Released
We have seen numerous press releases on Message Passing Interfaces (MPI) lately including those from Microsoft who has been working with Argonne Labs (funding a Win32 port) of MPICH2, and this, most recent announcement of Ohio State University's port of MVAPICH to Solaris across Infiniband. Sun has been collaborating with OSU for a long time, working with Linux and Solaris on both SPARC and x64 based platforms. The current announcement from OSU is a novel MPI-2 based design (at the ADI-3 level) providing uDAPL-Solairs support. So what is this acronym soup? —

Oracle's Grid Software Gets More Grip
Better automation and provisioning are on the menu for Oracle's second major incarnation of Grid Control.

Sun Ready to Light Public Grid

The company is lighting up its utility computing initiative with thousands of customers waiting in the wings.
(Oct 31, 2005)

Musings on SAAS

We need to evolve our thinking about why and how people purchase computers and software as today's model is terribly inefficient.
(Oct 12, 2005)

Sun Gives Software Vendors Grid Tools

Sun launches a grid program for ISVs, and Altair partners with IBM.
(Oct 13, 2005)

Finding the Business Case for Grids
Grid may be closer to an enterprise computing staple than you think.

Tata sets sights on grid computing

Tata Consultancy Services announced on Thursday the creation of a laboratory that will work on emerging technologies. Tata's iLab will focus on grid computing, collaborative software development and service-oriented architecture, the Mumbai, India-based software and services company said.
(Sep 29, 2005)

Cisco's InfiniBand Primed For The Grid

Thanks to its purchase of Topspin earlier this year, Cisco Systems (Quote, Chart)is now selling gear that will help customers power their utility or on-demand computing systems. The San Jose, Calif., networking giant has integrated and updated the former Topspin's InfiniBand-based Server Fabric Switch (SFS) portfolio and new VFrame 3.0 virtualization software to lure customers to its data center computing portfolio.
(Sep 28, 2005)

The Psychology of Early Grid Adopters

As the industry gets more familiar with the general Grid computing adoption trend-lines, we're starting to see the analyst firms drill down more on specific vertical markets. The 451 Group, for example, just released a report on "Grid Computing -- Adoption for Digital Media Creation and Distribution." It's refreshing to see the discussion expand beyond the traditional (pharma, financial services, energy) markets.
(Sep 30, 2005)

Grid Project Lends A Hand To Katrina Victims

W2COG, the World Wide Consortium for the Grid, has been using its portable networking technology to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina.
(Sep 27, 2005)

Grid Computing: A Brief Technology Analysis

"Grid computing is a means of allocating the computational power of a large number of computers to a very difficult problem. The goal is to access computers only when they are needed and to scale the problem so that even small computers can make a useful contribution."
(Sep 20, 2005)