Letter From the President
Posted: June 5, 2007
Category: Greg Nawrocki, Globus Consortium
Greg Nawrocki talks about his perspective on why open source is important to Grid Computing.

The SAFORAH Project
Posted: June 5, 2007
Category: Dr. David Goodenough, Principal Investigator
Dr. David Goodenough, Principal Investigator, Pacific Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada, tells us about making earth observation data collected by the Canadian Forest Service available to a wide range of researchers.

Learn About the Globus Toolkit
Posted: June 5, 2007
Category: Globus Update
The remainder of the year present multiple opportunities to learn about the Globus Toolkit. Find out if there is a time and location convenient to you.

Globus Toolkit Incubator Project Update
Posted: June 5, 2007
Category: Globus Update
The recent Globus Consortium Journal featured MEDICUS project was one of two applications to recently win an Internet2 IDEA Award.

Interview With Jason Liu
Posted: June 5, 2007
Category: Jason Liu, CEO, Univa
Univa's new CEO introduces himself and speaks about the latest product announcements and what to look forward to in the future.

Univa Launches Open Source Cluster Solution
Posted: June 5, 2007
Category: News From Univa
Univa Globus Cluster Edition 2.0 with Grid Engine combines proven software, with expert services, slashing cluster deployment times and management costs.

Letter From the President
Posted: April 2, 2007
Category: Greg Nawrocki, Globus Consortium
Greg Nawrocki introduces this issue on the Grid view from Europe and some additional updates with the Globus Toolkit and within the Globus community.

Grid Computing Now!
Posted: April 2, 2007
Category: Ian Osborne, Project Director, Intellect
Grid Computing Now! is a UK Government funded Knowledge Transfer Network project which was established in February 2005 and is now in its 3rd year. Hear Project Director Ian Osborne's perspective on grid computing in Europe.

GridwiseTech - A View From Europe and Beyond
Posted: April 2, 2007
Category: Pawel Plaszczak, President, GridwiseTech
Read how this European SME, for whom Grid Computing is the focal point of business, is taking their success global.

Globus Toolkit Incubator Projects
Posted: April 2, 2007
Category: Globus Update
In September of 2006, Jennifer Schopf provided us with an overview of the Globus Incubator Projects. In this issue we follow up with that project.

Swift for Grid Workflow Management
Posted: April 2, 2007
Category: Globus Update
In this reprint from the InfoWorld blog, the Grid Meter, Greg Nawrocki gives a quick overview and introduction to the Swift project for Grid workflow management.

Supercharging Your Cluster With Univa Globus
Posted: April 2, 2007
Category: Univa Globus Update
On March 20, Univa presented the first in a series of free Webinars on best practices for cluster and grid computing.

Letter From the President
Posted: March 5, 2007
Category: Greg Nawrocki, Globus Consortium
Greg Nawrocki tees up this issue on some recent happenings and progress with the Globus Toolkit and within the Globus community.

New Directions in Attribute-based Authorization for Grids
Posted: March 5, 2007
Category: Tom Scavo, NCSA and Tim Freeman, University of Chicago
In the September 2006 issue we introduced GridShib, a Globus Incubator Project. Since then, the focus of the Project has evolved and new software components have been developed and released.

The Globus GRAM Story
Posted: March 5, 2007
Category: Stuart Martin, Argonne National Laboratory
In the August 2005 issue we interviewed Stu Martin to discuss Globus GRAM. Stu catches up with us again to talk about GRAM4, the next generation of Globus Grid Resource Allocation and Management.

Globus Metrics Project Update
Posted: March 5, 2007
Category: The Globus Toolkit Incubator Project
In September of 2006, Lee Liming provided us with insight on the Globus Metrics Project, what it entails and what the community hopes to gain from it. In this issue we update the findings from that project.

Virtualization Workshop Update
Posted: March 5, 2007
Category: Kate Keahey, Argone National Labortatory
Kate Keahey provides an update on the Virtualization Technology in Distributed Computing workshop held at SC06. This insightful piece provides a window to the future of virtualization and its relationship to Grid.

Open Source Univa DDM
Posted: March 5, 2007
Category: Open Source Update
Univa has released the source code of their DDM product to the Open Source Globus community. Read what this means for Univa, Globus, and the future of open source Grid computing.

