iSGTW 4 July 2007

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Issue 31: iSGTW 04 July 2007

Feature - Summer of learning: what’s with all these grid schools?

Scene from the Biomed GRID School, 14-19 May 2007, Varenna, Italy

It’s that time of year again: the snow melts, the skies turn blue, and grid summer schools appear across the planet. What’s the point of grid schools? What are the benefits of attending?

David Fergusson, manager of ICEAGE, a project dedicated to advanced grid education, found time between summer schools to provide EGEE’s Alison McCall with some answers.

Opinion - Is BOINC grid?

Volunteer computing: grid or not grid?

Around the world, one million computers participate in volunteer computing.

Is this grid computing? David Anderson, director of SETI@home and founder of BOINC, says “no.”

Feature - Malaysian grid

Malaysian universities urged to use grid
Malaysian universities are being encouraged to use the high performance computing facility MyREN for their research activities.

MyREN links 13 universities and research facilities across Malaysia, but is currently under-utilized.

Acronym of the week

NEESit
Ground-shaking grid-powered collaboration is order of the day at NEESit, otherwise known as the George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Cyberinfrastructure Center.