StorageTek is exploring Grid computing technology through a partnership with the Gridbus Project at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Project leader Rajkumar Buyya will receive a grant of $125,000 from StorageTek for a one-year fellowship, during which he will undertake joint research with StorageTek into emerging storage technologies, according to Melbourne's The Age newspaper.
Buyya, a senior lecturer who heads up the Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory within the university's department of computer science and software engineering, will become the first StorageTek Fellow of Grid Computing.
Buyya told The Age that he thinks the sponsorship may be the first time a commercial organization has sponsored a Grid computing academic. Buyya, his students within the GRIDS laboratory and members of the lab's Gridbus Project will work with StorageTek consultants to develop "next-generation data and utility Grid technologies that are going to power emerging e-science and e-business applications."
Buyya was quoted as saying he was approached about a "technical exchange" with StorageTek early last year and has since met several times with StorageTek staff, including Charles Milligan, a StorageTek Fellow who until recently was its manager of advanced technology and is now in charge of managing university relations.
Platform Adds Application Support To Symphony
Platform Computing has added integrated Message Passing Interface (MPI), Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM), and Open Multi Processing (Open MP) parallel application support to its Symphony platform, allowing financial organizations to move MPI applications from costly Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) systems to commodity hardware architectures without compromising manageability.
Capital market firms typically use MPI/Open MP technologies to parallelize demanding, compute-intensive pricing and risk analytics in the front office, Platform said. These applications often are hosted on very large SMP machines. With Platform Symphony 2.1, parallel MPI applications can be easily integrated into the Platform Symphony compute Grid with no modification or recompiling, Platform said.
Symphony's self-management capabilities dynamically prioritize and preempt parallel work based on importance, linking work to the fastest and closest resources to ensure that work is completed when needed.
Softricity Launches SoftGrid Enterprise Edition
Softricity has unveiled SoftGrid Enterprise Edition, an application management platform that uses virtualization technology to transform large organizations into utility computing environments.
Designed for large-scale, geographically dispersed IT environments, Softricity said SoftGrid Enterprise will let customers manage applications with minimal IT support, with access to all applications in real-time regardless of location.
Without any re-programming, Softricity said SoftGrid transforms Windows applications from products that must be installed locally into virtual services that can be centrally configured, managed, and deployed on-demand to desktop, laptops and servers. SoftGrid's Application Virtualization lets applications run without installation or alteration to the host operating system, allowing any application to run side-by-side without conflict or the need for regression testing.
SoftGrid Enterprise Edition will be available this summer. Priced per concurrent user, starter solutions will begin at about $15,000.
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