World Wide Grid begins self-assembly

    European engineers recently completed a two-year g-Eclipse project to create special software for combining disparate grid segments into a single World Wide Network, which can be connected via the Internet. Now they have announced the beginning of the practical implementation phase and are proposing to name the World Wide Grid, or the World Grid.

    The de facto association of supercomputers began a few years ago. Currently, there are many scattered segments of the grid network scattered around the world. Typically, such segments are created within individual countries. The problem is that often countries choose proprietary middleware for their sites, so combining all sites into a single system is problematic.

    As part of the g-Eclipse project, a single free software was created with a simple graphical interface that supports various types of proprietary middleware and will make it very easy to connect new machines to the World Grid in just a few clicks. In addition, the program will allow you to choose with which segment of the grid the user wants to share his resources, and connect even 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 Unified global computing network.

    Thus, the project to combine the world's computing resources goes to the finish line. Perhaps the emergence of a single supercomputer can be expected in a few years.

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