I enjoyed last month's issue of "tying up loose ends" so much I though we should give it yet another go.

Last year there was a fair amount of press touting the lead Europe has in Grid Computing compared to other continents. This month I catch up with two leaders of the Grid world in Europe, Ian Osborne from Grid Computing Now! and Pawel Plaszczak, President of GridwiseTech.

In September of 2006 we featured the Globus Incubator Projects. There has been some recent news about new projects that have been added to the incubator list as well as an incubator project that has "graduated" to the ranks of an official Globus component.

As most readers of the Globus Consortium Journal are well aware, I am a big proponent of mainstream Grid applications as a means to accelerate all the technologies that we've come to know under the Grid umbrella. In the Grid space it is often that case that an "application" is not a singular entity but a combination of things that need to be managed in terms of the workflows between them. Swift is a new open source software component that does just that.

In Globus enterprise news, Univa presented the first in a series of free Webinars on best practices for cluster and grid computing, "Supercharging Your Cluster With Univa Globus". If you did not get a chance to attend that informative webinar the slides are available via the Univa web site.

Finally, anyone interested in joining the Globus team should be aware of the developer positions that are still open.

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