Dear All:

I hope all of you are doing fine with your Grid Computing R&D. I would
like to share updates on recently Grid computing-related developments as
observed during last 2 months or so.

1. I have attended few events related to grid computing including CCGrid
2009 (http://grid.sjtu.edu.cn/ccgrid2009/) in Shanghai, China. Although
there were many papers related to Grid computing presented, but many
researchers seems to be shifting rapidly to Cloud Computing - perhaps as
a natural evolution. This can be observed from keynote talks and panel
discussions.

Keynotes: Two out 3 keynotes were focused on Cloud Computing and I had a
honour of presenting one as the winner of "2009 IEEE Medal for
Excellence in Scalable Computing". I believe some of you are aware of
this honour bestowed on me this year as noted at:
http://www.ieeetcsc.org/awards/tcsc-medal2009.html
Thanks to the support from Grid computing community.

Those who didn't attend CCGrid 2009 and interested in my presentation
slides, please have a look at:
http://buyya.com/talks/Cloud-Buyya-Seminar-Keynote.ppt

Panel: There was very interesting panel on "Cloud Computing: Technical
challenges and Business Implications" organised by Dr. Geng Lin, CTO of
CISCO Systems. Check out: http://grid.sjtu.edu.cn/ccgrid2009/panel.html

Reflecting on heavy featuring/focus of Cloud Computing related topics
within CCGrid during last two years, the Conference Steering Committee
has added the word "Cloud" to the title (but acronym CCGrid remains the
same). The next year conference is titled as:
10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing

A call for papers is available at:
http://www.gridbus.org/ccgrid2010/CCGrid2010-flyer.pdf

[Full website will be available soon]. Please do submit your papers in
Cluster, Grid, and Cloud computing to CCGrid 2010 and it will be held in
"one of the most liveable cities of the world", of course, Melbourne!

2. With GRIDS Lab: We have released our 2008 Activities report, please
check out: http://www.gridbus.org/reports/GRIDS-Lab-AnnualReport2008.pdf

3. One of our recent articles, titled:
Cloud Computing and Emerging IT Platforms: Vision, Hype, and Reality
for Delivering Computing as the 5th Utility
has just appeared in Future Generation Computer Systems. It also has a
nice comparison between Cluster, Grid, and Cloud Computing.
http://www.buyya.com/papers/Cloud-FGCS2009.pdf
This article highlights new developments that are necessary in Cloud
Computing to release the vision of Computing Utilities. Please browse
the article for more details.

Enjoy your weekend.

Cheers
Raj