utility computing —
In the last few days, Sun Microsystems seems to have launched an on-demand utility computing offering that allows software companies to provide their software through a SaaS (Software as a Service) model. At least, I thought that’s what it was…
Sun calls it - “Solaris On Demand”. From the name, if sounds like it could [...]
If you’re interested in computing, you might be interested in what’s happening within the particle physics community right now - in particular, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Particle physics not your bag? Well, remember that the World Wide Web came out of this community… and the computing they’re doing right now could help [...]
Tim Bray is talking about Grids today. His article, On Grids, is worth a read if you’re interested in Grids. I have a couple of comments.
Let’s put that another way: memory space and compute cycles are pretty cheap. Disk space is effectively free. Moving data around in large quantities is expensive. In [...]
If you’ve followed computing in the Life Sciences, you’ll know that during the last ten years there’s been constant talk about the so-called “data explosion”. In the late 1990s, much to our amusement, barely a week would go buy without receiving some marketing letter from a vendor telling us how our data was [...]
Sun Microsystems Inc ( SUNW ) is shortly to make its Grid Compute Utility offering generally available, initially to customers based in the US. In his blog post, entitled The Network Is The Computer, Sun’s President and COO, Jonathan Schwartz, gives some of the details. The question, then, is - does Sun’s [...]