World Wide Grid begins self-assembly
European engineers recently completed a two-year g-Eclipse project to create special software to integrate disparate grid segments into a single World Wide Web, which can be connected via the Internet. Now they have announced the beginning of the practical implementation phase and propose to name the World Wide Web Grid or the World Grid.
The de facto combination of supercomputers began several years ago. At the moment, there are many scattered segments of the grid network around the world. Usually such segments are created within individual countries. The problem is that countries often choose proprietary middleware for their plots, so that combining all plots into a single system is problematic.
As part of the g-Eclipse project, a single free software has been created with a simple graphical interface that supports different types of proprietary middleware and makes it very easy to connect new machines to the World Network in just a few mouse clicks. In addition, the program will allow you to choose with which segment of the grid the user wants to share its resources, and even connect to several segments at the same time (there is even support for Elastic Compute Cloud from Amazon.com). This is a kind of browser for the United World Wide Web.
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Thus, the project to unite the world's computing resources goes to the finish line. Perhaps the emergence of a single supercomputer can be expected in a few years.
The de facto combination of supercomputers began several years ago. At the moment, there are many scattered segments of the grid network around the world. Usually such segments are created within individual countries. The problem is that countries often choose proprietary middleware for their plots, so that combining all plots into a single system is problematic.
As part of the g-Eclipse project, a single free software has been created with a simple graphical interface that supports different types of proprietary middleware and makes it very easy to connect new machines to the World Network in just a few mouse clicks. In addition, the program will allow you to choose with which segment of the grid the user wants to share its resources, and even connect to several segments at the same time (there is even support for Elastic Compute Cloud from Amazon.com). This is a kind of browser for the United World Wide Web.
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Thus, the project to unite the world's computing resources goes to the finish line. Perhaps the emergence of a single supercomputer can be expected in a few years.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/45093/
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