IBM Sponsors Humanitarian Grid Computing Project
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BrianWCarver writes &quot;Reuters reports that IBM and top scientific research organizations are joining forces in a humanitarian effort to tap the unused power of millions of computers and help solve complex social problems.
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IBM Corp. and Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) have won contracts to supply Linux-based supercomputers to a Korean national university and a Japanese nuclear research institute, the two companies said Thursday.
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(InfoWorld) - IBMâs India Research Laboratory has developed the Resiliency Maturity Index (RMI), a framework that quantitatively assesses the ability of an organization to recover from a variety of disasters such as floods, power outages, software glitches, epidemics, and terrorist attacks. The software tool, which IBM has used to assess the ability of its own global services delivery operations in India and Brazil to withstand disasters, also assists in telling organizations where they can best spend more money to improve their ability to cope with disasters, Guruduth Banavar, associate director at the Bangalore center of IBM India Research Laboratory, said Thursday. IBMâs services business will offer to its customers services around the RMI framework that will help them assess and plan their resiliency to disasters, Banavar said. The framework developed by IBM is generic so that it can be used across a variety of organizations in a variety of industries with little customization, he added. Besides a score that indicates the organization's overall resiliency to disaster, the model breaks the score down at different levels of the organization, from an individual score for each business unit, to a score for each component or sub-component in a business unit, Banavar said. Components could include the network, email system, or even the transportation system. The RMI framework brings out the interactions between these components and their influence on the organization's overall resiliency, Banavar added. The tool is expected to be useful for companies outsourcing work, as they can now use the RMI tool to assess the resiliency of the service providers they outsource to, Banavar said. Companies outsourcing work typically worry about the ability of their suppliers to withstand with and recover from threats or disaster. Service providers can in turn use the RMI tool to assess and improve their ability to cope with disasters, he added. Despite the best efforts of organizations to create business continuity and disaster recovery plans, few will have considered the impact of say a widespread disease that would affect human resources, Banavar said. IBM is working with the Information Technology Services Qualification Center (ITsqc) at the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to incorporate parts of the RMI assessment framework into an industry standard. The eSCM-SP (eSourcing Capability Model for Service Providers) model, developed jointly by ITsqc and industry, is a "best-practices" model that is used to evaluate IT service providers along a number of dimensions, including their ability to withstand various threats or disaster. IBMâs RMI team has been interacting with Carnegie Mellon to understand how the RMI or parts of it can be useful within eSCM-SP. IBM researchers have also developed a "Skills Planning" model for optimal allocation of skills and job roles across an organization's multiple sites, to minimize the impact of a disaster at any one site. This model takes into account various operational aspects, including critical workloads, skill levels, mobile workers, multi-skilled workers, cross-training, operations in shifts, wage costs, and multi-location communication or management overheads, IBM said.
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Researchers and businesses in West Virginia will be able to access the first state-sponsored public Internet computing grid when the Global Grid Exchange is launched next month.
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HP gives Latin lessons in building P2P grid software Brazilian boffins have developed a peer-to-peer grid computing system called OurGrid, which enables members to freely donate and use spare compute cycles.â¦
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PlasmaNet Inc., which operates an online lotto game played by millions worldwide, approached Oxfam America in Boston with a unique concept to assist tsunami victims: Players on its website could volunteer to turn over their winnings to help Oxfam rebuild a village in Sri Lanka, where a plaque would honor them.
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IBM is releasing software that can predict the spread of infectious diseases among countries.
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IBM and several of the world&#39;s leading scientific and philanthropic groups Tuesday launched a project that would put millions of PCs to work on research problems ranging from Alzheimer&#39;s to disaster forecasting.
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International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) is offering its record holding supercomputer for sale to interested consumers. The company will offer IBM eServer Blue Gene supercomputer for sale to research laboratories for optimal causes.
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PC Magazine - IBM provides software, hardware and services to enable financial services firms to support high-performance computing and grid systems.
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World Community Grid will harness the vast and unused computational power of the worldâs computers and direct it at research designed to help unlock genetic codes that underlie diseases like AIDS and HIV, Alzheimerâs and cancer, improve forecasting of
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Four mainstream IT companies are pooling resources to launch a standardized enterprise grid infrastructure based on their products.
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Officials announced the launch of an IBM Innovation Center in Beijing Thursday to find better ways to get software from ISVs (define) around the world into the computers of small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in China.
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Hoping to harness a few million of the personal computers not already running the SETI@home screensaver, IBM and United Devices yesterday launched the World Community Grid to act as a clearing house for humanitarian IT projects.
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MASSACHUSETTS The Boston Celtics, Boston Scientific, and Intel have joined the tsunami relief effort. The Intel Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Intel Corporation, has raised its donation from $100,000 to $1 million to aid victims. Intel employees in Hudson are expected to set up tables to raise additional funds. The Foundation is expected to match employee donations. The Boston Celtics ...
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The project that hopes to supply developing-world schoolchildren with $188 laptops will sell the rugged little computers to U.S. residents and Canadians for $400 each, with the profit going toward a machine for a poor country.
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Intel Corp  and Microsoft Corp   are supplying Libya's government with 150,000 rugged  laptop computers that cost $200 to build and are designed to  meet the needs of children in developing countries.