I keep hearing from associates about grid computing which, from what I can gather, is highly distributed stuff along the lines of SETI@Home. Is anyone working on these sort of systems for business use? My interest is in figuring out if there's a commercial reason for starting software development in this field. ...
Greetings, I am developing a scientific application used to perform physical simulations. The algorithms used are O(n3), so for a large set of data it takes a very long time to process. The application runs a simulation in around 17 minutes, and I have to run around 25,000 simulations. That is around one year of processing time. The...
I've used clusters in industrial and academic settings, but they were owned by the organizations I worked for. I've never purchased time from a company that sells cluster/cloud/grid time. Suppose I want to run some compute intensive program like as a large simulation or a data mining application. Or maybe I want to optimize a complete b...
My objective is to write a program which will call another executable on a separate computer(all with win xp) with parameters determined at run-time, then repeat for several more computers, and then collect the results. In short, I'm working on a grid-computing project. The algorithm itself being used is already coded in FORTRAN, but w...
Is it possible to use CruiseControl.Net to set up a build farm? We currently have 4 different build machines building different things at different times and have a bit of a headache to manually balance the load somehow. I would prefer to designate one of them to be the master build machine, which would delegate work to the other ones wh...
Hi, What are the significant differences between Cloud Computing and Grid Computing ? What are the precise definations and target application domains for both ? I'm looking for conceptual insights along with technicalities. Like Windows Azure is a Cloud OS, do we have anytihng such for Grid Computing ? In past I did work on distribute...
Hello there, first time poster. This is a great place for reading about programming problems. I've been looking at some grid computing projects for .Net/Mono and stumbled upon NGrid. NGrid seems really appealing for grid computing because you simply pass threads to it and there is very little modification you have to make to your code. H...
Hello world. Recently I became very interested in grid computing because I am trying to solve a problem which requires huge, huge amounts of processing power that can be performed in parallel. My question is if there are any grids that are publicly accessible to harness the computing power of thousands of computers? I know only of the W...
Does grid computing continue when the user is not logged in - for instance, on an educational system, where students must log in, when the log out, does the cpu continue the cloud computing? Or in another instance, if I use my home computer for something like superdonate.com, does the processor still go if I log out? ...
I couldn't seem to find a similar question to this. I am currently looking at the best solution solving a grid computing problem. The setup: I have a server/client situation where there clients [typically dumb of most logic] and recieve instructions from the server Have an authorization request Clients report back information on sp...
I am currently researching the options that are available (both Open Source and Commercial) for developing a distributed application. "A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network." Wikipedia The application is focused on distributing highly cpu intensive operations (as ...
Is it possible to add new nodes to Hadoop after it is started? I know that you can remove nodes (as that the master tends to keep tabs on the node state). ...
I have a library, written in C#, containing one method: Response CalculateSomething(Request); The execution time of this method is relatively large, and there are a lot of responses that should be processed. I want to use a "cluster", spread this DLL to different machines (nodes) in this "cluster" and write some controller that will d...
I am using Delphi++, which is still in beta and the documentation is not very good, how do I make my live application that I created with Delphi++ run on the Grid/Cloud ? and how do my clients start using it on their computer ? ...
I know that out of the box that GridGain connects to the other clients through multicast, but is there a way to configure GridGain to accept connections outside of the local network? Also is there a way to enable encryption for the communication as well? ...
I found Power++ and to my suprise it looks like a good alternative for Delphi and Visual Studio. Anyone used it? Can you tell me if it is worth it buying/learning it? ...