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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. As services take hold in enterprises, and their size and scale grows, it will...

Tags: web services

[16 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]

GridWeaver: Automatic, Adaptive, Large-Scale Fabric Configuration for Grid Computing

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...

Tags: high performance computing, grid, manufacturers, profile

[10 Apr 2008]

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

whitepaper Large-scale grid computing frameworks can be successfully used to build computational grid infrastructures, but their sophistication can also be a barrier for software designers experimenting with entry-level grid computing.

Tags: java, grid, grid computing, execution

[10 Apr 2008]

The Role of Planning in Grid Computing

whitepaper Grid computing gives users access to widely distributed networks of computing resources to solve large-scale tasks such as scientific computation. This paper explains the implementation of a planning system to generate task workflows for the Grid...

Tags: high performance computing, automatically, components, grid

[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]

Issues for Using Computing and Data Grids for Large-Scale Science and Engineering

whitepaper While the basic Grid services have been demonstrated, e.g.in the IPG prototype demonstrated at the Supercomputing 1999 conference, and the GUSTO testbed demonstrated in 1998, a general purpose computing, data management, and real-time...

Tags: security management, grid, grids, reality

[10 Apr 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. Because these providers are optimised for large-scale hosts, they could eventually serve corporate customers, Forrester said. Cloud computing, the notion of outsourcing hardware...

Tags: datacentre, cloud, providers, hosting

[11 Mar 2008]

Grid - Distributed Computing at Scale: An Overview of Grid and the Open Grid Forum4.5

whitepaper Grid is a core concept in modern distributed computing architectures and is aligned with other important distributed computing technologies such as virtualization, service-orientation and data center automation.

Tags: infrastructure management

[29 Feb 2008]

Large Scale Data Warehouses on Grid: Oracle Database 10g and HP ProLiant Servers

whitepaper In this paper one shows how a large-scale, high performing and scalable Grid based data warehouse can be implemented using commodity hardware (industry standard x86- based), Oracle Database 10G and Linux operating system.

Tags: business intelligence - data warehousing

[29 Feb 2008]

Comparison of Data Grid Solutions

whitepaper The Grid is an infrastructure that enables the sharing of geographically dispersed computing resources. Many of these applications utilizing the Grid are expected to generate enormous amount of data, and there is an imminent need for enhanced...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[14 Feb 2008]

Automatic Grid Assembly by Promoting Collaboration in Peer-to-Peer Grids

whitepaper However, to actually assemble a large grid, peers must have an incentive to provide resources to the system. This procedure does not scale well, and is too inflexible to allow for large open grids. Currently, most computational grids (systems...

Tags: network design

[14 Feb 2008]

On Parameter Tuning of Data Transfer Protocol GridFTP for Wide-Area Grid Computing

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...

Tags: wide area networks (wan), phase, optimal, tcp

[05 Dec 2007]

Evaluating the Impacts of Network Information Models on Applications and Network Service Providers

whitepaper Configurable optical networks and wide-area resource sharing in the form of Grid computing provide intriguing opportunities for new application capabilities and resource efficiencies. The resulting Lambda-Grid is a collection of geographically...

Tags: optical networking, optical, sharing, distributed

[19 Oct 2007]

A Practical Application for Grid Computing

whitepaper Properly managed, storage and throughput scale linearly with computing power. Grids today appear mostly in High Performance Computing (HPC) environments, where hundreds of inexpensive compute nodes link together to solve parallel processing...

Tags: high performance computing, processing, high performance computing, addressed

[11 Sep 2007]

Top 5 Performance Tips for Tuning a Data Warehouse on Grid

whitepaper An emerging trend in the computing industry is the deployment of data warehouse systems on a "Grid" of industry standard commodity server running the Linux operating system. However, in order for a Linux Grid configuration to be successful it must...

Tags: warehouse, linux, grid, data warehouse

[10 Sep 2007]

Top 5 Performance Tips for Tuning a Data Warehouse on Grid

whitepaper An emerging trend in the computing industry is the deployment of data warehouse systems on a "Grid" of industry standard commodity server running the Linux operating system. However, in order for a Linux Grid configuration to be successful it must...

Tags: warehouse, linux, grid, data warehouse

[10 Sep 2007]

Scaling SOA in Financial Services With Grid Computing for .NET

whitepaper Enterprise architects in financial services are looking to Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) to address many real-world problems - brittle systems with tight interdependencies, data stuck in single-purpose silos, and applications that don't...

Tags: high performance computing, soa, service oriented architectures, financial services

[04 Jul 2007]

Alchemi: A .NET-Based Enterprise Grid Computing System

whitepaper Software to enable grid computing has been primarily written for Unix-class operating systems, thus severely limiting the ability to effectively utilize the computing resources of the vast majority of Windows-based desktop computers.

Tags: .net, grid, distributed, framework

[03 Jul 2007]

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