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]
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]
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]
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]
Supercomputers To Run Windows
News Microsoft could create a specialised version of its widely praised programming tools, said Phil Papadopoulos, director of the grids and clusters program at the San Diego Supercomputing Centre. Winning in this important space against entrenched...
[May 25, 2004, 10:55]
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]
IT Priorities: Strategy Suffers At The Hands Of Tactics
Leader Grids, open source, business intelligence, CRM, virtualisation and server consolidation are just some of the technologies and strategies competing for a chunk of UK IT budgets. Vendors and the media devote a lot of attention to the religious wars...
[November 4, 2005, 10:40]
Sun Has Its Head In The Clouds
Leader Grids are nothing new, and many universities and research establishments have been running networks of computers that share computing power for years. Of course, free open source software neatly bypasses this problem: Sun may not find this entirely...
[September 22, 2004, 12:25]
