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Using VMware to test your grid application
VMware Workstation enables you to create and execute an operating system instance within the confines of a protected environment. You can use this when developing and testing your grid environment in a number of different ways, all without affecti…
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Building a Grid with Perl, Part 5: Client Development
Grids appear from the outside to be complicated beasts that require complex configuration and applications to make them work effectively. In fact, they can be built fairly easily and with relatively simple tools. In this final part of a five-part …
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Manage your Requirements and more with RequisitePro
Software is based on requirements — the requirements of your clients, team, marketing department and other entities, all of whom send you requests about the features that they would like incorporated into the system. But how do you track all of t…
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Develop your grid service with the IBM Grid Toolbox
The new IBM ? Grid Toolbox V3.0 provides an effective solution for developing grid solutions, particularly on IBM eServer??? hardware. In this article, you’ll see the key differences of Grid Toolbox V3.0 over previous versions, and how the eServer…
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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 a grid app with Python, part 2
This tutorial marks the first of a series of tutorials that will teach you the mechanics of a grid and how to develop a grid using Python as your supporting language. At the end of the series, you should have a good idea both of the technicalities…