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