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The Sun Grid Engine Portal (GEP) is a unique iForce solution set that brings the operating advantages of portal technology to the technical computing community by combining portal capabilities, resource management software, and new point-and-click tools for working with technical applications. Now extremely powerful, CPU- and storage-intensive applications for technical computing, such as — genomics, financial modeling, crash test analysis, for example — can be provided over the Web as simply as traditional services such as Mail and Calendering. This is a ground-breaking advance made possible by the synergy between the Sun ONE Portal Server, Sun's Grid Engine resource manager and other Sun high performance computing technologies.
With Grid Engine Portal, scientists, engineers, service providers, and independent software developers (ISVs) can share well-defined technical computing services that are delivered to portals through thin node clients and fat SMP clusters.
Capabilities
Sun's Grid Engine Portal solution is flexible and scalable. Each tier in this architecture — Web front end, along with portal and Sun Grid Engine middle tiers, and the compute environment and storage back-end — is managed separately, allowing user accounts and computing resources to be added or redirected as needed quickly and easily.
With Sun's Grid Engine Portal, you can:
- Upload files with the click of a button
- Download and visualize files anywhere
- Easily and securely share results with collaborators
- Quickly add new or legacy applications for remote use and sharing
- Make HPTC resources available to additional users without major additional investments.
Sun's Grid Engine Portal solution doesn't simply add a pretty face, but also provides the portal technology to coordinate access to multiple technical computing services.
- For end users — Sun's Grid Engine Portal eliminates the need for users to separately log onto a number of different computers each time they want to gain access to a new resource or application. And they no longer need UNIX or other technical skills to do so. Instead, they can now focus squarely on solving the problem.
- For engineers and administrators — Sun's Grid Engine Portal solution allows them to focus on maintaining services, rather than script writing, diagnostics, or allocating resources. And they can add new authorized users quickly without having to reprogram multiple systems.
Value
Grid Engine Portal provides a low-maintenance remote access method and an easy-to-use interface — a "simple" access solution to lower the time, cost, and effort of administering technical applications for anytime, anywhere access. Additionally, Sun Grid Engine's resource manager works to maximize resource utilization within your facility.
Organizations implementing Sun's Grid Engine Portal solution can realize substantial value, including:
- Greater return on IT and infrastructure investments through improved system utilization
- Achieving economies of scale for increased productivity and cost savings
- Increased system availability and access
- Address more internal and external users, customers with secure resource sharing
- Easier, faster diagnosis and problem-solving
- Adding capability without overhead
- Opening up new possibilities for products, services, and innovation
- Adding new tools to build market leadership.
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