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RSS grid serviceDoing More With Less - Accelerating Performance in the Financial Industry With Grid Computing
White Paper Grid computing offers financial services organizations competitive advantages by accelerating application performance, reducing capital and operational costs, and improving service levels. Grid computing offers an answer that creates a paradigm... [03 Jul 2008]
Technical Case Study: SpinServer Deployment at GX Technology Enhances Performance and Storage Management While Reducing Cost
White Paper Because GXT must complete processing on time to meet customer commitments, and because seismic processing is extremely compute- and data-intensive, GXT began migrating its time-processing service from its legacy Sun enterprise servers to a grid... [03 Jul 2008]
Towards an Agent Framework for Grid Computing
White Paper The ontological, semantically rich description of the grid applications, services and resources open the possibility for better monitoring and resource management, and better user interfaces - both for the customers and the service providers. [03 Jul 2008]
Scalable, Grid-Enabled Service-Oriented Architecture Using Oracle Coherence
White Paper One of the greatest benefits of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) grid is that the cost of scalability is more predictable and efficient because of the option of using commodity hardware. This makes an SOA grid a highly efficient architecture... [13 May 2008]
Geographic database opens doors to private sector
News Information contained on the system includes addresses, postcodes and national grid references, as well as a unique property reference number for each individual property. The NLPG has been used by public sector organisations - such as the police... [30 Apr 2008]
Insight and Outlook, Part 11: The Resurgence of the Mainframe - Reassess the Mainframe as the Center of Your Business Management System
White Paper Midsize UNIX boxes, grid computing schemes, and server farms made up of dozens of smaller systems seem to dominate today's IT infrastructure. On the software side, the authors hear about lightweight scripting, high-level languages, distributed... [26 Apr 2008]
A Scalable PKI for a National Grid Service
White Paper This paper describes work to expand the PKI for the UK National Grid Service (NGS), to integrate it with site authentication and improve usability. This work is complementary to the UK Shibboleth deployment. [16 Apr 2008]
Service Provider Fuels Its Future With Sun Grid Compute Utility
White Paper Virtual Compute Corporation uses the Sun Grid Compute Utility to handle work from its energy industry customers that exceeds the capacity of its own IT infrastructure. The Sun Grid gives Virtual Compute Corporation the ability to quickly and... [16 Apr 2008]
Dynamic Firewalls and Service Deployment Models for Grid Environments
White Paper However, the traditional client-server paradigm supported by most of today's firewall does not accommodate the specific requirements of novel Grid applications. This paper presents two different approaches to partially overcome the limitations in... [11 Apr 2008]
Building Performance Topologies for Computational Grids
White Paper This paper describes the architecture, implementation and performance of a service for the delivery of dynamic performance information in Grid environments. Based on usage requirements gleaned from real applications being developed as part of the... [10 Apr 2008]
GridWeaver: Automatic, Adaptive, Large-Scale Fabric Configuration for Grid Computing
White Paper The emphasis in Grid computing research has predominantly been focused on services. It is not surprising that most of the high-profile, Grid-related work focuses on services and middleware. Researchers, hardware manufacturers, and end-users alike... [10 Apr 2008]
Performance-Aware Workflow Management for Grid Computing
White Paper Grid middleware development has advanced rapidly over the past few years to support component-based programming models and service-orientated architectures. Grid applications are increasingly modular, composed of workflow descriptions that can... [10 Apr 2008]
Grid Load Balancing Using Intelligent Agents
White Paper At a higher level of the global grid, agents cooperate with each other to balance workload using a peer-to-peer service advertisement and discovery mechanism. Workload and resource management are essential functionalities in the software... [10 Apr 2008]
Performance-Responsive Middleware for Grid Computing
White Paper The development of supportive middleware to manage resources and distributed workload across multiple administrative boundaries is of central importance to Grid computing. Active middleware services that perform look-up, match-making, scheduling... [10 Apr 2008]
Simple LDAP Schemas for Grid Monitoring
White Paper The purpose of this paper is to provide an initial definition of the data needed in a directory service or database so that we can implement a performance monitoring testbed. To begin with, this paper describes how to represent producers of events... [10 Apr 2008]
