141 stories on
Sort by: Date | Relevance
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...
[06 May 2008]
whitepaper Technology advances in IT systems deliver more and more computing power for dollar, but they can also stress the power and cooling infrastructures and, in some cases, the local utility grid. With virtualization offering increased performance per...
[05 May 2008]
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...
[03 May 2008]
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.
[10 Mar 2008]
News The Red Bull Formula One (F1) team is using grid computing to boost development work for its 2008 racing car by getting the most out of its processing power. Using grid technology, workstations left idle by staff when they leave work can also be...
[07 Mar 2008]
whitepaper Properly managed, storage and throughput scale linearly with computing power. Grids today appear mostly in High Performance Computing (HPC) environments, where hundreds of inexpensive compute nodes link together to solve parallel processing...
[11 Sep 2007]
whitepaper The presenter of this webcast explains how SAS Applications running on a SAS Grid Computing environment will dramatically reduce the costs of computing while significantly improving throughput.
[31 Aug 2007]
whitepaper Grid computing enables organizations to use their distributed computing resources more efficiently and flexibly, providing more usable power out of existing systems - and helping organizations gain a competitive business advantage.
[09 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet Virtualisation has dipped its finger into a variety of IT pies including blades, green computing, grid computing and service-oriented architectures. But in a recent CIO Jury, virtualisation was named as a key infrastructure priority for CIOs to cut...
[04 Jun 2007]
whitepaper These configurations focus on delivering computing power with high space density, in a cluster or grid architecture. The Sun Customer Ready HPC Cluster with Sun Fire X2100 M2 and X2200 M2 servers is optimized for High-Performance Computing (HPC...
[11 May 2007]
News Combining multiple grid computing farms and adding virtualisation is also on the agenda. Graham Yellowley, director of technology services at investment bank Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International, added: "We are looking to leverage virtualisation...
[04 May 2007]
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...
[21 Apr 2007]
whitepaper To provide computing power for IBM Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS), UHCS began their enterprise-class IBM hardware deployment with just four eServer xSeries servers powered by Intel Xeon processors and running the Linux operating system.
[19 Apr 2007]
whitepaper The synergies that result from grid cooperation include the sharing, exchange, selection, and aggregation of geographically distributed resources such as computers, data bases, software, and scientific instruments for solving large-scale problems...
[14 Mar 2007]
whitepaper The synergies that result from grid cooperation include the sharing, exchange, selection, and aggregation of geographically distributed resources such as computers, data bases, software, and scientific instruments for solving large-scale problems...
[14 Mar 2007]
News Grid allows organisations to share that computing power - both in servers and desktops - and so reduce that waste.silicon.com Financial Services Lando told the Finexpo conference London: "The real definition of grid is not about a new distributed...
[25 Jan 2007]
News A grid computing project launched by the BBC, the Met Office and others back in 2003 has seen more than 50,000 users volunteer their home computing power in the name of climate change. The grid project discovered the UK's average temperature is...
[19 Jan 2007]
whitepaper The term grid computing derives from the universal concept of the power grid, where one can use a standard plug at any time to gain easy access to electric power. Once reserved for the scientific and technical communities where it was developed and...
[21 Dec 2006]
News The European Commission has launched 23 new research projects to highlight the power of grid computing to businesses. The three projects - BEinGRID, XtreemOS and Brein - will all explore the relevance and benefits of grid computing across multiple...
[19 Sep 2006]
News Chipmaker and Sun supplier AMD signed up last week to use computing power when its internal grid system can't keep up with demand. And Stuart Wells, the executive vice president for utility computing who joined in 1988, is losing his position...
[18 Sep 2006]
Sort by: Date | Relevance
Copyright ©1995-2008 CNET Networks, Inc. All rights reserved. Top of page