Cloudiquity

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 [...]

Tags: Apache, Grid Computing, Grid Engine, Hadoop, Oracle, Sun

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 [...]

Tags: Cloud Computing, GigaSpaces, Green Computing, Grid Computing, Server utilisation, server utilization