Grid Engine Enterprise Edition version 5.3 lets administrators establish rules that control how computing jobs run, effectively allowing them to limit a job to make sure it doesn't take up too many resources.
The Globus Toolkit has used its own standards, but developers are moving to web services standards so the software will more easily integrate with business computing infrastructure, said Ian Foster, one of the three lead developers behind the...
The company, called Univa and based near Chicago, is building its business on the Globus Toolkit, grid software that serves as an important foundation to dozens of supercomputing projects. Univa's top brass - chief executive Steve Tuecke, chief...
The consortium will promote grid standardisation efforts, teach customers about grids and hear what they'd like added, and fund work to bolster the Globus Toolkit, Nawrocki said. The consortium will try to steer an open source software package...
Next on the hit-list was open source, with McNealy attacking the widely held view that the Linux operating system is cheap, compared with Sun's own Solaris OS or Microsoft's Windows, or even free. Speaking at the Executive Forum event just outside...
Fewer than one in 10 businesses is planning to adopt grid computing because of concerns about cost, complexity and security, according to a survey of IT managers. Out of the 100 IT managers quizzed, 88 per cent said their board of directors don't...