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How ISVs Should Approach Grid Computing
Post Date: October 30, 2006 @ 10:43 AM, Pacific Standard Time
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GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris shares his thoughts about ISV Callidus, whose TrueComp solution allows companies to use Grid computing to speed up the compute-intensive aspects of the Enterprise Incentive Management process. According to Harris, the ISV community as a whole could take a page from Callidus' book when it comes to embracing -- not fearing -- Grid technologies.
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The Importance of Being Multi-Core
Post Date: October 23, 2006 @ 10:46 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris comments on some of this week's feature articles, including Robert Cohen's piece on "virtual products," and points to some other articles of interest. He also presents a recent discussion with AMD's Margaret Lewis about the increasingly important role of processors in Grid and virtualized data centers.
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Hosting Providers Go Grid
Post Date: September 25, 2006 @ 10:42 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris takes a look at the hosted services market, citing discussions with a hosting provider, as well as 3Tera, whose AppLogic software enables providers to create transactional grids and implement utility models for their customers.
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Just One Week 'til GridWorld
Post Date: September 04, 2006 @ 10:44 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris introduces this week's issue and gives his thoughts on being just one week out from GridWorld, which this year serves as an unofficial launch for "conference season."
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Are Transactional Apps on Grid Vendors' Radars?
Post Date: August 28, 2006 @ 10:41 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris discusses this week's article on application virtualization and addresses the belief that most Grid vendors are ignoring datacenter needs -- including application virtualization -- in order to focus on the scientific and R&D communities.
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More Thoughts on the Media Grid; LinuxWorld Coverage
Post Date: August 21, 2006 @ 10:45 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris discusses this week's feature articles, and comments on the credibility that having a pharmaceutical company lined up as a customer gives the Media Grid. He also touches upon Ian Foster's article and gives the URL for last week's special coverage of LinuxWorld by GRIDtoday and HPCwire.
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Digipede's Powers: The Next McNealy?
Post Date: August 14, 2006 @ 10:41 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris offers some highlights from this week's issue and discusses the openness of Digipede CEO John Powers. While he probably won't replace former Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy as IT's walking soundbite, Powers is not afraid to say what's on his mind.
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Utility Computing Meets Digital Media
Post Date: July 31, 2006 @ 10:51 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris takes a look at this week's issue and offers his comments on a few key articles, including the collaboration between Sun Microsystems and the Media Grid, and the impressive lineup of keynote speakers for the upcoming GridWorld conference.
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A Case of Deja Vu
Post Date: July 24, 2006 @ 10:33 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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This week's issue features a handful of articles on topics about which editor Derrick Harris has opined in recent months. From last week's thoughts on the proliferation of distributed computing projects to April's comments on Sun Grid, it seems we've been here before. However, even though he already shared some opinions, Harris does manage a few more words about Sun Grid, and utility computing in general.
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The Real Business Case for Grid Computing
Post Date: June 19, 2006 @ 10:50 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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In addition to providing a brief summary of this week's issue, GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris discusses the notion that Grid computing is not seen by businesses as the savior of ineffiency and cost-savings, but more so as a business advantage that allows them to "achieve something that's otherwise impossible."
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Feature Articles
SLA-Aware Scheduling and Virtual Efficiency
Researchers from the Suddhananda Engineering and Research Centre in Bhubaneswar, India developed a job scheduling system, which they call Service Level Agreement (SLA) scheduling, that is meant to achieve acceptable methods of resource provisioning similar to that of potential in-house systems. They combined that with an on-demand resource provisioner to ensure utilization optimization of virtual machines.
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CloudSigma CEO Elaborates on Science Cloud
Experimental scientific HPC applications are continually being moved to the cloud, as covered here in several capacities over the last couple of weeks. Included in that rundown, Co-founder and CEO of CloudSigma Robert Jenkins penned an article for HPC in the Cloud where he discussed the emergence of cloud technologies to supplement research capabilities of big scientific initiatives like CERN and ESA (the European Space Agency)...
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Examining Questions of Virtualization and Security in the Cloud
When considering moving excess or experimental HPC applications to a cloud environment, there will always be obstacles. Were that not the case, the cost effectiveness of cloud-based HPC would rule the high performance landscape. Jonathan Stewart Ward and Adam Barker of the University of St. Andrews produced an intriguing report on the state of cloud computing, paying a significant amount of attention to the problems facing cloud computing.
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Short Takes
Datapipe and Verne Global's Green Cloud
Jun 17, 2013 |
With that in mind, Datapipe hopes to establish themselves as a green-savvy HPC cloud provider with their recently announced Stratosphere platform. Datapipe markets Stratosphere as a green HPC cloud service and in doing so partnering with Verne Global and their Icelandic datacenter, which is known for its propensity in green computing.
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IBM's Guide to Cloud Based HPC
Jun 12, 2013 |
Cloud computing is gaining ground in utilization by mid-sized institutions who are looking to expand their experimental high performance computing resources. As such, IBM released what they call Redbooks, in part to assist institutions’ movement of high performance computing applications to the cloud.
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OpenStack and the SDSC Research Cloud
Jun 06, 2013 |
The San Diego Supercomputer Center launched a public cloud system for universities in the area designed specifically to run on commodity hardware with high performance solid-state drives. The center, which currently holds 5.5 PB of raw storage, is open to educational and research users in the University of California.
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Exploring the Potential of Heterogeneous Computing
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