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whitepaper Beijing Tobacco Monopoly wanted to construct an integrated IT infrastructure that offers high performance, reliability, and availability and enable online information sharing and collaboration. The company deployed Oracle Database and Oracle Real...
[14 May 2008]
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 To achieve higher performance at lower cost, TIGR migrated and consolidated processing for a core genetic sequencing application from a HP AlphaServer Tru64 platform to a high-performance computing grid infrastructure using Sun Fire x64 servers...
[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]
whitepaper Grid applications use high-speed networks to logically assemble collections of resources such as scientific instruments, supercomputers, databases, and so forth. One important challenge facing grid computing is efficient parallel I/O for data...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Based on usage requirements gleaned from real applications being developed as part of the GrADS project a high-performance service for use by Grid schedulers is implemented. This paper describes the architecture, implementation and performance of a...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Today it is virtually impossible to discuss high performance or scientific computing of any sort without reference to grid technologies. Grid computing has emerged as a dominant, pervasive metaphor in the past decade.
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper SAGE (SAIC Adaptive Grid Eulerian) is a well-known hydrodynamics application in the US Department of Energy's national laboratory community, and the application has been ported to several platforms over the years.
[10 Apr 2008]
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...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper SABUL is designed for reliability, high performance, fairness and stability. This paper describes SABUL, an application-level data transfer protocol for data-intensive applications over high bandwidth-delay product networks.
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Taobao.com implemented a reliable, scalable, and high performing information technology architecture using a range of Oracle grid computing products and satisfied scalability requirements with four-node server cluster, with the option of expanding...
[24 Mar 2008]
whitepaper The performance of a parallel algorithm in a very large scale grid is significantly influenced by the underlying Internet protocols and inter-connectivity. Many grid programming platforms use TCP due to its reliability, usually with some...
[03 Mar 2008]
whitepaper Autonomic functions are integrated into the services to provide self-managing control over the different entities of Grid-wide file system sessions, in accordance with high-level objectives, and operate together to automatically achieve the...
[29 Feb 2008]
News The nanotube grid, conceivably, could function as a data-storage device or perform calculations. Once the nanotube array has been constructed, the laboratory-generated DNA molecules could be removed, leaving an orderly grid of nanotubes.
[21 Feb 2008]
whitepaper The goals of the project are to conduct R&D on high-performance and scalable Grid middleware to provide a future computational infrastructure for scientific and engineering research in Japan. The Japanese National Research Grid Initiative (NAREGI...
[15 Feb 2008]
whitepaper This paper describes one such approach that uses the finite-difference time-domain method with multiple levels of grid embedding. This approach was designed for high performance on parallel computers.
[14 Feb 2008]
whitepaper These new grid-specific capabilities deliver cost-effective linear scalability and high performance required for mission critical enterprise data integration. The Enterprise Grid Option for PowerCenter 8 incorporates automated load balancing and...
[14 Feb 2008]
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.
[07 Feb 2008]
whitepaper Unfortunately, many high-performance grid applications only use a small fraction of their available bandwidth because operating systems and their associated protocol stacks are still tuned for yesterday's network speeds.
[14 Jan 2008]
whitepaper Computational grids such as the Information Power Grid, Particle Physics Data Grid, and Earth System Grid depend on TCP to provide reliable communication between nodes across a Wide-Area Network (WAN).
[14 Jan 2008]
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