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In this four-part "Managing a grid" series of articles, we'll look at some key elements of the grid management process, such as identifying hardware and network fundamentals and how that affects your grid process, and how to use metrics information as a scheduling, prediction, and expansion tool.

Managing a grid, Part 1: Network and infrastructure
Skill Level: Intermediate 
26 Sep 2006

Managing a grid, Part 2: Security considerations
Skill Level: Intermediate
24 Oct 2006

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/23/did_dell_go_green_early/

Micheal Dell admits they went green too early.  I disagree.  I think that CIO's should be looking at the TCO for the datacenters.  But Dell says that most corporate infrastructures do not incentivize  CIOs to save on the electrical bill.  So he views it as a failure of the corporate structure.  I personally view it a failure to sell to a whole company instead of an individual.

Univa UD Extends UniCluster to Amazon EC2 Cloud

Publicly Available Paper and Tools Simplify Process of Provisioning HPC Compute Nodes in EC2

Univa UD Joins Intel® Cluster Ready Program
Will Ship Certified UniCluster Product in Q3 2008

LISLE, IL, June 3, 2008 - Univa UD, a pioneer in HPC systems management products for the complete distributed computing lifecycle, announced today that the company has joined the Intel Cluster Ready Program and will ship a Cluster Ready version of its UniCluster Express product in the third quarter of 2008.

The San Diego Super Computer Center (SDSC) Storage Resource Broker (SRB) middleware platform provides an interface for connecting heterogeneous data sources over a network. SRB is designed to build data grids and access replicated data sets distributed over long distances. Learn the basics for creating your own distributed data grid using SRB for development purposes or for potential use within your organization.

Build a data grid with the Storage Resource Broker
Skill Level: Introductory
07 Mar 2006

http://www.cloudcomputing.org.il/program.html

call for papers ends today!  The conference is Dec 1-2 in Isreal

Travis Van recently caught up with Steve Tuecke, CEO of Univa, a start-up providing enterprises with technical services and support for the open source Globus Toolkit. Tuecke shared some thoughts that developerWorks readers will find interesting -- from technical pointers for grid developers to broader themes about grid's specific challenges in crossing over from e-science to enterprise.

The first in On-Demand Enterprise's 2-part series on clouds and grids:

http://www.on-demandenterprise.com/topic/datacenter/The_Grid-Cloud_Connection_Pt_I_Compare_and_Contrast_30634819.html