Grid Is In Use Today

Grid computing is used today by many companies across a number of industries. Current IBM customer references for grid include Butterfly.net, a development studio, online publisher and infrastructure provider for massively multiplayer games that connect players on PCs, consoles and mobile devices. Butterfly grid consists of two clusters of approximately 50 IBM xSeries™ servers running in IBM hosting facilities. Specialized game servers and database servers are fully meshed over high-speed fiber-optic lines, enabling transparent routing of players to different servers in the grid. Another current reference for IBM grid computing is the University of Pennsylvania's groundbreaking National Digital Mammography Archive, which ...

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