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Can Grid Hosting Overcome Challenges?
Post Date: September 03, 2007 @ 11:01 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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Whether you call it grid hosting, utility hosting, or some combination of the two, it's pretty clear that the concept offers some real benefits to users who aren't too interested in dealing with the cost and complexity of managing their resources. GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris addresses whether grid hosting providers will be able to overcome public misconceptions and stiff competition in their mission to win over the mainstream enterprise.
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On-Demand Market Heating Up
Post Date: August 27, 2007 @ 11:12 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris offers his thoughts on the rapidly heating up world of on-demand computing. From the recent news surrounding virtualization vendors VMware and XenSource to more and more companies applying on-demand and grid technologies solutions to their respective problems, the market is in the midst of some serious action.
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What I Learned at NGDC: Technology is Ready, Users are Not
Post Date: August 13, 2007 @ 11:28 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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If GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris took one thing away from last week's Next Generation Data Center conference, it is that while a lot of cutting-edge distributed solutions (e.g., grid computing, virtualization, utility computing, etc.) are ready for primetime, users aren't always knocking down the doors to get at them, preferring, instead, to take things one step at a time.
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Searching for Grid at NGDC
Post Date: August 06, 2007 @ 11:16 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris discusses this week's Next Generation Data Center conference (which is co-located with the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo), focusing on the apparent lack of representation from the greater grid/distributed community -- even in a conference track dedicated to virtualization, grid and HPC.
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The 'Grids in Financial Services' Two-By-Four
Post Date: July 30, 2007 @ 11:16 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris shares his thoughts on this week's issue, which features yet another piece espousing the importance of grid computing in the financial services market. And some people still question whether grid technologies are for real ...
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11g: Where's the Grid?
Post Date: July 16, 2007 @ 10:58 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris offers his thoughts on the much-anticipated release of Oracle Database 11g, which the company has claimed is aimed at "growing the grid." However, grid-specific improvements are somewhat difficult to notice, and one Oracle executive even acknowledges a lack of grid support in the new solution.
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Oh, the Articles We've Seen
Post Date: July 09, 2007 @ 11:12 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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In this week's column, GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris looks back on some of the most popular features from the first half of 2007, which combine to paint a picture of where the grid world has been and where it appears to be heading.
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ISV Light Shines on Sun; DataSynapse Goes 5.0
Post Date: July 02, 2007 @ 11:09 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris offers his insights into the latest grid-related news, which includes two ISVs expanding their partnerships with Sun Microsystems around grid hosting, as well as DataSynapse targeting "mega-grid" management with its new GridServer 5.0 solution.
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News Flash: Virtualization Is Big; Financial Users Love HPC
Post Date: June 25, 2007 @ 11:11 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris gives some thoughts on this week's issue, which features a whole lot of virtualization and even more news from the financial services front.
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Dissecting Digipede and Distributed Databases
Post Date: June 11, 2007 @ 11:02 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris takes a look at Digipede's impressive growth over the past year, most of which has been in the financial services market, and digs a little deeper into IBM giving Objectivity's distributed database technology the highest level of IBM grid compliance.
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CometCloud: Using a Federated HPC-Cloud to Understand Fluid Flow in Microchannels
The ever-growing complexity of scientific and engineering problems continues to pose new computational challenges. Thus, we present a novel federation model that enables end-users with the ability to aggregate heterogeneous resource scale problems. The feasibility of this federation model has been proven, in the context of the UberCloud HPC Experiment, by gathering the most comprehensive information to date on the effects of pillars on microfluid channel flow.
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CERN, Google, and the Future of Global Science Initiatives
Large-scale, worldwide scientific initiatives rely on some cloud-based system to both coordinate efforts and manage computational efforts at peak times that cannot be contained within the combined in-house HPC resources. Last week at Google I/O, Brookhaven National Lab’s Sergey Panitkin discussed the role of the Google Compute Engine in providing computational support to ATLAS, a detector of high-energy particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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Avoiding Scientific Computing Bottlenecks in the Cloud
Frank Ding, engineering analysis & technical computing manager at Simpson Strong-Tie, discussed the advantages of utilizing the cloud for occasional scientific computing, identified the obstacles to doing so, and proposed workarounds to some of those obstacles.
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Running Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Cloud
May 16, 2013 |
When it comes to cloud, long distances mean unacceptably high latencies. Researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany examined those latency issues of doing CFD modeling in the cloud by utilizing a common CFD and its utilization in HPC instance types including both CPU and GPU cores of Amazon EC2.
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Exploring the Potential of Heterogeneous Computing
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