Grid Gets Transactional

Dec 11, 2006 | While big business has been using Grid for years now to speed up compute-intensive applications and handle the huge volumes of data they produce, it is more recently, since Grid began its evolution into Grid 2.0, that enterprises have been finding more everyday uses for Grid technology, focusing more on Grid's inherent flexibility and distributed nature than on its brute processing power. One way in which they have been using Grid is to handle transactional applications, a technology trend Gartner has labeled "Grid-based application platforms."
Read more...

Meet Sun's Director of Grid Computing Engineering

Dec 11, 2006 | Recently GRIDtoday had the opportunity to ask Fritz Ferstl about the Grid Engine, the Grid computing software product that he architected. Ferstl is the director of Grid Computing Engineering at Sun Microsystems. He is recognized as a world expert in productizing Grid solutions for robust enterprise and industrial services.
Read more...

Grids in Finance

Dec 04, 2006 | Grids can offer financial institutions a way to utilize their computing resources to provide optimal processing of computations, so why aren't more financial organizations taking advantage of Grid? That was the question posed in a recent web conference titled "Grid Computing in Financial Services -- Toward True IT Agility."
Read more...

Harnessing Grid Computing To Save Women's Lives

Dec 04, 2006 | IST Results | Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. In the EU and the US, one in eight will develop it at some point in their lives, and it will kill one in 28. But harnessing the power of the grid could help increase the accuracy of diagnoses. The team in the European IST project MammoGrid aimed to apply the power of the grid to see if they could more accurately detect breast cancer.
Read more...

Breaking the Medical Image Communication Barrier

Nov 27, 2006 | University of Southern California | Using a new Grid computing system, radiologists, physicians and pediatric oncologists at 40 hospitals all over North America are now quickly and securely exchanging high-resolution medical images. One hoped-for result will be that the doctors of young cancer patients will know more quickly whose treatment is not working and be able to change course. Others include making second opinions from specialists anywhere easily available; and quicker, closer monitoring of ongoing clinical research and diagnostic practice.
Read more...

UNESCO and HP Use Grid to Counter Brain Drain in Africa

Nov 27, 2006 | UNESCO | UNESCO and Hewlett-Packard have launched a joint project to help reduce brain drain in Africa by providing Grid computing technology to universities in Algeria, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and Zimbabwe. I.S.G. Mudenge, Zimbabwe's Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, took part in the launch of the "Piloting Solutions for Reversing Brain Drain into Brain Gain for Africa" project, at UNESCO Headquarters on 20 November.
Read more...

Grid Impressions at SC06

Nov 27, 2006 | Unless you were sidetracked by the gleaming bonnet of the convertible Jag, or enticed into winning an iPod nano on the hour, every hour, you couldn't fail to miss the fascinating display of high performance computing and Grid technology at Supercomputing 2006. If you weren't able to attend, here are just a few of the highlights you missed out on.
Read more...

Open Grid Forum HPC Demo Impresses at SC06

Nov 20, 2006 | It's fall in beautiful Tampa, Florida and the Grid and high performance computing communities are again gathered to discuss the state-of-the-state in HPC-related technologies and solutions. The Open Grid Forum community has deep roots in HPC and the Supercomputing conference and many of their members contribute their time and effort to help make the gathering a great and very productive event.
Read more...

TeraGrid at SC06

Nov 13, 2006 | TeraGrid's resource providers, partners and users will be in full force this year at SC06 in Tampa as they illustrate how cyberinfrastructure is advancing scientific discovery. TeraGrid's resources are available to researchers and educators throughout the country, and the scientific community is invited to participate in the many TeraGrid-related presentations taking place at SC06.
Read more...

IBM Unveils Dashboard for Major Virtualization Platforms

Nov 06, 2006 | The IBM Systems Director family allows clients to better manage all of their virtual and physical resources in the data center, working with Tivoli offerings to provide complete cross-enterprise service management. Part of IBM's Systems Director family, the new Virtualization Manager software offering reduces the number of management tools needed to support multiple types of servers.
Read more...

OASIS Members Approve SOA Reference Model

Oct 30, 2006 | SOA-RM provides an abstract framework for understanding significant entities and their relationships within a service-oriented environment. SOA-RM enables the development of specific reference or concrete architectures using consistent standards.
Read more...

