I'm looking forward to receiving my copy of Scientific Collaboration on the Internet. I have an article in it on lessons learned from the NEESgrid project (an earlier version is here, I think it's a good read, especially between the lines), but the other articles are probably far more interesting: …
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Argonne named postdoc positions
http://ianfoster.typepad.com/blog/2008/09/argonne-named-p.htmlThe Argonne Named Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is a great opportunity for a recent or imminent PhD looking to work at the cutting edge of computing. You also get a fancy title, like "Arthur Holly Compton Fellow" or similar. (There are a few to choose from.) The application deadline is November 5. …
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The real difference between grid and cloud
http://ianfoster.typepad.com/blog/2008/09/the-real-differ.htmlTim Freeman pointed me to this video, which reveals the real difference between grid and cloud: automatic weapons.…
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O’Really? at Duncan.Hull.name
http://duncan.hull.nameGenomics, gene regulation etc it is NOT junk: a blog about genomes, DNA, evolution, open science, baseball and other important things Ian Foster Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago Grid and Cloud computing http://ianfoster.typepad.com/blog/ Timothy Gowers University of Cambridge Mathematics (Fields medallist) Gower’s weblog Jim Hendler Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Tetherless world
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R-squared
http://allan.88-mph.net/blogShared: Argonne named postdoc positions Friday 23:35
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Stu says stuff
http://www.stucharlton.com/blogMy critique of both a recent CACM article and one of the author's blog entries, regarding Cloud vs. Grid interfaces, was quite long, and I've been told, meandering. Here is a pithy summary of my position: 1. The greatest leverage in system architecting is at the interfaces. The greatest dangers are also at the interfaces.
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Designing a Cloud Interface: Four Guidelines
http://www.stucharlton.com/blog/archives/000561.htmlblog entries, regarding Cloud vs. Grid interfaces, was quite long, and I've been told, meandering. Here is a pithy summary of my position: 1. The greatest leverage in system architecting is at the interfaces. The greatest dangers are also at the interfaces.
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Modeling State, Ignoring Transitions
http://www.stucharlton.com/blog/archives/000559.htmlspace that can be "managed" with CRUD. This seems to be the major missing piece of the debate - a misunderstanding, underappreciation, or disinterest on modeling state transitions or lifecycles when accessing or manipulating state. Ian Foster's most recent blog entry claims that (in the context of grid vs. cloud): No evidence is provided for this assertion that complex interfaces are the reason for the difficulties people have with grids. I argue that the issues are more complex. "We can argue whether we prefer
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Cloud Maturity Is Accelerating: More Than Just Reaction To The Hype?
http://blogs.forrester.com/it_infrastructure/2008/07/cloud-m...to look at clouds as a potential way to accelerate research projects and control the escalating supercomputer center wars. Kate Keahey, a fellow in the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago is using rPath's virtual appliance technology to help researchers quickly package applications for deployment onto the Lab's HPC cloud, other academic clouds and quickly create an HPC cluster on EC2 and deploy it there. "I believe that this will be the model of the future. Providers who can provide their resources as a cloud on a long-term basis
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Globus Toolkit 4.2 out
http://www.compute.org.za/node/492comes news of the latest release of the Globus Toolkit. An important note is that this release changes the web services specification and Existing users may wish to evaluate the new software while maintaining their existing installations; due to the
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Globus Toolkit 4.2 Released
http://blog.kunaufamily.org/?p=250The threshold is too high. It simply isn’t worth the effort or supporting infrastructure to deploy a simple set of services. RESTful services solve most of my problems without the overhead. (See also: Globus Toolkit 4.2 Released) (See also: GLOBUS: release notes) (See also: GLOBUS: software(See also: GLOBUS: documentation)) (See also: caBIG) (See also: Dissertation: Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures
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Higher Education in Africa
http://sigcse2008.blogspot.com/2008/06/higher-education-in-a...a post by Ian Foster (photo right) about a report on higher education in Africa, with one of the conclusions (?) that low enrollments are less about demand (see later in the post about students paying for internet access with a high percentage of their
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Father of grid computing on cloud vs. grid
http://www.kaavo.com/web/live/blog/blogs/father_of_grid_comp...Recently Ian Foster, father of grid computing, provided a very clear and simple explanation of cloud vs. grid computing. In his blog http://ianfoster.typepad.com/blog/2008/01/theres-grid-in.html he explained cloud vs. grids and how the industry has evolved and will continue to evolve. On identifying future opportunities he seems to reaffirm the opportunity we are pursuing at Kaavo, here is an excerpt from his blog, I highly recommend reading
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