Monday, October 22. 2007

Geospatial Grid Project

Grid computing refers to "using the resources of a many separate computers connected by a network (usually the Internet) to solve large-scale computation problems." (Univ. Edinbourgh) GRIDtoday offers up the latest on the German D-Grid Initiative founded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in March 2004.

The latest news highlights many "vertical grid" projects - ones that bring the technology to business, finance, service monitoring, construction, aerospace, and other. Oh, and geosptial:

GDI-Grid (spatial data infrastructure): The GDI-Grid project is integrating geo-information technologies with grid technologies in order to establish a spatial data infrastructure grid. While the geo-information systems (GIS) and spatial data infrastructures (SDI) mainly provide access to spatial data resources, the GDI-Grid will perform the processing of enormous amounts of spatial data. Evaluation is with three scenarios: spatial simulation of flood disasters/flood hazard; noise dispersion simulation for noise pollution predictions; and real-time route optimization for disaster management.

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Actually this is a very interesting topic, which I want to work on it in my PhD thesis.
Just imagine that by providing a light weight interface to users in developing countries you can provide them with both massive processing power and access to huge Geo-Databases and just the end results is needed to be downloaded. Local offices in developing countries or UN are able to perform online monitoring in several environmental projects which requires cumbersome calculations without investing too much on computer devices to provide the computational power.
And many more benefits.
Well any more comments or information on GDI-GRID or similar project is highly appreciated.


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#1 M. Abouali (Link) on 2007-10-24 02:57 (Reply)

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