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Insight and Outlook, Part 11: The Resurgence of the Mainframe - Reassess the Mainframe as the Center of Your Business Management System

whitepaper Midsize UNIX boxes, grid computing schemes, and server farms made up of dozens of smaller systems seem to dominate today's IT infrastructure. On the software side, the authors hear about lightweight scripting, high-level languages, distributed...

Tags: mainframes

[14 May 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. The goal is to evolve intelligent transportation engineering from a centralized...

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

[10 Apr 2008]

Agent-Based Resource Management for Grid Computing

whitepaper A number of distributed computing technologies are being applied to grid development work, including CORBA and Jini. It is envisaged that the grid infrastructure will be a large-scale distributed software system that will provide high-end...

Tags: resources mgmt., distributed, grid, scale

[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. Grid applications use high-speed networks to logically assemble collections of resources such as scientific instruments, supercomputers...

Tags: high performance computing, distributed, grid, heterogeneous

[10 Apr 2008]

A Methodology for Account Management in Grid Computing Environments

whitepaper A national infrastructure of Grid computing environments will provide access for a large pool of users to a large number of distributed computing resources. Providing access for the complete pool of potential users would put an unacceptably large...

Tags: high performance computing, grid, account, burden

[10 Apr 2008]

The Role of Planning in Grid Computing

whitepaper Grid computing gives users access to widely distributed networks of computing resources to solve large-scale tasks such as scientific computation. This paper explains the implementation of a planning system to generate task workflows for the Grid...

Tags: high performance computing, automatically, components, grid

[10 Apr 2008]

Transparent Grid Computing: A Knowledge-Based Approach

whitepaper Grid computing provides key infrastructure for distributed problem solving in dynamic virtual organizations. This paper describes the initial work in capturing knowledge and heuristics about how to select application components and computing...

Tags: high performance computing, knowledge, expertise, grid

[10 Apr 2008]

Performance-Responsive Middleware for Grid Computing

whitepaper The development of supportive middleware to manage resources and distributed workload across multiple administrative boundaries is of central importance to Grid computing. Active middleware services that perform look-up, match-making, scheduling...

Tags: high performance computing, domain, middleware, workload

[10 Apr 2008]

Distributed File System Support for Virtual Machines in Grid Computing

whitepaper This paper presents a data management solution which allows fast Virtual Machine (VM) instantiation and efficient run-time execution to support VMs as execution environments in Grid computing. It is based on novel distributed file system...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[22 Mar 2008]

Grid - Distributed Computing at Scale: An Overview of Grid and the Open Grid Forum4.5

whitepaper Grid is a core concept in modern distributed computing architectures and is aligned with other important distributed computing technologies such as virtualization, service-orientation and data center automation.

Tags: infrastructure management

[29 Feb 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]

Comparison of Data Grid Solutions

whitepaper Many of these applications utilizing the Grid are expected to generate enormous amount of data, and there is an imminent need for enhanced mechanisms for utilizing the necessary distributed storage resources.

Tags: knowledge and data management

[14 Feb 2008]

Building Scalable, High Performance Cluster and Grid Networks: The Role of Ethernet

whitepaper A Grid computer is a hardware and software system that integrates a collection of distributed system components (e.g.computer systems, storage, etc.making them appear to the user as a single, large "virtualized" computing system.

Tags: ethernet

[07 Feb 2008]

On Parameter Tuning of Data Transfer Protocol GridFTP for Wide-Area Grid Computing

whitepaper In wide-area Grid computing, geographically distributed computational resources are connected for enabling efficient and large-scale scientific/engineering computations. In the wide-area Grid computing, a data transfer protocol called GridFTP has...

Tags: wide area networks (wan), phase, optimal, tcp

[05 Dec 2007]

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

whitepaper Configurable optical networks and wide-area resource sharing in the form of Grid computing provide intriguing opportunities for new application capabilities and resource efficiencies. The resulting Lambda-Grid is a collection of geographically...

Tags: optical networking, optical, sharing, distributed

[19 Oct 2007]

Oracle Database 10g: Information Integration

whitepaper This paper further describes how these features enable not only efficient information integration, but efficient data provisioning for grid computing, as well. This paper covers information integration using distributed SQL, Oracle Streams, Oracle...

Tags: database management, streams, transparent, gateways

[08 Aug 2007]

The Digipede Framework Software Development Kit (SDK)

whitepaper Built entirely on the Microsoft .NET platform, it is radically easier to buy, install, learn, and use than other grid computing solutions. The Digipede Network is a distributed computing solution that delivers dramatically improved performance for...

Tags: software engineering, framework, microsoft .net, distribute

[05 Jul 2007]

Perspectives on Grid: Grid Computing - Next-Generation Distributed Computing

whitepaper This paper provides a cursory analysis of the similarities and differences between grid computing and such distributed computing systems as P2P, CORBA, cluster computing, and DCE. Two major needs have dramatically increased the value of the concept...

Tags: web services, grid, grid computing, differences

[04 Jul 2007]

Alchemi: A .NET-Based Enterprise Grid Computing System

whitepaper Microsoft's .NET Framework has become near-ubiquitous for implementing commercial distributed systems for Windows-based platforms, positioning it as the ideal platform for grid computing in this context.

Tags: .net, grid, distributed, framework

[03 Jul 2007]

Combining AJAX and WSRF for Web-Browser Based Grid Clients

whitepaper Accessing WS-Resources (according to WSRF) in a manner compatible with the REST principles, using a Web browser, makes it possible to provide a light-weight, portable client for interacting with scientific simulations in distributed computing...

Tags: xml, distributed, principles, client

[02 Jul 2007]

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