Grid Computing

Timing the Market with Distributed Genetics

Fri, 30 May 2008 12:30:00 EDT

I've always been puzzled by the ability of some traders to consistently make money. A cynic would say that anyone who is able to profit in all adverse economic environments (recessions, depressions, etc.) is most likely able to do so because they are getting information that is not generally available. Although the cynic might mean 'inside' information by this statement, I believe that there is a non-cynical interpretation of this statement that is, to some degree, correct.

Virtualization, SaaS & SOA: Introducing Service Oriented Programming

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:15:00 EST

The advent of SOA and standard-base Web services together with Internet based delivery models has provided the essential base for facilitating new software platform innovations. One of these innovations is a breakthrough software componentization technique that we have coined Service Oriented Programming (SOP). While SOA focuses on communication between systems using 'service operations,' SOP provides a new technique to build agile application modules using in-process, native service operations as the 'units of assembly.'

Multicore Systems

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:15:00 EST

Every major chip manufacturer has delivered or announced a roadmap for multicore chips that have multiple CPUs on the same piece of silicon. Systems developers are now designing these chips into their entire product line. For Java platform developers, Symmetric Multiprocessing Systems (SMP) should be hidden well below the hardware abstraction layer, but not all applications will get equal benefits from SMP without understanding what's going on under the hood.

Distributed Parallel Computing with Web Services

Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:00:00 EST

Web services technology has become the ubiquitous connectivity fabric amongst diverse business domains and technical camps. At the same time, distributed parallel computing is becoming the de facto architecture for managing the performance of computationally intensive, long-running programs.

Grid Services Extend Web Services

Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:05:00 EDT

We are often asked by people who are trying to understand the value Grid technology brings to Web services, 'What is the significance of Grid services? They look like Web services.'

Introducing Open Grid Services

Thu, 24 Jul 2003 00:00:00 EDT

In June 2003, the Global Grid Forum (GGF) adopted the Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) specification as a GGF standard. OGSI is essential to the Open Grid Computing vision as it is the foundation on top of which the building blocks of future Grid applications will be placed.

Identifying and Brokering Mathematical Web Services

Thu, 24 Jul 2003 00:00:00 EDT

An important part of the Web service vision being promoted by the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) and others is that of automated service discovery, the idea being that when we need a particular kind of service we will no longer have to go out and search for it manually; our computer will do it for us.