Amazon Web Services and Cloud and Grid and HPC admin on 15 Jan 2010
Sun (or is that Oracle…) has released a new version of their Grid Engine which brings it into the cloud.
There are two main additions in this release. The First is is integration with Apache Hadoop in which Hadoop jobs can now be submitted to Grid Engine, as if they were any other computation job. The Grid Engine also understand [...]
Cloud and DataGrid and Grid admin on 23 Dec 2009
GigaSpaces, in conjunction with MPI Europe, Globant, and Intel recently conducted some benchmarks on the in-memory data caching / data grid element of their version 7 XAP platform on Intel’s Nehalem chipset. XAP’s latest version 7 reached 1 million data updates per second and 2.6 million data retrievals per second with four client threads on the [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud and DataGrid and Grid and HPC admin on 23 Oct 2009
a new report from analysts The 451 Group outlines the success to date that GigaSpaces has had in the Cloud Sector. The report talks about how GigaSpaces now has 76 customers using its software on cloud-computing platforms. This is up from 25 on Amazon’s EC2 in February. GigaSpaces have moved forward their cloud strategy in [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud and Grid and HPC admin on 22 Aug 2009
What does it take to make a Cloud Computing infrastructure enterprise ready ? Well, as always, this probably depends on the use case, but support for real-time scaling and SLA support must figure highly.
Software that purports to scale the applications on the cloud is not new, have a look at our prior blog post on this [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud and DataGrid and Grid admin on 16 May 2009
This session was presented at Cloud Slam 09 by Nati Shalom CTO of GigaSpaces. It provides a practical guideline addressing the common challenges of developing and deploying an existing enterprise application on the cloud. Additionally, you will get the opportunity for hands-on experience running and deploying production ready applications in a matter of minutes on [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud and DataGrid and Grid and HPC admin on 08 May 2009
Some of the key things to think about when putting your application on the cloud are discussed below. Cloud computing is relatively new, and best practice is still being established. However we can learn from earlier technologies and concepts such as utility compute, SaaS, outsourcing and even internal enterprise centre management, as well as from [...]
Cloud and Grid and HPC admin on 12 Apr 2009
The below presentation is a very good presentation on Sun’s Cloud Computing Vision. It covers all areas, including public and private cloud, as well as open source initiatives. It’s a very good intro’ to get the skinny on where Sun is right now with Cloud and where it intends to focus and drive forward.
Cloud Computing [...]
Cloud and Grid and HPC admin on 31 Mar 2009
There has been an interesting discussion occurring on The Cloud Computing forum hosted on Google Groups (and if you are all interested in Cloud I recommend you join this as it really does have some excellent discussions). What has been interesting about it from my viewpoint is that there is a general consensus that the average CPU [...]
Cloud and Grid admin on 28 Feb 2009
A recent post by the Cloud vendor CohesiveFT talks about the potential changes in technical sales cycles when evaluating Grid based products. I’m not sure I agree totally with the article, but the ethos behind the article i.e. making it easier to trial products, try out solutions and build apps /services quicker to be build internal business cases is [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud and DataGrid and Grid and HPC admin on 26 Feb 2009
A new book co-authored by Jim Liddle, one of the contributors to this blog has been released entitled “TheSavvyGuideTo HPC, Grid, DataGrid, Virtualisation and Cloud Computing. The aim of TheSavvyGuideTo book range is to get people up to speed as quickly as possible on the subject matter of the books.
Although the book covers a plethora [...]
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