Letter From the President
Posted: January 15, 2007
Category: Greg Nawrocki, Globus Consortium
Greg Nawrocki rationalizes his way into another theme for the Globus Consortium Journal and calls for 2007 to be the year of the Grid Application.

The Digipede Network
Posted: January 15, 2007
Category: John Powers, Digipede
John Powers, CEO of Digipede Technologies emphasises the importance of the application and details the Digipede Network for a Microsoft Windows based turn-key grid environment.

MEDICUS - Globus Based Radiology Image Delivery
Posted: January 15, 2007
Category: Stephan G. Erberich, Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Stephan G. Erberich, Assistant Professor of Research Radiology and Biomedical Engineering at the Saban Research Institute details the MEDICUS project, a Globus Incubator project for radiology data distribution and medical image archiving.

TeraGrid, Still Growing!
Posted: January 15, 2007
Category: Dane Skow, TeraGrid
Dane Skow, Deputy Director of TeraGrid reflects on the past year and a half of TeraGrid growth, what that means for grid applications, grid adoption and the growing community of TeraGrid users.

EverGrid Resource Mangement
Posted: January 15, 2007
Category: David Anderson, Evergrid
David Anderson, CEO of Evergrid discusses cluster infrastructure software for next generation data centers and the Evergrid solution for complex resource management.

Interesting Virtualization Links
Posted: January 15, 2007
Category: Grid Update
Like "grid", "virtualization" is a term that is overloaded with different definitions. Here are some pointers that might help you clarify what exactly virtualization means to you.

Letter From the President
Posted: December 13, 2006
Category: Greg Nawrocki, Globus Consortium
Greg Nawrocki introduces the methodology used to feature past Globus Consortium Journal contributors as industry analysts and ties together this month's articles with a set of common themes.

Looking Back: The Year 2006 in Grid
Posted: December 13, 2006
Category: Contributor Analysts - Part 1
2006 brought continued success in the academic and research realm for Grid. We also experienced the "breaking down" of Grid into component technologies such as SOA and Virtualization. We asked past GCJ contributors to comment, this feature is a summary of their responses.

The View From Here: Grid in 2007
Posted: December 13, 2006
Category: Contributor Analysts - Part 2
In 2006, Web leaders like Google, Amazon and Ebay won the attention of the Grid community by horizontally scaling their throughput computing, and migrating transactional applications on Grids. What will happen in 2007? We asked past GCJ contributors, this feature is a summary of their responses.

An Innovative Storage Virtualization Product
Posted: December 13, 2006
Category: Russ Felker, RevStor
RevStor is taking the concept of storage virtualization and making it truly heterogeneous by allowing organizations to see systems in a unified architecture with a unified management tool. Russ Felker, RevStor's President and CTO tells us more.

3Tera's Grid Operating System
Posted: December 13, 2006
Category: Bert Armijo, 3Tera, Inc.
3Tera thinks the world is ready for a simpler way to Grid enable Web applications. One where we don't have to think about what is providing the horsepower for our applications. Bert Armijo, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for 3Tera's describes their approach.

Bringing the EGA and GGF Together
Posted: December 13, 2006
Category: Steve Crumb, OGF
Steve Crumb, the Executive Director of the OGF talks about his views of the Grid landscape and his experience of picking up the wrenches and bolting the EGA and GGF together into the OGF machine.

Letter From the President
Posted: November 2, 2006
Category: Greg Nawrocki, Globus Consortium
Greg Nawrocki introduces our "best issue ever", reflects on what the analysts had to say, and highlights an opportunity for anyone to be a leading Grid analyst.

Is Grid Just a Platform for Shared Services?
Posted: November 2, 2006
Category: William Fellows, The 451 Group
William Fellows of The 451 Group discusses how social and organizational issues overwhelm all other issues in his research of over 250 early adopters of Grid computing.

Anguish over Standardization
Posted: November 2, 2006
Category: Carl Claunch, Gartner
Gartner's Carl Claunch discusses his belief that today it is still early to talk about standards in Grid computing.

