Oracle has released the first version of the Coherence in-memory data grid software since it bought the vendor of that software, Tangosol, earlier this year. Over time, Oracle hopes to dramatically widen the appeal of the product.
A massive computing grid helps eBay make changes to its auction website on the fly while maintaining a 99.94% uptime, says Paul Strong, a research scientist with the company.
Mention the word “grid” and most IT executives probably think of thousands of CPUs crunching numbers for data-intensive applications such as seismic modelling and drug discovery. Increasingly, however, grids are being considered as platforms for creating more flexible, efficient datacentre architectures.
Security concerns from the US Department of State have hampered the long-delayed rollout of access to a massive Sun Microsystems computer grid at the rate of US$1 per CPU hour, a Sun executive says.
A huge 100,000-PC grid-computing network being built to help research the origin of the universe passed the third of four major tests recently when it reached a data-transfer milestone, with up to 1GB/s of physics data sent over the global grid.