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whitepaper Midsize UNIX boxes, grid computing schemes, and server farms made up of dozens of smaller systems seem to dominate today's IT infrastructure. On the software side, the authors hear about lightweight scripting, high-level languages, distributed...
[14 May 2008]
whitepaper This paper presents the Styx Grid Service (SGS), a remote service type that allows data to be streamed directly between service instances. The Styx Grid Service is built upon the Styx protocol, an established protocol for building distributed systems.
[11 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 One of the greatest benefits of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) grid is that the cost of scalability is more predictable and efficient because of the option of using commodity hardware. This makes an SOA grid a highly efficient architecture...
[03 May 2008]
whitepaper This paper describes work to expand the PKI for the UK National Grid Service (NGS), to integrate it with site authentication and improve usability. This work is complementary to the UK Shibboleth deployment.
[03 May 2008]
News Information contained on the system includes addresses, postcodes and national grid references, as well as a unique property reference number for each individual property. The NLPG has been used by public sector organisations - such as the police...
[30 Apr 2008]
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...
[11 Apr 2008]
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...
[10 Apr 2008]
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...
[10 Apr 2008]
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...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper At a higher level of the global grid, agents cooperate with each other to balance workload using a peer-to-peer service advertisement and discovery mechanism. Workload and resource management are essential functionalities in the software...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper The development of supportive middleware to manage resources and distributed workload across multiple administrative boundaries is of central importance to Grid computing. Active middleware services that perform look-up, match-making, scheduling...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper The purpose of this paper is to provide an initial definition of the data needed in a directory service or database so that we can implement a performance monitoring testbed. To begin with, this paper describes how to represent producers of events...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Recent variations of the VDC model include grid, fabric, and utility computing, each of which has a goal of satisfying Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements at guaranteed resource costs. The Virtual Data Center (VDC) is an evolutionary computing...
[28 Mar 2008]
whitepaper The Service Level Agreement (SLA) based grid superscheduling approach promotes coordinated resource sharing. Superscheduling is facilitated between administratively and topologically distributed grid sites by grid schedulers such as Resource brokers.
[27 Mar 2008]
Comment Bottom of the tech shopping list for CIOs this year are open source, grid/utility computing and RFID. Despite the hype, service oriented architecture (SOA) (20 per cent) and business intelligence (20 per cent) remain low down the tech shopping...
[26 Mar 2008]
whitepaper While most discussions in the industry have been focused on the enhanced performance from grid computing in niche applications, the overlooked real payoff from combining grids with virtualization and service orientation will come in terms of a...
[25 Mar 2008]
News Providers use virtualisation extensively and grid computing software. Cloud computing, the notion of outsourcing hardware and software to Internet service providers, is showing the classic signs of disruptive technology - it's not good enough for...
[11 Mar 2008]
whitepaper Terna wanted to eliminate grid blackout risks induced by possible telecommunications failures and improve quality of service and meet stringent target of Energy Not Supplied. The challenge was to replace ageing, expensive ATM network with faster...
[04 Mar 2008]
whitepaper The paper then introduces the project's second phase, which saw GridMon's integration into Grid technology via compliance with the Open Grid Services Architecture. The starting point for this journey has been the development of GridMon as a web...
[04 Mar 2008]
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