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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]

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]

Beijing Tobacco Cuts Costs and Improves Resource Use by Adopting Grid Technology

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. Founded in 1986, Beijing Tobacco Monopoly...

Tags: high availability

[14 May 2008]

Policy-Driven Access Control Over a Distributed Firewall Architecture

whitepaper Motivated by a Grid based scientific application, where a dynamic collection of individuals and institutions are required to share resources to achieve certain goals, this paper propose the synthesis of two lines of research.

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Service Provider Fuels Its Future With Sun Grid Compute Utility

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...

Tags: infrastructure management

[06 May 2008]

World-Renowned Genome Research Facility Relies on Sun to Provide Cost-Efficient High-Performance Compute Grid

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...

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]

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]

Grid Load Balancing Using Intelligent Agents

whitepaper Workload and resource management are essential functionalities in the software infrastructure for grid computing. The management and scheduling of dynamic grid resources in a scalable way requires new technologies to implement a next generation...

Tags: load balancing, load, resource, intelligent

[10 Apr 2008]

Agent-Based Resource Management for Grid Computing

whitepaper It is envisaged that the grid infrastructure will be a large-scale distributed software system that will provide high-end computational and storage capabilities to differentiated users. A number of distributed computing technologies are being...

Tags: resources mgmt., distributed, grid, scale

[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]

A Do-it-Yourself Framework for Grid Computing: Learn to Build Your Own Grid Computing Application Using Open Source Tools

whitepaper This paper uses a Java custom ClassLoader, a Tomcat servlet container, and the Axis SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) implementation to demonstrate a simple-to-use framework that supports minimal grid requirements, including machine...

Tags: java, grid, grid computing, execution

[10 Apr 2008]

A Centralized Data Access Model for Grid Computing

whitepaper This paper describes a different approach, where the opportunity to design a grid environment from scratch is used to build a tightly-coupled, data-oriented infrastructure that leverages deep investment in leading edge technology to provide very...

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

[10 Apr 2008]

UDT: An Application Level Transport Protocol for Grid Computing

whitepaper UDT has a congestion control mechanism that maintains efficiency, fairness and stability, and its application-level nature enables it to be deployed at the lowest cost, without any changes in the network infrastructure or operating systems.

Tags: high performance computing, bandwidth, protocol, congestion

[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. This paper introduces KAoS, a policy and domain services framework...

Tags: high performance computing, mechanisms, trust, language

[10 Apr 2008]

Perspectives on Grid: Application Programming and Extreme-Scale Data Infrastructure Support in WebSphere Extended Deployment - A Closer Look at Application Patterns

whitepaper IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment (Extended Deployment) is infrastructure software for application servers, which many associated with the ability to optimize and lower costs of an application infrastructure, prioritize resources for use by the...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[09 Apr 2008]

A Passive RFID Information Grid for Location and Proximity Sensing for the Blind User

whitepaper With an established RFID grid infrastructure blind children and adults will gain the independence and freedom to explore and participate in activities without external assistance. This paper describes a navigation and location determination system...

Tags: rfid, grid, tag, location

[27 Mar 2008]

The CIO shopping list

Comment Bottom of the tech shopping list for CIOs this year are open source, grid/utility computing and RFID. Linking in with the governance theme is IT infrastructure library (Itil), which remains high on the CIO agenda, with 40 per cent of respondents...

Tags: cio agenda, tech, agenda, list

[26 Mar 2008]

Vietnam International Bank Revamps IT Architecture to Support Growth

whitepaper This infrastructure is built on Oracle's enterprise grid computing platform and incorporates Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Fusion Middleware. VIB selected Oracle technologies to deliver an IT infrastructure capable of supporting new core banking...

Tags: infrastructure management

[24 Mar 2008]

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