IT giant Take a mesh for the third Internet information technology Wall will result in an annual output value of $ 20 trillion in 2005, "In the future, IT resources are used in the future, as used as hydropower, that is," this is IBM global Server Group Senior Vice President and Group Administrative Director William M. Zeitler recently participated in the first sentence of IBM said in the "E-Commerce Server and Comprehensive Storage Solutions University" Forum in Shanghai. According to the market analyst, William M. Zeitler's true purpose is to calculate the text of the third wave of the Internet for this sentence. Prior to this, IBM has announced a $ 4 billion investment plan, which is to build 40 data centers around the world and form them an experimental network to study and develop grid computing. Not only IBM, the other IT giants also act, and the grid is calculated to calculate this potential market. SUN has released its enterprise version of the grid engine software shortly, and set up alliances with Globus, which enjoys a high reputation software standard in the field of distributed computing. Japan's NTT DATA program and Intel and SGI jointly conduct a three-month grid computing test in the mid-2002 mid-2002, and will include 1 million computers including families, enterprises, and academic institutions. The total processing capacity will Five times faster than the existing fastest supercomputer. In addition, Compaq, which is involved in the meteorial calculation field, is also actively concerned that it is currently developing a grid computing solution to provide hardware and software products and services to customers who seek grid computing systems. According to "Forbes ASAP", grid technology will reach the peak in 2005 and bring the new Internet for the Internet. If the grid technology can continue to grow up on the expected 17% annual growth rate, it will form a large industry in 2020 billion US dollars in 2020.
What is grid calculation? Grid computing is a new concept proposed by scientists to solve some of the scientific problems of today's scientific puzzles. It is a technique that uses Internet or private networks to interconnect geographically widely distributed computing resources. These computing resources include super Computers, computer clusters, storage systems, and visual systems, etc., this technology can also be selected as separate, unified computing resources. As a "broker" of different computing resources, grid computing service providers can intelligently assign computing resources to bring two benefits: one is to optimize existing computing resources, solve engineering and design problems faster. Second, it is possible to adjust each part of the application to the system that best suits it, thereby solving the entire problem in a shorter time, lower cost. The concept of Grid Computing is derived from another professional "Power Grid". Power Grid is the power supplier to supply electricity according to the needs of users, and consumers only need to pay the part of the electricity bill used. The basic idea of grid computing has also been attracted to obtain high performance computing power like high performance from the grid in the daily life. William M. Zeitler firmly believes that "will entrunly enter such an era" in the future. " Since the grid computing environment can connect to the different standards of different standards in the wide area, form a huge global calculation system, which is the advanced form of the Internet development, so it is highly valued by countries and organizations from all over the world. At present, many forums have been established through the Internet, and the experimental environment is built, and research projects can be carried out. Most of them can share online, which greatly facilitates people's research and utilization resources. Commercial companies such as IBM and Sun expect to introduce this supercomputer to the daily office, so that the company IT department can save the local computer to the grid computer system to save system deployment costs. According to the idea, grid calculations will experience four stages, solve capacity, data, high usability and hydropower utilities. It is understood that the capacity problem of mesh calculations has been resolved, and data and high usability will also be implemented at the end of this year and next year. "To achieve public utilities of IT resources", William M. Zeit Ler believes that we also need to introduce corresponding service providers. my country's industry applications will be a long process for the development of large grid computing grid technology demand. Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Li Guojie, director of the School of Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, believes that "we must start from now", because grid technology is most likely to form a standard in recent years.
At present, my country has launched two projects of "National High Performance Computing Environment" and "Advanced Calculation Infrastructure Beijing Pilot Project", and research on grid computing. These two projects are taken by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tsinghua University. The "Weaving Plan" (VEGA Program) of the Calculation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is in the case of metadata, component framework, intelligent body, grid public information protocol and grid computing protocol as the main breakthrough point calculation. Platham Software Cao Zhonglin expects many industries, such as energy, transportation, meteorology, water conservancy, agriculture, forestry, education, environmental protection, etc., the demand for information grids will be very huge. At present, grid computing in my country can provide the following services in China: · Resource Data State has spent a large amount of financial resources in the past few decades, including resource data of various underground, ground, atmosphere, including underground exploration, ground Artificial mapping and monitoring, aerospace remote sensing, satellite remote sensing, etc. However, because these data are currently scattered in different places, they share difficulties, and the utilization rate is low. Sharing them on the grid will bring a lot of benefits. · The establishment of high-performance computing computing grid is conducive to all calculation centers to achieve resource sharing, make full use of hardware and software resources, and save costs. It can play an unprecedented role in basic research, automotive, large hydropower projects, petroleum exploration, meteorological climate, aviation, transportation, finance, medical and other fields. · The informationization and globalization of biological information biology have become a great trend, and my country's life science community has a strong voice. Some biological research institutions for the leading colleges in Beijing have joined the relevant international organizations, and the modern biological information resources are shared on the grid to improve work efficiency. · Environmental protection my country has established several environmental data collection networks and computer networks, but because there is no unified online sharing and management, it is extremely inconvenient. After the grid is established, this problem can be solved and can provide a variety of new application forms such as cache services, directory services, data mining, and classification services. International business application standards is the key to success is just like TCP / IP protocols, the construct grid computing also needs to be defined for standard protocols and services. Currently, including the Global Grid Forum, Object Management Organization, W3C, which is committed to network services and semantic WWW research, and Globus. Org and other standardized groups have started planning. In July last year, standardized organizations such as OMG, W3C, Grid for Um convened some "software service grid seminars" from academic and commercial sectors to speed up the development of Global Grid GGGGG standards. Then, another open source mesh standard organization - Globus also organizes the meeting to study the high performance calculation of high performance computational infrastructure through WAN. Globus is currently working on the development of standard grid architecture and other technologies.
