Sun Microsystems has announced that it is contributing to the National Grid in Singapore, a SGD 500,000 comprehensive compute and storage grid facility and infrastructure. This compute farm known as the Grid Discovery Zone will enable developers to create and test grid-ready applications readily.
In support of Singapore's National Grid, the Grid Discovery Zone will be made available to several industries to test their applications, pilot them and subsequently explore commercialization opportunities. Life sciences and education will be the initial key industries that will benefit from the launch.
"Grid Computing is one of the fastest growing areas of technology. There are lots of opportunities for researchers and academics to leverage the grid and build cutting edge grid-based applications on Sun technology," said Kim Jones, vice president for Global Education and Research, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "The Grid Discovery Zone offers a fully enabled commercial grid - possibly the best ways for researchers and developers to share ideas and technology."
The Grid Discovery Zone is equipped with grid-enabled applications consisting of 32 CPUs, 12TB storage, Sun N1 Grid Engine and Sun Java System Portal Server. It will provide developers with a framework and community in which they can exchange information, collaborate and commercialise applications through utility computing.
The Asia Pacific Science and Technology Center (APSTC) and the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) will be one of the first groups of users to use the Grid Discovery Zone to develop bioinformatics applications.
The Grid Discovery Zone will be hosted and managed by Frontline Technologies at the Frontline Grid Infrastructure in Singapore.
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