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whitepaper The Sun Grid gives Virtual Compute Corporation the ability to quickly and efficiently run compute-intensive jobs for its customers. Virtual Compute Corporation uses the Sun Grid Compute Utility to handle work from its energy industry customers that...
[06 May 2008]
whitepaper The company's challenge was to improve performance of compute grid to accommodate compute-intensive research to reduce IT expenses to maintain internal cost efficiency. To achieve higher performance at lower cost, TIGR migrated and consolidated...
[05 May 2008]
whitepaper One important challenge facing grid computing is efficient parallel I/O for data-intensive grid applications. This paper presents the Armada framework for building I/O-access paths for data-intensive grid applications.
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Cosmology Grid (CosmoGrid). The challenge is to create a scientific networking grid that enables U.K.cosmologists at distant locations to share data and computing resources in their study of the origins of the universe and establish a central...
[10 Apr 2008]
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...
[10 Apr 2008]
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...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Data-intensive applications over high bandwidth delay product (BDP) networks, such as computational grids, need new transport protocols to support them. As network bandwidth and delays increase, TCP becomes inefficient.
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper This paper describes SABUL, an application-level data transfer protocol for data-intensive applications over high bandwidth-delay product networks. SABUL is designed for reliability, high performance, fairness and stability.
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Real-time application traffic (including VoIP, network storage, and cluster/Grid interconnect) is highly sensitive to latency and jitter. Other applications, such as network video and data backups, are not very sensitive to latency or packet loss...
[07 Feb 2008]
whitepaper The challenge was to connect research partners around the world and facilitate next-generation, data-intensive collaborative research and the development of next-generation grid systems. With a faculty that includes four Nobel laureates and off...
[10 Jan 2008]
whitepaper In other words, if the devices in the grid are highly mobile, this adversely impacts the time taken to perform a computationally-intensive task. In simulating resource-sharing in order to complete a computationally-expensive task by a grid of...
[17 Aug 2007]
whitepaper In other words, if the devices in the grid are highly mobile, this adversely impacts the time taken to perform a computationally-intensive task. In simulating resource-sharing in order to complete a computationally-expensive task by a grid of...
[17 Aug 2007]
whitepaper Drug discovery researchers working with in silico screening tools can significantly reduce project timelines while increasing discovery capabilities by grid-enabling their applications. With a Grid MP solution from United Devices, drug discovery...
[08 Aug 2007]
whitepaper New High-Performance Computing (HPC) offerings from Microsoft and its partners are ideally suited for scaling out compute-intensive components of an SOA. Enterprise architects in financial services are looking to Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA...
[04 Jul 2007]
whitepaper The time has come when a $2,000,000 SMP UNIX server can be replaced by a $200,000 grid of even greater performance, reliability, and fault tolerance. This paper will discuss the considerations made in selecting the key grid components: grid node...
[02 Jun 2007]
whitepaper These configurations focus on delivering computing power with high space density, in a cluster or grid architecture. The Sun Customer Ready HPC Cluster with Sun Fire X2100 M2 and X2200 M2 servers is optimized for High-Performance Computing (HPC...
[11 May 2007]
whitepaper However, resource management and scheduling in the Grid environment is a complex undertaking as resources are (geographically) distributed, heterogeneous in nature, owned by different individuals or organizations with their own policies, have...
[14 Mar 2007]
whitepaper However, resource management and scheduling in the Grid environment is a complex undertaking as resources are (geographically) distributed, heterogeneous in nature, owned by different individuals or organizations with their own policies, have...
[14 Mar 2007]
News The intensive development work and data telemetry and analysis needed to stay at the sharp end of the grid during the season creates unique demands and relies on having the best IT infrastructure possible.
[14 Mar 2007]
whitepaper This paper provides an overview of how IBM and SAS can work together to create robust grid computing solutions that optimize the use of all available computing resources to solve data-intensive and computationally intensive applications.
[28 Feb 2007]
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