Grid Technologies Start Saving Lives

Oct 30, 2006 | The World of Health IT conference attracted leaders in health care and IT industries from around the globe. As the first event of its kind, it addressed the need for a more integrated and interoperable health information space, and brought with it various examples of potential uses for Grid technology in health care industries.
Read more...

ISV Takes Road Less Traveled with Grid, On-Demand Solutions

Oct 30, 2006 | Among the reasons often cited for enterprises not adopting Grid computing is a lack of Grid-enabled applications coming from the ISV community. This is not the case with Callidus, who offers a Grid-enabled Enterprise Incentive Management solution, TrueComp, as well as an on-demand version of the application hosted on the Sun Grid.
Read more...

Defense Agency Grants HP $440M Utility Computing Contract

Oct 23, 2006 | HP will provide the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) with a flexible computing infrastructure that will adjust to fluctuating demands. Only paying for the services it uses, the agency will not spend resources on underutilized technology it may never need. Further, DISA will have the flexibility to easily and quickly provision optimal solutions.
Read more...

GStock.com Launches Virtual Stock Pricing Platform

Oct 23, 2006 | By harnessing the computing power of volunteer computers around the world connected over the Internet, GStock achieves an immense multiprocessor virtual supercomputer dedicated to identifying the most profitable investment strategies for each stock.
Read more...

Grid in Semiconductor Design

Oct 23, 2006 | In this Q&A from the Globus Consortium Journal, Ravi Subramaniam, principal engineer in Intel's Digital Enterprise Group and Grid veteran, talks about his strategy for defining how Intel's products can deliver "industry-leading" value with technologies that include Grid computing.
Read more...

Collaboration Grids: Virtual Products and Business Benefits

Oct 23, 2006 | Robert Cohen, president of Cohen Communications Group and fellow with the Economic Strategy Institute, discusses how automotive manufacturers and, to a lesser degree, aerospace companies are utilizing what he calls "collaboration grids" to design and test "virtual cars" and "virtual planes" -- bringing in partners from different divisions of the company to those in different parts of the globe.
Read more...

Oil & Gas Sector Exploring Grid Technologies

Oct 09, 2006 | In this article, which originally appeared in SEGwire** -- HPCwire's exclusive coverage of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition -- United Devices CTO Jikku Venkat discusses areas where oil & gas companies are beginning to adopt Grid technologies, as well as other areas of their businesses ripe for Grid.
Read more...

Oracle Grid Director on Managing Large Deployments

Oct 09, 2006 | In this Q&A, Oracle director of Grid computing, Bob Thome, discusses the complexity, management and security issues that arise when implementing Grid infrastructures, and why Grid is still worth the effort. Interestingly, however, Thome cites political and cultural issues the No. 1 obstacle to Grid deployment.
Read more...

Building Singapore's National Grid

Oct 02, 2006 | In this GRIDtoday Q&A, Hing-Yan Lee, deputy director of Singapore's National Grid Office, discusses his organization's work to establish a nationwide cyberinfrastructure with the purpose of improving economic and technological competitiveness. Lee is presenting this week at the Gelato ICE: Itanium Conference & Expo in Biopolis, Singapore.
Read more...

First cityGrid Officially Inaugurated

Oct 02, 2006 | A conservative estimate shows at least 60,000 computers are located in residential areas of Almere (Netherlands). If a large part would participate, Almere would be one of the largest (virtual) computers in the world. AlmereGrid is unique in being the first operational cityGrid in the world.
Read more...

Talking Grid with IBM's Ken King

Sep 25, 2006 | Ken King is vice president of Grid computing with responsibility for worldwide business line management of IBM's Grid computing initiatives, including business and technical strategy. In this GRIDtoday Q&A, which originally ran as a part of GRIDwire, King discuss IBM's Grid and Grow program, the buzz on SOA and virtualization, and where the ceiling is for the Open Grid Forum.
Read more...

Getting Beyond the Compute Grid: The Challenge of 'Grid 2.0'

Sep 25, 2006 | In this article from GRIDwire**, William Fellows, principal analyst with The 451 Group, discusses the challenge of getting "beyond the compute grid" and the procession toward "Grid 2.0," which includes: eliminating silos and organizing IT around shared resources; simplifying access to data; and providing a single, consistent view of the business for the entire enterprise
Read more...