Grid as an Enterprise Platform
Posted: November 2, 2006
Category: John Humphreys, IDC
John Humphreys of IDC explains his belief that grid harbors more promise as a platform for transactional applications and eventually as an architecture for the enterprise.

Scale-out Compute Grids and SOA
Posted: November 2, 2006
Category: Frank Gillet, Forrester
Forrester's Frank Gillet joins us to discuss his beliefs that server virtualization is on the fast track and that distributed compute grids are on a slower track.

New Grid Use Cases
Posted: November 2, 2006
Category: Johnathan Eunice, Illuminata
Jonathan Eunice of Illuminata talks about his research on two new use cases for Grid: design industries and financial analytics.

Of Market Verticals and Mash Ups
Posted: October 5, 2006
Category: Letter From the President
Greg Narwocki tees up this issue of the Globus Consortium Journal that has a bit of everything in it.

Looking Back on GlobusWORLD / GridWorld 2006
Posted: October 5, 2006
Category: GlobusWORLD at GridWORLD 2006
GlobusWORLD / GridWorld 2006 is now in the past. We've highlighted some select news items from a busy week of announcements.

Building Community Grids
Posted: October 5, 2006
Category: Wolfgang Gentzsch, D-Grid, UNC and Duke University
In this reprint from GRIDtoday, Wolfgang Gentzsch gives us a synopsis of the early regional, national and community Grid initiatives that were built around the Globus Toolkit.

Grid in Computational Biology
Posted: October 5, 2006
Category: Natalia Maltsev, ANL and Dinanath Sulakhe, U of C
Natalia Maltsev and Dinanath Sulakhe provide us with insight on the use of Grid in computational biology and what's in store for the future.

Grid in Semiconductor Design
Posted: October 5, 2006
Category: Ravi Subramaniam, Intel
Ravi Subramaniam, principal engineer in Intel's Digital Enterprise Group and Grid veteran, talks about his strategy for defining how Intel's products can deliver "industry leading" value with technologies that include Grid.

Grid - Accelerating Innovation in Aerospace
Posted: October 5, 2006
Category: Vas Vasiliadis, Univa
In the aerospace industry where product lifecycles are lengthy and customers are operating under extreme cost pressures, maximizing profitability for each product is critical. Grid can be an enabler for the level of innovation required by the aerospace industry.

Globus Turns Ten
Posted: September 5, 2006
Category: Letter From the President
Greg Narwocki reflects on ten years of the Globus Toolkit and indicates that the best is yet to come.

A "Can't Miss" Conference
Posted: September 5, 2006
Category: GlobusWORLD at GridWORLD 2006
GlobusWORLD joins forces with IDG World Expo and GGF to present GridWorld 2006 this month. Globus software will be prominently featured in many sessions.

The Globus Incubator Project
Posted: September 5, 2006
Category: Jennifer Schopf, The Globus Alliance
Jennifer Schopf gives us background on dev.globus and the future of the Globus Toolkit with insight into some Globus Incubator projects.

Globus Incubator Project - GridShib
Posted: September 5, 2006
Category: Von Welch and Frank Siebenlist, The Globus Alliance
Von Welch and Frank Siebenlist discuss the history, mechanisms, applications and future of GridShib, a Grid access identity management system.

Globus Incubator Project - Metrics
Posted: September 5, 2006
Category: Lee Liming, The Globus Alliance
Lee Liming provides us with insight on the Globus Metrics Project, what it entails and what the community hopes to gain from it.

Globus Incubator Project - GridWay
Posted: September 5, 2006
Category: Ignacio M. Llorente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Ignacio M. Llorente explains the GridWay Project, a meta-scheduler for Globus grids.

Organizations Promoting Grid Computing
Posted: August 2, 2006
Category: Letter From the President
Greg Narwocki sees the research, analyst, community, and enterprise all pushing grid technologies to new levels.

Grid Spending Today
Posted: August 2, 2006
Category: Bob Rosenberg, Insight Research
Bob Rosenberg provides detail on the methodology behind his companies report on Grid Spending in Vertical Markets.

Fighting Cancer using Grid Technologies
Posted: August 2, 2006
Category: Robin Wilner, IBM
Robin Wilner gives us the background on the World Community Grid and expands on an exciting new use of the Grid.

