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June 20, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Grid community needs to escalate application development

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OK, so maybe I'm not crazy. There are a few people that agree with my perspective on the importance of getting mainstream Grid applications to the forefront so that we can make grid adoption itself more mainstream and demonstrate its true value.

In Ian Foster's "Four Thoughts on Europe vs. North America" in Grid Today last week. Ian specifically calls this out as his final point, and gives a real world example from his near infinite rolodex of experience.

Also, the folks at The 451 Group have released their most recent report from their Grid Adoption Research Service, "Grid Computing ­ Enabling Applications for Grid Deployment."

I've always had a great deal of respect for The 451 Group reports and I'm sure this report from the ever knowledgeable William Fellows and Steve Wallage is full of good insight.

From the press release...

Research conducted by The 451 Group for 451 GARS finds that early adopters are readily seeking ways to deploy grid technologies more broadly within their organizations (moving beyond initial application beachheads). They are looking for additional application tasks that can be brought onto grids ­ and thereby further legitimize grids through use ­ among their existing, commercially supplied and planned new applications. So far only a few applications have been written specifically for grids, and only a small number of today's commercial applications that appear suitable for grids have actually been deployed on or migrated to grids.

You can bet I'll be watching for additional grid app plays.

Posted by Greg Nawrocki on June 20, 2006 07:23 AM

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