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Oracle has emphatically rejected claims by a leading figure in the European grid research community that vendor grid computing offerings were "overhyped".
An executive with the database software maker says the company is building a consortium of industry players to help create standards for commercial use of grid computing.
commentary A great leap for computer-kind or a small marketing step?
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Oracle claims its Application Server 10g is the first to be able to take advantage of clusters of commodity hardware, an architecture that could make data centres far cheaper to run.
commentary A great leap for computer-kind or a small marketing step?
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Looking to blunt the success of Linux in high-performance computing, Microsoft is ramping up its commitment to create a "Cluster Compute" version of Windows that better fits data-intensive computing grids.
Researchers build full Itanium support into software that can be used to assemble supercomputers out of clusters of Linux computers.
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