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January 2006

Read Greg Nawrocki's InfoWorld blog The Grid Meter.

Digipede Wins Microsoft?s Innovation Partner of the Year Award

Recent Grid News

The Grid and the Web - Open Standards and Open Source

This Month: Getting to Know Key Globus Toolkit Services (MDS, GRAM, GridFTP)

Greg Nawrocki
President
Globus Consortium

Globus Consortium president, Greg Nawrocki, welcomes readers back from the holidays, and explains the theme of this month's newsletter.

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Reading Materials: "Grid Computing The Savvy Manager's Guide"

The Globus Consortium reviews Pawel Plaszczak and Richard Wellner's recent release on the market opportunities and practical considerations for the emerging enterprise Grid market.

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Official Book Web Site

Songnian Zhou
CEO
Platform Computing

Platform is seeing signs that enterprise Grid is in full bloom. Songnian Zhou tells Globus Consortium Journal why the future is looking bright.

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Karl Czajkowski
Software Architect
Univa

In Grid environments, success is hinged largely on the ability for apps to successfully negotiate for the usage of underlying resources. Learn how GRAM facilities this balancing act in Globus environments.

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Bill Allcock
Globus Alliance
Argonne National Laboratory

In Grids, access to data is as important as access to compute resources. Learn how the GridFTP protocol has evolved to navigate today's tough storage systems and handle bulk file transfer.

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Laura Pearlman - Architecture Lead
Mike D'Arcy - Programmer
Information Sciences Institute

Globus Toolkit Grid environments use the "Monitoring & Discovery System" for real-time insight into what resources are being used and what services are running. Learn how MDS works, and how it's evolved.

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