grids
RSS gridsIt's a Grid World: The Convergence of Computing and Communications
White Paper Grids offer a powerful way for enterprises and other organizations to make new usage models possible by reducing TCO and increasing overall business agility. As Grids gain momentum and are more widely accepted across multiple vertical market... [03 Jul 2008]
Intel-Based Solutions for High-Performance Computing and Grid Computing
White Paper Grids extend the notion of open standards-based cluster platforms to enable coordination among any connected computing devices - potentially anywhere in the world. By enlisting desktop PCs, departmental servers, large SMP systems and large data... [03 Jul 2008]
NUSGRID - A Prototype for Grid Computing
White Paper Grids and grid computing are a recent, important development in distributed systems/computing research taking the academic world by storm. Grids have been popularized through the successful implementation of the Globus Toolkit by Ian Foster, a... [03 Jul 2008]
Molecular Structure Determination on a Computational & Data Grid
White Paper The focus of this paper is on the design and implementation of a critical program in structural biology onto two computational and data grids. The first is the Buffalo-based ACDC grid, which uses facilities at several research institutions in... [03 Jul 2008]
Plan 9 - An Integrated Approach to Grid Computing
White Paper In particular it compares solutions using the de facto standard middleware toolkit for grids, Globus, to an environment constructed using computers running the Plan 9 operating system. This paper describes the use of the "Plan 9 from Bell Labs... [03 Jul 2008]
Photos: Welcome to Satyam's R&D labs
Photo The finished 3D version will pair a holographic projector with grids of sonar sensors that measure a person's movement and position within the virtual space. The holographic system will use multiple sensor grids to build a virtual 3D version of a... [19 May 2008]
EC backs tech for green future
News The Commission is promoting the intelligent use of tech to improve efficiency in buildings, lighting and power grids in order to make significant inroads into reducing Europe's carbon footprint. The European Commission (EC) is backing the use of... [15 May 2008]
IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series Best Practices
White Paper Copy Consistency Point recommendations are described for various configurations of two and three cluster grids. The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 is a mainframe virtual tape solution implementing a fully integrated, tiered storage hierarchy of... [30 Apr 2008]
Use of the Signal Reference Grid in Data Centers
White Paper Signal reference grids are automatically specified and installed in data centers despite the fact that they are no longer needed by modern IT equipment. Even when installed, they are typically used incorrectly. [26 Apr 2008]
Data Grids and Service-Oriented Architecture
White Paper When choosing an SOA strategy, corporations must rely on solutions that ensure data availability, reliability, performance, and scalability. This white paper addresses the challenges in selecting an SOA strategy, and how clustered caching can... [22 Apr 2008]
Issues for Using Computing and Data Grids for Large-Scale Science and Engineering
White Paper There are many challenges in making Grids a reality, in the sense that they can provide new capabilities in production quality environments. One challenge is to identify the minimal set of such services and another is to scale the services to Grids... [10 Apr 2008]
The Armada Framework for Parallel I/O on Computational Grids
White Paper An exciting trend in high-performance distributed computing is the development of widely-distributed networks of heterogeneous systems and devices, known as computational grids. Grid applications use high-speed networks to logically assemble... [10 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]
UDT: An Application Level Transport Protocol for Grid Computing
White Paper Data-intensive applications over high bandwidth delay product (BDP) networks, such as computational grids, need new transport protocols to support them. As network bandwidth and delays increase, TCP becomes inefficient. [10 Apr 2008]
Transparent Grid Computing: A Knowledge-Based Approach
White Paper However, Grids are still the domain of a few highly trained programmers with expertise in networking, high-performance computing, and operating systems. Grid computing provides key infrastructure for distributed problem solving in dynamic virtual... [10 Apr 2008]
