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Jun 2006
Report Eleven: Grid Computing – Enabling Applications for Grid Deployment
Research conducted by The 451 Group for 451 GARS finds that early adopters are readily seeking ways to deploy grid technologies more broadly within their organizations (moving beyond initial application beachheads). They are looking for additional application tasks that can be brought onto grids – and thereby further legitimize grids through use – among their existing, commercially supplied and planned new applications. So far only a few applications have been written specifically for grids, and only a small number of today's commercial applications that appear suitable for grids have actually been deployed on or migrated to grids. But as enterprise momentum for grid computing and associated infrastructure models – most importantly virtualization – increases, new design points, development models and tools for creating and enabling commercial applications for grids will be required.
This report examines the nature and extent of grid-enablement among enterprise software applications, including those supplied on a commercial basis by ISVs and those developed internally by early adopters and their partners. The report explores how new kinds of middleware are being used to enable existing applications to run on a grid infrastructure. It also examines how effective the vendors are in meeting both technical and operational requirements, and what the unmet needs of early adopters are.
> Early-adopter case studies: AutoTrader, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Lehman Brothers, Motorola, an unnamed financial services firm and an unnamed investment bank.
> Vendor assessments:
- Grid middleware vendors: 3tera, Appistry, Cassatt, DataSynapse, GemStone Systems, GigaSpaces, IBM, Oracle, Platform Computing, United Devices and Univa.
- Application server vendor: JBoss
- ISVs: Abaqus, Actuate, BMC Software, CA, Calypso Technology, CD-adapco, Citrix Systems, Integrasoft, Informatica, SAP and Schrödinger.
- Compiler vendors: Absoft, Intel, PathScale and Rogue Wave Software.
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