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Towards a World Wide Grid?

Posted by samzenpus on from the one-world-government dept.

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."

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  1. "Grid" = "design by committee"? by dkegel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I am not a cloud expert, but: Anything with "grid" in it makes me think "designed by committee" and "sucks"... and the fact that the effort described in TFA was funded by the EU doesn't make me feel any better about it. Maybe it would make more sense to wait until something like Hadoop takes over the world, then just standardize existing practice. (Apologies to my friends in the grid world.)

  2. Interplanetary cluster? by Toe,+The · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of those.

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