grid computing

Sun Microsystems Inc. is expanding its Network.com utility computing service from the U.S. to 23 countries in Europe and Asia, the company said Thursday.

The utility computing service, in which customers pay an hourly rate for access to a Sun data center, began as a U.S.-only pilot in March but is now ready for a large geographic expansion, said Rohit Valia, group product manager for the Sun Grid Compute Utility.

India's Department of Information Technology
(DIT) is launching a national grid computing platform.

Called the Garuda National Grid Computing Initiative, the grid will
link 45 universities and research institutes through a high-speed
connection that will support IPv4 and IPv6 applications. The
communication backbone will link institutes in 17 Indian cities,
according to the DIT.

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