Being able to work with distributed Cache’s to scale Excel and to enable automated used of headless excel is something that Financial institution and online Gaming companies quite often need to do. Two of the big players have recently published comprehensive blog posts on how this can be achieved.
The first is from Oracle who show [...]
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Posted in Grid Computing, HPC on May 21st, 2009
Memcached now has persistent queues via 0.6 of the Gearman C server and library. The persistent queue allows background jobs to be stored via the pluggable module, so if the job server crashes or is shutdown, the queue module can repopulate the job server with any jobs that were not yet complete.
Sun scale Memcached to 500K operations [...]
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Posted in Grid Computing on Apr 18th, 2009
Nice article on securing an Oracle Coherence cache with Code example and download from Ashish - http://tinyurl.com/c6xzkl
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Posted in Grid Computing, HPC on Apr 10th, 2009
Oracle’s Coherence has had a new release of all the incubator projects. These include updates to the messaging pattern and also the Push Replication Pattern. You can find more information on these here. Also of interest for Coherence users will be the publication of a production checklist for the deployment of Coherence.
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