[Air-l] e-science, the grid, and supercomputers

[Steve Jones]

A big part of what we do at UIC's Electronic Visualization Lab (EVL) 
working with the AccessGrid (http://www.evl.uic.edu/accessgrid/) and 
working on the OptIPuter project (see 
http://www.evl.uic.edu/research/res_results.php3?cat=6). An area of 
study in both cases (and others involving high speed networking) is 
collaboration over high speed networks..

Sj

At 2:35 PM -0500 9/25/03, elijah wright wrote:
>  > Having recently been made aware that my university is moving in a very
>>  major way into the field of e-science by bringing online a new
>>  supercomputer and intending to hook that up to the national lambdarail
>>  project as part of the terascale grid computing network, I'm wondering
>>  if anyone on the list is working on any of these topics, as they all
>>  have to do with internet research in some way, and specifically
>>  scientific uses of the internet, well at least in our case.
>
>Our university (Indiana U) is pretty heavily invested in grid research,
>and becoming more so.  Computer Science was awarded several fairly weighty
>grants in the last couple of weeks, so I expect the investment will
>escalate ....
>
>I'm not convinced that "grid computing" is anything more than a word that
>people toss off to describe a set of paradigmatic assumptions - i've heard
>it used in several radically different ways by people doing computational
>work in different source domains.
>
>elijah
>
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