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Sun adds Grid to N1 name
News Sun's N1 Grid competes chiefly with IBM's on-demand technology and Hewlett-Packard's Adaptive Enterprise. Schwartz didn't indicate how much Sun was considering charging per box, per year, for N1 Grid.
[February 13, 2004, 11:25]
Sun Servers and Oracle Grid
White Papers This support across multiple platforms extends to Sun's N1 software for grid enablement, Solaris 10 containers, and provisioning that allows workloads to be directed to available computing resources. In the emerging world of enterprise grids, Sun...
[January 3, 2006, 0:01]
Sun Microsystems Case Study: Grid Technology
White Papers After switching to Sun ONE Grid Engine software, Axyz animators could submit any process - animation or render - with the same command. Sun ONE Grid Engine software works by enabling companies to submit and manage jobs from just about any Linux or...
[May 15, 2007, 1:00]
Sun puts Network.com grid-computing service on ice
News Sun appears to have put its utility computing effort, Network.com, on hold until the company gets an idea of how to resurrect it. Sun chief executive Jonathan Schwartz discussed Network.com during an interview with CNET News.com' Dan Farber in May.
[December 10, 2008, 10:22]
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]
Sun starts pay-as-you-go supercomputing
News It plans to launch another service, called Sun Utility Computing for Grid, that will cost more but provide more elaborate services from Sun and partners with expertise in particular fields. Sun's grid programme offers servers using Sun's UltraSparc...
[September 21, 2004, 7:45]
University of Nottingham and Sun Microsystems Streamline Computing and Allinea Software; Unveil Second Largest Academic Computer System in Europe
White Papers The University of Nottingham selected Sun Microsystems and Streamline Computing to build a multi-million pound 500+ node central compute grid which will provide the University with three teraflops of peak computational performance.
[September 27, 2006, 0:00]
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]
Sun polishes up its Constellation HPC system
News Sun Grid 6.2 Engine Update 3 brings several enhancements to the grid-computing engine. These include a service domain manager (SDM) cloud adapter, which provides an interface for managing Amazon EC2 machine images, and a new graphical monitoring...
[June 23, 2009, 13:23]
SuSE, Sun hook up on grid software
News German Linux seller SuSE will distribute Sun Microsystems' Grid Engine software, a program used to hook multiple computers up so that they can collectively tackle computing problems. Sun released the grid software as open source in 2001, meaning...
[April 23, 2002, 10:54]
Grid computing luring mainstream backers
News For companies that sell hardware, such as IBM and Sun, the grid concept holds additional appeal: the possibility of selling more servers. Is grid computing in your company's future? Grid computing is a powerful concept, its chief appeal being the...
[February 21, 2002, 14:36]
Sun execs hit as grid service gets revamp
News At least one high-level Sun executive is departing after a shake-up that also is affecting Sun Grid, a service to let customers pay by the hour to use its computers. And Stuart Wells, the executive vice president for utility computing who joined in...
[September 18, 2006, 8:55]
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]
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]
SunGrid finally ready for launch
News Sun plans to open its much-delayed public Sun Grid this week or next, letting people use PayPal to buy processing cycles, the company's president, Jonathan Schwartz, said. The Sun Grid is one of several visionary ideas that Sun hopes will restore...
[March 22, 2006, 8:40]
RightNow says no to SunGrid
News At first glance, Greg Gianforte would seem to be the ideal candidate for Sun's Grid service. Customers pay to use the resource, making RightNow a prime example of the software-as-a-service business that Sun executives describe as "ground zero" for...
[March 14, 2006, 8:10]
Sun pieces utility jigsaw together
News Now part two is coming, in what the company is calling its Sun Grid: storage costing $1 per gigabyte per month. Three other Sun Grid services are in the works: The Sun Grid offerings rely on Solaris, Gadre said.
[February 1, 2005, 8:10]
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 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]
Solaris 10 heads for launch pad
News Besides the N1 Grid Containers partitioning system, Sun gave details of the DTrace dynamic tracing tool and security and self-healing features. Grid Containers, previously referred to as "zones", is part of Sun's answer to utility computing -- the...
[February 16, 2004, 13:10]
