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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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