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Grids work around Internet weaknesses in healthcare

Using grids to handle a shortage of processing power is old hat. But the Globus alliance, which develops grid applications, has adapted grids for dealing with hospitals' last-mile bandwidth problem.MEDICUS allows the sharing of bandwidth to transmit the ginormous files created by 3D and 4D imaging systems.One weakness of the system...

Tags: Document management, Quality, HEALTHCARE, health care, Dana Blankenhorn, Globus Alliance, Internet

Blog posts 2007-08-20

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IBM's open source expansion could speed up IT commoditization

IBM announced at LinuxWorld in San Francisco that it is extending its support for open source business models in eight key initiatives. I spoke with Dan Frye, who heads up IBM's Linux Technology Center in Portland, Oregon. "Our experience with Linux and open source has shown how disruptive the business...

Tags: IBM Corp., open source

Blog posts 2006-08-15

The future of the enterprise and grids

Remember all the talk about outsourcing and offshoring, building virtual corporations in the same way Hollywood assembles disparate groups to make a movie? That’s become passé now, or at least more of a background to the larger issue of globalization. Enterprises are shifting their focus to have footprints around...

Tags: Larry Smarr

Blog posts 2005-05-25

Globus Toolkit 4.0

The Globus Consortium unleashed the version 4.0 of the Globus Toolkit (GT4), which is a key component for accelerating the adoption of enterprise-class grids. Developed by the Globus Alliance, the open source GT4 is the latest iteration rendered from a decade of development. The main enhancement from version 3.0...

Tags: GT4

Blog posts 2005-05-02

Can you spare a cycle or two?

Fellow ZDNet blogger David Berlind describes events at the recent GlobusWorld gird confab in Boston. Grid represents the next generation of clustering -- in which workloads can be spread across multiple processors -- and much more. Unlike clustering, you're not bound by a single platform. Processing power can be...

Tags: Web service, Web, grid

Blog posts 2005-02-09

A grid by any other name (eg: utility) is just a grid

I'm at GlobusWorld in Boston, where a relatively small herd of grid lovers has gathered to get an update on the state-of-the-state of the fundamentally disruptive technology disruptive to most existing compute paradigms. I took meetings with the Enterprise Grid Alliance, MCNC (its grid-enabled North Carolina-wide backbone network is one...

Tags: grid

Blog posts 2005-02-08

The Holy Grid cometh

Ian Foster is one of rock stars if there is such a thing of grid computing. For the last decade, Foster-- Associate Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory and the Arthur Holly Compton Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago--and his cohorts...

Tags: Foster, Globus Toolkit, grid computing

Blog posts 2005-01-23