Building Grids, One at a Time
Posted: August 2, 2006
Category: Mark Linesch, OGF
Mark Linesch discusses the new OGF with us and also gives us his vision for Grid success in the enterprise.

Making Money Selling Grid Today
Posted: August 2, 2006
Category: Ed Hawes, VCompute
Ed Hawes provides us background on his Grid company and details on how he is selling Grid (lots of it) in the enterprise.

The Grid Research to Enterprise Funnel
Posted: August 2, 2006
Category: Ian Foster, Computation Institute
Ian Foster explains how his new appointment will effect Grid development and how new Grid tools will be made available because of his work.

Time to Ask the Tough Grid Storage Questions
Posted: July 10, 2006
Category: Letter From the President
Greg Nawrocki explains that one of the barriers to enterprise adoption is still the Grid community's ability to accommodate complex enterprise storage systems.

Univa and Grid 2.0
Posted: July 10, 2006
Category: Mike Ellis, Univa
Univa's new CEO says Grid isn't just about reducing IT operations cost / complexity -- it's about enabling competitive advantage and time to market with new innovation.

'Data' versus 'Storage'
Posted: July 10, 2006
Category: David Martin, IBM / GGF
GGF Data Group director David Martin shares his views about where the complexities reside in today's storage systems, and how the Grid community has historically viewed "data" versus "storage."

Is "Grid Storage" For Real?
Posted: July 10, 2006
Category: Jon Toigo, Toigo Partners International
Is the concept of "Grid Storage" legitimate, or is it just fuzzy, vendor 'marketecture'? Leading storage industry analyst Jon Toigo separates fact from fiction.

SOA and Storage Virtualization Trends Meet Grid
Posted: July 10, 2006
Category: Dave Pearson, Oracle
Easier access to information assets is driving today's enterprise SOA and storage virtualization trends, but Grid is still juggling the difference of data and storage in the enterprise world versus the research / science world.

OGSA-DAI Opening Doors for Data and Storage on the Grid
Posted: July 10, 2006
Category: Neil P. Chue Hong, The University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh's Neil P. Chue Hong explains how the OGSA-DAI project is making an increasing scope of enterprise-class storage and data systems available to participate in Grid environments.

Networking Vendors as Grid Innovators
Posted: June 2, 2006
Category: Letter From the President
Greg Nawrocki sees innovation on the horizon for Grid as networking vendors start creeping into core systems management.

Nortel Proving Out Virtual Mash-Ups on the Grid
Posted: June 2, 2006
Category: Franco Travostino, Nortel
Franco Travostino shares info about some fascinating break-throughs his team has made with Xen hypervisors and virtualized network resources.

Grid Networks: Enabling Grids with Advanced Communication Technology
Posted: June 2, 2006
Category: Recommended Grid Reading
A sneak preview of the widely-anticipated enterprise Grid book hitting the shelves in 2006.

On the Road to Grid, Many Steps a Datacenter can Take
Posted: June 2, 2006
Category: Andreas Antonopoulos, Nemertes Research
Leading networking industry analyst Andreas Antonopoulos explains how Grid relates to other emerging technologies enterprises are evaluating to make their datacenters shine.

Understanding Network Demands of Grid
Posted: June 2, 2006
Category: Richard Wellner and Scott Koranda, Univa
Two of Univa's brightest and most experienced - Richard Wellner and Scott Koranda - join the GCJ this month to answer some specific questions about network considerations for Grid.

Grid and the Future of the Network Machine
Posted: June 2, 2006
Category: John Dix, Network World
Revisiting one of the most memorable panels in the Enterprise Grid Track at GlobusWorld 2005.

Enterprise Grid Apps M.I.A.
Posted: May 2, 2006
Category: Letter From the President
Greg Nawrocki explains why it's high time the Grid community offered up some compelling proof of concept mainstream Grid applications for enterprise.

SOA Meets Grid
Posted: May 2, 2006
Category: Matt Haynos, IBM
One of IBM's Grid leads explains recent developments in web services standards, and ties SOA growth to new opportunities for Grid.

Industry-Wide System Management Standards at Last?
Posted: May 2, 2006
Category: Ian Foster, Globus Management Committee
Ian Foster puts the HP/IBM/Intel/Microsoft web services standards roadmap in context for the Grid community.

