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09/12/2006, 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Speaker:
Kurt Ziegler, EVP Product Management, Aspeed Software.
Grids promise to provide capacity, performance, scalability and dramatically improve the effective utilization of existing investments significantly reducing the cost of computing. 2006 has seen more grids implemented than the any previous year. However the single biggest inhibitor to realizing the benefits and economies are the application. Over the years enterprises have amassed hundreds to several thousand programs and packages that don’t fit necessarily conform to exploit or benefit from the grid distributed computing. Many of these applications are mission critical, very complex and have data and calculation interdependencies. This session describes how some companies have been able to quickly adapt their applications to not only exploit the grid but gain elapsed time predictability and even realize more computational efficiencies than anticipated.
The discussion will include several case studies highlighting the identification, analysis, implementation and performance and scalability payback. The case studies will reflect some interesting challenges overcome and techniques used to improved the elapsed time of applications already parallelized and/or distributed to make more effective use of the grid.
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