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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY /
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Systems/Enterprise:
BAE GRID PROJECT LOOKS TO SPEED UP
PRODUCTION
In an attempt to speed up production lifecycles and increase levels of
collaboration, BAE Systems is working on Grid-enabling its IT environment. The
project is being supported by the e-Science program, and BAE's goal is to
come up with more efficient Grid strategies.
Working with numerous academic and technology partners, BAE hopes to
harness
the power of virtualized heterogeneous IT resources.
BAE is a defense and aerospace company, and its Advanced Technology Center
is
working closely with academia and vendors to safely extend the company's
ability to design, visualize and simulate the elaborate electronic systems
used in those sectors.
Among the ATC's academic partners are the Institute of High Performance
Computing in Singapore, Cardiff University and the University of
Wales-Swansea. Vendor partners include HP and Platform.
The initiative, called the Grid-Enabled Computational Electromagnetics
project, utilizes HP's security expertise, Institute of High Performance
Computing's capacity and the Welsh universities' advanced visualization and
modelling resources to solve Grid access and security problems.
A test Grid will allow for research into advanced levels of simulation and
security across computing resources on multiple sites that power a virtual or
extended Grid enterprise.
The project uses Platform's technology in combination with Globus' open
source
toolkit to Grid-enable applications used at the development stage.
The company's new Grid-enabled applications will create and test its most
sophisticated designs. Ideally, BAE will reduce capital expenditure on IT, and
increase the ability to bring superior products to market faster.
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