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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Satyam (India) to work with United Devices (US)

India-based Satyam Computer Services Ltd. have announced (press release) a strategic alliance with US-based Grid specialists United Devices. The strategy seems quite clear - UD have the technologies and some level of market coverage in the West, Satyam have already piloted Grids and have widespread market coverage for managed solutions in the East. The combination is seriously global.

HP Goes Public With Utility Computing

Company offers range of services for enterprise customers looking to tap additional compute resources.
(Dec 01, 2005)

Open Science Grid Technology and Applications Featured at SC|05

The Open Science Grid, a nationwide community grid built by research groups from United States universities and national laboratories, will showcase advanced grid technologies and innovative scientific applications at SC|05, the premier international conference on high performance computing, networking and storage.
(Nov 11, 2005)

HP rejiggers utility computing line

Hewlett-Packard next year will take a fresh approach to its utility computing initiative with a product designed to reduce the cost of running corporate computing systems.
(Nov 29, 2005)

U.K. Warms to Sun's Grid Storage

Sun creates two new grid storage utility services and agrees to dole out 2 million computing CPUs.
(Nov 30, 2005)

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.
(Nov 22, 2005)

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.

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. —

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)

Finding the Business Case for Grids

Grid may be closer to an enterprise computing staple than you think.
(Oct 05, 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)