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Using Grid Computing to Create a Virtual Environment for Applications

PublisherRisk Waters Group,Incisive Media
Format586.9KB PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5Date added19 Jun 2003
Topics High Performance Computing, File and Network Servers
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Organizations are increasingly turning to clustered low-cost Intel architecture (IA) systems and open source software like Linux to lower their hardware and software acquisition costs, enhance overall performance of computational, volume or data-intensive tasks, and increase application reliability and data availability through redundancy - while still allowing administrators to manage the multi-system configuration as a single computing resource. By deploying grid computing software, organizations can virtualize their IT environments and extend their key applications to gain competitive advantage.

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