Knowledge and Developing New Information Technologies

One important dimension of human behavior is the capability to plan and engage in tactics such as learning a new activity or attempting to beat your personal best. It may be a less obvious dimension, but it’s just as important: the ability to save up knowledge over the years to be able to tackle a challenge, such as learning to play the piano, or navigating a new country.

Technology and service provider perspective

Customer orientation

Base value proposition on target customer’ needs and benefits, not on technical aspects: Grid computing is still a technology that is not easy to understand. It’s key not to focus on technology but on the benefits to each target customer. Don’t sell Grid, sell solutions.

Grid Classification

The term Grid is not clearly defined as such and is hence applied to a wide variety of different things. Commonly they are distinguished as cluster grids , science grids and business grids . Alternatively, we may categorize Computational Grids or Data Grids according to their focus on provision of computing cycles or data solutions. They also occasionally are grouped according to the user community they address, such as Health Grids, Earth Observation Grids, Finance Grids.

Optimisation of Resource Selection

The optimization component offers a service to the Grid users aiming at optimizing the scheduling of the jobs in the environment. In particular, the Optim provides a service that can be used by the Scheduler to improve quality of resource allocation. The component receives from the scheduler one or more jobs to be scheduled and it returns, for each job, an ordered list of available computing resources of the grid on which the job can be carried out respecting SLA’s constraints.

A European Multi-cloud Infrastructure for Experimentation

This week I’m at Cloudscape presenting BonFIRE, a European multi-Cloud facility that is ready, open, in operation and being used today.