Energy Sector Companies Turning to Grid Computing

Sep 18, 2006 | The 451 Group has found that companies that extract, make a market in and retail natural resources are increasingly disposed to running risk management applications using Grid computing to balance their supply and demand ratios.
Read more...

IBM Opens High-Performance Lab in Brazil

Sep 11, 2006 | The first of its kind on the continent, the High-Performance On Demand Solutions Lab (HiPODS) is designed to support the growth of business across the emerging markets of Latin America by finding answers to the most vexing business and technology questions. The Brazil lab joins a global grid of six specialized IBM facilities to deliver a growing range of software lab services.
Read more...

AMD Chooses Sun Grid; Sun Seeking to Grow ISV Community

Sep 11, 2006 | AMD selected the Sun Grid Compute Utility for processor design and simulation to decrease time-to-market for new products, avoid costly infrastructure additions and gain more flexibility in scheduling testing during peak production cycles. Also, Sun announced plans to provide ISVs and developers new opportunities to engage and leverage the benefits of the Sun Grid Compute Utility.
Read more...

Harnessing the Power of Enterprise Grid at eBay

Sep 11, 2006 | In this Q&A with GRIDtoday, Paul Strong, distinguished research scientist at eBay Research Labs, discusses eBay's cutting-edge use of Grid technologies -- from where it began to where the online auction leader hopes it to go. In addition, Strong, who has been and continues to be very involved with the Enterprise Grid Alliance, gives his views on the opportunities and challenges facing the newly formed Open Grid Forum.
Read more...

Graphics Pioneer Tony Parisi Named Media Grid Fellow

Sep 04, 2006 | Parisi is widely recognized as a technology pioneer and accomplished entrepreneur at the forefront of Internet New Media and real-time 3-D graphics. He is co-inventor of the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) ISO standard for Web-based interactive 3-D, and lead editor and co-chair of the Extensible 3D (X3D) Specification.
Read more...

TORQUE Resource Manager Hits 50,000 Download Mark

Sep 04, 2006 | Terascale Open-Source Resource and QUEue Manager is a resource manager derived from the original Open PBS project that provides control over batch jobs and distributed compute nodes. With more than 2,500 patches and enhancements since its release in 2004, TORQUE has incorporated significant advances in the areas of scalability, flexibility and feature extensions.
Read more...

United Devices Rolls Out HPC Management Suite

Aug 28, 2006 | United Devices' HPC Management Suite marks the culmination of years of focus on delivering solutions that address the most common HPC capacity and management challenges. The suite is comprised of five Grid solutions that align with the industry's most common pain points and deployment preferences.
Read more...

Application Virtualization Brings Grid to the Datacenter

Aug 28, 2006 | DataSynapse and United Devices are two companies touting the idea of application virtualization as a way to bring Grid computing's shared infrastructure and management capabilities to business-critical applications throughout the datacenter.
Read more...

A Closer Look at the Media Grid

Aug 21, 2006 | With commercial partnership now open (Sun Microsystems was first to sign on) and standards development well underway, the Media Grid is poised to deliver a truly open, vendor-agnostic utility computing platform for the world of digital media. Not only has the Media Grid been used for several non-profit projects, but it already has at least one company ready to roll once standards are adopted.
Read more...

IT as Fuel for the Innovation Engine

Aug 21, 2006 | Ian Foster discusses his belief that we will see significant progress in the creation and application of IT infrastructures architected specifically to facilitate innovation, and a shift from thinking of IT solely as a cost center to recognizing IT as a value enabler.
Read more...

Platform Establishes Open Source Grid Development Center

Aug 21, 2006 | Platform Computing has entered into an agreement to hire the principles of Scalable Systems Pte Ltd. Based in Singapore, the Scalable Systems team brings a wealth of experience in the development of open source software solutions and will be instrumental in the establishment of Platform's Open Source Grid Development Center.
Read more...

Cluster Resources Wins Historical DoE Management Contract

Aug 14, 2006 | The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration's Advanced Simulation and Computing Program has selected Cluster Resources' Moab workload and resource management software as a standard for use across NNSA's high-performance computing systems.
Read more...

