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Towards Automated Deployment of Built-to-Order Systems 2005-12-22 01:01:52 Hewlett-Packard

End-to-end automated application design and deployment poses a significant technical challenge. With increasing scale and complexity of IT systems and the manual handling of existing scripts and configuration files for application deployment that makes them increasingly error-prone and brittle, this problem has become more acute. Even though design tools have been used to automate system design, it is usually difficult to translate these designs to deployed systems in an automated manner as multiple activities are involved in such a deployment. This paper describes a generic process of automated deployment and an evaluation of the tool.

FEEDBACKFLOW - An Adaptive Workflow Generator for System Management 2005-12-22 01:01:52

This paper describes a prototypical framework that further automates system management by composing complex management tasks from elementary actions, and executing composite tasks with feedback-awareness. FEEDBACKFLOW implements a general closed control loop of planning - execution - result validation - replanning, and generates workflows of system management actions in an adaptive manner. System-dependent behaviour of the loop is specified by declarative description of the domain (essentially descriptions of available actions), and statement of the goal.

Challenges of Data Center Thermal Management 2006-03-23 04:51:35

The need for more performance from computer equipment in data centers has driven the power consumed to levels that are straining thermal management in the centers. Data centers are being designed with 15 - 20-year life spans, and customers must know how to plan for the power and cooling within these data centers. This paper provides an overview of some of the ongoing work to operate within the thermal environment of a data center. Some of the factors that affect the environmental conditions of data-communication (datacom) equipment within a data center are described. Since high-density racks clustered within a data center are of most concern, measurements are presented along with the conditions necessary to meet the datacom equipment environmental requirements.

Delivering High-Performance Research and Education Networks 2005-10-11 03:00:02 Alcatel

GEANT is one of the world's most advanced IP-based networks, connecting 29 European research networks with the US, Canada, Japan, the Mediterranean and Latin America. GEANT2, the successor to GEANT, will be the seventh generation of this pan-European research & education backbone, and will combine an IP network with intelligent optical switching to create a hybrid switched and routed infrastructure. Learn how distributed computing, proven by GEANT, is already bringing supercomputing resources to bear on the challenges faced by multinationals and research networks.

Project MegaGrid: Storage-Assisted Data Migration 2005-11-03 01:00:03 Oracle

Dell, EMC, Intel, and Oracle have partnered to form Project MegaGrid to develop a standard approach to building and deploying an enterprise grid infrastructure that can outperform traditional big iron solutions at a fraction of the cost. Project MegaGrid combines the multiple vendor technology stacks into validated best practices that simplify system integration and allows customers to achieve the benefits of a low-cost Enterprise Grid. The phased project addresses the customer challenges concerning infrastructure consolidation and aligning technology with business requirements.

IT Optimization: Driving Infrastructure Value 2005-10-10 13:54:39

The changing (more critical) role of IT: at the heart of business.

From email to product development to customer relationship management, IT is now critical to virtually every aspect of business. The entire role of IT is evolving, as IT organizations are transformed into true service management functions.

IBM takes a holistic approach to helping you optimize your vital IT capabilities to start playing a more strategic and essential role across the business. We can help you meet broad goals including reducing cost, improving asset management, better aligning services with business needs and increasing the productivity of operations. Find out how by downloading the white paper, "IT Optimization: Driving Infrastructure Value."

Configuring Oracle Enterprise Manager 10.1 Agents for Use in Active/Passive Environments 2005-11-03 01:00:03 Oracle

Oracle Enterprise Manager 10.1 plays a key role when deploying Oracle solutions in providing the tools for managing, monitoring, and alerting for these environments. Therefore High Availability for Enterprise Manager itself is also another critical piece of the Oracle configurations. Active/Passive (or CFC - Cold Failover Cluster) environments refer to one type of high availability solution that allows an application to run on one node at a time. These environments generally use a combination of 'cluster' software to provide a logical hostname and IP Address, along with interconnected host/storage systems to share information to provide a measure of high availability for applications.

Project MegaGrid: Tools and Techniques for Performance Monitoring and Resource Provisioning 2005-11-03 01:00:03 Oracle

A commercial data center environment based on the Enterprise Grid Computing model is designed to host multiple applications with differing resource and service requirements. Computing and storage resources are virtualized to facilitate their dynamic re-assignment to applications as needs change, in order to maximize the hardware utilization while minimizing overall system cost. This paper presents techniques for provisioning an Enterprise Grid computing environment to utilize resources in response to fluctuating demands. Multiple applications, among them Oracle E-Business Suite, are deployed in Project MegaGrid.

Project MegaGrid: Infrastructure Design 2005-11-03 01:00:03

This white paper discusses the infrastructure design that enables the Enterprise Grid Computing model. A well-designed infrastructure provides the foundation on which the advanced IP and storage networking technologies are utilized, so that Grid-enabled applications can fully utilize resources in response to fluctuating demands. This paper refers to the Enterprise Grid Computing environment built for Project MegaGrid. The environment is jointly developed, designed, architected, and validated by Dell, EMC, Intel, and Oracle to contribute to defining the Enterprise Grid Computing reference model architecture and to developing joint best practices and blueprints.

