The Future of GRID computing 2015

Group Members

Welcome everyone,

Our group has decided to create scenario's for grid computing, the group consists of the following members:

• Alastair Comley
• Driving Forces:
  
1. Cost of Computer Resources
2. (Idle) Computer Processing Power
3. Gaming Industry
• Alastair Comley Learning Log
• Tjeerd Tesselaar
• Driving Forces:
  
1. Reduce_IT-infrastructure_cost
2. Alternative_energy_sources
3. Control_of_Technology
• Tjeerd Tesselaar Learning Log
• Richard Velden
• Driving Forces:
  
1. Islamic Fundamentalism
2. Power of the United Nations
3. World Unification
4. Influence_of_the_World_Trade_Organization_(WTO)
5. Declining Dollar
6. Suicide Bombings in Israel
7. IPv6
8. Network Bandwidth
9. Network Latencies
10. Global Dimming
11. Global Warming
12. Acid Rain
• Richard Velden Learning Log
• Jing Wu
• Driving Forces:
  
1. Parallel Computing
2. Emergence of e-Science
3. Need for common programming platform
4. Data-intensive Computing
5. Very large-scale simulation
6. Virtual Integration
7. Increasing Mobility
• Jing Wu Learning Log

Project

Link to Project
List of Research Topics
Research Findings
Driving Forces for GRID development
Systems Diagram for GRID computing
Analysis of Systems Diagram and Key Uncertainties
Scenarios Dimensions and Focus
Scenarios of Future of Grid Computing

Introduction
What is a grid? According to Webopdia:
"A form of networking. Unlike conventional networks that focus on communication among devices, grid computing harnesses unused processing cycles of all computers in a network for solving problems too intensive for any stand-alone machine."

Way of working
We will start by investigating grids, their background, purpose, and other type of information in order to create a common baseline amongst all group members. Once this baseline is established, we will start developing the scenarios.

Interview
To carry out research of our topic, we plan to interview professors and researchers in GRID field. Here are the key points to bear in mind during interview:

• Ask them what they don’t know instead of what they know
• Ask them the uncertainties
• For each uncertainty, ask them what the situation will be like, what are the extremes?