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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / AUGUST 25, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 34
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Applications:
FREE CODE PRESENTED FOR GRID
OPERATIONS
IBM said that it has made available free code for developing grid and
autonomic tools for use in on-demand operating environments.
The free code is available for a 90-day trial from AlphaWorks
(http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com), IBM's tools Web site. Developers can find
new resource areas on grid and autonomic computing, as well as Eclipse, an
open-source, Java-based, extensible development platform. The available code
makes it possible to create e-business applications.
Grid computing is based on an open set of standards and protocols that
enable
communication across heterogeneous, geographically dispersed environments.
Autonomic computing is a self-managing computing model where a system is
capable of monitoring and correcting itself while keeping the complexity
invisible to the user.
Developers building businesses around emerging technology now have access
to
dozens of free, on-demand application tools, including the new version of
IBM's Emerging Technologies Toolkit.
IBM also announced an updated version of its IBM Community Tools (ICT), a
communication toolkit that lets users communicate by instant message with
entire communities, such as customer and partner communities, in a peer- to-
peer network. ICT has been used by iSeries customers and business partners
since February and is now available to the public on AlphaWorks.
In addition to the Emerging Technologies Toolkit, IBM has made available a
number of other tools, including Directory Replicator for Grid, Manageability
Services for Linux, Application Tools for Extension Services, Visual
Application Builder and Generic Log Adapter for Autonomic Computing.
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