Speaking to thousands of attendees at Oracle’s customer and partner conference, Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison launched Oracle’s Grid Computing initiative, but to explain its significance, he dialed back the clock to 1964, to the advent of mainframe computing. Also, beta customers tap into Oracle Grid Computing while Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 achieves record-breaking benchmark with Oracle and HP.
Ellison on Grid Computing: It’s Invincible, It’s Inevitable
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WTH is Grid Computing? Anyone, anyone?
E.g. this paper describes grid computing:
http://www.globus.org/research/papers/anatomy.pdf
Here is the other link you should also look at…
http://www.supercomputingonline.com/article.php?sid=4406
There’s a project in CERN called “DataGrid”, which is done together with many universities around the world. The main idea is for resources, such as computing power and storage to be available from any machine on the network. There’s a great amount of algorithmic work involved to make sure that you don’t make a tradeoff by moving some computational data to be processed on another computer (the moving of the data might take longer than computing it locally would). IIRC Globus is the business involved in this project.
Yeah, I had that link on the story, but I mistyped HERF instead of HREF so the link didn’t appear. Fixed now.
Moore’s law put paid to Multics and it’ll see off this idea as well. Folks should start learning the lessons of the past.
Why isn’t gridcomputing equal to
for instance a beowolf cluster?
Many computers working on 1 task.
acting like one computer.
everything Oracle touches either turns to crap or becomes mediocre. I will wait for the open source solution to this.