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Service Provider Fuels Its Future With Sun Grid Compute Utility

whitepaper 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...

Tags: infrastructure management

[06 May 2008]

World-Renowned Genome Research Facility Relies on Sun to Provide Cost-Efficient High-Performance Compute Grid

whitepaper The company's challenge was to improve performance of compute grid to accommodate compute-intensive research to reduce IT expenses to maintain internal cost efficiency. To achieve higher performance at lower cost, TIGR migrated and consolidated...

Tags: application servers

[05 May 2008]

Computational Power of Sun Compute Grid Helps Researchers Uncover New Ways to Treat Diseases

whitepaper 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...

Tags: data center

[03 May 2008]

A Do-it-Yourself Framework for Grid Computing: Learn to Build Your Own Grid Computing Application Using Open Source Tools

whitepaper This paper uses a Java custom ClassLoader, a Tomcat servlet container, and the Axis SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) implementation to demonstrate a simple-to-use framework that supports minimal grid requirements, including machine...

Tags: java, grid, grid computing, execution

[10 Apr 2008]

Stephen Hawking, SGI, and CosmoGrid: The Collaborative Search for Beginnings

whitepaper U.K.researchers, led by principal investigator Professor Stephen Hawking of Cambridge University, have combined forces to attack this compute- and visualization-intensive problem with the U.K. Cosmology Grid (CosmoGrid).

Tags: file and network servers, grid, visualization, sgi

[10 Apr 2008]

Why must IT go green?

Comment Green computer does not compute The National Grid is reaching breaking point. It is about efficiency, says Stewart Baines. And that should make it more sustainable than any kowtowing to corporate social responsibility.

Tags: green, management, data centres, efficiency

[03 Dec 2007]

Evaluating the Impacts of Network Information Models on Applications and Network Service Providers

whitepaper The resulting Lambda-Grid is a collection of geographically dispersed compute, storage and visualization resources that can be interconnected on-demand with private, high speed optical circuits (i.e.lambdas).

Tags: optical networking, optical, sharing, distributed

[19 Oct 2007]

A Practical Application for Grid Computing

whitepaper Grids today appear mostly in High Performance Computing (HPC) environments, where hundreds of inexpensive compute nodes link together to solve parallel processing problems that previously could only have been addressed by using supercomputers.

Tags: high performance computing, processing, high performance computing, addressed

[11 Sep 2007]

Environmental Scientists Join Forces Against Climate Change With Integrated Platform

whitepaper The solution- based on Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 and Microsoft .NET technology - is making collaboration easier, improving research productivity and increasing insight and public awareness. The aim of the project Grid ENabled Integrated...

Tags: .net, simulations, earth, insight

[03 Sep 2007]

HPC in Financial Services - The Power of Platform Symphony, Windows Compute Cluster Server and Excel 2007 Trio

whitepaper This webcast demonstrates how Platform Symphony, one of the leading performing grid technologies in the market, can provide real time performance in options calculations working in conjunction with Windows Server Compute Cluster Edition and...

Tags: high performance computing, cluster, excel, microsoft office

[28 Aug 2007]

Environmental Scientists Join Forces Against Climate Change With Integrated Platform

whitepaper The solution- based on Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 and Microsoft .NET technology - is making collaboration easier, improving research productivity and increasing insight and public awareness. The aim of the project Grid ENabled Integrated...

Tags: simulations, earth, grid, microsoft .net

[13 Aug 2007]

NVIDIA Maximizes Engineering Productivity With a Grid Architecture

whitepaper This architecture consists of 3,000 Linux compute nodes for the majority of its EDA compute jobs, 13 Sun 6800s for large memory compute jobs, and a total of 42 NetApp primary and secondary storage systems with about 440TB of storage capacity.

Tags: infrastructure management, jobs, graphics, processing

[20 Jul 2007]

Technical Report: Preliminary Development of Computational Sensitivity Analysis

whitepaper A user-friendly GUI tool is developed to compute sensitivities of application codes using VB.NET, C, and Visual Basic Applications for Excel macros. This paper presents the use of sensitivity analysis in computer science, aiming to improve the...

Tags: programming languages, methods, computational, sensitivity

[06 Jul 2007]

Scaling SOA in Financial Services With Grid Computing for .NET

whitepaper New High-Performance Computing (HPC) offerings from Microsoft and its partners are ideally suited for scaling out compute-intensive components of an SOA. Enterprise architects in financial services are looking to Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA...

Tags: high performance computing, soa, service oriented architectures, financial services

[04 Jul 2007]

A Throughput-Intensive Compute and Storage Grid Using SAS Grid Manager

whitepaper The time has come when a $2,000,000 SMP UNIX server can be replaced by a $200,000 grid of even greater performance, reliability, and fault tolerance. This paper will discuss the considerations made in selecting the key grid components: grid node...

Tags: knowledge and data management, sas, grid, node

[02 Jun 2007]

Sun Customer Ready HPC Cluster: Reference Configurations With Sun Fire X2200 M2 and X2100 M2 Servers

whitepaper The Sun Customer Ready HPC Cluster with Sun Fire X2100 M2 and X2200 M2 servers is optimized for High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications such as scientific research, Mechanical Computer-Aided Engineering (MCAE), Electronic Design Automation...

Tags: application servers, cluster, high performance computing, hpc

[11 May 2007]

Grid Explained

whitepaper Grid offers a powerful way of unleashing the compute power and information within an organization to yield sustainable business benefits and overcome inefficiencies by directing the organization's computing power to the business need with the...

Tags: infrastructure management, sustainable, sustainable business, interoperability

[21 Apr 2007]

Novell Case Study: Sal. Oppenheim

whitepaper The new solution reduces compute time from hours to minutes, and allows the company to quickly introduce new and complex financial products. As a solution to this the company implemented an IBM Grid solution running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to...

Tags: linux - open source, ibm grid, flexibility, bank

[05 Apr 2007]

Sal. Oppenheim Claims First-Mover Advantage With a Grid Solution From IBM and Platform

whitepaper The company wanted to compute the value of complex financial instruments at high speed; create a high-performance computing infrastructure capable of rapid, low-cost, non-disruptive growth; achieve high levels of availability.

Tags: linux - open source, low cost, grid, availability

[05 Apr 2007]

Investment bank races apps around the grid

News The real story is being able to share compute power where and when it's needed on demand. Banking giant Merrill Lynch is using grid technologies to boost the performance of its applications, with some now running four times faster than before.

Tags: grid

[25 Jan 2007]

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