Sun Grid
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News Linden Lab has revealed its tech group is tackling several areas that it hopes will make the Second Life Grid - the platform which allows users to build their own islands - work more efficiently and reduce technical... [15 Sep 2008]
The Future of High-Availability
White Paper High-availability solutions as opposed to massive compute solutions, like Sun Grid, must still be built in the traditional way using cluster solutions. High-Availability solutions have evolved... [04 Aug 2008]
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... [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... [16 Apr 2008]
World-Renowned Genome Research Facility Relies on Sun to Provide Cost-Efficient High-Performance Compute Grid
White Paper To achieve higher performance at lower cost, TIGR migrated and consolidated processing for a core genetic sequencing application from a HP AlphaServer Tru64 platform to a high-performance computing grid infrastructure... [16 Apr 2008]
Sun's Reference Architecture for Oracle 11 g Grid
White Paper Sun's Reference Architecture for Oracle 11 g Grid provides a high performance, highly available database infrastructure in a cost-effective grid environment. Deployed on... [09 Apr 2008]
Informatica Powercenter 8 on Sun's AMD Opteron Processor Blade Servers
White Paper The Enterprise Grid Option for PowerCenter 8 incorporates automated load balancing and dynamic partitioning technologies to capitalize on the massive throughput achievable in multi-node grid hardware... [15 Feb 2008]
NVIDIA Maximizes Engineering Productivity With a Grid Architecture
White Paper NVIDIA upgraded to a grid infrastructure to meet growing demands for storage. This architecture consists of 3,000 Linux compute nodes for the majority of its EDA compute jobs, 13 Sun 6800s for large... [20 Jul 2007]
Photos of the month - May 2007
Photo Handling all this information and dishing it out to 5,000 scientists around the world is no mean feat so a global grid has been put together to distribute and filter the data. Find out more about the... [30 May 2007]
Sun Microsystems Case Study: Grid Technology
White Paper 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... [15 May 2007]
Sun Customer Ready HPC Cluster: Reference Configurations With Sun Fire X2200 M2 and X2100 M2 Servers
White Paper These configurations focus on delivering computing power with high space density, in a cluster or grid architecture. The Sun Customer Ready HPC Cluster includes servers, networking, interconnects, and... [11 May 2007]
Intel signs up to Green Grid movement
News The Green Grid, an IT industry effort to encourage the reduction of power consumption, declared itself open for business yesterday with a new membership structure and the inclusion of Intel. When The Green... [27 Feb 2007]
Second Life software goes open source
News Linden plans to eventually make the server software that powers its grid open source software as well, Ondrejka said, though he added the company will proceed cautiously and gave no deadlines. Sun... [09 Jan 2007]
Sun to revamp grid offering
News At least one high-level Sun Microsystems executive is departing after a shake-up that is also affecting Sun Grid, a service to let customers pay by the hour to use its computers. And... [18 Sep 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: How Linux is hurting Microsoft
Comment Perhaps more significantly, when large numbers of commodity servers are deployed together - maybe as a grid - the economies of scale may create a preference for Linux over Windows, with Linux experts employed to support... [12 May 2006]
