Dear All,

First, some updates from Grid Computing Info Centre:
http://www.gridcomputing.com
I have added links to some more new projects in this area. When you get
a chance, browse it and enjoy it!

Second, please find enclosed brief description of our new "open source"
Gridbus project. It is a next-generation of our previous thesis on
Economic Paradigm for Grid Computing. The Gridbus project is global,
international and welcomes participation from all of you. If you are
interested in becoming a developer of Gridbus and contribute towards
realization of Gridbus vision, please let me know.

cheers
Raj

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The Gridbus Project: Enabling Service-Oriented Grid Computing & Business
URL: http://www.gridbus.org

The Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory at the
University of Melbourne is actively engaged in the design and
development of next-generation parallel and distributed computing
systems and applications. The Lab's flagship "Open Source" project,
called Gridbus, is developing technology that enables GRID computing and
BUSiness. The Gridbus project team is developing cluster and grid
technologies (middleware, tools, and applications) that deliver
end-to-end quality of services depending on user requirements. They
include Economic Grid Scheduler, Cluster Scheduler (Libra), Grid
modeling and simulation (GridSim), Data Grid broker, GridBank, and GUI tools for
workflow management and composition of distributed applications from
(legacy) software components. The Gridbus scheduling system aggregates
or leases of services of distributed resources depending on their
availability, capability, performance, cost, and users
quality-of-service requirements. The Gridbus technology development is
driven by requirements of various applications: Drug Design, High Energy
Physics, and Brain Activity Analysis. The World-Wide Grid (WWG) testbed
used in this research contains resources from organizations around the
globe.

The Gridbus project sponsorers include: Sun Microsystems Inc., Victorian
Partnership for Advanced Computing, University of Melbourne, and
Australian Research Council. We welcome collaboration from indviduals
and organisations around the world, who are interested in getting
involved in this open source R&D project. For further information,
please refer to the Gridbus Project home page: http://www.gridbus.org
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