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

whitepaper Founded in 1986, Beijing Tobacco Monopoly Administration oversees the tobacco industry in Beijing. Beijing Tobacco Monopoly wanted to construct an integrated IT infrastructure that offers high performance, reliability, and availability and enable...

Tags: high availability

[18 May 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Energy shortages loom

Comment A case in question is the Docklands area of London where the electricity grid is operating at full capacity and companies are having to move server farms to new areas where there is sufficient power. In many city buildings and districts the...

Tags: data centres, green, energy, power

[16 May 2008]

Data Center One Technical Description

whitepaper 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 center ecosystem. A technical solution that utilizes grid computing is...

Tags: data center

[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. With virtualization offering increased performance per...

Tags: data center

[05 May 2008]

Calculating the Return on Investment for Clustered Caching and Data Grid Solutions

whitepaper Innovative middleware solutions such as In-memory Data Grid technology can dramatically increase the utilization of software and hardware resources. This white paper demonstrates the ROI of clustered caching and data grid solutions using Oracle...

Tags: middleware, budget, roi, coherence

[14 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]

Rogue Wave Tools Brings Consistency and Faster Time-to-Market for Cadence Design Systems

whitepaper Cadence purchased Rogue WaveTools.h++ and Objective Toolkit PRO, and Stingray Objective Grid, Objective Edit, and Objective Chart. Cadence Design Systems, Inc.provides comprehensive services and technology for the product development requirements...

Tags: component-based, microsoft visual studio, rogue, electronics

[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]

Server Consolidation and the Combinatorial Effects of Multi-Core Processing, Virtualization, and Grid Technologies

whitepaper Through the combined use of Grid, Virtualization and Multi-core technologies everyone is witnessing unprecedented levels of scalability, flexibility, price-performance and manageability. Information Technology (IT) is a fast moving target...

Tags: high performance computing

[28 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. IT governance was cited as the top technology and strategy area they will be investing in during 2008 by almost two-thirds (65 per cent) of the 20...

Tags: cio agenda, tech, agenda, list

[26 Mar 2008]

Live Webcast: Virtual Service Oriented Grids: Transforming the Enterprise

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...

Tags: scalability, corporation, grid computing, grids

[25 Mar 2008]

Taobao.com Turns to Grid Computing to Improve System Performance and Reliability

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...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[24 Mar 2008]

Cloud computing - the data centre of the future?

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...

Tags: datacentre, cloud, providers, hosting

[11 Mar 2008]

Photos: Red Bull Racing's F1 factory

Photo Due to the huge demand for computing power, the organisation runs a supercomputer and uses grid computing to support the development process. CFD requires huge amounts of processing power which Red Bull is able to boost through grid computing.

Tags: f1, grid, power, server

[10 Mar 2008]

Red Bull F1 racing up the grid

News Using grid technology, workstations left idle by staff when they leave work can also be incorporated to boost power for the complex data analysis required to develop the car's aerodynamics. The Red Bull Formula One (F1) team is using grid computing...

Tags: f1, power, supercomputer, development

[07 Mar 2008]

Building the e-Science Grid in the UK: GridMon - Grid Network Performance Monitoring

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. This paper outlines the proposed development of a comprehensive and extensible...

Tags: monitoring systems

[04 Mar 2008]

From Virtualized Resources to Virtual Computing Grids: The In-VIGO System

whitepaper A novel aspect of In-VIGO is the extensive use of virtualization technology, emerging standards for grid-computing and other Internet middleware. This paper describes the architecture of the first implementation of the In-VIGO grid-computing system.

Tags: resources mgmt.

[01 Mar 2008]

Maestro-VC: On-Demand Secure Cluster Computing Using Virtualization

whitepaper In this way the goals of on-demand computing overlap with and are similar to those of Grid computing: both enable the pooling of global computing resources to solve complex computational problems. This field has seen much research for potential...

Tags: infrastructure management

[29 Feb 2008]

IBM to use DNA to shrink chip size

News Once the nanotube array has been constructed, the laboratory-generated DNA molecules could be removed, leaving an orderly grid of nanotubes. The nanotube grid, conceivably, could function as a data-storage device or perform calculations.

Tags: ibm, chip, dna, grid

[21 Feb 2008]

VizGrid: Collaborative Visualization Grid Environment for Natural Interaction Between Remote Researchers

whitepaper VizGrid is a joint research project between universities, government institutions, Fujitsu, and other industry members that was partially founded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Tags: data visualization

[14 Feb 2008]

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