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Week of May 5, 2008 Vol. 6, No. 70
IN THIS ISSUE
Coming Soon: Virtualized Everything
Digipede Grid-Enables Stochastic Modeling Software
Banks Adopting Wide Variety of Virtualization Technologies
GemStone Evolves Data Fabric with Gemfire Enterprise 5.5
GRIDtoday Editor Derrick Harris shares a few of the cloud and grid computing insights he gleaned at last week's Interop show. Although much of the discussion isn't news to regular readers, Google and Amazon did offer some noteworthy peeks into their massive infrastructures.
Silicon Valley startup 3Leaf Systems has a simple vision: to take a pool of x86 servers and decompose them into I/O, compute and memory, and make each available on demand. 3Leaf has a two-phase Virtual Compute Environment approach, starting with I/O virtualization and culminating with compute and memory virtualization spanning across physical machines.
Several providers are taking advantage of technology developed by 3Tera to offer customers whatever level of grid computing power they need, on a pay-as-they-go basis, but allowing a level of flexibility you don?t get with the more traditional or gigantic hosts. 3Tera also is attempting to open up the world of cloud computing with its Cloudware architecture.
Today's Web applications require continual, real-time interactions among multiple client-facing and backend servers. The entire Internet datacenter must now operate more seamlessly to facilitate Web 2.0 applications. The biggest challenge faced in today's biggest datacenters is making such seamless networking both scalable and affordable.
Barrie & Hibbert, a global leader in modeling financial market risk, has integrated its Economic Scenario Generator (ESG) with the Digipede Network for greatly increased scalability and performance. By Digipede-enabling its advanced stochastic asset modeling tools, Barrie & Hibbert now offers its clients the ability to complete complex analyses faster.
SimpliGrid software is the first product that simplifies the provisioning and use of clusters and grids for Microsoft Windows XP and Vista environments. Using a familiar "drag and drop" interface, bio-IT researchers and scientists can easily structure grids and distribute processing tasks across systems.
The combo of IBM's existing financial software and InfoDyne provides a high-speed market data delivery platform designed to help accelerate the speed and increase the throughput and reliability of financial data transmission. Additionally, WebSphere eXtreme Scale provides an in-memory grid across multiple servers with transactional integrity, transparent failover and constant response times.
University Information Technology Services (UITS) at Indiana University has dedicated over 350TB of new storage platforms to support collaborative research projects mounting the Lustre file system across the TeraGrid network and other national high-speed networks.
A European Commission survey of information and communication technologies (ICT) take up by the medical profession found that 87 percent of Europe's general practitioners are using a computer, and just under half are using a broadband connection. The use of electronic services in health care, known as e-Health, is also making administration more efficient and cutting down on patient waiting times, according to the survey of doctors.
The grants have been awarded by the UK e-Science Core Programme which is funded and managed by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The funding will enable the centers to provide core staff and services to run e-science research projects and to participate in separately funded projects that make use of or develop e-science tools.
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