Posted by Kenneth Farmer, Tuesday October 04 2005 @ 12:09PM EDT
ClusterMonkey.net: Everyday millions of people click on hyperlinks without knowing the source of the information they are about to view. Insulated from the physical location of the data, the user just clicks and the protocols do the rest. The Globus ToolkitŪ is designed to the same kind of thing only instead of linking users to data, Globus will link users to computational resources. Just as you do not know (or care) where your electricity was generated, so it may be with your computing cycles.
Grid computing holds great promise for the HPC cluster community. It is not intended to replace clusters nor will it turn every corporate LAN into a top500 cluster. Indeed, clusters may very well become the powerplants of the computational Grid.
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.
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