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Grid computing, supercomputers, utility computing: Find the latest news and trends on high performance computing systems.
IN THIS TOPIC:  NEWS (36) , EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVICE (13) , REFERENCE & LEARNING (5) , BEST WEB LINKS (5) , DEFINITIONS (12)

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Learning Guide: Grid computing
LEARNING GUIDE - This learning guide puts all grid computing related news, advice, whitepapers, and other resources at your fingertips.
High performance computing fast guide
GUIDE - In this guide to implementing high performance computing (HPC), find news, tips and advice on data center applications for supercomputing.
PNNL seeks supercomputer to battle radioactive plume
ARTICLE - Pacific Northwest National Labs is replacing its four-year-old supercomputer. Its replacement will be used to tackle environmental remediation and sustainable energy.
Does the mainframe play a role in grid computing?
TIP - A grid computing effort that includes the mainframe can focus on improving grid robustness and introducing mission-critical applications to the grid.

  NEWS: 1 - 3 of 36
Data center panel weighs cloud computing risks, rewards
SearchDataCenter.com | 05 Dec 2008
ARTICLE - What are the risks and rewards of cloud computing? Our data center advisory board gives specific advice for IT managers considering moving applications to the cloud.
Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 challenges Linux on low-end HPC
SearchDataCenter.com | 23 Sep 2008
ARTICLE - With Windows HPC Server 2008, Microsoft has set its sights on an emerging class of commercial high-performance computing (HPC) applications running on the x86 platform.
Hardware standardization benefits cloud computing, virtualization
SearchDataCenter.com | 15 Sep 2008
ARTICLE - Hardware standardization can benefit cloud computing and virtualization, and it reduces management issues and hardware costs, but at the risk of vendor lock-in.
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  EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVICE: 1 - 3 of 13
How cloud computing will change capacity management
30 Sep 2008
TIP - Cloud computing will change IT capacity management strategies, allowing IT managers to deal with the new rivers of data that would overflow the traditional data center bucket.
Linux clusters vs. grids
Submitted By: SearchEnterpriseLinux.com | 09 Apr 2007
TIP - Can Linux clusters outperform grid computing? Expert Ken Milberg compares them -- covering Beowulf, HPC, Linux Virtual Server -- and chooses a winner.
Does the mainframe play a role in grid computing?
Submitted By: SearchDataCenter.com | 20 Sep 2006
TIP - A grid computing effort that includes the mainframe can focus on improving grid robustness and introducing mission-critical applications to the grid.
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  REFERENCE & LEARNING: 1 - 3 of 5
High performance computing fast guide
SearchDataCenter.com | 01 Jun 2007
GUIDE - In this guide to implementing high performance computing (HPC), find news, tips and advice on data center applications for supercomputing.
A grid glossary: Top 30 terms
SearchDataCenter.com | 15 Mar 2006
GLOSSARY - This page puts the top 30 grid-related terms into one easy glossary.
Learning Guide: Grid computing
SearchDataCenter.com | 01 Mar 2006
LEARNING GUIDE - This learning guide puts all grid computing related news, advice, whitepapers, and other resources at your fingertips.
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  BEST WEB LINKS: 1 - 3 of 5
Face-off: IBM's on-demand computing
SearchCIO.com | 08 Mar 2004
BEST WEB LINK - Utopia or just a computing pipe dream? Our editors debate the pros and cons of IBM's on-demand computing initiative.
Data center group issues utility computing spec
ServerWatch.com | 25 May 2004
BEST WEB LINK - In an effort to unify disparate hardware and software specifications in the data center to truly take advantage of utility computing, the Data Language Markup Language (DCML) Organization has issued a utility computing ...
Utility computing: A reality check and prescription for success
SearchCIO.com | 04 Nov 2004
BEST WEB LINK - Utility computing can be defined as the automated deployment and management of computing power and applications on an on-demand basis.
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  DEFINITIONS: 1 - 3 of 12
Blue Cloud
31 May 2008
WORD - Blue Cloud is an approach to shared infrastructure developed by IBM. The goal of IBM's Blue Cloud is to provide services that automate fluctuating demands for IT resources. The set of all the connections involved is sometimes ...
IBM Roadrunner
19 Nov 2007
WORD - Roadrunner is the fastest supercomputer in the world. IBM developed Roadrunner for the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The system cost $100 million to develop. When Roadrunner debuted in June 2008, it was ...
Linpack benchmark
28 Nov 2005
WORD - The Linpack benchmark is a method of measuring the floating point rate of execution of a computer by running a program that solves a system of linear equations. Linpack was originally developed by Jack Dongarra to give ...
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