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Gridget > May 31, 2006

IBM Grid Computing home page

[Ibm.com] IBM is the industry-leading supplier of Grid computing solutions, services and expertise to the scientific and technical communities as well as commercial .

Grid Computing: Another great reference...

[A Day in the Life] Shirish Chinchalkar from Cornell Theory Center titled "HPC and Grid Computing". This presentation gives a very good overview of HPC, grid computing, and web services, and provides a video that shows HPC in action behind a spreadsheet.

Posted at 05:21 AM

May 31, 2006

IBM Grid Computing home page

[Ibm.com] IBM is the industry-leading supplier of Grid computing solutions, services and expertise to the scientific and technical communities as well as commercial .

Posted at 05:22 AM

Grid Computing: Another great reference...

Posted at 05:21 AM

May 28, 2006

FlexGo != Utility Computing

[Expert Texture] Nick Carr calls this a “full-fledged utility computing service for PCs”. While technically correct, calling this kind of service utility computing further muddles an already troubled term —

Posted at 05:24 AM

Nodalpoint on grid computing for bioinformatics

[ business|bytes|genes|molecules] At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I maintain that while the grid computing economics that Jim Gray talks about work for certain cases, there are a number of cases where the economics break down. If you are doing routine crunching of genomes on an ongoing basis (annotation, etc) and essentially performing data collection, then grids make a lot of sense, at lease loosely distributed ones.

Posted at 05:23 AM

May 25, 2006

Digipede: Website changes and marketing thoughts...

[A Day in the Life] We’ve asked ourselves how we can help visitors to the Digipede site more easily find what they are looking for. A website for an emerging technology has to educate as well as provide a mechanism for the company to generate sales leads.

Posted at 05:22 AM

Hypervisor and more

[Expert Texture] This is the most interesting part of the road map and something that I have been looking forward to for some time. The possible benefits of this to grid computing are enormous: the more the OS supports virtualization the easier it will become to instantiate virtualized sandboxes for secure and unintrusive distributed computing.

Posted at 05:21 AM

May 22, 2006

Digipede and Sun Grid

[A Day in the Life] Morejon mentions a script and a Digipede job wizard. What he's talking about is distributing existing executables on the grid.

Posted at 05:22 AM

An Interview with OCLC's Thomas Hickey

[connect.educause.edu | Technology In Academia -- Connect @ EDUCAUSE] In this 23 minute recording, OCLC's Thomas Hickey was kind enough to join me via Skype to talk about open source software, grid computing, AJAX and a range other topics related to the work of OCLC Research.

Posted at 05:21 AM

May 19, 2006

Grid Computing: eBig HPC session this week

[A Day in the Life] There are many differences between the Digipede approach and Microsoft’s HPC approach and the two different methodologies can work together on the same systems. Used together the methodologies provide you with an entire tool chest of solutions to the different types of computational problems grid computing and HPC computing target.

Posted at 05:23 AM

66 - The Grid (Part One)

[Pulse] In the United States the new, $53 million TeraGrid links four supercomputing clusters into a transcontinental PDP that can process twenty trillion mathematical operations per second. A project called Enabling Grids for E-science in Europe will build the largest international grid so far, linking seventy institutions into a twenty-four-hour grid service with power that equals twenty thousand large computers combined.

Posted at 05:22 AM

May 16, 2006

UK Grid Computing Competition

[ntouk.com - Jerry Fishenden's blog] But I’ll put my hand up before I go any further and confess a self-interest: I sit on the Grid Computing Now! Advisory Council, and will also be a judge on this competition, alongside a panel of distinguished fellow judges drawn from the Department of Trade and Industry, University of Southampton, UCL (University College London), Intel, and Oxford University.

Posted at 05:22 AM

Scaling A Web Service--Webcast Tomorrow

[West Coast Grid] See, when many people think about the concept of grid computing, they think, "Well, that sounds great for a very special type of application, but it wouldn't work for me"--especially those who haven't seen the light of Object Oriented Programming for Grid. However, scaling a web service doesn't mean you have to re-architect your application.

Posted at 05:21 AM

May 13, 2006

Grid: No Simple Answers? Or Simpler Than You Think?

[West Coast Grid] riving around Oakland this weekend I saw thousands of Mexican flags--the confluence of Cinco de Mayo the same week as the May Day immigrant protests led to a huge community celebration. I was at a gas station and chanced into a conversation with two Mexican immigrants--one legal, and one illegal.

Posted at 05:23 AM

NCI Conference Calls on Tissue Banking, Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid

[HealthNex] Members of cancer advocacy organizations, survivors, family, and friends are all encouraged to participate in the teleconference series. The teleconference series provides participants with the opportunity to learn more about NCI's important cancer research programs as well as how advocates are involved in these programs.

Posted at 05:23 AM

May 10, 2006

CRN Reviews Digipede again

[Expert Texture] The article also specifically supports my earlier point. The reviewing engineers gave up after spending five hours trying to get something to work on Sun Grid. On the Digipede Network, it took approximately 1/2 hour. In the reviewer’s words:

Posted at 07:17 AM

Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun

[West Coast Grid] Microsoft has an opportunity to integrate the two OSes in a way that can put Google at a significant disadvantage. To put it another way, it has an opportunity to manage customers' transition from the computer OS to the Web OS in a way that furthers its own interests - and damages Google's.An excellent point, Nick.

Posted at 05:21 AM

May 07, 2006

John vs. Jonathan? Digipede Outshines Sun

[West Coast Grid] Analysis finds hidden costs in Sun platform, while competing Digipede offering shinesNow, I'm not sure that the Digipede Network is really a competing offering--after all, Sun Grid lets you rent distributed computing on Solaris boxes by the CPU hour, while the Digipede Network lets you use your own Windows machines (without any hourly charges).

Posted at 05:24 AM

This just in: our CEO is blogging

[Expert Texture] BTW: you may recognize his blog template .if any of you IE CSS wizards know how to fix the white gap between the header graphic and menu, let me know.

Posted at 05:22 AM

May 04, 2006

User annotations in Ajax

[Linux Web Developer] This tutorial demonstrates how to implement an Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)-based user annotation system in the form of yellow sticky notes that sit on top of regular Web page content. The only additional, required configuration is a back-end Perl script that stores the annotations

Posted at 05:34 AM

Behavior change in Server 2003 SideBySide?

[Expert Texture] The problem is with Server 2003 registration-free COM and a custom-generated manifest. XP and Server 2003 have different requirements for the location of dependent assemblies, so it isn’t suprising that they might behave differently.

Posted at 05:29 AM

Gridget > May 31, 2006

IBM Grid Computing home page

Grid Computing: Another great reference...

May 31, 2006

IBM Grid Computing home page

Grid Computing: Another great reference...

May 28, 2006

FlexGo != Utility Computing

Nodalpoint on grid computing for bioinformatics

May 25, 2006

Digipede: Website changes and marketing thoughts...

Hypervisor and more

May 22, 2006

Digipede and Sun Grid

An Interview with OCLC's Thomas Hickey

May 19, 2006

Grid Computing: eBig HPC session this week

66 - The Grid (Part One)

May 16, 2006

UK Grid Computing Competition

Scaling A Web Service--Webcast Tomorrow

May 13, 2006

Grid: No Simple Answers? Or Simpler Than You Think?

NCI Conference Calls on Tissue Banking, Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid

May 10, 2006

CRN Reviews Digipede again

Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun

May 07, 2006

John vs. Jonathan? Digipede Outshines Sun

This just in: our CEO is blogging

May 04, 2006

User annotations in Ajax

Behavior change in Server 2003 SideBySide?

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