The Future of GRID computing 2015

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Group Members

Alastair Comley
Tjeerd Tesselaar
Richard Velden
Jing Wu

Driving Forces

  1. Acid Rain
  2. Alternative_energy_sources
  3. (Idle) Computer Processing Power
  4. Control_of_Technology
  5. Cost of Computer Resources
  6. Data-intensive Computing
  7. Declining Dollar
  8. Emergence of e-Science
  9. Gaming Industry
  10. Global Dimming
  11. Global Warming
  12. Increasing Mobility
  13. Influence_of_the_World_Trade_Organization_(WTO)
  14. IPv6
  15. Islamic Fundamentalism
  16. Need for common programming platform
  17. Network Bandwidth
  18. Network Latencies
  19. Parallel Computing
  20. Power of the United Nations
  21. Reduce_IT-infrastructure_cost
  22. Suicide Bombings in Israel
  23. Very large-scale simulation
  24. Virtual Integration
  25. World Unification

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?