IT Heavies Launch &quot;MegaGrid&quot; Project
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Four mainstream IT companies are pooling resources to launch a standardized enterprise grid infrastructure based on their products.
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IBM and several of the world&#39;s leading scientific and philanthropic groups Tuesday launched a project that would put millions of PCs to work on research problems ranging from Alzheimer&#39;s to disaster forecasting.
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The creators of the Globus open source grid software formally launched software and services company Univa on Monday with the hopes of capitalizing on their work on grid computing.
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(InfoWorld) - Itâs virtualization to the rescue again -- this time with large-scale SOA deployments. Tibco Software on Monday launched Tibco ActiveMatrix, a service virtualization platform to help enterprises deal with SOA as deployments grow larger. The new platform includes a service grid, policy management software, and a UDDI-based registry, derived from Tibcoâs Project Matrix initiative. âWith SOA, the challenges that companies are facing are really around the deployment, management, and ultimately the virtualization of services,â Matthew Quinn, vice president of product strategy at Tibco, said. âIf you have two services, you know where those services are and what platform theyâre built on. If you have 500 to 1,000 services, you lose a lot of that control.â ActiveMatrix provides foundation technology for deploying an SOA. Virtualization enables communication with vast numbers of services without having to know what machine they exist on or what type of software container they use. Governance is enhanced because service and policy configuration and management are done centrally for each application server, enterprise service bus or orchestration engine, Tibco said. A centerpiece of the rollout is Tibco ActiveMatrix Service Grid. It serves as a distributed platform for deployment and managing Java, .Net and other services as composite applications. ActiveMatrix provides an integrated vision for application and integration platforms, builds in virtualization layers and addresses composite application programming, said analyst Randy Heffner of Forrester Research. The product also makes the protocols used in an SOA transparent, Heffner said. The three products are available now. Prices for a single product start at about $40,000. Tibco plans to expand its ActiveMatrix product line next year, though company officials declined to provide specifics.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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IBM on Friday is scheduled to make available early versions of three grid-based technologies intended to help corporate and third-party developers better manage grid-based resources as a way to solve large and compute-intensive problems.
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Let's get connected The European Commission has pledged â¬78m to fund research projects into tailoring computer grid technologies and services to meet the needs of European businesses.â¦
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Researchers and businesses in West Virginia will be able to access the first state-sponsored public Internet computing grid when the Global Grid Exchange is launched next month.
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Two of the nation&#39;s  biggest power companies are teaming up with a solar start-up to  create one of the world&#39;s largest solar power projects, which  they say could make electricity at a competitive price.
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The researchers who spawned the idea of grid computing will launch a company Monday to commercialize what so far has been a very academic software project for sharing computing resources.
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(InfoWorld) - The IT industry's thirst for energy is growing exponentially, far outpacing the supply of reliable, clean power. Now a group of leading IT firms has banded together to try to head off an impending energy crisis in the datacenter. Eleven enterprise heavyweights including Microsoft, IBM, Sun, HP, Intel, AMD, Rackable Systems, and VMWare announced Monday that they have formed a non-profit group called The Green Grid to drive new metrics, technology standards, and best practices for curbing power consumption. Robust growth in the IT sector and in companies' use of technology is leading to an acute power shortage, according to analyst firm Gartner. Half the worldâs datacenters will run out of power by the end of 2008, Gartner estimates. That means companies face swelling utility bills as they struggle to keep their servers cool and humming. Many of the companies participating in The Green Grid are individually developing energy-efficient technologies. However, joining forces to tackle the power-consumption problem holistically is a must, according to Green Grid board member Bruce Shaw, director of worldwide commercial and enterprise marketing at AMD. "No one player owns the kingdom. It's not just a processor problem. It's not just a server problem. It's not just a memory problem. Everyone in the ecosystem needs to be involved." By working together, Green Grid companies can develop ways for their respective greener technologies to "hook into one another," thus increasing their overall effectiveness, Shaw said. The consortium started work last April, with representatives for AMD, Sun, IBM, and HP getting the ball rolling. Not surprisingly, there have been challenges from the out start, including concerns about intellectual property and developing a standard way to measure power consumption   "Do you measure by performance per watt? Per dollar? Per thread? Something different?" said Green Grid boar member Colette LaForce, vice president of marketing at Rackable Systems.Â
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Michael Dell has seen the future and it&#39;s a 128-node &quot;MegaGrid&quot; running the Linux operating system on Dell servers at Oracle&#39;s lab in Austin, Texas.
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InfoWorld - Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Sun Microsystems will this week announce an effort they are spearheading to extend the open source Globus Toolkit for grid technologies to commercial enterprise deployments.
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Finding a cure for a major disease like cancer or AIDS is among the lofty objectives of an initiative launched by IBM (NYSE: IBM). The tech giant is constructing a World Community Grid (WCG) and enlisting the help of the world's computer users.
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Editor&#39;s Summary: At a supercomputing conference, Microsoft announced a new tool kit that will let developers create high-performance computing applications.
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IBM and several of the world&#39;s leading scientific and philanthropic groups this week launched a project that would put millions of PCs to work on research problems ranging from Alzheimer&#39;s to disaster forecasting.
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US IT giant IBM and a number of research organisations have launched the World Community Grid, a global humanitarian effort that applies the unused computing power of individual and business computers to help address the world&#39;s most difficult health and
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ActiveGrid lands multimillion-dollar funding for plan to use open-source tools, low-cost servers for Web applications.