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Optimizing Grid Site Manager Performance With Virtual Machines
White Papers Virtualization can enhance the functionality and ease the management of current and future Grids by enabling on demand creation of services and virtual clusters with customized environments, QoS provisioning and policy-based resource allocation.
[January 7, 2007, 0:00]
Planning-Based Scheduling for SLA-Awareness and Grid Integration
White Papers The EC-funded project HPC4U (Highly Predictable Clusters for Internet Grids) aimed at introducing SLA-awareness in local resource management systems, while the EC-funded project AssessGrid introduced the notion of risk, which is associated with...
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
Grid Computing Now! - Grid Security
White Papers The first phase of grid computing evolution tends to be the creation of intra-grids; two or three clusters may be interconnected between departments within an enterprise to increase processing capacity and share data sets.
[March 1, 2009, 0:24]
Provision of Fault Tolerance With Grid-Enabled and SLA-Aware Resource Management Systems
White Papers This paper presents the EU-funded project HPC4U (Highly Predictable Clusters for Internet Grids), which aims at realizing such an RMS by means of SLA-negotiation and SLA-aware scheduling, and application-transparent fault tolerance.
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
Dynamic Load Balancing Strategy for Grid Computing
White Papers However for computational grids main new issues must address, namely: heterogeneity, scalability and adaptability. Workload and resource management are two essential functions provided at the service level of the grid software infrastructure.
[July 10, 2008, 1:01]
Tensar International Streamlines Complex Sales Process With Sage Accpac CRM
White Papers Tensar International, Ltd.is a U.K.based manufacturer of reinforcing polymer grids and meshes used globally in the construction of roads, railways, runways, and embankments. But by implementing Sage Accpac CRM, the company was able to create a...
[January 23, 2007, 0:00]
Oracle Database 11g on Linux released
News Oracle Database 11g continues the focus on grid computing by enabling grids of low-cost servers and storage to deliver fast, scalable and reliable data processing," said Andy Mendelsohn, senior vice president of database server technologies at...
[August 15, 2007, 16:07]
IBM turns on the charm in grid offensive
News Many academic institutions already have computing grids in place. Right now, some companies are starting to experiment with grids for specific applications, according to executives at IBM and some of its grid software partners.
[December 15, 2004, 8:35]
Government invites bids for £22m marine energy fund
News Technology companies such as IBM and Cisco are targeting the renewable energy market and have announced plans to help utility providers update their electricity grids to cope with the intermittent nature of power generated by wind, solar and wave...
[September 22, 2009, 17:29]
Grid - Distributed Computing at Scale: An Overview of Grid and the Open Grid Forum4.5
White Papers In a sense, Grids are enabled by virtualization, automation and service-orientation technologies and also integrate these technologies into a unifying solution - particularly across functional and organizational boundaries.
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
Oracle moulds database to grid
News Oracle's database grids address more efficient provisioning of servers and the idea of creating a "virtual" pool of many different servers, which are two aspects to the utility computing vision, Shimp said.
[August 11, 2003, 10:15]
Distributed computing's prime moment
News Entropia, IBM, Sun, Platform Computing and others are working with the open-source Globus Project to define standards and software for controlling grids. Ultimately, researchers envision a future in which all computers are linked into a single...
[December 13, 2001, 13:44]
Grid project hunts for bird flu cure
News It evolved to work within a larger grid computing project known as Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) that lets scientists share resources and involves PCs at 11 research labs and universities. With these results, the Grid demonstrates that it is...
[May 5, 2006, 8:55]
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. The US' National Science Foundation has awarded contracts worth $53m (£37m) to...
[August 10, 2001, 9:42]
Singapore to offer commercial grid computing
News University grids typically have a small cluster of eight to 10 CPUs, while Alatum has 300. Apart from on-demand applications, such as CRM (customer-relationship management), e-commerce, ERP (enterprise resource planning) and business management...
[October 30, 2008, 13:02]
Shrink wrapped grid computing
Blog Today though, it’s independent companies such as Platform Computing, community-driven bodies such as the Open Grid Forum, web pioneers such as ebay and projects supported by the European Commission's IST programme such as XtreemOS (which aims to...
[December 20, 2007, 14:04]
Internet concepts build new ways of storage
News The same assumptions inform the trend towards information grids, where different bits of storage coalesce into unified platforms that 'virtual organisations' can use. These ideas let a uniform IBP model apply to storage resources across a global...
[April 10, 2002, 15:56]
IBM bypasses Microsoft Web services spec
News The authors of WS-Notification include Akamai Technologies, grids standards body the Globus Alliance, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, SAP, Sonic Software and Tibco Software. The goal of the new specifications, called WS-Notifications and WS-Resource...
[January 21, 2004, 11:05]
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. These pages pull together the latest information from across our...
[November 4, 2005, 10:40]
SLA-Based Cooperative Superscheduling Algorithms for Computational Grids
White Papers The Service Level Agreement (SLA) based grid superscheduling approach promotes cooperative resource sharing. Superscheduling is facilitated between administratively and topologically distributed grid sites via grid schedulers such as Resource...
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