Year One Brings SMB Success for Digipede

Aug 14, 2006 | It has been just over a year since the release of the Digipede Network, and the company has won over customers across a wide range of markets -- from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to Pacific Event Productions, an event management company that deployed a 10-node grid using Digipede's software. While Digipede certainly isn't scoffing at big-time users, the company recognizes the potential in building grids for the little guy.
Read more...

Boeing Expands GRiD to European Research & Technology Team

Aug 07, 2006 | The initiative, called BR&TE Global Research in Distributed Computing (B-GRiD), will make it possible to optimize the use of available resources (computer systems, middleware, networks and data) and ensure a more secure exchange of information between Boeing sites and with global partners.
Read more...

GemStone EVP on Maximizing Grid, SOA Deployments

Aug 07, 2006 | In this Q&A with GRIDtoday, GemStone Systems executive vice president of marketing and strategy Shankar Iyer discusses his company's Enterprise Data Fabric (EDF). Iyer explains where EDF fits into today's modern architectures (Grid, cluster, SOA, etc.), as well as in what markets the company sees the strongest demand and the most potential for the solution.
Read more...

Grids for Kids: Building the Foundation for Innovation

Aug 07, 2006 | Intel's Tom Gibbs discusses how getting students around the world familiar with Grid technologies could have a significant impact on the future generation's proficiency with leading-edge innovative technology -- an area that institutions from the World Bank to the United Nations cite as a critical aspect to stimulating global economic growth.
Read more...

Media Grid Takes Step Forward

Jul 31, 2006 | Sun Microsystems is collaborating with the MediaGrid.org open standards group to advance international standards for storing, delivering and processing digital media in Grid computing environments. In addition to this collaboration, Dan Hushon, Sun Grid senior director and chief technologist, has been appointed a fellowship to participate in the development of Media Grid standards.
Read more...

GridWorld Keynotes to Address Commercial Grid Computing

Jul 31, 2006 | During their addresses, senior executives from Globus Alliance, eBay, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, HP, and more will discuss the commercial benefits of integrating Grid computing technologies, products and solutions into core IT operations.
Read more...

What Makes a Fabric?

Jul 24, 2006 | GRIDtoday spoke with Appistry CEO Kevin Haar about the complementary nature of Grid computing and virtualization, and how these two technologies -- along with some others -- play a key role in creating an application fabric.
Read more...

A Busy Week for United Devices

Jul 24, 2006 | United Devices has been pretty busy in the last couple of weeks, announcing within a week of each other the first in a series of roundtable events and the release of a new solution (Virtual Cluster). In this article, CEO Ben Rouse and CTO Jikku Venkat give their insights into these announcements.
Read more...

Cancer Project Launched on World Community Grid

Jul 24, 2006 | IBM is working with researchers at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey to launch a project that will unleash the power of supercomputer technology in the battle against cancer.
Read more...

Bringing Data Grids to the Masses

Jul 17, 2006 | In this Q&A, GRIDtoday spoke with Tangosol CEO Cameron Purdy about the company's recent success in getting large enterprises to adopt it data grid solution, Coherence. Purdy also offers his thoughts on where the Grid market, in general.
Read more...

BPEL: Good for Business

Jul 10, 2006 | This article looks at why the significant increase in the support for BPEL, an industry standard that represents and executes these business processes, means so much to business. It looks at the failures of the current approach -- the proprietary visual tools, the huge cost of "iteration" between business and IT, and the rigidity of these processes once they are completed -- and then describes why BPEL is a solution to these problems.
Read more...

Avatars and Grid 2.0

Jul 10, 2006 | Intel's Tom Gibbs takes a look at how online gaming companies, specifically those producing Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG), are utilizing Grid technologies to power a market that analysts predict will bring in upwards of $1.5 billion this year.
Read more...

Weaving a Fabric of Grid, RTI

Jun 26, 2006 | With the latest version of its Enterprise Application Fabric, Appistry seems to have found a niche for itself somewhere at the intersection between real-time infrastructure and Grid computing, said Carl Claunch of Gartner. But what makes Appistry's approach to fabric solutions unique, and what, exactly, is a fabric?
Read more...

