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Japan plans super grid computer
News Grid-computing technology promises a future where computers from different departments or organisations can be connected to work on critical tasks. Naregi will also work with international grid computing bodies to develop standards for the nascent...
[July 11, 2003, 8:57]
Open source 'is free like a puppy is free' says Sun boss
News Speaking at the Executive Forum event just outside Glasgow, Scotland, McNealy was his typically rambunctious self, adding grid computing and open source to the usual industry hit-list that traditionally includes Sun rivals IBM and Microsoft.
[June 8, 2005, 17:40]
Live Webcast: Virtual Service Oriented Grids: Transforming the Enterprise
White Papers While most discussions in the industry have been focused on the enhanced performance from grid computing in niche applications, the overlooked real payoff from combining grids with virtualization and service orientation will come in terms of a...
[March 25, 2008, 7:28]
Network Performance Monitoring for the Grid
White Papers The need for such monitoring is enhanced for Grid computing. Without it Grid middleware and applications cannot optimise their performance by adapting to changing network conditions, networks cannot be debugged for efficiency, and the Grid cannot...
[August 9, 2006, 1:00]
Sun adds Grid to N1 name
News In addition, the server maker has changed the name of its utility-computing software from N1 to N1 Grid, executives said on Wednesday. Sun's N1 Grid competes chiefly with IBM's on-demand technology and Hewlett-Packard's Adaptive Enterprise.
[February 13, 2004, 11:25]
IBM Case Study: Royal Dutch/Shell
White Papers Shell implemented Grid Computing platform for summarization and scientific modeling applications, based on IBM eServer xSeries Linux based operating systems Open standards. Grid computing has provided them with more robust, scalable IT...
[November 10, 2004, 23:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog With energy-conscious computing connected to a grid, a server could be aware on a minute by minute basis where the most attractive place on the planet for processing was, and could cut back on its own power requirements during local peaks by...
[November 25, 2005, 17:20]
Hadron Collider gets fresh power supply
News The lab cracking data from the Cern Large Hadron Collider experiment needs a new computing hub because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry. A large part of the existing computer centre in Geneva is devoted to processing and storing the...
[October 7, 2008, 13:38]
Novell Case Study: Seoul National University
White Papers SNU is striving to become South Korea's hub for grid computing, taking advantage of networked computers to handle large-scale computing problems. Seoul National University, wanted to enhance the performance and scalability of its supercomputers, to...
[April 5, 2007, 1:00]
Follow the sun, not Sarbanes-Oxley
Leader With no shortage of competing advice, it's good to see the Green Grid gain members. With fast networking and grid technology, a global company can move sustained processing tasks to dark-side servers, or provide supplemental processing at peak...
[April 12, 2007, 17:51]
Singapore hopes to lead future tech trends
News Among the areas Singapore will focus on are grid computing, peer-to-peer and open standard-based Web services," said Raymond Lee, the Info-communications Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) deputy director of Technology Direction.
[March 4, 2002, 11:47]
Utility computing is the future, says Schwartz
News So far, the technology is limited in scope, but Sun hopes that it eventually will blossom so that organisations such as stock exchanges with extra processing power can sell it back to a computing grid in the same manner that homes with solar...
[September 22, 2004, 8:50]
Grid software project widens scope
News Grid computing grew up in academia as a way to share computing equipment across organisations and regions. Ultimately, grid tools for pooling computing equipment could become a key part of "utility computing" efforts at companies such as IBM, Sun...
[September 3, 2003, 9:59]
Sun execs hit as grid service gets revamp
News And Stuart Wells, the executive vice president for utility computing who joined in 1988, is losing his position leading the Sun Grid project, though it's not yet clear whether he's leaving Sun altogether, sources said.
[September 18, 2006, 8:55]
Sun pieces utility jigsaw together
News Most computing in the Sun Grid will take place on servers using AMD's Opteron processor. Now part two is coming, in what the company is calling its Sun Grid: storage costing $1 per gigabyte per month.
[February 1, 2005, 8:10]
Sun uncloaks 'virtualised' computing
News IBM is working on " grid" computing that unites servers and storage into a large pool. Grid computing grew out of academia, though, and focuses more on mathematical calculations than the business processes at the heart of N1.
[February 8, 2002, 14:22]
SunGrid finally ready for launch
News Ultimately, Sun believes most computing will happen on generic grid assemblies rather than in customised data centers. Initially, the grid will be used for high-performance computing tasks such as pharmaceutical research or stock market analysis...
[March 22, 2006, 8:40]
Cern lab hones business tech of the future
News The lab has partnerships with companies including HP ProCurve, Intel and Oracle, who provide the backbone of its IT infrastructure, its 8,000-server computer centre and its links to the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid, consisting of more than 100,000...
[October 20, 2008, 12:43]
Adobe takes to GridIron
News Distributed computing and a close relative, grid computing, are becoming less rare. Companies such as Platform Computing, Entropia and United Devices specialise in grid and distributed computing software, while computer powerhouses such as IBM...
[February 3, 2004, 8:55]
IBM bypasses Microsoft Web services spec
News IBM decided not to go with a similar effort led by Microsoft, called WS-Eventing, because it wanted to ensure that an event mechanism would work well with emerging standards for Web services management and grid computing, said Karla Norsworthy...
[January 21, 2004, 11:05]
