Grid Computing Initiative at UI: A Preliminary Result

This paper reviews the Grid Computing and its architecture. The Grid computing paradigm has been a major global research issue in distributed computing since its initiation in 1995. The aim of this research is to provide a Grid Computing environment based on Globus and .net or Java technologies which can be used in the frontier research on the application of the leading edge technology to provide a shared working environment which can use resources available at different network domain as a single resource. This technology can be used for the e-science, such as the Virtual Reality technology and other resource intensive technologies. In this paper we show our preliminary results on making our own grid computing environment using Java and Axis Web Services. We also show our results and performance evaluations on the application of the prominent Grid Computing platform called Globus. The result shows that this new approach to distributed computing will enable us to be part of the global grid computing initiative as well as envisioned us to build an Indonesian Grid Portal in the near future.