GRID EVOLUTION AND THE ENTERPRISE

As the adoption of HPC platforms in the private sector continues through its early growth, grid computing (however that is defined) is becoming a frequently discussed topic. The market segment has many ongoing debates, e.g., capability versus capacity, scale-out versus scale-up, and grid versus clusters. While it may be very difficult to clear up all of the potential confusion within and amongst all of these debates, it is not so difficult to address the rapidly advancing HPC enabling technologies, both hardware and software. This talk will present Intel's HPC and Grid agendas, covering technology advances in processors, chipsets, input/output, and storage. The presentation will map these technologies to capability, capacity, and grid computing models.