Cycle Computing has announced that Purdue University’s DiaGrid project was selected by IDG’s InfoWorld as one of the top 100 IT projects of 2009 in its InfoWorld 100 Awards.  DiaGrid, which utilizes the Condor distributed computing system and Cycle Computing’s CycleServer management tool, aggregates the idle compute power of nearly 30,000 processors across Purdue University and other North American campuses.  Generating 177 teraflops of power, DiaGrid contributes more than two million hours to research projects each month – the equivalent of a $3 million supercomputer that would require several thousand square feet of data center space.  

Companies around the world rely on technology to enable and enhance their business operations and deliver on their business strategies.  The InfoWorld 100 Awards recognize each year the 100 most innovative uses of IT initiatives to further business goals.  Selections are based on the excellence and quality of the work environment.  The entire list of winners can be found at InfoWorld.   

“This year’s recipients of InfoWorld’s highest honor are shining examples of IT projects undertaken by tech leaders committed to pushing their organizations forward,” said Jason Snyder, features editor, InfoWorld.   

Led by Dr. John P. Campbell, Purdue’s associate vice president of information technology, DiaGrid is the largest research- and education-focused Condor pool in the world.  Driving compute idle time to an unprecedented 1-2 percent, DiaGrid benefits faculty, researchers and students who can perform demanding engineering, science, bioinformatics and social science research and computationally intensive tasks like rendering high-resolution pictures and video.   DiaGrid also is available internationally through the NSF TeraGrid and Open Science Grid. To learn more about DiaGrid visit www.itap.purdue.edu/diagrid. 

 An animated video about the project is available in SC Online's video gallery here.