Briefs

DataMiningGrid tools and services version 1.0 beta have been released, announced the DataMiningGrid Consortium on March 3. The partners in this effort were the University of Ulster (United Kingdom), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), the Technion (Israel), Fraunhofer Institute (Germany) and automobile company DaimlerChrysler.

The DataMiningGrid software is now available in source and binary under an open source Apache License v2.0. It is a general purpose software facilitating user-friendly, Grid-based data mining, which can only be used in connection to Globus toolkit version 4, Condor (optional) local scheduler, and Triana Workflow Editor and Manager. Detailed information can be found at www.datamininggrid.org.

The real power of Grid computing lies in sharing resources across a network. These can be CPU cycles, storage, peripherals, network bandwidth, data and software. Ultimately, this will lead to the grand goal envisioned by Grid researchers in which grid users will be able to seamlessly access and harness geographically widely distributed computing resources as if they were using a local system.

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