Enterprise Grids: Challenges Ahead

Grids for Enterprise Applications

Enterprise applications implement business resource management systems, customer relationship management systems, and general systems for commerce. These applications rely on infrastructure that represents the vast majority of the world’s computing resources. Most of this infrastructure is lightly utilized and inflexible. This paper considers the role of Grid technologies in increasing the util...

Enterprise Desktop Grids

The paper describes a tool to perform high-performance computing using idle resources of desktop computers of an organization. The tool – Enterprise Desktop Grid – strengthens ideas of the Desktop Grids. The main characteristics and application areas of the Enterprise Desktop Grids are presented.

The Challenges Ahead

Middleware Challenges Ahead

24 Computer Middleware Challenges Ahead I n the first attempts to define comprehensive software platforms for distributed applications 25 years ago, researchers created basic middleware elements such as remote procedure call, file service, and directory service based on dramatic advances in hardware technology and fast networking and workstation systems. Today, the scope of middleware is broade...

Ten big challenges ahead

1. Can We Cure AIDS? This is an intense area of investigation at the current time with much focus on the activation of latently infected cells within reservoirs by such agents as histone deacetylase inhibitors. However, there is concern about some of these approaches due to considerations of possible long-term toxicities involving the activating agents as well as questions about whether it will...