grid high performance
Computational Power of Sun Compute Grid Helps Researchers Uncover New Ways to Treat Diseases
White Paper A Sun Grid Rack System for High Performance Computing, comprised of 400 Sun Fire X2100 servers, was integrated by the Sun Customer Ready Systems program. One of the largest academic medical centers in the United States and a leader in clinical... [16 Apr 2008]
The Armada Framework for Parallel I/O on Computational Grids
White Paper Grid applications use high-speed networks to logically assemble collections of resources such as scientific instruments, supercomputers, databases, and so forth. One important challenge facing grid computing is efficient parallel I/O for data... [10 Apr 2008]
Building Performance Topologies for Computational Grids
White Paper Based on usage requirements gleaned from real applications being developed as part of the GrADS project a high-performance service for use by Grid schedulers is implemented. This paper describes the architecture, implementation and performance of a... [10 Apr 2008]
Optimizing SAGE on the Intel Itanium 2 Processor based Platform
White Paper SAGE (SAIC Adaptive Grid Eulerian) is a well-known hydrodynamics application in the US Department of Energy's national laboratory community, and the application has been ported to several platforms over the years. [10 Apr 2008]
Transparent Grid Computing: A Knowledge-Based Approach
White Paper Grid computing provides key infrastructure for distributed problem solving in dynamic virtual organizations. This paper describes the initial work in capturing knowledge and heuristics about how to select application components and computing... [10 Apr 2008]
SABUL: A Transport Protocol for Grid Computing
White Paper SABUL is designed for reliability, high performance, fairness and stability. This paper describes SABUL, an application-level data transfer protocol for data-intensive applications over high bandwidth-delay product networks. [10 Apr 2008]
Taobao.com Turns to Grid Computing to Improve System Performance and Reliability
White Paper Taobao.com implemented a reliable, scalable, and high performing information technology architecture using a range of Oracle grid computing products and satisfied scalability requirements with four-node server cluster, with the option of expanding... [24 Mar 2008]
Lossy Bulk Synchronous Parallel Processing Model for Very Large Scale Grids
White Paper The performance of a parallel algorithm in a very large scale grid is significantly influenced by the underlying Internet protocols and inter-connectivity. Many grid programming platforms use TCP due to its reliability, usually with some... [03 Mar 2008]
Towards Autonomic Grid Data Management With Virtualized Distributed File Systems
White Paper Autonomic functions are integrated into the services to provide self-managing control over the different entities of Grid-wide file system sessions, in accordance with high-level objectives, and operate together to automatically achieve the... [29 Feb 2008]
IBM to use DNA to shrink chip size
News The nanotube grid, conceivably, could function as a data-storage device or perform calculations. Once the nanotube array has been constructed, the laboratory-generated DNA molecules could be removed, leaving an orderly grid of nanotubes. [21 Feb 2008]
Overview of Japanese National Research Grid Initiative (NAREGI) Project
White Paper The goals of the project are to conduct R&D on high-performance and scalable Grid middleware to provide a future computational infrastructure for scientific and engineering research in Japan. The Japanese National Research Grid Initiative (NAREGI... [15 Feb 2008]
Advanced Methods for Electromagnetic Simulation
White Paper This paper describes one such approach that uses the finite-difference time-domain method with multiple levels of grid embedding. This approach was designed for high performance on parallel computers. [14 Feb 2008]
Informatica Powercenter 8 on Sun's AMD Opteron Processor Blade Servers
White Paper These new grid-specific capabilities deliver cost-effective linear scalability and high performance required for mission critical enterprise data integration. The Enterprise Grid Option for PowerCenter 8 incorporates automated load balancing and... [14 Feb 2008]
Building Scalable, High Performance Cluster and Grid Networks: The Role of Ethernet
White Paper A Grid computer is a hardware and software system that integrates a collection of distributed system components (e.g.computer systems, storage, etc.making them appear to the user as a single, large "virtualized" computing system. [07 Feb 2008]
User-Space Auto-Tuning for TCP Flow Control in Computational Grids
White Paper Unfortunately, many high-performance grid applications only use a small fraction of their available bandwidth because operating systems and their associated protocol stacks are still tuned for yesterday's network speeds. [14 Jan 2008]
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