Global Grid Forum (GGF) - A standards body that creates and publishes Grid Computing Standards. GGF's primary objectives are to promote and support the development, deployment, and implementation of Grid technologies and applications via the creation and documentation of "best practices" - technical specifications, user experiences, and implementation guidelines.
Grid Computing Information Centre - An extensive list of grid resources compiled by Rajkumar Buyya of Australia's Monash University. Resource lists inlcude: an FAQ, healine news, international activities, events, systems, projects and much more.
Maui High Performance Computing Center - The Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC) is a national supercomputing center established in 1993 by the University of New Mexico under a Cooperative Agreement with the Air Force Research Laboratory. A leader in scalable parallel computing, MHPCC supports a base of 1,200 users from DoD, government, commercial, and academic organizations.
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) - The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), one of the five original centers in the National Science Foundation's Supercomputer Centers Program, opened its doors in January 1986. Since then, NCSA has contributed significantly to the birth and growth of the worldwide cyberinfrastructure for science and engineering, operating some of the world's most powerful supercomputers and developing the software needed to efficiently use these systems. Today the center is recognized as an international leader in deploying robust high-performance computing resources and in working with research communities to develop new computing and software technologies.
National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) - The mission of the NPACI is to advance science by creating a ubiquitous, continuous, and pervasive national computational infrastructure know as the Grid. In the NPACI vision, researchers collect data from experiments and digital libraries, analyze the data with models run on a computing grid, visualize and share those data over the Web, and publish the results for the scientific community in digital libraries.
Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) - The State of Ohio has established an Ohio Supercomputer Center as a statewide resource designated to place Ohio's research universities and private industry in the forefront of computational research.
On-Demand Enterprise - On-Demand Enterprise (On-Demand) is dedicated to serving IT decision-makers by providing daily news, features and commentary about the technologies that enable today’s cutting-edge IT organizations. On-Demand Enterprise is required reading for anyone who has to be concerned about issues like scalability, flexibility, availability, dynamism, low latency, utility computing, high efficiency or any other capabilities that can be considered “on-demand.” Technologies like cloud computing, grid computing, virtualization and data caching already have proved themselves in terms of performance, ROI and competitive advantage in today’s leading organizations, and On-Demand will continue to cover all the relevant news as these technologies continue to evolve and make their way into IT budgets.
Open Grid Forum - OGF is an open community committed to driving the rapid evolution and adoption of applied distributed computing. Applied Distributed Computing is critical to developing new, innovative and scalable applications and infrastructures that are essential to productivity in the enterprise and within the science community. OGF accomplishes its work through open forums that build the community, explore trends, share best practices and consolidate these best practices into standards.
Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) - A Globus Project, the OGSA represents an evolution towards a Grid system architecture based on Web services concepts and technologies. This page to provides information on the status of OGSA work.
Oracle Grid Technology Center - This webpage desribes Oracle's activity in grid computing. Site includes white papers and a demo showing three simple steps to grid computing.
Research Data Networks (RDN) Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) - The RDN CRC is one of of a number of Information Technology Cooperative Research Centres funded under the Australian Commonwealth Government's CRC Program. RDN funds four projects whch are hosted by other institutions:
* Distributed and High-Performance Computing (DHPC) Group, within the On-Line Data Archives (OLDA) program of the Advanced Computational Systems (ACSys) CRC;
* Distributed Interactive Multimedia Information Services (DIMMIS) in the Digital Media Libraries program of the ACSys CRC;
* Resource Discovery Project at the Distributed Systems Technology CRC, Brisbane;
* Network Applications and Performance at the Advanced Network Systems Performance and Applications Group (ANSPAG).
The RDN CRC also funded work towards development of network infrastructure for Australian academic researchers in the form of the AARNet.
CRC's are collaborative organisations set up to promote interaction between Australian Industry and Academia and to stimulate Australian Research, Development, Commercial Activities and Education. The RDN CRC has brought together groups researching into networks and distributed computing at the host institutions and provided a common framework for wide area network experiments. This network framework was initially in the form of the Experimental Broadband Network provided by Telstra, and more recently in the form of next generation Australian Academic Research Network (AARNet), coordinated by the Australian Vice Chancellors' Committee (AVCC).
World Wide Grid - A Global eScience Grid testbed created in collaboration with organisations in Australia, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America.
