What is Grid Computing?

Imagine dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of interconnected computers all working together on a single common problem. This “computational grid” architecture allows for extremely complex and large technical problems to be tackled in a fraction of the time it took on supercomputers of yesteryear.

Some of the applications include:

* Virtual worlds
* Weather simulations
* Analyzing DNA and genomes
* Rendering the latest animated Hollywood flick
* Searching for intelligent life

Grids can be thought of as large scale clusters, possibly geographically dispersed, that depend on specialized software to provide network-distributed parallel processing. These can range from small networks of a few college students’ computers, to the massive global network that forms SETI@home.

At DomainGurus, we offer server clusters that can be configured for grid applications, utilizing the revolutionary AppLogic grid operating system from 3tera.

AppLogic Grid Operating System


Imagine having access to a private data center which you can manage from anywhere by simply using a browser. Imagine being able to provision firewalls, load balancers, web servers, database servers and storage simply by dragging them from a catalog to the canvas, and then wiring them together by point and click. Imagine uploading your application, and hitting run. This is DomainGurus’s virtual private data center (VPD).

* Drag and drop firewalls, load balancers, web, database, application, storage and database servers.
* Deploy existing applications in hours.
* Provision new “virtual racks” and whole applications with a single command.
* Scale easily from a couple of CPUs to a thousand.

Imagine not worrying at all about crashes. No more mad rush to perform emergency repairs or deploy replacement equipment. A server fails… all your data remains accessible; within minutes, the affected components are restarted using other hardware resources within your VPD. You learn about this in the morning – from an email sent to you by your VPD. The faulty gear can be swapped out later, during routine maintenance.

Now imagine your business growing. As your load increases, you simply add more resources to your VPD, and assign them to the various parts of your application. Another GB of RAM to every web server… Another 100GB of storage to the database… Let’s add some CPU to this mail server. Or, why not add another 10 web servers to the app? All of this incrementally, on demand, when you need it. No hassle. That’s the DomainGurus VPD in action.

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