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Poor-man’s GRID Supercomputing Goes Commercial
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As transmitted to the MedTechIQ "Bio-Medical" Informatics Group earlier...
As reported in Science Daily ... Grid computing has long been the darling of cash-strapped academics in desperate need of raw processing power. Now a European research effort has created an industrial-strength platform already appearing in commercial applications.
The SIMDAT project has created a portfolio of tools and services that can finally bring the power of grid computing to industrial applications. Grids capture all the resources of connected computers, from storage to computation.
But up to now grids mostly languished in research labs, where they were used to provide massive processing power or to enable large-scale database management. SIMDAT developed essential business functions for grids, like industrial strength service-level agreements, management and security.
It will mean the advent of virtual organisations, a long-unfulfilled promise of information technology. Grids for business have huge applications in product development, both for data crunching and collaboration, and this was the focus of SIMDAT’s work in the automotive, pharmaceutical, aerospace and weather sectors.
But that is the just the beginning, and the ground broken by SIMDAT will prove a fertile field for grid technology over the next decade. The commercialisation efforts are already well underway and began months before SIMDAT completed the EU-funded part of its work. Elements of SIMDAT’s wide-ranging research are already appearing in commercial applications.
Read on at: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081219073158.htm
ENJOY!
CC
As transmitted to the MedTechIQ "Bio-Medical" Informatics Group earlier...
As reported in Science Daily ... Grid computing has long been the darling of cash-strapped academics in desperate need of raw processing power. Now a European research effort has created an industrial-strength platform already appearing in commercial applications.
The SIMDAT project has created a portfolio of tools and services that can finally bring the power of grid computing to industrial applications. Grids capture all the resources of connected computers, from storage to computation.
But up to now grids mostly languished in research labs, where they were used to provide massive processing power or to enable large-scale database management. SIMDAT developed essential business functions for grids, like industrial strength service-level agreements, management and security.
It will mean the advent of virtual organisations, a long-unfulfilled promise of information technology. Grids for business have huge applications in product development, both for data crunching and collaboration, and this was the focus of SIMDAT’s work in the automotive, pharmaceutical, aerospace and weather sectors.
But that is the just the beginning, and the ground broken by SIMDAT will prove a fertile field for grid technology over the next decade. The commercialisation efforts are already well underway and began months before SIMDAT completed the EU-funded part of its work. Elements of SIMDAT’s wide-ranging research are already appearing in commercial applications.
Read on at: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081219073158.htm
ENJOY!
CC
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