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| Subject: | GISList: GIS & computational GRIDS |
| Date: |
11/09/2002 09:21:35 PM |
| From: |
John Lee |
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Hello,
For the past five years I have been researching into using GIS to spatially
target conservation and enhancement measures/management of semi-natural
habitats at the landscape scale. More recently I have received funding to
undertake similar research within the context of computational GRIDS. The
most widely used formal definition of computational GRIDS is, I think, from
Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman’s book ‘The Grid’ published in 1999 by Morgan
Kaufmann Publishers Inc.: it says……
“The Grid is an architecture proposed to create a reality of such a vision
for eScience. It will provide an infrastructure that enables flexible,
secure, coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of
individuals, institutions and resources. This resource includes
computational systems and data storage and specialized experimental
facilities."
What this means, in reality, is that whereas the Internet can be thought of
as a global hard disk drive (a GHDD?) which anyone with a computer, a modem
and an ISP can access, the GRID aims to be a global computer processor which
links or uses partly-used or redundant computers. Some examples can be
found at seti@home (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/): Screensaver
Lifesaver (http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/cancer/goals.html) and
climateprediction.com (http://www.climateprediction.com/): but also see
http://www.gridtoday.com/breaking/140.html for a possible downside.
The point of this preamble is that I wonder if anybody knows of any
GIS-related projects or research or even (un)commercial applications
harnessing computational GRIDS?
Any thoughts and/or ideas would be gratefully received – perhaps we can
start up a spatially focussed GRID discussion list!!
Regards
John
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Dr. John Lee
Postdoctoral Researcher in Bioinformatics
GIS & Habitats Research Group
School of Biological and Molecular Sciences
Oxford Brookes University
Headington Campus
Gipsy Lane
Oxford
OX3 0BP
United Kingdom
Tel. (+44)(0)1865 483269
Fax. (+44)(0)1865 483242
Email. jlee@brookes.ac.uk
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