GigaSpaces have added Memcached protocol support in version 7.1 of GigaSpaces XAP. memcached is a popular caching protocol and server. The integration provided allows to use GigaSpaces as a memcached server (talking the memcached protocol) enhancing the memcached to provide high availability, write behind, and other features that are provided by GigaSpaces XAP.
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Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Apr 18th, 2009
Very interesting post on how Twitter could be re-designed to support massive scalability using the GigaSpaces XAP Product. Very in-depth and very informative - http://tinyurl.com/dmrfjl
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Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing on Mar 15th, 2009
GigaSpaces have made available beta 7.0.0 M6 (build 3494) for download through the download section of GigaSpaces Early Access Program page.
Previous GigaSpaces 7.0.0 Milestones (M1, M2 etc…) are available for download on the same page. GigaSpaces 7.0.0 M6 is a Milestone of 7.0.0 GigaSpaces’ product line. For the 7.0.0 M6 Release Notes please click here.
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Posted in Grid Computing, HPC, Microchips on Feb 11th, 2009
Through January ‘09 GigaSpaces conducted a joint project with Sun and Intel. This was to investigate A Scale-Up Benchmark on the Sun Fire X4450 multi core servers which use Intel Xeon 7460 processors (4 CPUs with six cores each) and the GigaSpaces XAP middleware. Focus was on on application scalability and latency. The testing concentrated on mission [...]
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