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Sun’s Grid Computing Solutions Outdistance The Competition
White Papers In this Executive White Paper, Aberdeen analyzes SGE, SGEEE, and LSF and draws the following conclusions: SGE and LSF provide comparable functionality and provide basic resource management for cluster grids; SGEEE is the most comprehensive, cost...
[May 13, 2004, 8:10]
Sun's Edge Computing Solutions Boost Grid Computing Resource Utilization At Media Information Center
White Papers The Information Media Center has a Grid Computing environment with Sun Grid Engine, Enterprise Edition running on a Sun Fire V880 server and a number of Sun Blade 1000 workstations. The Grid enables more efficient use of computing resources, and...
[November 10, 2004, 23:00]
Sun Cluster Grid Architecture: A Technical White Paper Describing The Foundation Of Sun Grid Computing
White Papers This white paper describes the foundation of Sun Grid Computing. The term grid computing is very broad, and several distinct types of grids commonly used in industry today. This paper focuses on compute grids, computing resources that are managed...
[May 1, 2004, 1:03]
Sun Infrastructure Solution For Grid Computing: Life Sciences
White Papers Grid computing depends on a wide variety of powerful, highly available hardware and advanced software offerings, combined to bring the power of network computing to bear on life sciences' most complex problems.
[December 1, 2004, 2:00]
Migration From Platform Computing's Load Sharing Facility To Sun N1 Grid Engine Software
White Papers This paper presents a case study covering Transmeta's migration process from Platform Computing's Load Sharing Facility (LSF 4.0.1) to Sun N1 Grid Engine 6 software (N1GE6). Transmeta initially started experimenting with the open source version of...
[November 1, 2006, 0:00]
Sun Flicks The Grid Switch
News Sun has unveiled its latest utility computing project, and its two top executives have a few things to say about the concept
[February 3, 2005, 12:45]
Grid Computing Luring Mainstream Backers
News Is grid computing in your company's future? The pace picked up last August, when IBM launched its effort to reconfigure grid computing for businesses and appointed strategy guru Irving Wladawsky-Berger to lead the effort.
[February 21, 2002, 14:36]
Sun Offers Business-friendly Grid Software
News Sun Microsystems has upgraded its top-end "grid" software, a product that lets teams of computers collectively tackle calculation problems, making it more suitable for businesses that need strict control of their computing resources.
[June 6, 2002, 9:54]
Sun Lights Up Its Grid
News With its new Sun Grid, Sun hopes bioscientists and geologists will buy computing cycles over the Web just like people buy tickets online or search for things via Google. Sun executives flipped on Sun Grid, a large pay-as-you-go computing grid, at...
[February 2, 2005, 8:25]
Open Source 'is Free Like A Puppy Is Free' Says Sun Boss
News Speaking at the Executive Forum event just outside Glasgow, Scotland, McNealy was his typically rambunctious self, adding grid computing and open source to the usual industry hit-list that traditionally includes Sun rivals IBM and Microsoft.
[June 8, 2005, 17:40]
Improving Research Productivity With Blade Servers And Grid Computing
White Papers The Sun Blade Server Grid Computing solution for Life Sciences allows scientific organizations to leverage today's new Blade Server technologies that lower the cost and size of technical computing infrastructures.
[December 1, 2004, 2:00]
SunGrid Comes Under Attack
News Sun's Grid, a publicly available computing service, was hit by a denial-of-service network attack on its inaugural day, the company said on Wednesday. To let people try out the Sun Grid, the company made a text-to-speech translation service...
[March 23, 2006, 8:10]
Envisioning The Future Topologies Of Network Computing
White Papers Working with Sun, Striegel was able to utilize the Sun Infrastructure Solution for Grid Computing to provide for his group's current and future resource demands. Sun's Grid Infrastructure, managed by Grid Engine open source, gives the Striegel...
[November 10, 2004, 23:00]
Sun Adds Grid To N1 Name
News In addition, the server maker has changed the name of its utility-computing software from N1 to N1 Grid, executives said on Wednesday. Sun's N1 Grid competes chiefly with IBM's on-demand technology and Hewlett-Packard's Adaptive Enterprise.
[February 13, 2004, 11:25]
Sun Plans Trading Floor For Computing Power
News Sun believes customers eventually will stop building their own infrastructure and instead buy computing power off a grid from companies specializing in such utility computing services. Smaller customers will be able to tap into this Sun Grid later...
[February 4, 2005, 8:10]
Sun Has Its Head In The Clouds
Leader Sun has a laudable vision of the future of utility computing, where organisations with extra processing power can sell it back to a computing grid in the same manner that homes with solar panels can sell power back to the electrical power grid.
[September 22, 2004, 12:25]
Sun Pieces Utility Jigsaw Together
News Most computing in the Sun Grid will take place on servers using AMD's Opteron processor. Now part two is coming, in what the company is calling its Sun Grid: storage costing $1 per gigabyte per month.
[February 1, 2005, 8:10]
Sun Execs Hit As Grid Service Gets Revamp
News And Stuart Wells, the executive vice president for utility computing who joined in 1988, is losing his position leading the Sun Grid project, though it's not yet clear whether he's leaving Sun altogether, sources said.
[September 18, 2006, 8:55]
Utility Computing Is The Future, Says Schwartz
News So far, the technology is limited in scope, but Sun hopes that it eventually will blossom so that organisations such as stock exchanges with extra processing power can sell it back to a computing grid in the same manner that homes with solar...
[September 22, 2004, 8:50]
Sun Case Study: Transmeta Corporation
White Papers But IT management at Transmeta Corporation-a pioneer in developing cutting-edge microprocessors for mobile computing-discovered that not all grid technology delivers the same results. Sun N1 Grid Engine has eliminated downtime and facilitated...
[December 21, 2005, 23:00]
