<<Heterogeneous grid computing seems to depend a lot on virtualization. Cisco announced last week that they were going to virtualize the network and boost grid computing. Do you see this as a competitive or complementary technology? King: It's complementary. Virtualizing the network is a key element of enabling grid solutions to be as effective and efficient as possible to get the performance you need out of them. We have relationships with Cisco and we're looking at how to improve some of those around grid.
What's the relationship between a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and grid? King: It's huge. When you think about properly enabling SOA -- the componentization of applications into services -- to integrate that effectively across business processes, you've got to have a dynamic underlying infrastructure to support that. We call that a service- oriented infrastructure [SOI]. Grid and virtualization are key underpinning technologies that help create that service-oriented infrastructure supports SOA. With SOA, you have a modularized set of components working together. With a monolithic application, what does it take to make it run effectively in a grid environment? You've got to parallelize that application and that takes a lot of work. If you've already got the services componentized and modularized, you want to implement them across your infrastructure to get the most performance. Grid and virtualization are the perfect underpinnings to do that. Now you can take scheduling and provisioning software to take services to run them wherever it makes sense to run them, because they're already in the kind of structure that makes them easy to run on a grid. My view is that you can make an SOA much more effective by having an SOI underneath it. And the way to create SOI is through grid and virtualization technologies.>> You can find this at: http://search390.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid10_gci1132098,00.html ?track=NL-170&ad=530064 For those of you interested in tuple spaces and syncretic technologies, I was a assured two years ago by a senior IBM Grid man that they use TSpaces as an essential component in their Grid architecture - they just don´t publicise it. Gervas ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/NhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
