UNITED DEVICES RAISES THE BAR FOR ENTERPRISE GRID COMPUTING.United Devices announced recently the availability of the MetaProcessor platform 3.0, the industry's leading solution for incorporating underutilized compute resources into enterprise grids. The latest version of the MetaProcessor platform incorporates Web services standards such as XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , SOAP and WSDL (Web Services Description Language) An XML-based language for defining Web services. Developed by Microsoft and IBM, WSDL describes the protocols and formats used by the service. that enable organizations to more seamlessly integrate existing applications to run on enterprise grids. The forward-looking architecture is aligned with the direction of the Open Grid Services Architecture The Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) describes an architecture for a service-oriented grid computing environment for business and scientific use, developed within the Global Grid Forum (GGF). (OGSA OGSA Open Grid Services Architecture OGSA Ontario Golf Superintendents' Association (Canada) ) specification endorsed by the Global Grid Forum In 2006, the Global Grid Forum merged with the Enterprise Grid Alliance and formed the Open Grid Forum. This article is kept for historical reasons, and should be synchronized with the OGF article. (GGF GGF Gegebenenfalls (German: if necessary) GGF Geschäftsführer (German) GGF Global Grid Forum GGF Glass and Glazing Federation (UK) GGF Great-Grandfather GGF Good Good Friday ). "The future of Grid computing is quickly being defined," said Jikku Venkat, vice president of engineering for United Devices. "We have designed the MetaProcessor platform to be able to quickly integrate new Grid standards as they emerge, as well as fully exploit the potential of Web services." Adding to industry-leading features in scalability, security and manageability, United Devices has extended functionality in the areas of grid integration, application migration, and workload and data management. By leveraging assets they already own, enterprises can expand the scope of research, accelerate the delivery of results to market, and drive product quality while controlling or even reducing computing budgets. In most large corporations, the computing power represented by the underutilized compute resources exceeds the power of traditional high-performance computing assets in the data center.[sections] |
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