Build grid applications based on SOA
Posted: May 2, 2006
Category: Martin Brown, MCslp
Martin Brown highlights critical developer concepts behind moving your Grid applications towards the SOA model.

LAMP Platform Leading the Web 2.0 Charge
Posted: May 2, 2006
Category: Peter Yared, ActiveGrid
Peter Yared discusses new application development trends in the "Web 2.0" evolution, and explains the advantages of developing on LAMP versus J2EE or .Net.

Globus Toolkit 4, Programming Java Services
Posted: May 2, 2006
Category: Recommended Grid Reading
The Globus Consortium Journal catches up with the authors of the first truly developer-friendly guide to GT4.

Time to Embrace Linux / Grid Traction
Posted: March 30, 2006
Category: Letter From the President
Greg Nawrocki shares his view that the Grid community needs to stop being apologetic about Grid's traction on Linux and start taking advantage of the momentum.

Linux Kernel Virtualization Support
Posted: March 30, 2006
Category: Andrew Morton, Open Source Development Lab
Has the delay in the Xen patch for Linux kernel support left the door open for VMware? GCJ touches base with the lead Linux kernel maintainer.

Lead On-Demand VP at IBM Weighs in on Grid Progress
Posted: March 30, 2006
Category: Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM
Ian Foster catches up with Irving Wladawsky-Berger to get his thoughts on the Grid evolution, and IBM's thoughts on other related emerging technologies.

The Flexibility of Linux
Posted: March 30, 2006
Category: Carl Drisko, Novell
The Service Line Principal of Open Source and Linux at Novell isolates some specific reasons why organizations are taking advantage of Linux for Grids.

A Historical Perspective on Linux Clustering
Posted: March 30, 2006
Category: Donald Becker, Penguin Computing
Distributed systems pioneer Donald Becker provides some context on the evolution of Linux clustering technology.

Operating System Performance Demands of Grid
Posted: March 30, 2006
Category: Adam Fineberg, Levanta
The senior engineer of a Linux systems management vendor dissects technical performance characteristics that make Linux so well suited for Grid.

Navigating Grid Security F.U.D.
Posted: March 2, 2006
Category: Letter From the President
Greg Nawrocki shares his view that - real or imagined - security concerns will freeze enterprise wallets faster than anything.

Identity Management's Role in Grid Security
Posted: March 2, 2006
Category: Guest Expert - Nataraj Nagaratnam
IBM's chief architect on identity management outlines specific security challenges that the Grid community is working hard to address today.

Grid Security in Healthcare
Posted: March 2, 2006
Category: Guest Expert - Georgetown University
Learn how Georgetown's Advanced Research Computing team has leveraged Shib to reconcile the security requirements of medical researchers.

Simplifying the Grid User's Security Experience
Posted: March 2, 2006
Category: Guest Expert - The GAMA Project
GAMA project leaders explain their quest to make Grid security as easy to use as any commercial Web site.

Scaling Grid Security with Single Sign-On
Posted: March 2, 2006
Category: Globus Toolkit Developer's Forum
A senior scientist from the NCSA traces the evolution of single sign-on Grid security directions and the momentum of MyProxy.

A Security Update from GGF
Posted: March 2, 2006
Category: Guest Expert - GGF
GGF Security Area directors bring GCJ readers up to speed on where the Grid security action is today, and what issues are being reconciled.

Grid Data Discussions Are Heating Up
Posted: February 8, 2006
Category: Letter From the President
Greg Nawrocki explains that data management - not mere compute horsepower - is what's capturing enterprise attention in Grid today.

Reading Materials: "Grid Computing for Developers"
Posted: February 8, 2006
Category: Globus Consortium Spotlight
The Globus Consortium Journal gives Vladimir Silva's latest release a read and reports back to the Grid community.

An Interview with XenSource's CTO
Posted: February 8, 2006
Category: Guest Expert - Simon Crosby
A technical leader in the open source virtualization community highlights synergies / differences between Grid and virtualization.

Science Data and Commercial Data - What's the Difference?
Posted: February 8, 2006
Category: Guest Expert - Carl Kesselman
Carl Kesselman explains the duality between data and computing, and warns against the "false dichotomy" between data Grids and compute Grids.

