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Scalable Windows Servers for the Data Center

whitepaper In some cases, customers will choose to link multiple servers with clustering or grid software to support a given workload. Workloads such as business intelligence, database, decision support, and ERP applications - which are already available for...

Tags: application servers

[15 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. Local authorities update their data locally and add it to the NLPG at least...

Tags: local authorities, database

[30 Apr 2008]

Dynamic Firewalls and Service Deployment Models for Grid Environments

whitepaper However, the traditional client-server paradigm supported by most of today's firewall does not accommodate the specific requirements of novel Grid applications. The second approach aims at minimizing the interactions between Grid applications and...

Tags: firewalls

[11 Apr 2008]

Using Grid Computing to Create a Virtual Environment for Applications

whitepaper By deploying grid computing software, organizations can virtualize their IT environments and extend their key applications to gain competitive advantage. Organizations are increasingly turning to clustered low-cost Intel architecture (IA) systems...

Tags: high performance computing, availability, administrators, configuration

[10 Apr 2008]

The Armada Framework for Parallel I/O on Computational Grids

whitepaper 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...

Tags: high performance computing, distributed, grid, heterogeneous

[10 Apr 2008]

A Centralized Data Access Model for Grid Computing

whitepaper Global access to storage is a common theme of Grid Computing, with access mechanisms often enforcing a major restriction on the distribution of significant applications across a computational grid. For applications that are truly data intensive...

Tags: high performance computing, grid, grid computing, distribution

[10 Apr 2008]

Performance-Aware Workflow Management for Grid Computing

whitepaper Grid applications are increasingly modular, composed of workflow descriptions that can feature both resource and application dynamism. Grid middleware development has advanced rapidly over the past few years to support component-based programming...

Tags: load balancing, workflow, component, concepts

[10 Apr 2008]

Building Performance Topologies for Computational Grids

whitepaper 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...

Tags: high performance computing, grid, environments, implemented

[10 Apr 2008]

Alcatel Builds Easy-to-Use GUI's for Telecommunications Systems With Stingray Products

whitepaper Objective Grid gives Alcatel's developers 100% MFC grid control while Objective Views adds graphical diagram interfaces to Alcatel's MFC applications quickly and easily. Alcatel selected Rogue Wave Objective Grid, Objective Toolkit PRO, Objective...

Tags: software engineering, wave, telecommunications, grid

[10 Apr 2008]

Rogue Wave Tools Brings Consistency and Faster Time-to-Market for Cadence Design Systems

whitepaper Cadence purchased Rogue WaveTools.h++ and Objective Toolkit PRO, and Stingray Objective Grid, Objective Edit, and Objective Chart. Cadence is using Rogue Wave and Stingray tools throughout the company to ensure a uniform interface for its...

Tags: component-based, microsoft visual studio, rogue, electronics

[10 Apr 2008]

Optimizing SAGE on the Intel Itanium 2 Processor based Platform

whitepaper 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.

Tags: high performance computing, platforms, community, sage

[10 Apr 2008]

UDT: An Application Level Transport Protocol for Grid Computing

whitepaper 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.

Tags: high performance computing, bandwidth, protocol, congestion

[10 Apr 2008]

Multiparadigm Communications in Java for Grid Computing

whitepaper This paper argues that the rapid development of Java technology now makes it possible to support, in a single object-oriented framework, the different communication and coordination structures that arise in scientific applications.

Tags: high performance computing, java, structures, object

[10 Apr 2008]

KAoS: A Policy and Domain Services Framework for Grid Computing and Semantic Web Services

whitepaper KAoS has been adapted for use in several applications and deployment platforms. This paper introduces KAoS, a policy and domain services framework based on W3C's OWL ontology language. KAoS was developed in response to the challenges presented by...

Tags: high performance computing, mechanisms, trust, language

[10 Apr 2008]

SABUL: A Transport Protocol for Grid Computing

whitepaper This paper describes SABUL, an application-level data transfer protocol for data-intensive applications over high bandwidth-delay product networks. This protocol has demonstrated its efficiency and fairness in both experimental and practical...

Tags: web protocols, efficiency, transfer, fairness

[10 Apr 2008]

Perspectives on Grid: Application Programming and Extreme-Scale Data Infrastructure Support in WebSphere Extended Deployment - A Closer Look at Application Patterns

whitepaper IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment (Extended Deployment) is infrastructure software for application servers, which many associated with the ability to optimize and lower costs of an application infrastructure, prioritize resources for use by the...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[09 Apr 2008]

Live Webcast: Virtual Service Oriented Grids: Transforming the Enterprise

whitepaper While most discussions in the industry have been focused on the enhanced performance from grid computing in niche applications, the overlooked real payoff from combining grids with virtualization and service orientation will come in terms of a...

Tags: scalability, architect, corporation, grid computing

[25 Mar 2008]

Photos: Red Bull Racing's F1 factory

Photo Due to the huge demand for computing power, the organisation runs a supercomputer and uses grid computing to support the development process. CFD requires huge amounts of processing power which Red Bull is able to boost through grid computing.

Tags: f1, grid, power, server

[10 Mar 2008]

Organization and Accessibility of Network Monitoring Data in a Grid

whitepaper The availability of the outcome of network monitoring activities, while valuable for the operation of Grid applications, poses serious scalability problems: in principle, in a Grid composed of n resources, one needs to keep record of n2 end-to-end...

Tags: monitoring systems

[04 Mar 2008]

Maestro-VC: On-Demand Secure Cluster Computing Using Virtualization

whitepaper This field has seen much research for potential applications in the field of distributed and Grid computing. In this way the goals of on-demand computing overlap with and are similar to those of Grid computing: both enable the pooling of global...

Tags: infrastructure management

[29 Feb 2008]

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