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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. As services take hold in enterprises, and their size and scale grows, it will...

Tags: web services

[15 May 2008]

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

whitepaper There are many technologies that comprise grid computing. 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...

Tags: high performance computing

[15 May 2008]

Data Center One Technical Description

whitepaper A technical solution that utilizes grid computing is described in detail. 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...

Tags: data center

[14 May 2008]

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. IBM has seen growth in its System z mainframe business for six of the last nine quarters, according to IBM...

Tags: mainframes

[14 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. And in addition to the reduction in operating costs one...

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. One of the largest academic medical centers in the United States and a leader in clinical...

Tags: data center

[03 May 2008]

Dynamic Firewalls and Service Deployment Models for Grid Environments

whitepaper This paper presents two different approaches to partially overcome the limitations in Grid computing introduced by firewalls. The second approach aims at minimizing the interactions between Grid applications and firewalls, through the definition of...

Tags: firewalls

[11 Apr 2008]

Grid Computing Takes Off in the Enterprise

whitepaper The concept of grid computing is very similar to the methods used to create many massively parallel supercomputers. The main difference is that supercomputers have much faster connections between processors and between processors and memory than...

Tags: high performance computing, grid, processors, supercomputers

[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]

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]

Multiparadigm Communications in Java for Grid Computing

whitepaper This paper argues that the rapid development of Java technology now makes it possible to support, in a single object-oriented framework, the different communication and coordination structures that arise in scientific applications.

Tags: high performance computing, java, structures, object

[10 Apr 2008]

The Ethernet Approach to Grid Computing

whitepaper Reflecting on the current frailty of much software, grid and otherwise, this paper proposes that the Ethernet approach to resource sharing is an effective and reliable technique for combining coarse-grained software when failures are common and...

Tags: ethernet, resource, failure, technique

[10 Apr 2008]

Performance-Aware Workflow Management for Grid Computing

whitepaper Grid middleware development has advanced rapidly over the past few years to support component-based programming models and service-orientated architectures. Grid applications are increasingly modular, composed of workflow descriptions that can...

Tags: load balancing, workflow, component, concepts

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

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

[10 Apr 2008]

UDT: An Application Level Transport Protocol for Grid Computing

whitepaper These problems are due to slow loss-recovery, a RTT bias inherent in its AIMD congestion-control algorithm, and the bursting data flow caused by its window control. UDT has a congestion control mechanism that maintains efficiency, fairness and...

Tags: high performance computing, bandwidth, protocol, congestion

[10 Apr 2008]

SABUL: A Transport Protocol for Grid Computing

whitepaper In order to remove the fairness bias between flows with different network delays, SABUL adjusts its sending rate at uniform intervals, instead of at intervals determined by round trip time. This protocol has demonstrated its efficiency and fairness...

Tags: web protocols, efficiency, transfer, fairness

[10 Apr 2008]

KAoS: A Policy and Domain Services Framework for Grid Computing and Semantic Web Services

whitepaper KAoS was developed in response to the challenges presented by emerging semantic application requirements for infrastructure, especially in the area of security and trust management. KAoS has been adapted for use in several applications and...

Tags: high performance computing, mechanisms, trust, language

[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]

Perspectives on Grid Computing

whitepaper Grid computing has emerged as a dominant, pervasive metaphor in the past decade. The purpose of this paper is to summarize the various schools of thought related to grid computing, to describe the state of the art, and to provide some opinions on...

Tags: high performance computing, grid, art, decade

[10 Apr 2008]

GridWeaver: Automatic, Adaptive, Large-Scale Fabric Configuration for Grid Computing

whitepaper The emphasis in Grid computing research has predominantly been focused on services. It is not surprising that most of the high-profile, Grid-related work focuses on services and middleware. Researchers, hardware manufacturers, and end-users alike...

Tags: high performance computing, grid, manufacturers, profile

[10 Apr 2008]

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