[wplug] TeraGrid

Patrick Wagstrom pwagstro at andrew.cmu.edu
Sat Jan 20 23:29:32 EST 2007


> it is kind of fun.  I think the best part is you apply for a time
> grant at one place, and you typically get accounts at all the
> participant members - so you can browse around and try your code at
> different places.
> 
> Although it's a really cool idea, I'm not sure how useful / utilized
> the cross computing center aspect of it is (technically, you can run a
> grid job that runs simultaneously at several centers at once).

In a previous life I used to work on Grid computing at Argonne National 
Lab, the home of Globus, which is the infrastructure for most grid 
computing.  Once upon a time, I even wrote a flow language to order jobs 
and all that.

If people bribe me really nice, I might do a talk on the technology 
sometime.

However, that being said, after hearing all the hype about the grid 
(circa 2001/2002) and then working on it, I was like "That was it?".  A 
lot of things were done rather boneheadedly in the early days, things 
have gotten much better now.  But clearly, the move to Web Services, 
which was looking very promising at first, may have not been such a good 
idea.  SOAP?  Who uses SOAP anymore?  XML-RPC For the Win!

--Patrick



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