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Compute Power Market: Towards A Market-Oriented Grid
White Papers The Compute Power Market (CPM) is a market-based resource management and job scheduling system for grid computing on Internet-wide computational resources, particularly low-end personal computing devices.
[November 16, 2004, 23:00]
World-Renowned Genome Research Facility Relies On Sun To Provide Cost-Efficient High-Performance Compute Grid
White Papers The company's challenge was to improve performance of compute grid to accommodate compute-intensive research to reduce IT expenses to maintain internal cost efficiency. To achieve higher performance at lower cost, TIGR migrated and consolidated...
[April 16, 2008, 0:00]
Service Provider Fuels Its Future With Sun Grid Compute Utility
White Papers Virtual Compute Corporation uses the Sun Grid Compute Utility to handle work from its energy industry customers that exceeds the capacity of its own IT infrastructure. The Sun Grid gives Virtual Compute Corporation the ability to quickly and...
[April 16, 2008, 0:00]
Build A Compute Grid With Jini Technology
White Papers This paper describes how Jini technology and JavaSpaces technology are used to implement the master/worker pattern to perform parallel computation on a compute grid. Jini technology, because it is designed to help people build distributed systems...
[January 4, 2006, 23:00]
Computational Power Of Sun Compute Grid Helps Researchers Uncover New Ways To Treat Diseases
White Papers A Sun Grid Rack System for High Performance Computing, comprised of 400 Sun Fire X2100 servers, was integrated by the Sun Customer Ready Systems program. One of the largest academic medical centers in the United States and a leader in clinical...
[April 16, 2008, 0:00]
Texas Tech University Performs Stock Price Analysis In Hours Instead Of Days
White Papers TTU deployed a SAS compute grid to optimize resources campus-wide. TTU is utilizing their SAS compute grid to leverage unused and underutilized computing resources to attain information that would otherwise take weeks or months to process.
[November 29, 2004, 23:00]
A Multi-Agent Infrastructure And A Service Level Agreement Negotiation Protocol For Robust Scheduling In Grid Computing
White Papers User agents submit jobs to Grid Compute resources. Local scheduler agents schedule jobs on Compute resources. A market-like SLA negotiation protocol based on the Contract Net Protocol has been proposed to schedule the jobs on Compute resources.
[August 9, 2006, 0:00]
The Era Of Grid Computing: A New Standard For Successful IT Strategies
White Papers Utilizing Grid technologies, IT departments can aggregate disparate technology capabilities such as compute resources, data storage, filing systems and more to create single, unified systems. This virtualization of resources places all of the...
[November 30, 2004, 23:00]
Doing More With Less - Accelerating Performance In The Financial Industry With Grid Computing
White Papers Grid computing offers an answer that creates a paradigm shift in the relationship between compute resources and cost. Grid computing breaks that relationship and actually allows financial services firms to spend less while getting more compute power.
[November 30, 2004, 23:00]
Red Hat Announces Real-time Additions To Linux
News If there is high demand on web servers, for instance, a company's IT system would be able to use more capacity on desktops and on commercial grid services such as Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud. It can be on a physical server, or on a virtual...
[December 4, 2007, 13:03]
Grid Technology Case Study
White Papers Sun's sales and technical leads proposed a Grid Computing architecture with a dual-CPU desktop environment that could be used for interactive and compute tasks during the day, with all CPUs focused on compute jobs nights and weekends.
[May 6, 2005, 0:00]
Grid-lock?
Leader For example, Platform Computing has an adapter for Microsoft Excel that grid-enables compute-intensive worksheets. Having already given us the World Wide Web, CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), is brewing a prime example of what...
[September 6, 2004, 13:50]
Grid Explained
White Papers Grid offers a powerful way of unleashing the compute power and information within an organization to yield sustainable business benefits and overcome inefficiencies by directing the organization's computing power to the business need with the...
[April 21, 2007, 0:00]
University Of Nottingham And Sun Microsystems Streamline Computing And Allinea Software; Unveil Second Largest Academic Computer System In Europe
White Papers The University of Nottingham selected Sun Microsystems and Streamline Computing to build a multi-million pound 500+ node central compute grid which will provide the University with three teraflops of peak computational performance.
[September 27, 2006, 0:00]
Evaluating The Impacts Of Network Information Models On Applications And Network Service Providers
White Papers The resulting Lambda-Grid is a collection of geographically dispersed compute, storage and visualization resources that can be interconnected on-demand with private, high speed optical circuits (i.e.lambdas).
[October 19, 2007, 0:00]
IBM Case Study: RBC Insurance
White Papers The challenge for RBC Insurance was to, dramatically improve compute services to Valuation Actuaries. RBC Insurance implemented the Grid Computing solution that includes IBM eServer xSeries servers, IBM Global Services, Platform Computing Inc.
[November 10, 2004, 23:00]
Enabling Knowledge Discovery Services On Grids
White Papers The Grid is mainly used today for supporting high-performance compute intensive applications. The Knowledge Grid is a high-level system for providing Grid-based knowledge discovery services. These services allow professionals and scientists to...
[November 15, 2004, 23:00]
European Aeronautic Defense And Space Company
White Papers The infrastructure will be based on Grid Technology including Data Grid and Compute Grid. EADS implemented a Grid Computing platform based on: IBM eServer, Open standard Linux-based operating system, Globus OGSA and GridXpert technology.
[November 10, 2004, 23:00]
IBM Case Study: Ngee Ann Polytechnic
White Papers Ngee Ann Polytechnic created a scalable grid infrastructure that maximized the compute power of the lab's twenty five PC's. Ngee Ann Polytechnic had the challenge to resolve the computing capacity and project processing issues in the school's seven...
[November 10, 2004, 23:00]
How Sun Grid Engine, Enterprise Edition 5.3 Works
White Papers This document shows how Sun Grid Engine, Enterprise Edition (SGEEE) software policies function to create a productive compute intensive environment. It explains how SGEEE software provides solutions for executives and technical staff involved in...
[May 11, 2004, 0:00]
