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Grid computing, supercomputer and utility computing
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Blue Cloud
31 May 2008
WORD - Blue Cloud is an approach to shared infrastructure developed by IBM. The goal of IBM's Blue Cloud is to provide services that automate fluctuating demands for IT resources. The set of all the connections involved is sometimes ...
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IBM Roadrunner
19 Nov 2007
WORD - Roadrunner is the fastest supercomputer in the world, twice as fast as Blue Gene and six times as fast as any of the other current supercomputers. IBM developed Roadrunner for the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New ...
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Linpack benchmark
28 Nov 2005
WORD - The Linpack benchmark is a method of measuring the floating point rate of execution of a computer by running a program that solves a system of linear equations. Linpack was originally developed by Jack Dongarra to give ...
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Blue Gene
28 Nov 2005
WORD - Blue Gene is an experimental parallel processing supercomputer developed by IBM that employs thousands of processors, each of which demands minimal electric current. Blue Gene dissipates relatively little energy as heat in ...
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computer-intensive
29 Sep 2003
WORD - Computer-intensive is a term that applies to any computing application that requires the resources of a lot of computers, such as grid computing. A similar but distinct term, compute-intensive, refers to any computer ...
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utility computing
30 Dec 2003
WORD - Utility computing is a service provisioning model in which a service provider makes computing resources and infrastructure management available to the customer as needed, and charges them for specific usage rather than a ...
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on-demand computing
30 May 2003
WORD - On-demand (OD) computing is an increasingly popular enterprise model in which computing resources are made available to the user as needed. The resources may be maintained within the user's enterprise, or made available by a ...
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grid computing
02 Sep 2003
WORD - Grid computing (or the use of a computational grid) is applying the resources of many computers in a network to a single problem at the same time - usually to a scientific or technical problem that requires a great number of ...
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cluster computing
23 Apr 2004
WORD - In computers, clustering is the use of multiple computers, typically PCs or UNIX workstations, multiple storage devices, and redundant interconnections, to form what appears to users as a single highly available system. ...
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SMP
30 Apr 2003
WORD - SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) is the processing of programs by multiple processors that share a common operating system and memory.
In symmetric (or "tightly coupled") multiprocessing, the processors share memory and the ...
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