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A Scalable PKI for a National Grid Service: This paper describes work to expand the PKI for the UK National Grid Service NGS, to integrate it with site authentication and improve usability. This work is complementary to the UK Shibboleth deployment. As the NGS grows to support wider and larger scientific communities, the paper investigate how to improve...; Tags: National Grid Service Support Centre, PKI, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Network Security, Security, Networking; White papers 2007-02-01

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Computacenter Case Study: National Grid UK: National Grid Trancso is committed to applying technology to help enhance its overall efficiency and service standards. As part of its 'Staying Ahead' initiative, National Grid recognised that it could not only make substantial savings but also improve productivity by reducing its estate of area offices. Before National Grid could...; Tags: Computacenter, National Grid Trancso, Business Structures, Business Services, Strategy, Finance, Management; Case studies
Knowledge Pathways Provides Measurable ROI for National Grid: Headquartered in London, England, National Grid is an international networks business, which owns and operates electricity transmission, distribution and telecommunications networks throughout the world. National Grid's IT training previously had been managed by ComputerWorld, one of the UK's leading IT specialists, through classroom-based training. National Grid's objective was to lower...; Tags: Global Knowledge Network Inc., Knowledge, ROI, Knowledge Pathways, National Grid, Help Desk, E-learning, Call Centers, Workforce Management, Strategy, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management; Case studies
Service Level Agreement Requirements of an Accounting-Driven Computational Grid: This paper presents the requirements of a national computing Grid. In particular the paper discusses the issues involved in managing complex policies of multiple stakeholders in such a large-scale, dynamic, and heterogeneous Grid and also proposes a Service Level Agreement SLA and agent-based architecture to address these issues. This work...; Tags: SLA, Service Level Management, It Operations, It service Management; White papers 2005-03-03
Computacenter Case Study: National Blood Service UK: Like many organisations in both the public and private sectors, the National Blood Service depends on a number of core bespoke systems to carry out its activities. Faced with a desire to drive down operational costs while improving service to customers, the National Blood Service sought to both replace its...; Tags: Computacenter, Business Structures, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Storage Management, Finance, Hardware; Case studies

