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Singapore to offer commercial grid computing
News University grids typically have a small cluster of eight to 10 CPUs, while Alatum has 300. HP's Ong noted that HP launched its own utility computing service in the island state five years ago, but said it "is very much different" from Alatum.
[October 30, 2008, 13:02]
Governments urged to lay foundation for SaaS
News Talking to ZDNet Asia, Coffee drew the analogy of the US interstate highway network to explain the need for national grids. By extension, the oft-used image of utility computing being like getting electricity from a large source is inherently...
[September 18, 2008, 11:29]
Oracle 10g: Putting Grids to Work
White Papers IDC believes that organizations wishing to move in an evolutionary way to Grid/Utility Computing architectures would be well advised to consider Oracle's 10g family of products. IDG presents the Oracle 10g family of products and how Oracle 10g...
[September 2, 2008, 7:34]
The Gridbus Toolkit for Service Oriented Grid and Utility Computing: An Overview and Status Report
White Papers Grids aim at exploiting synergies that result from cooperation of autonomous distributed entities. Gridbus technologies provide services for both computational and data grids that power the emerging eScience and eBusiness applications.
[March 15, 2007, 0:00]
Open source 'is free like a puppy is free' says Sun boss
News McNealy claims companies should look to use grids of virtual computers for their processing needs and hosted applications instead of the current situation where businesses spend millions on bespoke technology.
[June 8, 2005, 17:40]
Get your hands off our grids
Leader Grids and clusters, for instance, do jobs that are equally worthy but also totally different. Sometimes it is called autonomic computing, sometimes adaptable computing, on-demand computing, utility computing or agile IT.
[May 20, 2005, 12:30]
Grid computing 'overhyped'
News He claimed that a number of companies are using grids to increase competitive advantage, but are unwilling to talk about it so they can retain the upper hand over their competitors. Autonomic computing, adaptable computing, cluster computing, on...
[May 19, 2005, 17:20]
Grids set for enterprise push
News Two initiatives in the coming weeks will seek to make computing grids, where far-flung computers act as a single machine, more widespread in the business world. The Globus tools and the EGA technical recommendations aim to address computing tasks...
[April 28, 2005, 18:20]
Taxing time for self-assessment
Leader For example, we hear a lot about utility computing and grids these days -- constellations of loosely coupled servers that are designed to share out tasks and balance heavy loads. Until now, grid computing has had the air of a solution looking for a...
[January 31, 2005, 12:30]
What the hell are Grids anyway?
News See also: utility computing, on-demand, autonomic computing). That's kind of confusing grid technology with on-demand or utility computing. So you advocate idea of utility computing such as that put forward by companies such as Sun where computing...
[December 10, 2004, 13:30]
Sun has its head in the clouds
Leader Grids are nothing new, and many universities and research establishments have been running networks of computers that share computing power for years. Sun has a laudable vision of the future of utility computing, where organisations with extra...
[September 22, 2004, 12:25]
Grid-lock?
Leader Oracle 10g enables databases and applications to be run on grids, improving performance and increasing hardware utilisation. The final stage, which will take a decade to evolve, is the utility grid, in which computing resources are delivered on...
[September 6, 2004, 13:50]
Oracle ships grid software
News Computing grids can save companies money on server hardware because the grid formation can dedicate processing capacity based on changes on demand, according to Oracle. Users should now be able to run existing applications on enterprise grids...
[December 10, 2003, 14:25]
Oracle: UK plc 'needs grid to compete'
News The grid", a term adopted by some companies to refer to on-demand, or utility, computing, has been around in various forms for years, but it will soon take on new importance in a world where tech jobs are moving to areas such as India and Eastern...
[December 8, 2003, 14:40]
Phoenix launches first 'trusted' BIOS
News Ultimately, Phoenix wants to create a world of PCs and devices capable of interacting at a sub-operating system level, a crucial development for grids, clusters, blade servers and the "on-demand computing" technology advocated by IBM, HP, Sun and...
[November 26, 2003, 15:35]
Excel spreadsheets connect to the grid
News While grids in use today are currently installed at academic or government supercomputing sites, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and others are striving to make them more commercially useful as well.
[November 12, 2003, 15:15]
Grid software project widens scope
News The Edinburgh researchers have expertise in work that lets databases run on grids, while the Swedish group will expand security work, Globus said. Ultimately, grid tools for pooling computing equipment could become a key part of "utility computing...
[September 3, 2003, 9:59]
Oracle moulds database to grid
News Oracle's database grids address more efficient provisioning of servers and the idea of creating a "virtual" pool of many different servers, which are two aspects to the utility computing vision, Shimp said.
[August 11, 2003, 10:15]
HP hops on board SmartFrog
News Issues include how grids automatically discover and add new devices, how computing jobs are scheduled, and how users are given authorisation to use shared resources on the grid. The company contributed a set of applications known as the Smart...
[June 27, 2003, 13:37]
Grid software gets business connection
News In a related move, Hewlett-Packard announced Monday it has written software than can link grids and the computing infrastructure governed by HP's Utility Data Center system. Developers of the Globus Toolkit program -- open-source software used to...
[January 15, 2003, 8:18]
