In the latest sign that grid and virtualization technologies are getting closer , Univa UD is launching a data center automation business and has hired two industry veterans to lead it.
Platform, GemStone Boost Financial Apps
Platform Computing and GemStone Systems are combining their grid computing and data management software to help financial services companies speed up data-intensive applications.
The new offering combines Platform's Symphony financial services application offering with GemStone's in-memory distributed data management software.
Grid Trends Highlight Barcelona Conference
Several grid computing trends came to the fore this week at the BEinGRID Industry Days event in Barcelona, Spain.
The conference -- held in conjunction with the Open Grid Forum’s OGF23 meeting – was attended by more than 500 participants. BEinGrid, Business Experiments in GRID, is the European Union’s largest project funded by the Information Society Technologies (IST) research body.
Grid Goes to the Movies
Sun Microsystems' (Nasdaq: JAVA) Network.com grid computing service played a key role in a new open source animated film.
The 3D animation film "Big Buck Bunny" was rendered using the Sun Grid compute utility service, and the movie was created using the open source 3D software suite Blender, available from blender.org and the Network.com Application Catalog, a collection of on-demand grid-enabled applications.
QuIC Uses Grid to Speed Up Financial Apps
QuIC Financial Technologies is using grid technology to accelerate its risk management, pricing and financial analytics solutions.
Using technologies from Intel and DataSynapse, the company said it boosted the performance of its Integrated Market and Credit Risk solutions.
Platform Overhauls HPC Management Strategy
Platform Computing has been busy honing its high-performance computing management strategy with a suite of products aimed at cluster and grid computing environments.
Euro Researchers to Showcase Grid Projects
The BEinGRID initiative is drawing attention from top businesses interested in the use of grid solutions, utility-like models, and enterprise computing.
What’s BEinGrid, (Business Experiments in GRID) you ask? It’s the European Union’s largest project funded by the Information Society Technologies (IST) research body.
Peer Network Tests 'Real World' Site Performance
The new e-commerce site you launched looks great and you got great comments from beta testers. So why isn't it getting the traffic you expected?
3Tera Reaches for the Clouds
3Tera is putting its grid operating system to work in a new cloud computing offering.
