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Grid Computing Solutions

Whatever your business, it makes good economic sense to use the IT infrastructure you've already got to raise productivity, maintain availability, and minimize downtime. Grid Computing lets you bring together all your heterogeneous resources and allocate them efficiently to applications within the enterprise and beyond. Once you are utilizing all your current IT assets, you will find it easy to add more resources to your Grid. The new resources provide seamless expansion of IT infrastructure. Users will only notice the improvement in service.

Companies of all sizes and across many industries have employed Grid Computing solutions from Sun to solve common business challenges. Benefits realized include:

  • Cost reduction
  • Shorter time to market
  • Increased quality and innovation
  • Ability to do things previously not possible

Sun can show you the way to solve your IT resource challenge, from departmental level to global grid computing. » More

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Problems and Solutions
Problem
Solution
CPUs are not fully utilized across multiple projects within a department
Using N1 Grid Engine (formerly Sun Grid Engine) to create a Cluster Grid, engineers in Ford Motor Company's Powertrain division are now able to divide up the jobs and complete work in 15 minutes that used to take days. In addition, the computational fluid dynamics group can complete jobs in days that used to take months without the Grid Computing solution.
Computing resources in one division are sitting idle while other divisions across the enterprise are experiencing high demand
Synopsys, a leader in integrated circuit (IC) design software, used N1 Grid Engine to create an Enterprise Grid that has opened up more computing resources for the company's Electronic Design Automation (EDA) processes. Instead of being constrained to 25 CPUs for testing, integrators now benefit from up to 180 CPUs to run tests. Regression testing that used to take 10 to 12 hours now takes 2 to 3 hours.
Compute and application demands go way beyond the capabilities within a single organization or corporate firewall
With Sun Grid Engine Enterprise Edition (formerly Sun ONE Grid Engine, Enterprise Edition) and Esteem Systems, an IT systems solutions providers, the White Rose University Consortium, made up of three powerful, research-based universities -- the Universities of Leeds, York and Sheffield, implemented a Global Grid that enables the joint use of applications and provides access to the combined processing power of hardware installed at the three sites. The grid transparently manages shared facilities, enabling commercial enterprises to rapidly complete compute intensive calculations required for complex product designs.
 
 
 

Customers

  • Ford Motor Company. Sun Grid Engine software shifts productivity into high gear.
  • Motorola. Sun Grid Engine software helps create a better process for processor design.
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Solution

The Sun Infrastructure Solution for Grid Computing is designed to help IT organizations architect and deploy appropriate Grid Computing infrastructure that contributes directly to their key business goals. The solution combines services, Reference Architectures, Sun Fire V60x Compute Grid, storage and software needed for setting up a grid environment faster, easier and at a lower cost than competitors.

This unique approach combines Sun's considerable Grid Computing experience and expertise along with tried, tested, and proven methodologies and reference architectures.

The Sun Grid Rack System gives you a ready-to-deploy integrated system with Sun x64 servers, networking options and grid-ready software, delivered in a Sun rack.

 
 

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Sun System Integration and Grid Services partners offer focused expertise to assess, architect and implement a Grid computing environment to specific customer requirements.
 
 

Services

Sun Services offers a range of consulting , training, and support services to turn Grid computing into a reality. These services will help customers architect, implement, and maintain a Grid computing solution. »More

 
 
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