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Open source 'is free like a puppy is free' says Sun boss
News McNealy claims companies should look to use grids of virtual computers for their processing needs and hosted applications instead of the current situation where businesses spend millions on bespoke technology.
[June 8, 2005, 17:40]
New boost for open-source supercomputing
News Globus' tools enable grids to be set up that span the computing resources of different companies and organisations. Platform Computing, a company that tries to harness the collective computing power on computer networks, has signed a deal to...
[November 12, 2001, 14:41]
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]
Sun offers business-friendly grid software
News Grids began among academic customers but are gradually arriving in the mainstream business world, a shift backed by Sun, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and smaller companies such as Avaki and Platform Computing.
[June 6, 2002, 9:54]
Weaving grid computing into Web services
News Grids pool computing resources so that numerous computers can share work, typically jobs such as decoding genetic information or modeling nuclear explosions. The paper, still in draft form, is essentially a blueprint for unifying Web services and...
[February 18, 2002, 12:21]
MapOSMatic - city maps from OpenStreetMap
Blog A group of French developers and contributors to OpenStreetMap have created MapOSMatic which creates maps with grids and street indexes for a given area. It's a fantastic example of what can be done with free geodata and open source software.
[September 11, 2009, 12:03]
The Gridbus Toolkit for Service Oriented Grid and Utility Computing: An Overview and Status Report
White Papers Grids aim at exploiting synergies that result from cooperation of autonomous distributed entities. Gridbus technologies provide services for both computational and data grids that power the emerging eScience and eBusiness applications.
[March 15, 2007, 0:00]
GPS Tuner 5.4 - Online Maps
Downloads Features Offroad navigation Ideal for Geocaching Multilingual Selectable Metric, Imperial or Nautical units 24 National Grids are supported (like WGS-84, British (OSGB36), NAD27, NAD83) GPS Tuner supports JPG files as maps Easy Calibration on...
[November 3, 2003, 7:00]
SugarCRM launches project-planning application
News Also included is the ability to produce grids, templates and charts of projects. SugarCRM did not release details of exact pricing but, as with all SugarCRM applications, an open source version of the software is available alongside a paid-for...
[March 19, 2007, 13:02]
PlayStation 3 may run on Linux
News Sony officials have said they are testing groups of Linux-powered PS2s hooked up in grids in an effort to boost processing speed. Pop open the bonnet of the next-generation Sony PlayStation game console or a BMW 745i sedan and you may well see...
[April 2, 2003, 11:44]
US to build supercomputer grid
News Ultimately, the grid will grow to include smaller research networks, link to other grids overseas and even incorporate countless sensors across the world, Reed said. A national board will decide how the computing power is allocated, but using it...
[August 10, 2001, 9:42]
Exclusive: Will Sun lose a shining software star?
News In Sun parlance, collections of separate hosted services that are brought together from across the network are called "service grids". StarOffice is an open source desktop office suite that can be broken into components.
[January 18, 2001, 8:29]
Sun shines on Linux desktop
News Sun also released source code for grid software called the Jobs Application Manager, experimental software that lets programmers use Sun's Jini software to help separate grids discover each other over a network and join forces.
[January 23, 2003, 7:44]
Red Hat ties virtualisation future to KVM
News This stateless model drives down [operating expenditure] and enables the scalability required by terascale grids, large datacentres and cloud class compute environments," Stevens wrote. According to the company, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization...
[February 24, 2009, 15:39]
Apache generates Java buzz with Beehive 1.0
News NetUI is an MVC framework built on top of Apache Struts, adding a set of JSP tags for building HTML pages, and more complex UI controls such as data grids. Beehive is an open source project, like other ASF work, but was originally spun out of BEA's...
[October 5, 2005, 14:35]
Grid software gets business connection
News In a related move, Hewlett-Packard announced Monday it has written software than can link grids and the computing infrastructure governed by HP's Utility Data Center system. Developers of the Globus Toolkit program -- open-source software used to...
[January 15, 2003, 8:18]
TeraGrid supercomputing project expands
News Large computing companies -- including IBM, HP and Sun Microsystems -- are getting involved in grids, while a host of smaller software companies are sprouting up with software to govern how jobs run across grids.
[November 26, 2002, 8:44]
Sun's burning questions
Leader Now we have grids, open source, services and management — all ideas which are ripening nicely into ROI and in which Sun has a strong stake. With Java and Open Solaris, it has the toolset with which to integrate these ideas into strong enterprise...
[April 25, 2006, 16:50]
GoLive CS2 review
Reviews In addition to these tweaks, GoLive CS2 offers improved text-box, layout-grid and layer tools: these enable you to position page elements as you would in Illustrator, complete with snap-to grids. Although earlier versions of GoLive used hacks, such...
[April 21, 2005, 13:45]
Grid software project widens scope
News The Edinburgh researchers have expertise in work that lets databases run on grids, while the Swedish group will expand security work, Globus said. The Globus Toolkit, an open-source software project, has the potential to bring these separate...
[September 3, 2003, 9:59]
