The State of Grid Computing
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Posted by Kenneth Farmer, Wednesday September 06 2006 @ 01:25PM EDT
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ServerWatch: "Grid technologies have long been used for scientific and technical work, where dispersed computers are linked to create virtual supercomputers that rapidly process vast amounts of information," Sara Murphy, program manager for grid computing at Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP, said.
"Now the commercial enterprise is moving to an IT model based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) where grids can be used as the technology infrastructure," Murphy said. "In some cases, IT is being recast as an internal utility for enterprise-wide use, and the deployment vehicle is grid."
Patrick Rogers, vice president of products and partners at Network Appliance of Sunnyvale, Calif., also ties grids into the SOA framework.
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