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IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series Grid Failover Scenarios Version 1.1

whitepaper In a Grid configuration, two TS7700 Clusters are interconnected and can replicate data created on either TS7700 Cluster to the other. The capability to resume business operations in the event of a product or site failure is provided by the TS7700...

Tags: tape drives - libraries

[16 May 2008]

Use of the Signal Reference Grid in Data Centers

whitepaper This paper explains the origins of the signal reference grid, the operating principles and limitations, and why they no longer are needed. Signal reference grids are automatically specified and installed in data centers despite the fact that they...

Tags: network design

[15 May 2008]

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]

Data Center One Technical Description

whitepaper Specific use cases and their corresponding solutions show how grid technology can be applied to solve real-world problems and how the technology fits within the current data center ecosystem. A technical solution that utilizes grid computing is...

Tags: data center

[14 May 2008]

Data Streaming, Workflow and Firewall-Friendly Grid Services With Styx

whitepaper This paper presents the Styx Grid Service (SGS), a remote service type that allows data to be streamed directly between service instances. The Styx Grid Service is built upon the Styx protocol, an established protocol for building distributed systems.

Tags: firewalls

[11 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]

Incentive Programs for Data Center Thermal Analysis, Energy Assessments and Server Consolidation Projects

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...

Tags: data center

[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. The company challenge was to analyze vast amount of proteomic data from patient blood samples...

Tags: data center

[03 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. A national geographical electronic database is now available for commercial...

Tags: local authorities, database

[30 Apr 2008]

Calculating the Return on Investment for Clustered Caching and Data Grid Solutions

whitepaper This white paper demonstrates the ROI of clustered caching and data grid solutions using Oracle Coherence. Innovative middleware solutions such as In-memory Data Grid technology can dramatically increase the utilization of software and hardware...

Tags: middleware, budget, roi, coherence

[14 Apr 2008]

The Green Grid Data Center Power Efficiency Metrics: PUE and DCiE

whitepaper The Green Grid is an association of IT professionals seeking to dramatically raise the energy efficiency of data centers through a series of short-term and long-term proposals. This is an update to the very first white paper published by the Green...

Tags: data center

[11 Apr 2008]

Storage Resource Broker Data Grid

whitepaper The requirements for a data handling system can be expressed as “transparencies” that hide grid implementation details: Name transparency, Location transparency, Protocol transparency, Time transparency, and Single sign-on transparency.

Tags: storage management, handling, transparency, grids

[10 Apr 2008]

A Centralized Data Access Model for Grid Computing

whitepaper For applications that are truly data intensive, this may render them either highly inefficient, or even incapable of using grid computing environments. This paper describes a different approach, where the opportunity to design a grid environment...

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

[10 Apr 2008]

The Armada Framework for Parallel I/O on Computational Grids

whitepaper One important challenge facing grid computing is efficient parallel I/O for data-intensive grid applications. This paper presents the Armada framework for building I/O-access paths for data-intensive grid applications.

Tags: high performance computing, distributed, grid, heterogeneous

[10 Apr 2008]

The Role of Planning in Grid Computing

whitepaper This paper explains the implementation of a planning system to generate task workflows for the Grid automatically, allowing the user to specify simply the desired data products. Grid computing gives users access to widely distributed networks of...

Tags: high performance computing, automatically, components, grid

[10 Apr 2008]

Grid Load Balancing Using Intelligent Agents

whitepaper Each agent is a representative of a local grid resource and utilises predictive application performance data and iterative heuristic algorithms to engineer local load balancing across multiple hosts. Workload and resource management are essential...

Tags: load balancing, load, resource, intelligent

[10 Apr 2008]

VGrid: Vehicular AdHoc Networking and Computing Grid for Intelligent Traffic Control

whitepaper This paper proposes VGrid: an ad hoc networking and computational grid, which can be formed by leveraging inter-vehicle and vehicle-to-roadside wireless communications. Rather than just using ad-hoc networks for exchanging data between vehicles...

Tags: high performance computing, traffic, vehicle, ad hoc

[10 Apr 2008]

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

whitepaper The challenge is to create a scientific networking grid that enables U.K.cosmologists at distant locations to share data and computing resources in their study of the origins of the universe and establish a central computing and visualization...

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

[10 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]

Issues for Using Computing and Data Grids for Large-Scale Science and Engineering

whitepaper While the basic Grid services have been demonstrated, e.g.in the IPG prototype demonstrated at the Supercomputing 1999 conference, and the GUSTO testbed demonstrated in 1998, a general purpose computing, data management, and real-time...

Tags: security management, grid, grids, reality

[10 Apr 2008]

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