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Grid Computing With Oracle Database 11g 2008-03-01 IDG (International Data Group)

This paper discusses the evolution of the datacenter toward the adoption of grid computing and details the benefits derived from this development. It considers the implications for database systems and details the requirements of a database for successful deployment in a grid computing context. It then reviews the features of Oracle Database 11g and shows how that product meets those requirements.

Enabling Virtualized Grids With Oracle and NetApp 2008-03-01 NetApplications.com

Oracle Grid architectures are absorbing new technologies and are continuing to evolve. The recent introduction of Oracle VM for advanced server virtualization, in combination with storage virtualization features of NetApp such as FlexVol, FlexClone, and FAS deduplication, make it possible to significantly increase server and storage utilization on Oracle Grids for improved efficiency and reduced operating costs. This white paper provides an overview of these technologies and highlights a case study of their adoption.

Tags: Virtualization

Server Consolidation and the Combinatorial Effects of Multi-Core Processing, Virtualization, and Grid Technologies 2008-02-01 eXludus

Information Technology (IT) is a fast moving target, constantly pushing the limits of human creativity in developing innovative solutions to meet user demands. But never has IT faced as radical an evolution as the one underway. Through the combined use of Grid, Virtualization and Multi-core technologies everyone is witnessing unprecedented levels of scalability, flexibility, price-performance and manageability. These three technologies form that are define in this paper as a 'Three tier consolidation platform'. That is, each technology is view as a consolidation mechanism operating on a distinct level. Furthermore, the usefulness of each consolidation tier taken independently is limited, while combining all tiers at once holds huge potential. The sum can be greater than the parts!

Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization

Using Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 Job Scheduler 2008-02-01 Microsoft

Windows HPC Server 2008, the successor to Windows Compute Cluster Server (WCCS), includes a new Job Scheduler that provides greater scalability and supports advanced policies. The new Job Scheduler supports a new Service Oriented Architecture mode that provides access to interactive applications through the Windows Communication Framework. The graphical interface for the Job Scheduler is now fully integrated into the Administration Console, and the command-line interface now uses Windows PowerShell for all Job Scheduler functions, while maintaining compatibility with the command-line interface commands in WCCS. This paper explains the new Job Scheduler functionality.

Tags: Server Consolidation

TRIOLE Organic Computing Architecture 2007-10-01 Fujitsu

Autonomous mechanisms are expected to serve as foundations for stable, adaptable, and cost-efficient managed IT systems that can support social and economic activities. This paper describes an autonomous mechanism developed by Fujitsu called the TRIOLE organic computing architecture that integrates human activities and IT processes. Next, it describes a unified description scheme that defines a series of management processes for integrating human activities and IT processes and outlines a method for easily creating reliable processes by using policies and templates. Lastly, it describes a configuration management database that is based on system knowledge about this architecture.

A Practical Application for Grid Computing 2007-06-01 Enterprise Management Associates

Grids today appear mostly in High Performance Computing (HPC) environments, where hundreds of inexpensive compute nodes link together to solve parallel processing problems that previously could only have been addressed by using supercomputers. Storage grids were developed to supply the enormous amounts of data that such processing power was capable of producing and consuming. Properly managed, storage and throughput scale linearly with computing power. Grids are a proven technology when it comes to HPC, but such sites are typically seen as a special case of computing, where computational performance is often the only criterion that really matters.

Step-by-Step Guide to Installing, Configuring, and Tuning a High-Performance Compute Cluster 2007-06-01 Microsoft

This paper is a step-by-step guide based on the highly successful cluster deployment at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. The cluster was built as a joint effort between NCSA and Microsoft, using commonly available hardware and Microsoft software. The cluster was composed of 450 x64 servers, achieving 4.1 teraflops (TFLOPs) on 896 processors using the widely accepted LINPACK benchmark.

Configurable Virtualized System Environments for High Performance Computing 2007-04-27 University of Reading

Existing challenges for current terascale High Performance Computing (HPC) systems are increasingly hampering the development and deployment efforts of system software and scientific applications for next-generation petascale systems. The expected rapid system upgrade interval toward petascale scientific computing demands an incremental strategy for the development and deployment of legacy and new large-scale scientific applications that avoids excessive porting. Furthermore, system software developers as well as scientific application developers require access to large-scale testbed environments in order to test individual solutions at scale. This paper proposes to address these issues at the system software level through the development of a Virtualized System Environment (VSE) for scientific computing.

Tags: Virtualization

Performance and Reliability for Excel Spreadsheets Through High Performance Computing 2007-03-01 Microsoft

This paper describes how to increase the computational power and reliability of Excel 2007 spreadsheets through the use of the Microsoft High Performance Computing platform composed of Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, and Excel Services, part of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Specifically, the paper shows how an integrated solution built on this Microsoft platform enables performance and reliability scenarios in the Financial Services, Oil and Gas, and Life Sciences industries where spreadsheets are often used in to make business critical decisions.

