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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 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 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]
Service-Oriented Grids For Dynamic E-Learning Environments
White Papers Modern Grids are moving towards Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) to cope with new distributed applications, beyond traditional massive computing for scientific research. Resource sharing across different e-learning domains in a transparent...
[March 20, 2007, 23:00]
An Environment For Enabling Interactive Grids
White Papers It is believed that next generation grids will extend the application domain to include interactive graphical sessions. The authors term such grids interactive grids. This paper describes some of the challenges involved in building interactive grids.
[April 26, 2006, 0:00]
A Protocol For Recording Provenance In Service-Oriented Grids
White Papers Both the scientific and business communities, which are beginning to rely on Grids as problem-solving mechanisms, have requirements in terms of provenance. To support provenance capture in Grids, the authors have developed an implementation...
[March 21, 2007, 23:00]
Specifying And Monitoring Guarantees In Commercial Grids Through SLA
White Papers However, commercial grids need to provide much stricter guarantees. Grid computing has relied on "best effort" as the guiding principal of operation. These guarantees have to be specified in terms of service level agreements and have to be...
[July 29, 2004, 0:00]
A Deadline And Budget Constrained Cost-Time Optimisation Algorithm For Scheduling Task Farming Applications On Global Grids
White Papers Computational Grids and peer-to-peer (P2P) networks enable the sharing, selection, and aggregation of geographically distributed resources for solving large-scale problems in science, engineering, and commerce.
[November 10, 2004, 23:00]
Alchemi: A .NET-Based Grid Computing Framework And Its Integration Into Global Grids
White Papers This paper presents Alchemi, a .NET-based grid computing framework that provides the runtime machinery and programming environment required to construct desktop grids and develop grid applications. Microsoft's .NET Framework has become near...
[November 10, 2004, 23:00]
Enabling Knowledge Discovery Services On Grids
White Papers This paper presents and discusses how knowledge discovery applications can be designed and deployed on Grids. The Grid is mainly used today for supporting high-performance compute intensive applications.
[November 15, 2004, 23:00]
Quality-Oriented And Metadata-Driven Integration In Information Grids
White Papers The goal of information grids is to provide a virtually integrated view on information, which is physically stored in many distributed nodes of the grid. Information grids that integrate information from heterogeneous resources have to resolve the...
[February 1, 2007, 23:00]
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]
Architecture For Resource Allocation Services Supporting Interactive Remote Desktop Sessions In Utility Grids
White Papers Emerging large scale utility computing systems like Grids promise computing and storage to be provided to end users as a utility. Utility Grids provide a challenge in terms of scale, dynamism, and heterogeneity of resources and workloads.
[January 6, 2007, 23:00]
Computational Grids In Action: The National Fusion Collaboratory
White Papers The term computational Grids refers to infrastructures aimed at allowing users to access and/or aggregate potentially large numbers of powerful and sophisticated resources. More formally, Grids are defined as infrastructure allowing flexible...
[November 16, 2004, 23:00]
Data Synchronization Across Enterprise Grids
White Papers Industry leaders in electronic design automation (EDA) and industrial manufacturing have been using Enterprise Grids since 1996. For the first time, however, attention is paid to the challenge of data synchronization in Enterprise Grids.
[November 30, 2004, 23:00]
From Legion To Legion-G To OGSI.NET: Object-Based Computing For Grids
White Papers The object abstraction has long proven to be an effective foundation upon which to structure application codes; however, its application to Grid Computing contains many challenges related to the heterogeneous, dynamic, and cross-administrative...
[November 16, 2004, 23:00]
QoS-Based Scheduling Of Workflow Applications On Service Grids
White Papers In such "pay-per-use" service Grids, issues such as resource management and scheduling based on users' QoS constraints are yet to be addressed especially in the context of workflow management systems.
[December 20, 2005, 23:00]
Computational Grids
White Papers We structure the chapter in terms of six questions that we believe are central to this discussion: Why do we need computational grids? What types of applications will grids be used for? Who will use grids?
[May 6, 2004, 0:00]
A Case For TCP Vegas In High-Performance Computational Grids
White Papers Computational grids such as the Information Power Grid, Particle Physics Data Grid, and Earth System Grid depend on TCP to provide reliable communication between nodes across a Wide-Area Network (WAN).
[January 14, 2008, 23:00]
Financial Services: Ripe For Grids
White Papers While grids used to exist almost exclusively in national laboratory and academic computer centers, they are being used to handle business computing. The first industry to make a bet on grids is also one of the most demanding compute environments in...
[November 4, 2004, 23:00]