Grid Applied to Common Enterprise Data Management Challenges
Posted: February 8, 2006
Category: Guest Expert - Steve Tuecke
EMC's acquisition of Acxiom sparked commercial interest in Grid for data management issues. Univa CTO, Steve Tuecke explains.

Podcast Interview with Neil P. Chue Hong
Posted: February 8, 2006
Category: Globus Toolkit Developer's Forum
The first GCJ podcast turns the spotlight on OGSA-DAI, with an insider's view on its application to commercial data management issues.

Getting to Know Key Globus Toolkit Services
Posted: January 9, 2006
Category: Letter From the President
Globus Consortium president, Greg Nawrocki, welcomes readers back from the holidays, and explains the theme of this month's newsletter.

Reading Materials: "Grid Computing The Savvy Manager's Guide"
Posted: January 9, 2006
Category: Globus Consortium Spotlight
The Globus Consortium reviews Pawel Plaszczak and Richard Wellner's recent release on the market opportunities and practical considerations for the emerging enterprise Grid market.

An Interview with Platform Computing's CEO
Posted: January 9, 2006
Category: Guest Expert - Songnian Zhou
Platform is seeing signs that enterprise Grid is in full bloom. Songnian Zhou tells Globus Consortium Journal why the future is looking bright.

Karl Czajkowski discusses Globus GRAM
Posted: January 9, 2006
Category: Globus Toolkit Developer's Forum
In Grid environments, success is hinged largely on the ability for apps to successfully negotiate for the usage of underlying resources. Learn how GRAM facilities this balancing act in Globus environments.

Bill Allcock discusses Globus GridFTP
Posted: January 9, 2006
Category: Globus Toolkit Developer's Forum
In Grids, access to data is as important as access to compute resources. Learn how the GridFTP protocol has evolved to navigate today's tough storage systems and handle bulk file transfer.

Laura Pearlman and Mike D'Arcy discuss Globus MDS
Posted: January 9, 2006
Category: Globus Toolkit Developer's Forum
Globus Toolkit Grid environments use the "Monitoring and Discovery System" for real-time insight into what resources are being used and what services are running. Learn how MDS works, and how it's evolved.

Globus Toolkit Globalization
Posted: November 15, 2005
Category: Letter From the President
Globus Consortium President, Greg Nawrocki, discusses the significance of globalization efforts around the Globus Toolkit.

Globus Toolkit Globalization and Localization Update
Posted: November 15, 2005
Category: Globus Consortium Update
This month's update focuses on the new Globus Toolkit Globalization Coding Guidelines and Localization Guidelines. Read more in an interview with Robert Gaffaney and Patrick Doran, the authors of the study.

Mark Green discusses the Grid Application Template
Posted: November 15, 2005
Category: Guest Expert - Mark Green
Mark Green from SUNY-Buffalo talks about his organization's Grid Application Template (GAT) project that's making it easier for applications to participate in research and science Grids.

Peter Covitz talks about caBIG
Posted: November 15, 2005
Category: Guest Expert - Peter Covitz
One of the characteristics of life science and biomedical science is the diversity of data types. Learn how the caBIG (Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid) is simplifying data sharing between researchers today.

Bill Johnston discusses the evolution of Grid
Posted: November 15, 2005
Category: Guest Expert - William Johnston
Bill Johnston of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has witnessed firsthand the evolution of Grid computing in the science and research world. In a recent interview with the Globus Consortium Journal, Mr. Johnston shares his views on some security and networking projects that he's affiliated with today.

Ravi Madduri discuss Globus RFT
Posted: November 15, 2005
Category: Globus Toolkit Developer's Forum
Busy researchers don't have time to babysit enormous file transfers to make sure they go through ok. Ravi Madduri from Argonne National Laboratory explains the role of RFT in large file transfers for Globus Toolkit users.

Networking Vendors and Grid
Posted: October 12, 2005
Category: Letter From the President
Globus Consortium President, Greg Nawrocki, weighs in on the importance of networking vendors to the Grid evolution.

