Upcoming Events

Topics

Editorial Calendar

November 2003

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
						1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30

Advanced search

Archive Summary

View by Topic

View by Date

Mailing List

Tell a Friend

RSS Feeds

COPYRIGHTS

BLOGSPHERE ESSENTIALS

POWERED BY

NEWS SITES

November 03, 2003

Singapore Launches National Computing Grid

By: Ahmar Abbas

Government of Singapore has launched the National Grid Pilot Platform, it’s first national project on grid computing. A National Grid Office has been established to help steer Singapore towards a grid-enabled economy. The broad objective is a grid which allows suppliers and users, public and private, to plug into a high-speed network easily and securely.

IBM, Cisco, Starhub, SCS, Dell, HP and Sun have committed hardware, software and manpower services to the Pilot Platform. Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts which is in charge of the program says:

...The National Grid Pilot Platform is the first step in the journey to develop this new cyber-infrastructure for Singapore. For the first stage of the Pilot Platform project, the partners have made available about 750 Giga FLOPS (FLoating point OPerations per Second) of heterogeneous computing resources for sharing. In addition, the network infrastructure provided by this Pilot Platform is able to link up computing resources amounting to about 3 Tera FLOPS (or 3 trillion FLOPS) currently available in A*STAR’s research institutes, NUS and NTU. This is 3 times the computational power of the single biggest computer server currently available in Singapore and will enable us to run massively computational programmes...

...Our objective is not just to develop the grid in Singapore. It is also to make Singapore a key node in what we see to be a future worldwide grid. This will complement all our other efforts to make Singapore a global entrepolis for the knowledge economy...

Link | 03 November 03 @ 07:32 | Discuss ( 0,0 comments ) | Views ( 104 Views)

< More From Grid Research >

Start the Discussion

USERS

Log-In

Members

Our Sponsors

Publications

Grid Computing: A Practical Guide To Technology And Applications

Now Shipping! This book provides IT professionals with a clear, readable, and pragmatic overview to all aspects of grid computing technology, with hands-on guidelines on implementing a workable grid-computing system.

Buy It Today From Amazon

Last 20 Posts

News

more news rss

Gridblog is brought to you by: