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."
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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