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Grid computing plays games
News IBM is one of the main backers of Butterfly.net, a growing effort to apply grid supercomputing techniques to operating online games. Then there's database giant Oracle, which adapted its grid-computing technology to host the high-profile "Sims...
[June 4, 2004, 12:35]
Grid computing to tackle climate change
News IBM is to work with academics from the University of Cape Town to use grid computing to model climate change in Southern Africa. The African Climate @ Home project will focus on building models to analyse existing weather patterns in the region...
[September 4, 2007, 16:12]
Grid Computing: What Are the Key Components?
White Papers Grid computing is gaining a lot of attention within the IT industry. Although it has been used within the academic and scientific community for some time, standards, enabling technologies, toolkits, and products are becoming available that allow...
[March 3, 2009, 0:56]
Grid computing 'overhyped'
News A leading figure in the European grid research community has criticised the technology industry for exaggerating the current capabilities of their grid computing products. Mark Parsons, the commercial director of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing...
[May 19, 2005, 17:20]
GRID Transaction Management Research Group: Uses Cases
White Papers Successful realization of Grid environments may require the use of various transaction capabilities, such as transaction protocol engines and system and resources that can react to transaction stimulus (commands?
[April 25, 2005, 3:00]
Grid Load Balancing Using Intelligent Agents
White Papers Workload and resource management are essential functionalities in the software infrastructure for grid computing. The management and scheduling of dynamic grid resources in a scalable way requires new technologies to implement a next generation...
[November 17, 2004, 2:00]
Grid Technology Center
White Papers Oracle 10g allows companies to begin evolving their IT toward a grid computing model. From storage, to databases, application servers, and applications, Oracle's new technology addresses the requirements of grid computing.
[September 15, 2004, 0:00]
Grid computing 'vital to Europe's future'
News The European Commission (EC) has announced that grid computing will be a cornerstone in attempts to improve the coordination of research and development activities across Europe and improve competition with the US and Japan.
[June 1, 2005, 12:55]
Grid-lock?
Leader Having already given us the World Wide Web, CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), is brewing a prime example of what could turn out to be the next revolutionary advance in computing: the grid.
[September 6, 2004, 13:50]
Grid project hunts for bird flu cure
News Scientists in the UK and Asia have deployed a computing grid to find a potential cure for avian flu. The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) said on Thursday that it put up a grid computing project, which was originally designed...
[May 5, 2006, 8:55]
Internet, GRID, Self-Adaptability and Beyond: Are We Ready?
White Papers This paper reflects different understanding and positions on future trends of GRID-oriented technologies, applications, and networks, as perceived by representatives from industry and academia. There is no definitive answer on the topic that is...
[July 26, 2005, 6:00]
Grid Computing: Accelerating the Search for Revenue and Profit for Financial Markets
White Papers The Grid approach offer financial markets firms the opportunity to start small and grow. Over time, all applications will run natively in Grid environments. Until the widespread availability of native Grid applications, Grid and Web services can be...
[November 25, 2004, 2:00]
Mobile OGSI.NET: Grid Computing on Mobile Devices
White Papers The problem with the Grid is that it does not currently extend completely to devices, because these devices are not viewed as having sufficient capability to be both clients and services. This paper explains about the design implementation and...
[November 17, 2004, 2:00]
Grid Computing Update - Cycle IV
White Papers Grid Computing Update Pilots move to Mainstream. The fourth update to Quocirca's Grid Index shows how initial pilots of Grid computing are now moving towards full implementations. However, large-scale Grid implementations, covering an enterprise's...
[January 12, 2007, 0:00]
Oracle Application Server 10g - Grid Computing
White Papers Further, customers can deploy all their existing Oracle9iAS applications on Application Server 10g without any changes and take advantage of the new grid features. Oracle Application Server 10g, the next generation of Oracle's integrated suite of...
[November 17, 2004, 2:00]
Grid computing hooks up to open standards
News With the Grid, the difference between client and server is much less clear -- one computer can ask a second computer to do a task while simultaneously carrying out another task for a third party. All this intense research has produced a solid...
[March 19, 2002, 16:18]
Grid computing to combat global warming
News Researchers claimed on Monday that grid computing may be the answer to managing the increasing number of renewable energy sources that could eventually be integrated into the UK's power network Brunel University and Imperial College London are part...
[January 17, 2005, 17:10]
Grid Computing at Texas Tech University Using SAS
White Papers Grid computing creates a distributed computing environment that leverages unused computing resources to obtain information that would otherwise take weeks or months to process. The promise of extraordinary increases in computing ability for minimal...
[June 20, 2008, 1:16]
Grid Ref
Downloads Grid Ref is a simple iPhone / iPod Touch App that displays position. Other apps show your position using only latitude and longitude which is not very useful for O.S.map users, since these maps show only the O.S.grid.
[December 10, 2008, 3:46]
Grid survives nuclear test
News One of the world's largest grid projects passed a major test by juggling enough data to fill a couple of desktop hard drives every second for 10 days. The institutions behind the grid for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) successfully completed a...
[April 26, 2005, 11:15]