Globus Consortium Update
Posted: October 12, 2005
Category: Globus Consortium Update
The Consortium welcomes Cisco Systems and gives an update on recently completed projects and ongoing efforts that continue to yield results.

Interview with Bob Aiken of Cisco
Posted: October 12, 2005
Category: Globus Consortium Member Spotlight
A Cisco technologist with deep roots in the science / academic arena shares new perspectives about networking considerations for the Grid.

Interview with Ben Eiref of Cisco
Posted: October 12, 2005
Category: Globus Consortium Member Spotlight
A member of the Topspin team (acquired earlier this year by Cisco Systems) outlines Infiniband's role in the Grid architecture.

Interview with Nino Vidovic, Masum Hasan and Wayne Clark of Cisco
Posted: October 12, 2005
Category: Globus Consortium Member Spotlight
How do lower level networking resources participate in the Grid? Three leading technologists from Cisco Systems share their research / perspectives in a 'Factoring Lower Network Layers into the Grid' white paper.

Katarzyna Keahey discuss Virtual Workspces in the Grid
Posted: October 12, 2005
Category: Globus Toolkit Developer's Forum
Dr. Keahey traces the progress of her team's exciting proof of concept work with Grid and virtualization and speaks to the topics outlined in her paper Virtual Workspaces in the Grid.

Grid Futures
Posted: September 7, 2005
Category: Letter From the President
Globus Consortium president, Greg Nawrocki, discusses the theme of this month's newsletter.

Dennis Gannon and the LEAD Project
Posted: September 7, 2005
Category: Guest Expert - Dennis Gannon
Learn more about the LEAD (Linked Environments for Atmosopheric Discovery) project's new Grid cyberinfrastructure for next-generation weather data modeling.

Raj Kumar and Xiang Song and the Grid Lite Project
Posted: September 7, 2005
Category: Globus Consortium Member Spotlight
The GridLite team at HP Labs is making interesting research breakthroughs in Grid-enabling handheld devices.

Virtual Machines
Posted: September 7, 2005
Category: Ian Foster's Column
Ian Foster highlights research on the role of virtualization and "virtual machines" in Grid environments.

Interview with Charlie Catlett Director of NSF Tera Grid Project
Posted: September 7, 2005
Category: Guest Expert - Charlie Catlett
Charlie Catlett, brings GCJ readers up to speed on recent progress with the TeraGrid effort, and explains where $150 million in new funding will be applied.

Carl Kesselman discusses Grid Futures
Posted: September 7, 2005
Category: Globus Toolkit Developer's Forum
What's the near-term future hold in store for Globus Toolkit technical directions? Learn about some more open source Grid 'futures' from one of the original pioneers.

Enterprise Studying Lessons Learned From e-Science Grids
Posted: August 16, 2005
Category: Letter From the President
Globus Consortium president, Greg Nawrocki, discusses the theme of this month's newsletter.

Release 4.0.1 of the Globus Toolkit
Posted: August 16, 2005
Category: Globus Consortium Update
Congratulations to the Globus Alliance for the incremental release of GT4 now available for download.

Advances in Grid Security - The Globus Toolkit and e-Science
Posted: August 16, 2005
Category: Globus Toolkit Security
Some of Grid security's most advanced breakthroughs are taking place in e-Science / Academic Grids. Read about four open source security efforts that enterprise Grid pros are keeping an eye on.

Bridging the Gap Between Research and Enterprise
Posted: August 16, 2005
Category: Ian Foster's Column
Recent FUD claims that research / science Grid experts just don't understand enterprise environments and requirements. Ian Foster challenges that message in this month's column.

Interview with Terry Harmer of the Belfast e-Science Centre
Posted: August 16, 2005
Category: Guest Expert - Terry Harmer
Read about the Belfast e-Science Centre's impressive Grid effort with the British Broadcasting Corporation, and the role of the Globus Toolkit in that Grid environment.

Stuart Martin discusses Globus GRAM
Posted: August 16, 2005
Category: Globus Toolkit Developer's Forum
How has the Grid Resource Allocation Manager (GRAM) evolved to accommodate the new web services directions for the Globus Toolkit? GCJ recently caught up with Stuart Martin to find out.

