Posted by Kenneth Farmer, Wednesday October 13 2004 @ 08:04AM EDT
Grid Computing Planet: The TeraGrid, the National Science Foundation's effort to build a distributed national cyberinfrastructure, has now entered full production mode, offering services to the nation's science and engineering community.
TeraGrid's unified user support infrastructure and software environment let users access storage and information resources as well as more than a dozen major computing systems through a single allocation, either as standalone resources or as components of a distributed application using grid software capabilities.
IDC: Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer Blade Solution
Analysis of the Xtreme-X architecture and management system while assessing challenges and opportunities in the technical computing market for blade servers. Video - The Road to PetaFlop Computing
Explore the Scalable Unit concept where multiple clusters of various sizes can be rapidly built and deployed into production. This new architectural approach yields many subtle benefits to dramatically lower total cost of ownership.