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Insecured of the Cloud? Grid computing will transform it in 5 Yrs
By Gargi Sinha
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Thursday, 20 May 2010, 03:25 IST |
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Bangalore: Hesitation and insecurity among enterprises have made the penetration of cloud computing difficult in India, however, the future may witness its replacement with grid computing. "Cloud computing will be transformed by grid computing in the next five years," says Dr.Sarat Chandra Babu, Executive Director at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), an IT Ministry initiative.
Cloud computing is a service without a physical presence which makes the users insecure about the utilities of it. The grid computing is type of private specific cloud which would help to secure the insecurities related to cloud computing. The cloud computing is not standardized at this point of time and requires the aid of grid computing to bring its work on progress. Grid is a distributed parallel machine which would offer a number of tools. Through C-DAC, expensive instruments will be made available in grid computing which are hard to acquire.
Once the grid computing gains momentum, it will churn out opportunity for the engineering community too. It will help Institutes that do not have a solid infrastructure of their own, to set up better infrastructure. The National Knowledge Network (NKN), a part of C-DAC provides the entire Grid fabric through its grid computing center 'Garuda' and it plans to connect about 1500 engineering colleges through grid. "If you have the spare resources, you can share it with three or four other research organizations which will enable organizations to do research at a faster and lower cost," says Chandra Babu. This initiative is aimed to provide better infrastructure to colleges which in turn will boost R&D at the educational level in India. As per 2009 statistics, India has only R&D centers, and only one third of it indulges in critical research. C-DAC has already partnered with around 45 institutions including the IITs, Institute of Plasma Research, Space Application centre from Ahmadabad, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology and Harish Chandra Research Institute Allahabad, Indian Institute of Astrophysics ,IISC, Rama Research Institute , Madras Institute of Technology, Punjab Engineering College, and Institute of Microbial Technology Chennai, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology Delhi, Guwahati University and Bhaba Atomic Research Centre.
"Institutions do not require making a payment for becoming partners but they need to pay an amount for the time and amount of resources they use form Garuda Grid Computing," said the Executive Director. Garuda is the grid computing center of C-DAC and they will reveal more about initiatives on the same lines in their Fifth edition of the Garuda Partner's Meet to be held in Bangalore on May 20th and 21st. C-DAC is currently working on an envision called 'Complete Educational Services' through which Garuda Grade will be thrown open to the public for research facilities. It is in the operational stage and is expected to be completed in a period of 2 to 4 years. Before it is made accessible to the public it will be tested on a private environment. It will provide aid to the common public other than the research institutions to conduct their works of research. The institutions which lack in their own resources will have an access to extra information through this project which will enable the institutions to increase their speed of work.
