The Future of GRID computing 2015
Group Members
Alastair Comley
Tjeerd Tesselaar
Richard Velden
Jing Wu
Driving Forces
- Acid Rain
- Alternative_energy_sources
- (Idle) Computer Processing Power
- Control_of_Technology
- Cost of Computer Resources
- Data-intensive Computing
- Declining Dollar
- Emergence of e-Science
- Gaming Industry
- Global Dimming
- Global Warming
- Increasing Mobility
- Influence_of_the_World_Trade_Organization_(WTO)
- IPv6
- Islamic Fundamentalism
- Need for common programming platform
- Network Bandwidth
- Network Latencies
- Parallel Computing
- Power of the United Nations
- Reduce_IT-infrastructure_cost
- Suicide Bombings in Israel
- Very large-scale simulation
- Virtual Integration
- World Unification
Project
Link to Project
List of Research Topics
Research Findings
Driving Forces for GRID development
Systems Diagram for GRID computing
Analysis of Systems Diagram and Key Uncertainties
Scenarios Dimensions and Focus
Scenarios of Future of Grid Computing
Introduction
What is a grid? According to Webopdia:
"A form of networking. Unlike conventional networks that focus on communication among devices, grid computing harnesses unused processing cycles of all computers in a network for solving problems too intensive for any stand-alone machine."
Way of working
We will start by investigating grids, their background, purpose, and other type of information in order to create a common baseline amongst all group members. Once this baseline is established, we will start developing the scenarios.
Interview
To carry out research of our topic, we plan to interview professors and researchers in GRID field. Here are the key points to bear in mind during interview:
- Ask them what they don’t know instead of what they know
- Ask them the uncertainties
- For each uncertainty, ask them what the situation will be like, what are the extremes?