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This paper describes the use of the "Plan 9 from Bell Labs" distributed operating system as a Grid Computing infrastructure. In particular it compares solutions using the de facto standard middleware toolkit for grids, Globus, to an environment constructed using computers running the Plan 9 operating system. These environments are compared based on the features they offer in the context of grid computing: Authentication, Security, Data Management, and Resource Discovery.

In this paper we present a new programming model for the Cell BE architecture called CellFS. CellFS aims to simplify the task of managing I/O between the local store of the synergistic processing units and main memory of the Cell. The CellFS support library provides the means for transferring data via simple file I/O operations therefore eliminating the need for programmers to handle DMA transfers explicitly. The CellFS programming also provides overlap between code execution and data transfer by means of a deterministic, lock-less concurrency model.