Insight Research: Grid Market Acceptance Continues

Jun 26, 2006 | Grid computing has penetrated well beyond the large research institutions that first developed the techniques required to virtualize computing resources and has entered the "early adoption" phase of mainstream commercial computing, says a new market research study released by the Insight Research Corp.
Read more...

Oracle Grid Index Underlines Importance of SOA

Jun 26, 2006 | Oracle unveiled its fourth Oracle Grid Index, which charts the global adoption of Grid computing and investigates related technological issues and their implications for the business world. The latest research confirmed that Grid is a maturing technology and highlighted the rise of SOA in maximizing the business benefits of IT.
Read more...

Developing Software to Be at Your Service

Jun 19, 2006 | Networks and computers at the service of consumers and business is a cherished and long-held promise that has so far failed to deliver. No longer. An emerging software model supported by the European Commission and the software industry may mean that networks and computers become, finally, at your service.
Read more...

Enterprise SOA Meets Grid

Jun 19, 2006 | This article touches upon the difficulties of "going SOA," as well as some of the benefits. Most of us have only heard of the benefits of SOA, but none of the challenges. The article will also go into how Grid computing can remedy these difficulties.
Read more...

Security is King

May 29, 2006 | The opinion piece tries to explain, in a rather witty manner, the lack of widespread adoption of volunteer Grid computing systems in industry, which the author believes is due primarily to concern about possible harm to IT resources.
Read more...

ASPEED Taking Financial Grids to the Next Level

May 29, 2006 | ASPEED Software's Kurt Ziegler, vice president of marketing and product management, discusses the company's recent partnerships with financial services consultancies serving the United Kingdom and why financial institutions, especially those in London, are prime targets for the company's solutions.
Read more...

Developer Programs, Promotions Announced for Sun Grid

May 22, 2006 | These new programs include providing developers access to 100 free CPU hours on the Sun Grid; a contest in which developers can win up to $100,000 in prizes; a private project space for independent software vendors (ISVs); and a Compute Server community project.
Read more...

Grid Envy

May 22, 2006 | The Dutch DAS-3 Grid represents a unique approach to building distributed computing environments. The the combination of architectural homogeneity, low latency and multi-10-gigabit bandwidth will create a what could be called a wide-area supercluster.
Read more...

IBM Software Brings Autonomic Computing to Grids

May 15, 2006 | The software, called IBM Batch-on-Grid, automatically accommodates spikes and lulls in computing workload -- the amount of work a system is handling at any given time -- by allocating servers on the fly, helping ensure IT systems run around the clock.
Read more...

Infravio VP Discusses SOA Market

May 15, 2006 | In this Q&A with GRIDtoday, Infravio's vice president of standards technology and marketing, Miko Matsumura, discusses the SOA market, Infravio's place in the SOA market and the relationship between Grid computing and SOA. In addition, Matsumura previews his upcoming presentation at InfoWorld's SOA Executive Forum, which takes place May 16-17 in New York City.
Read more...

Grid Optimizing Simulation at Corus Automotive

May 15, 2006 | GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris spoke with Mike Twelves, manager of knowledge-based engineering and IT systems for Corus Automotive, about how the automotive branch of the United Kingdom-based steel manufacturer has used and will be using Grid computing to optimize its simulation environment.
Read more...

ClusterVision to Build Grid for Dutch Universities

May 08, 2006 | The DAS-3 grid will comprise five Linux supercomputer clusters, to be hosted at four leading Dutch universities using SURFnet's state-of-the-art dynamic multi-color optical network and Myricom's Myri-10G interconnect.
Read more...

Investment Banks Making Progress with Grid Deployments

May 01, 2006 | The 451 Group's Steve Wallage gives some insight into the firm's recent report on Grid computing in investment banks. In this article, Wallage notes that Grid computing and related technologies (e.g., virtualization) has, "for the first time in a long time," for given investment banks hope for IT.
Read more...

Grid 2.0: The Global Grid Gets Hip

Apr 24, 2006 | Intel's Tom Gibbs addresses how Grid technologies are following the evolution of the Web from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0. Essentially, we're looking at a shift from selling the technology to selling services, with the respective technology being part of the package -- and it's going global.
Read more...