Open Source and the Grid
Posted: July 6, 2005
Category: Letter From the President
Globus Consortium president Greg Nawrocki reflects on importance of open source nature of the Globus Toolkit.

The Latest Projects Launched by the Globus Consortium
Posted: July 6, 2005
Category: Globus Consortium Update
Globus Consortium embarks on a new enterprise Globus Toolkit study -- read more on how to participate.

Interview with Rich Miller, COO of Univa
Posted: July 6, 2005
Category: Globus Consortium Member Spotlight
Grid startup, Univa, tells Globus Consortium Journal what it has up its sleeve for enterprise Grid.

The New Globus Toolkit License Model
Posted: July 6, 2005
Category: Ian Foster's Column
The Globus Toolkit chooses Apache 2.0 for its open source license -- Ian Foster explains why.

Interview with Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Law Center
Posted: July 6, 2005
Category: Guest Expert - Eben Moglen
The world's leading legal authority on open source software reveals the key things you need to know as a developer, vendor or customer looking at open source software licenses.

Interview with Dr. Mark Parsons
Posted: July 6, 2005
Category: Globus Toolkit Developer's Forum
An Interview with Globus Toolkit veteran, Dr. Mark Parsons - Commercial Director, The University of Edinburgh, National e-Science Centre.

Network Implications for the Grid
Posted: June 1, 2005
Category: Letter From the President
Globus Consortium president Greg Nawrocki invites networking vendors to jump on the Grid bandwagon.

Globus Consortium Project Update
Posted: June 1, 2005
Category: Globus Consortium Update
Last month, the Globus Consortium kicked off three Grid projects. Read about the progress they've made since.

Interview with Franco Travostino of Nortel
Posted: June 1, 2005
Category: Globus Consortium Member Spotlight
Learn about Nortel Networks' Grid efforts ... and how they imagine the telecom carriers participating in the Grid evolution.

The Network is the Grid
Posted: June 1, 2005
Category: Ian Foster's Column
"The Network is the Grid?" Ian Foster weighs in on the importance of network-specific Grid considerations.

Interview with William Fellows of the 451 Group
Posted: June 1, 2005
Category: Guest Expert - William Fellows
William Fellows says finding Globus Toolkit enterprise end users is a 'needle in the haystack' exercise - and provides some suggestions for what the Globus community needs to do to better accelerate enterprise adoption.

Interview with Frank Siebenlist
Posted: June 1, 2005
Category: Globus Toolkit Developer's Forum
Grid software veteran Frank Siebenlist highlights some practical Grid security considerations that the development community should bear in mind.

Welcome to the Globus Consortium Journal
Posted: May 2, 2005
Category: Letter From the President
Greg Nawrocki, President of the Globus Consortium, welcomes readers and explains why this newsletter, a new voice for the open source Grid movement in commercial-level discussions, was created.

Globus Consortium Projects Launch
Posted: May 2, 2005
Category: Globus Consortium Update
The Globus Consortium has announced its first three projects which have already started to contribute back to the Open Source Globus Toolkit and Open Standards Grid efforts. Read about them here.

Interview with Jay Unger of IBM
Posted: May 2, 2005
Category: Globus Consortium Member Spotlight
For the first 'Member Spotlight,' GCJ decided to catch up with Jay Unger, Senior Techical Staff Member at IBM. Read more about IBM's history with the Globus Toolkit, and where Jay sees the Grid effort headed.

The Different Grid Organizations
Posted: May 2, 2005
Category: Ian Foster's Column
What's the Difference Between the Globus Consortium, the Global Grid Forum and the Enterprise Grid Alliance? Ian Foster asks these three Grid players to explain themselves.

Interview with Dan Kusnetzky of IDC
Posted: May 2, 2005
Category: Guest Expert - Dan Kusnetzky
Is Grid a tough sell in today's cost-cutting IT landscape? You bet. In a Q and A with Globus Consortium Journal, IDC's Dan Kusnetzky discusses IT buyers' decision making process and attitudes about Grid.

The Growing Interest in Grid from the Commercial Sector
Posted: May 2, 2005
Category: Globus Toolkit Developer's Forum
The first "Globus Toolkit Developer's Forum" looks at growing interest in Grid from the commercial sector -- and what it means for developers with Globus Toolkit experience.