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Perspectives on Grid: An Overview of WebSphere Extended Deployment - Examining WebSphere XD as an Integrated Grid Platform for SOA and Infrastructure Virtualization Environments

whitepaper In this paper, one will get an overview of WebSphere Extended Deployment and how it can help the organization realize a dynamic, goals-driven grid infrastructure built on virtualization and which is ideal for SOA environments.

Tags: high performance computing

[16 May 2008]

Perspectives on Grid: Virtualization as a Foundation for SOA Environments - Synergies, Alignment, and the Relationship Between SOA and Infrastructure Virtualization

whitepaper In this paper, Matt Haynos provides a cursory analysis of the similarities and differences between grid computing and SOA and infrastructure virtualization techniques. SOA and infrastructure virtualization techniques are highly synergistic.

Tags: web services

[16 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]

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. This paper presents two different approaches to partially overcome the limitations in...

Tags: firewalls

[11 Apr 2008]

Security in Multi-Domain Grid Environments

whitepaper This paper focuses on the Authorisation aspects of security in grid environments spanning multiple administrative domains. The EU DataGrid project has made a comprehensive security architecture and implemented many components of this for use by all...

Tags: network security, grid, components, implemented

[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]

Building Performance Topologies for Computational Grids

whitepaper This paper describes the architecture, implementation and performance of a service for the delivery of dynamic performance information in Grid environments. Based on usage requirements gleaned from real applications being developed as part of the...

Tags: high performance computing, grid, environments, implemented

[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]

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. Global access to storage is a common theme of Grid Computing, with access mechanisms often...

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

[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]

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]

Efficient Resource Virtualization and Sharing Strategies for Heterogeneous Grid Environments

whitepaper Resource virtualization has emerged as a powerful technique for customized resource provisioning in grid and data center environments. It evaluates this approach by implementing it in the Harmony grid environment consisting of heterogeneous...

Tags: resources mgmt.

[29 Feb 2008]

Towards Autonomic Grid Data Management With Virtualized Distributed File Systems

whitepaper Grid data management is a challenging task because of the heterogeneous, dynamic and large-scale nature of Grid environments. This paper proposes an autonomic Grid data management architecture based on virtualized distributed file systems and WSRF...

Tags: infrastructure management

[29 Feb 2008]

User-Space Auto-Tuning for TCP Flow Control in Computational Grids

whitepaper With the advent of computational grids, networking performance over the Wide-Area Network (WAN) has become a critical component in the grid infrastructure. Unfortunately, many high-performance grid applications only use a small fraction of their...

Tags: wide area networks (wan)

[14 Jan 2008]

Statistical Service Assurances for Applications in Utility Grid Environments

whitepaper Utility grid environments offer programmatic access to Information Technology (IT) resources for applications. There is a substantial literature regarding admission control, resource reservation, and scheduling in support of engineering and...

Tags: resources mgmt., resource, statistical, admission

[06 Nov 2007]

Oracle Database Lite 10gR3 Business White Paper

whitepaper It extends the grid environment to mobile and embedded devices, allowing mobile workers to access enterprise data even in the absence of a network connection. Oracle Database Lite 10g is an integrated and complete solution for rapid development and...

Tags: knowledge and data management, oracle database, workers, lite

[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]

Q-GSM: QoS Oriented Grid Service Management

whitepaper This paper introduces Q-GSM, a scalable framework for service management in grid environments, to address this problem. Effective and efficient Quality of Service (QoS) management is critical for a service grid to meet the requirements of both grid...

Tags: framework, grid, reservation, quality service

[10 Sep 2007]

Q-GSM: QoS Oriented Grid Service Management

whitepaper This paper introduces Q-GSM, a scalable framework for service management in grid environments, to address this problem. Effective and efficient Quality of Service (QoS) management is critical for a service grid to meet the requirements of both grid...

Tags: framework, grid, reservation, quality service

[10 Sep 2007]

Autonomic System Management in Mobile Grid Environments

whitepaper Mobile device integration in grid environments is a challenge for many researchers. The paper proposes a distributed broker responsible for the autonomic management of grid services. In this paper the design and prototype implementation of the...

Tags: cellular equipment, grid, self, broker

[03 Sep 2007]

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