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[Expert Texture] Dan had quite a week (see his post, What a week!) at Digipede. We have a couple of new customers this week and a new release of the Digipede Network 1.2.

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[Expert Texture] Moratorium on a metaphor?: So, the commodity in utility computing is the compute cycle, but utility computing doesn’t resemble an electric utility.  The metaphor just doesn’t make sense.  I guess people like it because there was a time when electricity generation moved from a local to a centralized model. 

http://krgreenlee.blogspot.com [A Day in the Life] Grid Computing: Ahhh, But We Do Still Need... : In this scenario, the core unit of business computing would not be small, inflexible servers but rather large, flexible computing clusters or grids. These clusters in turn would be built not from traditional branded servers but from cheap, commodity subcomponents - chips, boards, drives, power supplies, and so on - that the grid operators would assemble into tightly networked physical or virtual machines.

A Day In the Lifehttp://spaces.msn.com/members/krgreenlee [A Day In the Life] What I like about GOOP: GOOP is the acronym that Dan has used to talk about Grid Object Oriented Programming which is what the Digipede SDK supports. Soon I’ll be going out and spreading the word about Digipede and to prepare for that I’ve been researching the history of grid computing and the Globus project in particular.

http://krgreenlee.blogspot.com [A Day in the Life] Grid Computing: What I like about GOOP: Whether it’s really distributed computing or parallel computing or grid computing doesn’t matter because the companies are using the term grid. Communication is always a negotiation process especially between people and since there is not one central agreed upon definition of grid, companies (like Digipede) will use the words that prospects and customers are using.

http://westcoastgrid.blogspot.com [Westcoastgrid.blogspot.com] West Coast Grid: Because 1.21 gigaflops just aren't 1.21 gigawatts: If large, expert-run utility grids supplant subscale corporate data centers as the engines of computing, the need to buy branded servers would evaporate. The highly sophisticated engineers who build and operate the grids would, like Google's engineers, simply buy cheap subcomponents and use sophisticated software to tie them all together into large-scale computing powerplants.I've seen many references to utility computing before, and I just don't buy it.

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