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whitepaper The company wanted scale infrastructure quickly to meet customer demands for high-performance computing power to avoid large capital outlays required to build out IT infrastructure to meet customer demands.
[06 May 2008]
whitepaper The emphasis in Grid computing research has predominantly been focused on services. Researchers, hardware manufacturers, and end-users alike dream of the new scientific and commercial world where resources will be readily available and service...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Grid computing gives users access to widely distributed networks of computing resources to solve large-scale tasks such as scientific computation. These tasks are defined as standalone components that can be combined to process the data in various...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper One challenge is to identify the minimal set of such services and another is to scale the services to Grids that knit together resources at hundreds of sites. While the basic Grid services have been demonstrated, e.g.in the IPG prototype...
[10 Apr 2008]
News In his staff blog, Google App Engine technical lead Kevin Gibbs said: "Google App Engine is free to use during the preview release, but the amount of computing resources any application can use is limited.
[09 Apr 2008]
whitepaper DPFS collects locally distributed unused storage resources as a supplement to the internal storage of parallel computing systems to satisfy the storage capacity requirement of large-scale applications.
[22 Mar 2008]
whitepaper As these problems grow in scale, parallel computing resources are required to meet their computational and memory requirements. Unfortunately, the algorithms, software, and hardware that have worked well for developing mainstream parallel...
[03 Mar 2008]
whitepaper Power management has become increasingly necessary in large-scale datacenters to address costs and limitations in cooling or power delivery. The goals of the proposed VirtualPower approach to online power management are to support the isolated and...
[29 Feb 2008]
whitepaper As organizations wrestle with how to better align IT with their business and drive economies of scale into their IT environments, increasingly utility computing is an option to consider. As the concept of a pool of resources develops, technologies...
[28 Feb 2008]
whitepaper Leading IAM solutions consist of a variety of modular, yet interrelated offerings, including identity administration, provisioning, single sign-on, access management, federation and identity audit & compliance - with a common goal to help...
[28 Feb 2008]
whitepaper For most organizations, a mixture of both scale-up and scale out computing resources is the preferred architectural approach and is often dictated by the types of workloads that need to be supported. Scale-out and distributed computing continues to...
[18 Feb 2008]
whitepaper The Grid is an infrastructure that enables the sharing of geographically dispersed computing resources. It has been used for many large-scale scientific projects with new business applications on the horizon.
[14 Feb 2008]
whitepaper Currently, most computational grids (systems allowing transparent sharing of computing resources across organizational boundaries) are assembled using human negotiation. This procedure does not scale well, and is too inflexible to allow for large...
[14 Feb 2008]
whitepaper The Ohio Academic Resources Network (OARnet) is the networking arm of Ohio's high-performance computing and networking center, also known as the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC). Network design can scale to 32 10-Gbps wavelengths.
[10 Jan 2008]
whitepaper IT organizations can scale their server resources So listen to this Webcast, sponsored by Acronis and now available on demand, to learn more about the trend toward virtual computing and how to avoid virtualization "gotchas.
[12 Dec 2007]
whitepaper In wide-area Grid computing, geographically distributed computational resources are connected for enabling efficient and large-scale scientific/engineering computations. In the wide-area Grid computing, a data transfer protocol called GridFTP has...
[05 Dec 2007]
whitepaper It also creates problems of performance, scale, interconnectivity, and reliability - problems that are unprecedented in the history of business computing. The democratization of access to computing, business, and information resources, fueled by...
[05 Dec 2007]
whitepaper On a physical machine dedicated to single purpose applications, overall system resource utilization may not take full advantage of the server hardware, but VMware ESX Server has the ability to scale virtualized hardware resources dynamically and...
[06 Nov 2007]
whitepaper Such as a capability enables novel, large-scale distributed applications such as scientific data sharing and distribution, and collaborative data visualization, which require large resource aggregations and high-quality network service.
[19 Oct 2007]
News It has a very high number of distributed nodes, so it can scale faster and a lot larger than any super computer. Criminals behind the Storm Worm have created a botnet containing millions of PCs which have a combined computing power greater than the...
[12 Sep 2007]
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