What types of applications are suitable for Compute Utility?
Compute Utility is ideal for CPU-intensive, batch-processing workloads such as risk and portfolio analysis, reservoir simulations, digital content creation, graphics and animations, EDA, MCAD, modeling, weather analysis, medical imaging, and drug development. Sun is also actively developing a platform abstraction for service-oriented architectures (SOAs) and collaborative workspaces, which will be released later this summer. Sun will also provide a secure substrate for enterprise transactional computing and is working aggressively to offer a simple to use, yet highly powerful enterprise solution around Web services and SOAs. Stay tuned! Now Playing on Direct Access! Robert Youngjohns, EVP, Strategic Development and Sun Financing, gives a rundown of the cost-cutting applications available today from Sun Grid.