Grid Innovations & Applications Competition

Dates:
15 Aug 2003: Submission of Project Title & Extended Summary
10 Dec 2003: Final Submission of Project Report
10 Jan 2004: Grand Final

Prizes:
Gold: S$3,000
Silver: S$2,000
Bronze: S$1,000

This is a jointly organised Grid competition by the NTU Campus Grid and the National Grid Office. This competition is for students studying at institutes of higher learning in Singapore. The sponsor of the event is Sun Microsystems Pte Ltd.

The judging criteria include innovativeness, technical merit, usefulness, correctness, documentation, and presentation.

A briefing session for interested parties will be held on 9 June 2003 (Monday) at the Lecture Theatre 3, NTU North Spine at 1430 hours. Interested parties can register their interest to attend the session with Ms. Vasu (vasu@ngp.org.sg). A technical session on Grid Computing 101 will follow the briefing.

Official web site of Grid Innovation and Application competition can be found at: http://www.ntu-cg.ntu.edu.sg/Grid_competition

A softcopy of the Grid competition poster is available here.

Press Release

Subject: Grid Computing 101
Lecturer: Dr. Simon See (Sun Microsystems & Adjunct A/Prof. NTU)

The main scope of many of today's Grid research projects is to understand and demonstrate the actual potential of networking, computing and software infrastructure for computational Grids and to build proof-of-concept middleware. This has resulted in Internet infrastructure projects like Globus, Legion, and Punch which enable users to combine a set of distributed resources into one integrated Grid Workbench to allow users to measure nature (e.g. with microscope, telescope or particle accelerator), process the measured data according to fundamental mathematical equations (e.g. the Navier-Stokes or Maxwell equations), and provide computer simulations and animations to study and understand these complex phenomena.

Most of the underlying sophisticated technologies for computational Grids are currently under development. Large research communities like the Global Grid Forum are coordinating all kinds of Grid-related activities. Research in resource management is underway in projects like NTUGrid & EcoGrid], and the basic building blocks for commercial Grid resource managers exist (e.g. Sun's Grid Engine software).

In this talk, we will give an overview of Grid computing, the current status and some of the technologies which Sun is interested and working on.