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It wasn’t long ago that universities were considered the poor cousins of big corporations when it came to information technology. Students learned how to program, got jobs at big companies and breathed a sigh of relief at just how quickly and efficiently technology was modernized and upgraded.

Fast forward a few years. Data center managers are now struggling to clean up layers of old servers and applications, and become more responsive to their business units. Universities, meanwhile, have rekindled their experimentation with technology, using it in ways that would likely make their corporate counterparts shudder.

An interesting article talking about compute on demand, of improving server and desktop utilization. Utilizing grid technology can not only improve your cpu utilization, it can transform the possibilities of the infrastructure, parallel processing might mean we can run the reports more regularly, get more accurate reports and provide levels of redundancy that might not have been possible on a non grid infrastructure. The technology is best used by applications that can fully utilize the capacity and can break up their workloads into component parts for distribution on the grid, but once that’s done, the workload possibilities are truly exciting.

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