Australian Researchers Contribute To Grid Contest At SC2002 11.28.02
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A team from the GRIDS (Grid Computing and Distributed Systems) Lab at
Melbourne University has demonstrated one of the four Grid applications as
part of the Global Grid testbed Collaboration. This world-wide collaboration
won first place in the HPC Challenge held at the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2002
in Baltimore.

The Global Grid collaboration had resource contributors from all over the world.
The GRIDS lab team demonstrated Economic and On Demand Brain Activity Analysis
on Global Grids using Nimrod-G and Gridbus Technologies.

During the competition, the team accessed 0.9 GB of brain activity data
collected using the 64-sensors MEG instrument (located in Osaka, Japan) for an
hour, and performed on-demand brain activity analysis on globally distributed
computers.

Such a task generates 7257600 analysis jobs and would take 102 days on a
commodity computer with a PentiumIII/500MHz processor and 256MB of memory.

At the conference, the team was able to demonstrate and release the following
Gridbus Toolkit software in the public domain: Gridbus Economic Scheduler,
Grid Market Directory, G-Monitor, Visual modeller for GridSim and Visual
Parametric Tool.
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