Dear All,

I would like to share two recent updates from the Gridbus Project and
GRIDS Lab:

1. The Gridbus Project has been awarded University of Melbourne
Vice-Chancellor's Knowledge Excellence (Commendation) Award for creating
and sharing various Grid technologies with colleagues around the world.
A brief details are attached at the end.

2. An article describing our Grid computing course has appeared in IEEE
Distributed Systems Online. You can browse it from:
http://dsonline.computer.org/portal/pages/dsonline/2007/12/oz002edu.html

Thanks
Raj
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Melbourne University's Vice Chancellor Award for the Gridbus Project
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Associate Professor Buyya's leadership in the Gridbus Project has
resulted in fundamental research and advances in Grid Computing, created
open-source Gridbus software technologies and generated partnerships
with various scientific, engineering and business communities which
apply Grid technologies to solve problems in e-science and e-business.

Grid and cluster computing is a critical area of computing research and
infrastructure, as it provides the mechanism to solve large-scale
scientific and industrial problems. The systems designed by Associate
Professor Buyya are used by biologists, medical scientists,
environmentalists, physicists and economists.

His software for Grid Computing has also been used by several academic
and commercial organisations including Columbia University, the
University of Southern California, Sun Microsystems, the Friedrich
Miescher Institute and IBM. The project has attracted more than $2
million in competitive research grants from the Australian Research
Council and the Department of Education, Science and Training.

In recognition of Dr. Buyya's leadership for the Gridbus Project, the
University of Melbourne has presented him an inaugural Vice-Chancellor's
Knowledge Transfer Excellence (Commendation) Award on Nov. 21, 2007.

A snapshot of the award certificate:
http://www.gridbus.org/~raj/awards/Buyya-KT-Award2007.jpg

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