Grid Gurus

Rich Wellner, my friend and former colleague at Univa UD, has started editing a blog called Grid Gurus. He's got a very talented group of people contributing, including Ian Foster, Tim Freeman, Sinisa Veseli, and Scot Koranda.  The blog already has a nice collection of themes developing ... and I can't wait for the next 434 parts of "Better Know a VM."

Grid Gurus: Why the grid is still important

Grid computing is celebrating 11 years next month, and is poised to become increasingly mainstream in the coming years. There are a number of reasons that this is true, and most of them are the time tested ideas that have been proving themselves in your research institutions and businesses for years. The grid is about allowing your organization to run more efficiently and more effectively than can be done with more conventional technology solutions. It's about bringing many machines together in coordination around a task. It's about bringing data storage and movement to bear in a coordinated fashion with your application. It's about allowing people from different parts of your organization to work together more easily.