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  Dell simplifies the blade server

  Part of Dell's server business is building custom machines for very large customers who want fewer bells and whistles but higher computing density and lower power consumption. The Dell PowerEdge C6220 is a server the company has brought out of this custom arena and into its regular sales channels. It is the second in a new series of servers that combines internal storage and two or four two-socket "nodes" (aka sleds or blades) wrapped up in a highly efficient 2RU package.

  By Brian Chee | 27 April, 2012 00:03

  Tags: Architecture, cloud computing, Computer Hardware, Configuration / maintenance, Data Center, dell, freemium, grid computing, hardware systems, high-performance computing, internet, private cloud, Server Clustering, servers, software

• Microsoft's Dryad technology to take on Google's MapReduce

  Addressing the growing market for tools that handle very large data sets, Microsoft has released a beta set of technologies, called Dryad, to manage and analyze large amounts of information across a cluster of Windows Servers.

  By Joab Jackson | 21 December, 2010 06:09

  Tags: Apache Software Foundation, applications, Architecture, Clusters, data integration, data mining, Google, grid computing, hardware systems, High performance, Microsoft, middleware, software

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  BMC buys GridApp for cloud database automation

  BMC Software announced Friday it has purchased GridApp Systems, maker of software tools for database provisioning, patching and management in physical and cloud deployments. Terms were not disclosed.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 04 December, 2010 00:48

  Tags: applications, Architecture, BMC Software, business issues, cloud computing, databases, GridApp, grid computing, hewlett-packard, IBM, internet, Mergers / acquisitions, oracle, software

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  ViFiB wants you to host cloud computing at home

  French hosting company ViFiB thinks it can save on expensive data center space by placing its servers in homes and offices with broadband Internet access, putting it somewhere between cloud computing services such as Amazon Web Services and distributed computing projects such as SETI@home.

  By Peter Sayer | 15 June, 2010 05:11

  Tags: cloud computing, grid computing, SETI@home, ViFiB

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  IBM offers high-performance computing services

  IBM on Thursday said it is now offering high-performance computing services to customers who want to get supercomputers up and running faster.

  By Agam Shah | 19 June, 2009 09:07

  Tags: grid computing, hpc, IBM, supercomputing

• How you can help the LHC and 12 other ways to donate your PC's spare processing power

  Contribute to projects including the LHC, climate forecasting, projects that benefit humanity, target disease cures and more.

  By Bob Brown | 25 November, 2009 12:03

  Tags: grid computing, large hadron collider, social-computing

Whitepapers about grid computing

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  Watson – A System Designed for Answers: The future of workload optimized systems design

  Watson is the latest IBM Research Grand Challenge, designed to further the science of natural language processing through advances in question and answer technology. This white paper explains Watson’s workload optimized system design, how it’s emblematic of the future of systems design, and why this represents a new computing paradigm.