A Taxonomy of Scientific Workflow Systems for Grid Computing 2005-12-21 01:01:53

With the advent of Grid and application technologies, scientists and engineers are building more and more complex applications to manage and process large data sets, and execute scientific experiments on distributed resources. Such application scenarios require means for composing and executing complex workflows. Therefore, many efforts have been made towards the development of workflow management systems for Grid computing. This paper proposes a taxonomy that characterizes and classifies various approaches for building and executing workflows on Grids.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Towards Automated Deployment of Built-to-Order Systems	2005-12-22 01:01:52	Hewlett-Packard
End-to-end automated application design and deployment poses a significant technical challenge. With increasing scale and complexity of IT systems and the manual handling of existing scripts and configuration files for application deployment that makes them increasingly error-prone and brittle, this problem has become more acute. Even though design tools have been used to automate system design, it is usually difficult to translate these designs to deployed systems in an automated manner as multiple activities are involved in such a deployment. This paper describes a generic process of automated deployment and an evaluation of the tool.
FEEDBACKFLOW - An Adaptive Workflow Generator for System Management	2005-12-22 01:01:52
This paper describes a prototypical framework that further automates system management by composing complex management tasks from elementary actions, and executing composite tasks with feedback-awareness. FEEDBACKFLOW implements a general closed control loop of planning - execution - result validation - replanning, and generates workflows of system management actions in an adaptive manner. System-dependent behaviour of the loop is specified by declarative description of the domain (essentially descriptions of available actions), and statement of the goal.
Challenges of Data Center Thermal Management	2006-03-23 04:51:35
The need for more performance from computer equipment in data centers has driven the power consumed to levels that are straining thermal management in the centers. Data centers are being designed with 15 - 20-year life spans, and customers must know how to plan for the power and cooling within these data centers. This paper provides an overview of some of the ongoing work to operate within the thermal environment of a data center. Some of the factors that affect the environmental conditions of data-communication (datacom) equipment within a data center are described. Since high-density racks clustered within a data center are of most concern, measurements are presented along with the conditions necessary to meet the datacom equipment environmental requirements.
Delivering High-Performance Research and Education Networks	2005-10-11 03:00:02	Alcatel
GEANT is one of the world's most advanced IP-based networks, connecting 29 European research networks with the US, Canada, Japan, the Mediterranean and Latin America. GEANT2, the successor to GEANT, will be the seventh generation of this pan-European research & education backbone, and will combine an IP network with intelligent optical switching to create a hybrid switched and routed infrastructure. Learn how distributed computing, proven by GEANT, is already bringing supercomputing resources to bear on the challenges faced by multinationals and research networks.
Project MegaGrid: Storage-Assisted Data Migration	2005-11-03 01:00:03	Oracle
Dell, EMC, Intel, and Oracle have partnered to form Project MegaGrid to develop a standard approach to building and deploying an enterprise grid infrastructure that can outperform traditional big iron solutions at a fraction of the cost. Project MegaGrid combines the multiple vendor technology stacks into validated best practices that simplify system integration and allows customers to achieve the benefits of a low-cost Enterprise Grid. The phased project addresses the customer challenges concerning infrastructure consolidation and aligning technology with business requirements.
IT Optimization: Driving Infrastructure Value	2005-10-10 13:54:39
The changing (more critical) role of IT: at the heart of business. From email to product development to customer relationship management, IT is now critical to virtually every aspect of business. The entire role of IT is evolving, as IT organizations are transformed into true service management functions. IBM takes a holistic approach to helping you optimize your vital IT capabilities to start playing a more strategic and essential role across the business. We can help you meet broad goals including reducing cost, improving asset management, better aligning services with business needs and increasing the productivity of operations. Find out how by downloading the white paper, "IT Optimization: Driving Infrastructure Value."
Configuring Oracle Enterprise Manager 10.1 Agents for Use in Active/Passive Environments	2005-11-03 01:00:03	Oracle
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10.1 plays a key role when deploying Oracle solutions in providing the tools for managing, monitoring, and alerting for these environments. Therefore High Availability for Enterprise Manager itself is also another critical piece of the Oracle configurations. Active/Passive (or CFC - Cold Failover Cluster) environments refer to one type of high availability solution that allows an application to run on one node at a time. These environments generally use a combination of 'cluster' software to provide a logical hostname and IP Address, along with interconnected host/storage systems to share information to provide a measure of high availability for applications.
Project MegaGrid: Tools and Techniques for Performance Monitoring and Resource Provisioning	2005-11-03 01:00:03	Oracle
A commercial data center environment based on the Enterprise Grid Computing model is designed to host multiple applications with differing resource and service requirements. Computing and storage resources are virtualized to facilitate their dynamic re-assignment to applications as needs change, in order to maximize the hardware utilization while minimizing overall system cost. This paper presents techniques for provisioning an Enterprise Grid computing environment to utilize resources in response to fluctuating demands. Multiple applications, among them Oracle E-Business Suite, are deployed in Project MegaGrid.
Project MegaGrid: Infrastructure Design	2005-11-03 01:00:03
This white paper discusses the infrastructure design that enables the Enterprise Grid Computing model. A well-designed infrastructure provides the foundation on which the advanced IP and storage networking technologies are utilized, so that Grid-enabled applications can fully utilize resources in response to fluctuating demands. This paper refers to the Enterprise Grid Computing environment built for Project MegaGrid. The environment is jointly developed, designed, architected, and validated by Dell, EMC, Intel, and Oracle to contribute to defining the Enterprise Grid Computing reference model architecture and to developing joint best practices and blueprints.
A Taxonomy of Scientific Workflow Systems for Grid Computing	2005-12-21 01:01:53
With the advent of Grid and application technologies, scientists and engineers are building more and more complex applications to manage and process large data sets, and execute scientific experiments on distributed resources. Such application scenarios require means for composing and executing complex workflows. Therefore, many efforts have been made towards the development of workflow management systems for Grid computing. This paper proposes a taxonomy that characterizes and classifies various approaches for building and executing workflows on Grids.