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Building a Grid with Perl, Part 4: Submission and distribution
Splitting up a grid into simpler, smaller, elements makes the whole process of building a grid much easier. Grids are not mystic, they just require careful planning and a degree of flexibility in their operation and structure to allow work to be s…
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Building a grid with Perl, Part 3: Metadata
This tutorial is the third in a series of tutorials looking at how you can develop a grid solution with Perl. This series looks at building a framework for a grid system while also creating a distributed image storage/retrieval system as a sample …
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Building a Grid with Perl, Part 2: Exchanging information
In this tutorial series, we’re using Perl to build a resource grid that stores and manipulates photos and images. Communication drives the grid process, and in this tutorial we’ll look at the communication requirements in our grid, including the n…
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Building a Grid with Perl, Part 1
Put your Perl skills to work and learn how to build an image storage grid distributed over a number of machines. The generic resource framework you build can be used for any resource grid system, but the example system will concentrate on storing …
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Perl and the grid infrastructure
Whether you want to develop a standalone grid or just want to provide an interface to an existing one, Perl can help. Through its extensible architecture and support for many of the protocols and systems that make up the modern grid, Perl is an id…
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Build Python grid applications with the Globus Toolkit Tutorial
Building grid applications can be complicated – there are so many different aspects and components to the system that it’s impossible to simply leap in the process. However, there are toolkits out ther and available that can help you. The most mat…
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The Future of Grid Services
Grid services are undergoing a veritable explosion of growth at the moment. But how do you choose a grid solution? Do you look for standards, Web services compatibility, development environment compatibility, or just marketing hype? With so much c…
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Bandwidth Management in Grids
One of the problems with distributing work around a group of machines is that it can become difficult to track the distribution of work, which can lead to problems with bandwidth. This doesn’t mean bandwidth in terms of network performance, althou…
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Merging grids and web services
Two of the hottest technologies at the moment are Grid computing and Web services, but are the two compatible? In this article, Martin C. Brown looks at how the two systems are actually very compatible and describes the benefits of using Web servi…
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Grid computing — moving to a standardized platform
One of the problems with any computing technology is getting the different components to talk to each other. This is why we have standards. But how do we apply standards in Grid computing? What standards are available? And how much can you really …