Our Mission
Taking Grid computing to the Nth Level: Define, Differentiate, and Disrupt!Introduction
The Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory is a software research and development group within the Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Australia. The GRIDS Lab is actively engaged in the design and development of next-generation computing systems and applications that aggregate or lease services of distributed resources depending on their availability, capability, performance, cost , and users' quality-of-service requirements. The lab is working towards realising this vision through its flagship project called Gridbus. The project name GRIDBUS is derived from its research theme: to create next-generation GRID computing and BUSiness technologies that power the emerging eScience and eBusiness applications. The Gridbus project builds on our founder's early work in grid economy and distributed resource management to realise its full potential to serve as an enabler for the creation of service-oriented computing industries.
The Gridbus project is engaged in the creation of open-source specifications, architecture and a reference Grid toolkit implementation of service-oriented grid and utility computing technologies for eScience and eBusiness applications. The Gridbus software is being used in Grid-enabling a number of applications in science, engineering, and commerce. Our research and innovation sponsors include: Australian Research Council, Storage Technology Corporation, Sun Microsystems, VPAC, IBM, and Singapore Computer Systems.
For latest information on Gridbus technologies, please see Gridbus flyer and Gridbus status report.
For report on 2007 R&D activities and outcomes, please see our annual report.
