Grids challenged by a Web 2.0 and multicore sandwich

Authors:
Geoffrey Fox;Marlon Pierce
Affiliations:
Community Grids Laboratory, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A. and Dept. of Comp. Sci., Indiana Univ. and School of Informatics, Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.;Community Grids Laboratory, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Venue:
Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience - The Best of CCGrid'2007: A Snapshot of an ‘Adolescent’ Area
Year:
2009

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Abstract

We discuss the application of Web 2.0 to support scientific research (e-Science) and related ‘e-more or less anything’ applications. Web 2.0 offers interesting technical approaches (protocols, message formats, and programming tools) to build core e-infrastructure (cyberinfrastructure) as well as many interesting services (Facebook, YouTube, Amazon S3-EC2, and Google maps) that can add value to e-infrastructure projects. We discuss why some of the original Grid goals of linking the world's computer systems may not be so relevant today and that interoperability is needed at the data and not always at the infrastructure level. Web 2.0 may also support Parallel Programming 2.0—a better parallel computing software environment motivated by the need to run commodity applications on multicore chips. A ‘Grid on the chip’ will be a common use of future chips with tens or hundreds of cores. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.