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- 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
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- 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
- 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
- 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
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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
- InstantGrid: A Framework for On-Demand Grid Point Construction
- This paper proposes the InstantGrid framework for on-demand construction of grid points. In contrast to traditional approaches, Instant-Grid is designed to substantially simplify software management in grid systems, and is able to instantly turn any computer into a grid-ready platform with the desired execution environment. Experimental results demonstrate that a...
- Tags: On-demand
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- Introduction to Grid Computing With Globus
- This paper is intended to give readers interested in the technical aspects of grid computing a hands-on introduction using the Globus Toolkit. This will include a discussion of the first basics of grid computing, applications to be run on the grid, and various grid products and architectures that are currently...
- Tags: Grid Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking
- White papers 2003-09-01
- 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
- 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 Computing and SAS
- Organizations today are under pressure to find ways to make the most of the IT resources they already have. In many industries significant improvements to the bottom line have been realized through grid computing. Grid computing allows you to link together the processors, storage and/or memory of distributed computers to...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Grid Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking
- White papers 2004-12-01
- 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
- Back to the Future: A New Conceptual Model for Grid Storage White Paper
- Several vendors are promoting their concepts of grid storage. Some rely heavily on virtualization; others look much like a conventional SAN. These implementations raise more questions than they answer. The truth is that the storage grid at this point remains a work-in-progress. This paper looks at the challenges driving interest...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Truth, Storage Grid, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2005-08-01
- XAML Grid
- A Grid control is used to display tabular data in a column and row format. The element of XAML represents a Grid control. This paper discusses how to use Grid control in XAML. The element creates a Grid in XAML, which supports properties similar to other XAML elements.
- Tags: XAML
- White papers 2005-06-02
- Grid Computing: Extending the Boundaries of Distributed IT
- This white paper discusses HP's leadership in developing open grid standards and grid computing technologies. It explains why the company is committed to using industry standards to grid-enable all HP products—from the smallest handhelds, printers, and PCs to powerful storage arrays and supercomputers. Read the paper to learn more about...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Grid Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking
- White papers 2006-10-01
- 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
- Grid Computing Update - Cycle IV
- Grid Computing Update Pilots move to Mainstream. The fourth update to Quocirca's Grid Index shows how initial pilots of Grid computing are now moving towards full implementations. However, large-scale Grid implementations, covering an enterprise's total IT infrastructure, are still rare. Organisations are going for discrete cluster Grids...
- Tags: Grid Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking
- White papers 2007-01-11
- Grid Technology Center
- Oracle 10g allows companies to begin evolving their IT toward a grid computing model. From storage, to databases, application servers, and applications, Oracle's new technology addresses the requirements of grid computing. Read our technical white papers on grid computing to learn more.
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Grid Computing, Oracle Application Server 10g, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking
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- IBM Grid and Grow Offering: A Solution for Competitive Business
- It's no wonder companies are looking to utilize new, proven technology such as grid computing to achieve a competitive advantage. The future of their business depends on finding the most comprehensive IT solutions from committed industry leaders. Grid Computing offers incredible benefits, but many customers are challenged with how to...
- Tags: Grid Computing, IBM Corp., Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking
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