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- BUILDING A DYNAMIC UTILITY COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
By Kevin Hartig and Dennis Reedy, Sun Microsystems
- This is an article written by Kevin Hartig and Dennis Reedy about how to
build a low cost utility computing environment with open source software.
It describes the use of the Rio platform and how it dynamically manages and
monitors Apache and Tomcat servers.
- WEST VIRGINIA FUNDS FIRST OPEN PUBLIC GRID COMPUTING EFFORT
- The Global Grid Exchange will utilize the power of the Internet to
aggregate the idle or unused computer processing resources throughout the
state. With access to such resources, the Global Grid Exchange will soon
be the largest open public computing Grid in the world.
- PARABON GRID PLATFORM TO POWER WORLD'S LARGEST OPEN PUBLIC GRID
- The West Virginia High Technology Consortium (WVHTC) Foundation and
Parabon Computation Inc announce a strategic partnership in which
Parabon's secure Grid computing platform, Frontier, will be the core technology used
to drive the Global Grid Exchange.
- NCSA SELECTS THOM DUNNING AS DIRECTOR
- Dunning comes to NCSA from Tennessee, where he was the director of the
Joint Institute for Computational Sciences in Oak Ridge, a distinguished
professor of chemistry and chemical engineering at the University of
Tennessee in Knoxville, and a distinguished scientist in computing and
computational sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Systems/Enterprise
- SUN UNVEILS NEXT LEVEL OF PAY-FOR-USE GRID MODEL
- The Sun Utility Computing for High-end Grid offering will be delivered
through Sun partners and is designed to address the compute-intensive
requirements and business needs of customers in industries such as
petroleum and energy, life sciences, financial services, media and entertainment,
automotive and manufacturing.
- ACTIONAL, WESTBRIDGE MERGE, RAISING BAR FOR SOA ENABLEMENT
- The newly formed company, which will operate under the name of Actional
Corp, also unveiled the Actional SOA Command and Control Platform, an
industry breakthrough in SOA enablement made possible through the
combination of the merged companies' technologies and domain expertise.
- C24 JOINS ENIGMATEC EFFICIENT COMPUTING PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
- The C24 Integration Grid uses a new generation of modular, high
performance Grid-based technologies to provide intelligent data management
distributed across a Grid infrastructure for linear scalability and
unparalleled performance.
- GridXpert DEPLOYS GRID AT ARCELOR FLAT CARBON STEEL
- Grid Computing has enabled Arcelor FCS to homogenize its IT resources.
The group has reduced its scientific IT costs by more than 20 percent, while
managing to optimize its compute power by 35 percent and multiply its
scientific IT resource utilization rate by three.
- OPSWARE MULTI-DATA CENTER DISASTER RECOVERY GAINING ADOPTION
- Opsware Inc, a provider of IT automation and utility computing software,
announced increasing adoption of the Opsware System's Multimaster
capabilities, which automate operations across geographically dispersed
data centers and significantly reduce the costs associated with disaster
recovery.
- SUN, SEEBEYOND AGREEMENT BRINGS PRACTICAL SOA TO CUSTOMERS
- With both companies actively participating on the Java Business
Integration specification (JSR 208), this partnership is based on a strong
alignment around current and emerging industry standards such as JMS, Java
Connector Architecture and BPEL.
Applications
- ELYSIUM, NEXROOT LAUNCH GRID SOLUTION TO TRANSLATE 3D CAD DATA
- CADportal is written in Java using Grid computing architecture to
streamline and enable the CAD translation process. Grid technology enables
dynamic access to additional computing resources by integrating computers
over a network and dispatching jobs in parallel to multiple computer
nodes.
- TECH LABORATORIES INCORPORATES AUTONOMIC COMPUTING INTO DynaTrax
- This Autonomic management continually monitors the DynaTraX Technology
environment, generates events in the Common Base Event format, analyses
the information received, and by utilizing the Autonomic Management Engine,
executes a response based on a plan.
- AKAMAI UNVEILS WEB APPLICATIONS ON DEMAND
- Akamai introduced a series of Web applications that businesses can
rapidly deploy, without the need to purchase any hardware or other "fixed assets,"
and receive computing capacity when and where it is needed.
- PIPELINE CONTRACTOR SELECTS INTACCT/IBM ERP ON DEMAND SOLUTION
- O.J. Pipelines switched to Intacct to reduce operating costs and more
effectively collaborate with remote field teams, ensuring headquarters has
instant access to key financial information about each project.
Breaking News
"This is an innovation that will make our state a leader in a
very promising technology area. The Global Grid Exchange will
be a powerful tool for advancing our work in fields ranging
from biometrics to cancer research." -- Congressman Alan B. Mollohan, D-W.Va.
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