Towards a World Wide Grid?

Roland Piquepaille writes "In recent months, the concept of 'cloud computing' was all the buzz. European researchers think about another name, the World Wide Grid, which could run on top of the Internet. In an article to appear soon, ICT Results will report about the g-Eclipse project. As the scientists said, 'the g-Eclipse project aims to build an integrated workbench framework to access the power of existing Grid infrastructures. The framework will be built on top of the reliable eco-system of the Eclipse community to enable a sustainable development.' The project started in July 2006 and was successfully completed in June 2008 for a total cost of €2.5 million, including a EU contribution of €1.96 million."

Comments

A threat to America

[Anonymous Coward]

These Italian schemes are a threat to America and everything Americans hold dear: our children, our base-ball parks, and our Hot Dogs. I say that these "nets" should be banned from the American intern net for security and moral purposes.

Interplanetary cluster?

[Toe, The]

Imagine a beowulf cluster of those.

(Man, isn't everyone tired of that joke by now? Oh, you are? Sorry.)

World Wide Grid

[actionbastard]

Could this be Web 3.0?

Re:huh?

[smallfries]

I only got as far as:

Roland Piquepaille writes:

That was enough for me

Re:Total lack of understanding...

[smallfries]

Total lack of understanding indeed.

It's almost as if there are applications outside the domain that you describe, for which this would be useful. And as if this is not being aimed at consumers at all.

Tsk tsk.