The Grid Guy

Distributed Resource Management (DRM) solutions had their origin as simple batch schedulers capable of dispatching jobs to “free” cpu resources for technical computing applications.  Over the years, these systems have evolved to provide a wide range of job management services that include sophisticated rule-based dispatching mechanisms, environment replication, preemption, checkpoint/restart, and reporting.  Now, as some of these technical computing approaches find their way into the core of the enterprise, DRM is establishing itself as a key technology to enable Enterprise Grid computing models.

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So, is there such a thing as a “Storage Grid”?  And, if so, what is it? (more…)

Grid Computing is a term that has arisen in the last few years to describe a number of computer architecture approaches based on some simple but powerful principles. (more…)