A Peek into Micron's Grid Infrastructure

Apr 24, 2006 | In this interview, Brooklin Gore, a senior fellow at Micron Technology who will be presenting during an EGA User Forum webcast on May 4, discusses the history of Micron's Grid initiatives, and gives some candid advice to potential adopters. Says Gore: "Grid computing technology may not be perfect today, but it is certainly good enough for enterprises to extract significant value now."
Read more...

Puerto Rican University Deploys Grid Testbed

Apr 17, 2006 | GRIDtoday spoke with Wilson Rivera, director of The Parallel and Distributed Computing Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, about his lab's Grid testbed, which is being used to research and improve various areas of Grid computing. Rivera will be discussing this project at Gelato ICE, which takes place April 23-26 in San Jose, Calif.
Read more...

United Devices Unveils HPC Capacity Management Tool

Apr 17, 2006 | United Devices announced the first High-Performance Computing (HPC) management solution that provides a single, normalized view into capacity and utilization across all legacy scheduling utilities, including Sun SGE, Platform LSF, Altair PBS and Condor.
Read more...

Tech Companies, Friday Institute to Advance Education Skills

Apr 10, 2006 | Four of the world's leading technology companies -- SAS, Cisco Systems, IBM and Nortel -- are collaborating with North Carolina State University's Friday Institute for Educational Innovation to help design and deliver the future of education to teachers and students in North Carolina classrooms today.
Read more...

The Other Side of Grid Computing -- An EDF Approach

Apr 10, 2006 | This article discusses the relevance of an enterprise data fabric in addressing the problems prevalent in grid environments, and details an EDF's role as a "data grid" in providing a superior alternative to traditional data management practices.
Read more...

IDC: SOA Offers Tremendous Opportunity for Service Providers

Apr 10, 2006 | IDC forecasts that worldwide spending on SOA-based external services will reach $8.6 billion in 2006, experiencing a 138 percent increase from $3.6 billion in 2005. IDC projects that by 2010, global SOA-based services spending will reach $33.8 billion.
Read more...

IBM's Take on Grid, Virtualization and SOA

Apr 03, 2006 | In this Q&A with GRIDtoday, IBM's program director for Grid computing strategy and technology, Matt Haynos, previews his upcoming presentation at LinuxWorld and discusses the synergies among Grid computing, virtualization and SOA. At IBM, he says, "Grid IS virtualization."
Read more...

Johnson & Johnson's Jeff Mathers Named Grid Visionary

Apr 03, 2006 | Under Mathers' direction, Johnson & Johnson PRD has led the pharmaceutical industry with research innovation through Grid computing applications, evolving from independent clusters in the United States and Belgium to a single global enterprise grid today, and in the near future, possibly offering Grid computing power as a service offering throughout Johnson & Johnson.
Read more...

An Open Source Run-Time for Distributed HPC

Apr 03, 2006 | OpenRTE is an open source project that is designed to provide a portable distributed computing run-time environment for HPC workloads. HPCwire got a chance to speak with Ralph Castain of Los Alamos National Laboratory about OpenRTE. In this Q&A, he describes what it is, how it works and why some consider it both a complement to and an evolution of current Grid technology.
Read more...

Sun Grid Both Suffers, Succeeds in First 24 Hours

Mar 27, 2006 | GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris spoke with Sun Microsystems' Aisling MacRunnels about how everything was going with the Sun Grid after its first full day of operation. MacRunnels comments on the grid exceeding expecations in terms of users, and downplays the significance of the DOS attack that received so much press last week.
Read more...

Sun Grid Goes Live

Mar 27, 2006 | Sun Microsystems announced Internet access of its Sun Grid Compute Utility in the United States. Through a simple-to-use portal, users -- including developers, scientists and researchers -- will now have access to Sun Grid, the world's first compute utility available at $1/CPU/Hour.
Read more...

Perspectives on Grid: Improving Data Access Performance

Mar 13, 2006 | Explore technologies, approaches and overall trends used to intelligently manage data in distributed grid environments. Author Matt Haynos surveys some of the technologies and approaches grid users employ to integrate data with computation, dynamic resource management. He also will illuminate interesting trends in the industry.
Read more...