Developing Grid Computing Applications, Part 1: Introduction of a Grid Architecture and Toolkit for Building Grid Solutions: Grid computing provides a framework and deployment platform that enables resource sharing, accessing, aggregation, and management in a distributed computing environment based on system performance, users' quality of services QoS, as well as emerging open standards, such as Web services. This is the era of Service Computing. This paper introduces...; Tags: Web Service, Grid Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking; White papers 2002-11-20
Oracle Case Study: National Forest Centre of Slovakia: National Forest Centre of Slovakia wanted to develop web applications to provide standardized information on forests of Slovakia from central forest data warehouse. The provided information had to be accessible through a simple but logical user interface based on drill down from national level to the concrete forest compartment. National...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Slovakia, Web Technology, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware; Case studies 2007-08-24
Q-GSM: QoS Oriented Grid Service Management: Effective and efficient Quality of Service QoS management is critical for a service grid to meet the requirements of both grid users and service providers. This paper introduces Q-GSM, a scalable framework for service management in grid environments, to address this problem. Main characteristics of the framework are grid level...; Tags: SLA, Service Management, QoS, Service Level Management, It Services, It Operations, It service Management; White papers 2005-03-16
Sun Case Study: University of Queensland: The University of Queensland, Australia, hosts two strategic scientific hubs: The Centre for Computational Molecular Science CCMS and the Centre for Hypersonics. Two research units at the University of Queensland UQ needed to augment their 128-node grid system. A new, 66-node Sun Grid Rack System increased throughput by 20 percent,...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc.; Case studies
Should We Compare Web and Grid Services?: Earlier work in the areas of Service-Oriented Architecture SOA and Grid computing resulted in the Open Grid Services Infrastructure OGSI specification, which defined Grid services as an extension of Web services. As a result, people often try to understand the relationship between Grid and Web services or even compare between...; Tags: Web, Iowa State University, Web Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing; White papers 2005-09-30
Q-GSM: A QoS Oriented Grid Service Management Framework: Effective and efficient Quality of Service QoS management is critical for a service grid to meet the requirements of both grid users and service providers. This paper introduces a scalable framework of service management in grid environment to guarantee the QoS of grid services. Several characters of this framework are...; Tags: Service Management, QoS, Framework, Service Level Management, It Services, It Operations, It service Management; White papers 2005-03-22
Grid and Cyber-Infrastructure Activities at UPRM: The College of Engineering of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez UPRM is pioneering efforts for harnessing distributed and collaborative computing environments, and using them for solving problems of national relevance. Most remarkable among these efforts is the Latin American Grid LA Grid, an IBM sponsored consortium of Hispanic...; Tags: Supercomputing; White papers 2006-02-08
A Service Oriented Architecture Grid Based Environment for Hyperspectral Imaging Analysis: This paper outlines the design and implementation of Grid-HSI, a Service Oriented Architecture-based Grid application to enable hyperspectral imaging analysis. Grid-HSI provides users with a transparent interface to access computational resources and perform remotely hyperspectral imaging analysis through a set of Grid services. A HSI analysis toolbox immersed into a...; Tags: Environment, SOA, Analysis, Grid-HSI, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2005-09-03
Nortel Networks Case Study: Call Centre Solutions: Call Centre Solutions Ltd. is a Call Centre Operator based in Dublin, Ireland. The challenge was to select an advanced, continuously updated, and flexible call centre platform that could support a variety of business operational requirements, business growth, and geographical expansion in a cost-effective way. The company opted to further...; Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Real Estate, Business Operations; Case studies
Poison Centre Gains Real-Time Web Publishing, Better Database Management: The New Zealand National Poisons Centre provides life-saving information about poisons and their treatment through a telephone call centre and Internet database. Open around the clock, the centre receives inquiries from health professionals, the general public, and poison centres in other countries. Lately, the database hosting provider did not provide...; Tags: Centre, Database Management, Web-publishing, New Zealand National Poisons Centre, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Case studies
Service Oriented Architectures for Science Gateways on Grid Systems: Grid computing is about allocating distributed collections of resources including computers, storage systems, networks and instruments to form a coherent system devoted to a "Virtual organization" of users who share a common interest in solving a complex problem or building an efficient agile enterprise. Service oriented architectures have emerged as...; Tags: Grid Computing, SOA, Springer Science+Business Media, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Portals, Web Services, Middleware, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet; White papers 2005-10-18
Developing Grid Computing Applications, Part 2: Introduction to a Grid Architecture and Toolkit for Building Grid Solutions: A Grid solution is created to allow applications to share data and computing resources as well as access them across multiple organizations in an efficient way. Each Grid solution can be configured as two kinds of Grids: physical and logical. This paper introduces the concept of Grid solution architecture and...; Tags: Solution, Grid Computing, IBM Corp., Grid Solution, Outsourcing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, It service Management, Networking; White papers 2002-12-03
Novell Case Study: Seoul National University: Seoul National University SNU is South Korea's premier and largest national university, as well as a leading research center, with more than 30,000 students and 1,700 full-time faculty and 1,400 staff members. SNU is striving to become South Korea's hub for grid computing, taking advantage of networked computers to handle...; Tags: Novell Inc., Seoul National University, Grid Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Open Source, Servers, It service Management, Networking, Hardware; Case studies
A Throughput-Intensive Compute and Storage Grid Using SAS Grid Manager: The time has come when a $2,000,000 SMP UNIX server can be replaced by a $200,000 grid of even greater performance, reliability, and fault tolerance. This paper will discuss the considerations made in selecting the key grid components: grid node hardware, network infrastructure, and storage strategy. These must be optimized...; Tags: Performance, Storage, SAS Institute; White papers 2007-05-14
Grid - Distributed Computing at Scale: An Overview of Grid and the Open Grid Forum4.5: Grid is a core concept in modern distributed computing architectures and is aligned with other important distributed computing technologies such as virtualization, service-orientation and data center automation. In a sense, Grids are enabled by virtualization, automation and service-orientation technologies and also integrate these technologies into a unifying solution - particularly...; Tags: Distributed Computing, Grid, Open Grid Forum, Virtualization, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking; White papers 2007-08-28

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