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Cisco Joins Project MegaGrid to Enhance Enterprise Grid Computing

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Project MegaGrid, a joint initiative between Dell, EMC, Intel, and Oracle, has announced that Cisco Systems has joined the effort to develop a tested and validated approach to enterprise grid computing. The project's Phase II has demonstrated dynamic provisioning best practices, managing heavy workloads in a grid computing environment. The four sponsors have combined their core technologies and technical resources to ease the burden of integration for customers and develop a complete enterprise grid computing solution. This solution outperforms traditional SMP offerings at a fraction of the cost.

Key Takeaways:

  • Phase II of Project MegaGrid has produced dynamic provisioning best practices to manage heavy workloads in a grid computing environment, combining core technologies and technical resources from Dell, EMC, Intel, and Oracle.
  • Cisco Systems has joined the initiative to lend its networking expertise and technical resources to building enterprise grid computing environments.
  • The dynamic provisioning of application server, database, server, and storage resources enables enterprises to feature a more flexible and scalable infrastructure, delivering better application performance to meet expected service levels.
  • Phase II has demonstrated the seamless extension, allocation, or re-purposing of server and disk resources across mid-tier, database, and storage tiers to support an increased workload.
  • Phase II successfully scaled the Project MegaGrid infrastructure to 66 nodes on Dell PowerEdge servers with Intel Xeon processors while running multiple applications with various workloads, databases, and storage systems.
  • Cisco will play a key role in establishing the best practices around network design, performance optimization, and management for large enterprise grid computing environments.
  • Project MegaGrid aims to deliver end-to-end testing, validation, and documentation of the critical components and processes for the successful deployment, management, and monitoring of grid computing environments running real-world workloads.
  • Cox Communications is assessing the best practices resulting from Project MegaGrid, relying on products and support from Cisco, Dell, EMC, Intel, and Oracle for its current IT infrastructure.

Statistics:

  • 66 nodes on Dell PowerEdge servers with Intel Xeon processors successfully scaled the Project MegaGrid infrastructure in Phase II.
  • 4 sponsors (Dell, EMC, Intel, and Oracle) combined their core technologies and technical resources to ease the burden of integration for customers.
  • 6.7 million customers rely on Cox Communications' IT infrastructure, which is powered by products and support from Cisco, Dell, EMC, Intel, and Oracle.

Sources:

  • "Dell, EMC, Intel, and Oracle Sponsor Project MegaGrid to Simplify Deployment and Management of Grid Computing Environments"
  • "Project MegaGrid White Papers"

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