Grid Computing for Data Mining

Published Tue, 2006-03-28 18:49

The Data Mining Grid is a research project and isn't going to be producing a commercial product.

Unlocking the true power of the Grid for data mining is a long-cherished aim of computer scientists and researchers are making important strides to achieve that goal by developing the necessary tools and techniques.

The real power of Grid computing lies in sharing resources across a network. These can be CPU cycles, storage, peripherals, network bandwidth, data and software. Ultimately, this will lead to the grand goal envisioned by Grid researchers in which Grid users will be able to seamlessly access and harness geographically-widely distributed computing resources as if they were using a local system.

However, “trust, security, data privacy and reliability [or quality of service] in Grid computing is still a largely unresolved problem,” says Dr Werner Dubitzky, Professor of Bioinformatics at the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Ulster and co-coordinator of the IST-funded DataMiningGrid project. “These issues are particularly important when commercial computing jobs are distributed across sites not belonging to the company that issued the jobs.”

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