Sun Grid National Security Threat Overstated

Mar 13, 2006 | According to Aisling MacRunnels, Sun Microsystems' senior director of utility computing, recent reports that national security halted the rollout of the much-touted Sun Grid were a bit overstated. Although security concerns do exist, she said, the real issue is export control between countries.
Read more...

RENCI’s Dan Reed Named to Presidential Council of Advisors

Mar 06, 2006 | PCAST advises the president on technology, scientific research priorities, and math and science education. Its members are national leaders in business, research and education, including Dell founder Michael Dell, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore and MIT President Emeritus Charles Vest.
Read more...

Cluster Resources All About Empowerment

Mar 06, 2006 | GRIDtoday spoke with Cluster Resources CTO David Jackson about the unique capabilities of the company's Moab family of solutions, which includes cluster, Grid and utility computing suites. Said Jackson: "We do what we do well, which is empower [companies] to deliver their skills seamlessly, efficiently and reliably."
Read more...

The 15 Percent Solution

Feb 27, 2006 | In this opinion piece, Tom Gibbs, director of worldwide strategy and planning in the sales and marketing group at Intel Corp., discusses in depth the plight of IT budgets worldwide. He looks at Grid computing as a savior for those charged with increasing results in the face of decreasing budgets.
Read more...

Enterprise Taking Notice of Grids for Data Management

Feb 13, 2006 | In this article from February's issue of the Globus Consortium Journal, Univa CEO Steve Tuecke discusses how EMC's acquisition of Acxiom's Grid software opened many enterprise eyes to the fact that Grid computing has legs beyond sheer computing power.
Read more...

DataSynapse Appoints New CFO

Feb 13, 2006 | After a successful year in 2005, DataSynapse announced the addition of Roger Blanchette as CFO. Anticipating similar success in 2006 and beyond, the company sought an experienced finance practitioner with an extensive background working with public software companies to help DataSynapse gear up for its next stage of growth.
Read more...

United Devices Unveils HPC Collaboration Center

Feb 06, 2006 | United Devices has unveiled a state-of-the-art facility -- the High-Performance Computing (HPC) Collaboration Center, or HPC3 -- that provides the technology and expertise necessary for companies to validate the business benefits of a collaborative HPC solution in an environment that emulates their real-world operations.
Read more...

A Case for Grid Computing in Insurance

Feb 06, 2006 | Insurance companies around the globe are faced with challenges of decreasing margins, increased competition, decreased budgets and a growing need for computing resources. Grid computing seems to be a key to facing many of these challenges.
Read more...

William Fellows on the Year Ahead in Grid Computing

Jan 23, 2006 | If The 451 Group's principal analyst, William Fellows, is correct, we should see a lot of action in the Grid community as the year progresses, as he sees 2006 as the year "Grid technologies start to cross the chasm into the enterprise." In this interview, Fellows discusses, among other topics, what this year will bring in terms of standards, software licensing and enterprise adoption of Grid computing.
Read more...

Grid Drives Business Results for BNP Paribas

Jan 16, 2006 | DataSynapse's Kelly Vizzini discusses how the structured credit group within BNP Paribas' Credit Derivatives Operations used its Grid infrastructure to master highly complex scenarios, which led to profit generation and new structured products delivered to market.
Read more...

Singapore Launches SG@Schools Program

Jan 09, 2006 | Through participating in this program, the students will be able to generate interesting solutions to solve computationally intensive problems in science and engineering by harnessing the enormous amount of processing cycles achieved through aggregating the available PCs in schools.
Read more...

Where Are We with Utility Computing in the Enterprise?

Jan 09, 2006 | Although it's still very early on, outsourcing, software as a service, "pay as you go" and subscription licensing models point to a broad, long-term change in the technology market and the way IT services are purchased. The desire to better align business practices with IT deployment and to automate processes suggests that enterprises will change the way they buy IT services in the long term.
Read more...

EMC Acquires Acxiom Grid Software

Jan 09, 2006 | EMC has acquired Acxiom's information grid software for $30 million, which was initially developed to meet the information management and time-to-market needs of Acxiom and its clients. The companies also announced a partnership combining Acxiom's Grid technology with EMC's portfolio of storage, information management and resource management solutions
Read more...