Special Features:
SUN'S JINI A 'NATURAL FIT' FOR GRID
Paremus announced its endorsement of Jini technology for Grid computing with
Infiniflow -- the Enterprise Grid Fabric.
Developed by Sun Microsystems, Jini technology is a network architecture for
the construction of distributed systems where scale, resilience and
adaptability are paramount. Jini technology provides a flexible infrastructure
for delivering services in a network and for creating spontaneous interactions
between clients that use these services, independent of their hardware or
software implementations. Although Jini technology is not a complete Grid
framework, its core concepts such as service leasing, service discovery and
object mobility, provide the ideal foundations for a new generation of agile
distributed enterprise compute service.
"After Java, we consider Jini to be the most important technology development
ever released by Sun Microsystems," said Richard Nicholson, CTO of Paremus.
"Whilst Paremus, a founding sponsor of the EGA, has Infiniflow-related Web
Services Resource Framework and JXTA components in research and development,
Jini and its service oriented characteristics, have been critical to realizing
Infiniflow's unique autonomic capabilities. We believe that Jini has been
ready to take its rightful position as the service oriented framework for the
next generation of agile utility-centric enterprise for some time now, and
that recent Web Services developments do nothing to challenge this."
Developed over the last two years, Infiniflow augments core Jini technology
behaviors by leveraging recovery oriented, robust and complex adaptive design
techniques. In addition, Infiniflow's dynamically evolvable self-assembling
services, "swarm" compute resource allocation behaviors and a scale-free
self-healing messaging substrate allow sophisticated distributed processing
patterns to be created whose service characteristics exceed current
expectations for resiliency and scalability within distributed enterprise
systems.
"Jini technology enables dynamic networking, which is a powerful new way of
networking that utilizes the Java platform to deliver highly adaptive
technology systems," said Bob Scheifler, distinguished engineer and Jini
technology architect at Sun Microsystems. "It is a natural fit for Grid
computing, which is largely defined by its very dynamic nature and its need
for the sort of flexible scaling, resilience, and evolvability that Jini
technology can provide. Paremus has recognized this alignment, and has
leveraged Jini technology in their Infiniflow Grid fabric to create an
exciting application of dynamic networking."
"Initially designed for use in the financial services industry, Infiniflow's
flow-based architecture allows any number of complex business processes to use
generic utility compute infrastructure services, whilst delivering
unprecedented business agility, service availability and cost effectiveness."
said Mike Francis, business development manager at Paremus. "Being built on
rock solid, standards-based, open source software foundations allows
Infiniflow to directly meet the challenges posed by next-generation
distributed utility data centers."
About Sun Microsystems Inc
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The
Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems Inc to its position as a provider
of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work.
Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at
http://sun.com.
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