Nov 2006
Report Thirteen: Grid Computing – Adoption in the High Tech Sector

The high tech sector – which includes chip design companies and major IT vendors – has played a significant role in bringing grid computing out of the scientific and academic realm and into the enterprise arena. Companies in this sector were among the earliest users of grid technology, as well as being its chief advocates, and they continue to have a vested interest in being seen as users of grid technology.

Although a company's own infrastructure can make the best reference site for pushing grid adoption, high tech firms still have many of the same challenges as users in other industries in terms of evolving their internal grids. Therefore most high tech companies have not publicly touted their grid deployments.

This report discusses how grid technology is actually being used by companies in the high tech sector for a range of tasks and applications, including R&D, product development, collaboration, data sharing, operations, enterprise applications and creation of reference sites. It examines how vendors' claims that grid computing is 'enterprise ready' are reflected in their own use of grids. To what extent are they practicing what they preach – which approaches have worked, and which haven't?

> Early-adopter case studies: AMD, ARM, ASML, Force10 Networks, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Infineon, Intel, Micron, Motorola, NEC, Sun Microsystems and Univa.

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