Grid Computing: Center of Excellence
Grid computing enables service-oriented, flexible, seamless sharing of a heterogeneous network of resources for compute and data intensive tasks. It has captured the High Performance Computing space by better exploiting existing computing resources while reducing administrative overheads related to managing distributed information systems.
Grid computing enables enterprises to:
- Reduce the load on backend systems
- Drive down maintenance cost
- Better manage operations by eliminating the clutter of vendor products
- Make decisions based on data from multiple and disparate sources more quickly
The Grid Computing Center of Excellence (CoE) at SETlabs, Infosys' research group, pursues projects in multiple areas. The CoE's vision is to create an adaptive services Grid through service-oriented architectural constructs and platform
Grid Computing is a conglomeration of different technologies, as shown in Fig. 1. Work on distributed and high performance computing in the past has contributed significantly to the development of distributed resource sharing. Newer technologies like P2P and distributed shared memory model have paved way for a resource sharing platform over heterogenous resources. The combination of web services and virtualization, results in a robust distributed computing and resource sharing platform over heterogeneous resources.
