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Grids go corporate
News The consortium will try to steer an open source software package called the Globus Toolkit, which helps universities, companies and other customers run software on large groups of networked computers called grids.
[January 24, 2005, 8:10]
Grids halt hardware overspending - IBM
News Computing grids, in which networked computers share the processing load for complex tasks, are being used primarily in academic environments. But IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and other companies are looking to bring the grids to the...
[July 21, 2003, 15:38]
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. In May, a consortium of vendors called the Enterprise Grid Alliance plans to release...
[April 28, 2005, 18:20]
The MOSIX2 Management System for Linux Clusters and Organizational Grids
White Papers MOSIX Version 2 (MOSIX2) for Linux-2.6 is a management system for clusters and organizational grids. Its main feature is to make all the participating nodes perform like a single computer with multiple processors, almost like an SMP.
[May 18, 2007, 1:00]
Live Webcast: Virtual Service Oriented Grids: Transforming the Enterprise
White Papers One of the most powerful features of computing grids is the capability of being able to identify and allocate resources needed to build and run an application on demand and in almost real time, without months of negotiation or waiting for the...
[March 25, 2008, 7:28]
Using Content-Addressable Networks for Load Balancing in Desktop Grids (Extended Version)
White Papers Desktop grids combine Peer-to-Peer and Grid computing techniques to improve the robustness, reliability and scalability of job execution infrastructures. However, efficiently matching incoming jobs to available system resources and achieving good...
[July 10, 2008, 1:01]
A Lightweight Java Taskspaces Framework for Scientific Computing on Computational Grids
White Papers The scalable Taskspaces framework runs fully transparently on heterogeneous grids while maintaining a low complexity in terms of installation, maintenance, application programming and grid operation. A prototype Taskspaces framework for grid...
[February 1, 2009, 0:00]
GridCrypt: High Performance Symmetric Key Cryptography Using Enterprise Grids
White Papers Peer-to-Peer (P2P) or enterprise grids are proven as one of the approaches for developing cost-effective high-end computing systems. Today's cryptanalysis on symmetric key cryptography is encouraging the use of larger key sizes and complex...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
ExcelGrid: A .NET Plug-In for Outsourcing Excel Spreadsheet Workload to Enterprise and Global Grids
White Papers This paper describes a method to grid-enable Microsoft Excel, to execute spreadsheet computations on enterprise and global grids. Most businesses make use of spreadsheets for a lot of their daily activities.
[June 20, 2007, 1:00]
G-Monitor: A Web Portal for Monitoring and Steering Application Execution on Global Grids
White Papers As Grids are emerging as the next-generation computing platform, the need for Web-based portals that hide low level details of accessing Grid services for deployment and execution management of applications is increasing.
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
Enabling Virtualized Grids With Oracle and NetApp
White Papers The recent introduction of Oracle VM for advanced server virtualization, in combination with storage virtualization features of NetApp such as FlexVol, FlexClone, and FAS deduplication, make it possible to significantly increase server and storage...
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
IBM's future lies in grids, says new chief exec
News A new era of computing based on continually active computing grids has begun, and Big Blue is positioned to take a lead in it, said IBM's Sam Palmisano. Making his first major public appearance since being appointed IBM's chief executive-to-be...
[February 21, 2002, 11:30]
Cyberattack threat spurs US rethink on power grids
News The potential for 'cybersecurity' attacks on the US's electric power grids has spurred politicians to consider legislation to broaden federal authority over electric companies. US Congress has already been consulting with federal agencies and...
[September 15, 2008, 13:35]
Get your hands off our grids
Leader Grids and clusters, for instance, do jobs that are equally worthy but also totally different. When the man at the centre of grid computing development in the UK sounds an alarm, the industry needs to sit up and take notice.
[May 20, 2005, 12:30]
HP mixes business with grids
News Grids -- pools of computers and storage systems pooled together to form what is essentially a supercomputer -- have been popular in technical computing environments such as the Department of Energy. Hewlett-Packard has begun a push to merge the...
[April 10, 2002, 12:11]
Implementation of Virtual Execution Environments for Improving SLA-Compliant Job Migration in Grids
White Papers Commercial Grid users demand for contractually fixed QoS levels. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are powerful instruments for describing such contracts. SLA-aware resource management is the foundation for realizing SLA contracts within the Grid.
[February 2, 2009, 0:00]
Lossy Bulk Synchronous Parallel Processing Model for Very Large Scale Grids
White Papers The performance of a parallel algorithm in a very large scale grid is significantly influenced by the underlying Internet protocols and inter-connectivity. Many grid programming platforms use TCP due to its reliability, usually with some...
[March 4, 2008, 0:02]
Oracle 10g: Putting Grids to Work
White Papers IDG presents the Oracle 10g family of products and how Oracle 10g allows organizations to deploy Grid Computing as a foundation for business-oriented transactions, content management, and business intelligence applications.
[September 2, 2008, 7:34]
The Virtualization Spectrum From Hyperthreads to Grids
White Papers Modern Virtual Machines (VMs) can be opaque to conventional performance management tools because VM technology has surpassed standard measurement paradigms. The paper attempt to ameliorate that problem by; observing that disparate types of VMs lie...
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
Short Paper: Policy Driven Virtual Machine Monitor for Protected Grids
White Papers This paper advocates virtualization technology as a methodology to solve the security problems that an organization has to face when contributes with its resources to a grid. In particular, this technology makes it possible to increase the overall...
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
