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.