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Posted in Grid Computing on Jan 15th, 2010
Sun (or is that Oracle…) has released a new version of their Grid Engine which brings it into the cloud.
There are two main additions in this release. The First is is integration with Apache Hadoop in which Hadoop jobs can now be submitted to Grid Engine, as if they were any other computation [...]
Posted in Grid Computing, HPC on Dec 8th, 2009
It seems that Apple has pulled the project to implement the ZFS file system over the mac, apparently due to licensing issues (no surprise there, now that Sun is in the hands of Oracle).
Mac’s OX extended format is synonymous with HFS+. HFS+ used B-Trees to store volume metadata and has being around since Mac OS 8.1 so [...]
Posted in Grid Computing on Oct 11th, 2009
For those who use Sun Grid Engine or are interested in knowing more about it there is a nice post on the blog “memories of a product manager” outlining new features coming the December 2009 release.
Posted in Grid Computing, HPC on Apr 25th, 2009
In a previous post we discussed some of the forthcoming additions to Oracle Coherence and its Web Application Grid product. Oracle has now released the Mangement pack and you can find a whitepaper outlining the functionality here.
Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC, Microchips on Apr 21st, 2009
In a bolt from the blue, Oracle have put in a bid to purchase Sun Microsystems. The sparring over they years between the two companies has resulted in a TKO for Larry Ellison and Oracle. Where this leaves Sun’s Cloud Strategy and initiatives such as Java etc remains to be seen.
FreedomOSS published a list [...]
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
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.
Posted in Grid Computing, HPC on Apr 8th, 2009
There is a free breakfast seminar with Cameron Purdy of Tangasol (now Oracle) Coherence fame at Bouvet in Oslo on the 14 April. You can register and find out more here (page translated using Google Translate).
Posted in Grid Computing, HPC on Feb 3rd, 2009
The Oracle Product Manager Tomas Nilsson recently gave some insight into some forthcoming integrations betweek JRockit and also Coherence, both of which were Oracle acqusitions.
These are:
Pause-less garbage collection: This will ensure that the virtual machine need never stop an application for garbage collection but merely pause individual threads. From a Coherence perspective this would mean [...]
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