Tags: Spreadsheets

Getting Started with Master Data Management 2007-01-24 01:00:28 Hyperion

So what is Master Data Management (MDM)? How it can it be used to drive the business, and why is it important for companies to understand and successfully manage their master data? Further, what are the challenges that come with implementing an MDM program, and what are the key process drivers to apply in order to help achieve the desired results from an MDM implementation? Deloitte Consulting answers these questions in this paper, brought to you by Hyperion.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Grid Computing With Oracle Database 11g	2008-03-01	IDG (International Data Group)
This paper discusses the evolution of the datacenter toward the adoption of grid computing and details the benefits derived from this development. It considers the implications for database systems and details the requirements of a database for successful deployment in a grid computing context. It then reviews the features of Oracle Database 11g and shows how that product meets those requirements.
Enabling Virtualized Grids With Oracle and NetApp	2008-03-01	NetApplications.com
Oracle Grid architectures are absorbing new technologies and are continuing to evolve. The recent introduction of Oracle VM for advanced server virtualization, in combination with storage virtualization features of NetApp such as FlexVol, FlexClone, and FAS deduplication, make it possible to significantly increase server and storage utilization on Oracle Grids for improved efficiency and reduced operating costs. This white paper provides an overview of these technologies and highlights a case study of their adoption. Tags: Virtualization
Server Consolidation and the Combinatorial Effects of Multi-Core Processing, Virtualization, and Grid Technologies	2008-02-01	eXludus
Information Technology (IT) is a fast moving target, constantly pushing the limits of human creativity in developing innovative solutions to meet user demands. But never has IT faced as radical an evolution as the one underway. Through the combined use of Grid, Virtualization and Multi-core technologies everyone is witnessing unprecedented levels of scalability, flexibility, price-performance and manageability. These three technologies form that are define in this paper as a 'Three tier consolidation platform'. That is, each technology is view as a consolidation mechanism operating on a distinct level. Furthermore, the usefulness of each consolidation tier taken independently is limited, while combining all tiers at once holds huge potential. The sum can be greater than the parts! Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization
Using Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 Job Scheduler	2008-02-01	Microsoft
Windows HPC Server 2008, the successor to Windows Compute Cluster Server (WCCS), includes a new Job Scheduler that provides greater scalability and supports advanced policies. The new Job Scheduler supports a new Service Oriented Architecture mode that provides access to interactive applications through the Windows Communication Framework. The graphical interface for the Job Scheduler is now fully integrated into the Administration Console, and the command-line interface now uses Windows PowerShell for all Job Scheduler functions, while maintaining compatibility with the command-line interface commands in WCCS. This paper explains the new Job Scheduler functionality. Tags: Server Consolidation
TRIOLE Organic Computing Architecture	2007-10-01	Fujitsu
Autonomous mechanisms are expected to serve as foundations for stable, adaptable, and cost-efficient managed IT systems that can support social and economic activities. This paper describes an autonomous mechanism developed by Fujitsu called the TRIOLE organic computing architecture that integrates human activities and IT processes. Next, it describes a unified description scheme that defines a series of management processes for integrating human activities and IT processes and outlines a method for easily creating reliable processes by using policies and templates. Lastly, it describes a configuration management database that is based on system knowledge about this architecture.
A Practical Application for Grid Computing	2007-06-01	Enterprise Management Associates
Grids today appear mostly in High Performance Computing (HPC) environments, where hundreds of inexpensive compute nodes link together to solve parallel processing problems that previously could only have been addressed by using supercomputers. Storage grids were developed to supply the enormous amounts of data that such processing power was capable of producing and consuming. Properly managed, storage and throughput scale linearly with computing power. Grids are a proven technology when it comes to HPC, but such sites are typically seen as a special case of computing, where computational performance is often the only criterion that really matters.
Step-by-Step Guide to Installing, Configuring, and Tuning a High-Performance Compute Cluster	2007-06-01	Microsoft
This paper is a step-by-step guide based on the highly successful cluster deployment at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. The cluster was built as a joint effort between NCSA and Microsoft, using commonly available hardware and Microsoft software. The cluster was composed of 450 x64 servers, achieving 4.1 teraflops (TFLOPs) on 896 processors using the widely accepted LINPACK benchmark.
Configurable Virtualized System Environments for High Performance Computing	2007-04-27	University of Reading
Existing challenges for current terascale High Performance Computing (HPC) systems are increasingly hampering the development and deployment efforts of system software and scientific applications for next-generation petascale systems. The expected rapid system upgrade interval toward petascale scientific computing demands an incremental strategy for the development and deployment of legacy and new large-scale scientific applications that avoids excessive porting. Furthermore, system software developers as well as scientific application developers require access to large-scale testbed environments in order to test individual solutions at scale. This paper proposes to address these issues at the system software level through the development of a Virtualized System Environment (VSE) for scientific computing. Tags: Virtualization
Performance and Reliability for Excel Spreadsheets Through High Performance Computing	2007-03-01	Microsoft
This paper describes how to increase the computational power and reliability of Excel 2007 spreadsheets through the use of the Microsoft High Performance Computing platform composed of Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, and Excel Services, part of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Specifically, the paper shows how an integrated solution built on this Microsoft platform enables performance and reliability scenarios in the Financial Services, Oil and Gas, and Life Sciences industries where spreadsheets are often used in to make business critical decisions. Tags: Spreadsheets
Getting Started with Master Data Management	2007-01-24 01:00:28	Hyperion
So what is Master Data Management (MDM)? How it can it be used to drive the business, and why is it important for companies to understand and successfully manage their master data? Further, what are the challenges that come with implementing an MDM program, and what are the key process drivers to apply in order to help achieve the desired results from an MDM implementation? Deloitte Consulting answers these questions in this paper, brought to you by Hyperion.