Gripping the Grid
December 21st, 2004 by Adam Cuothe
Quocirca on an IBM PR of grid status:
The key to doing something practical with Grid is not to focus purely on the nirvana of automatic allocation and deallocation of computing resources to different applications on demand…
The report continues to talk about how to better use a companies IT assets through grid computing. Nice, this pool of computing loveliness that is so tappable–or someday soon will be. Still, a majority of companies haven’t figured out how to get into using this technology. This will be an area to watch and IBM seems to be ready to take a good part in it, but as the Register article says it may be missing the boat with its lackluster or misdirected messaging.
Anyway, that’s just a little something to tide people over. I’m on holiday and won’t be updating the ol’ blog for a couple weeks.
Come to me, my dear new year.
August 9th, 2005 at 09:36
David, what are the security implications of automatic allocation of Grid computing resources? Any system that thinks it is “smarter” than its admins is a security risk. How easily can admins monitor system activity?
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