With the Stardust sample return capsule safely on the ground, NASA and researchers at the University of California at Berkeley are launching a new SETI-like Grid for analyzing the flotsam and jetsam retrieved from the farthest reaches of our solar system and beyond.
Grid Meter | InfoWorld | More extraterrestrial Grid efforts under

The aim of Grid-Ireland is to enable communities of users, for example, astrophysicists, geneticists or linguists, to construct virtual organizations above Grid-Ireland. The guiding principle is that there may be many virtual organizations, but there only needs to be one grid layer. The benefit is a research platform for scientists and an object of research for computer scientists, and a natural symbiosis between the two.
Grid-Ireland Website

Microsoft has just officially jumped into Cluster Computing market using Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. What is going to happer with Grid Computing market which is widely adopted by hardware major vendors, e.g., IBM, Sun, and EMC.

There have long since been many smaller players actively providing Grid and Grid-like products for Windows operating systems. Digipede for example, has recently received accolades for its Digipede Network Grid computing solutions for the Microsoft .NET platform. It is not hard for one to imagine Microsoft leveraging these companies in any way its massive bankroll desires. We"ll possibly start to see some of this MS Grid ecosystem unfold in the first half of "06, when Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 ships (MS already has already announced a partnership with Platform around the release.

Scott Braker wrote A Look at Grid Computing Part I, and Part II. He works for SAP Labs as a Product Manager for the SAP Web Application Server specializing in Web AS Applications, Web Dynpro, systems and Portal topics. Prior to working working as a Product Manager for SAP Labs, Scott worked as a Senior Applications consultant for SAP EP RIG.

Today is going to be a big day which many softwares are released including AGVCR. AGVCR - AccessGrid Video "Cassette" Recorder - is exactly what you want to record, edit, and replay AccessGrid session through VIC and RAT.

The latest version of AGVCR has been released as 1.3.0. In this version, DES and Rijndael encryption are supported for audio and video streams.

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Keeping pace with speedy growth and to ensure cost effectiveness and fool-proof security, Corporate India is fast moving towards embracing flexible and scaleable information systems based on Grid Computing, the premier company involved in pooling IT resources and storages said in Mumbai.

"India is showing the fastest growth index in moving towards a Grid IT environment with 60 percent of the organizations polled that a Grid-based IT infrastructure was inevitable or very probable," said Roger Scott, Vice President Technology, Sales Consulting of Oracle Asia Pacific. Echoing him, Sundar Ram, Senior Director, Technology Sales Oracle Asia Pacific, said India’s adoption of Grid Technology has almost doubled over the last six months. "It has been almost 52 percent," he said. Top Oracle captains along with over 1800 customers, partners and key IT players are taking part in two-day conference ’Oracle Openworld’ from January 10, 2006.