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Build a grid app with Python, part 2
This tutorial marks the first of a series of tutorials that will teach you the mechanics of a grid and how to develop a grid using Python as your supporting language. At the end of the series, you should have a good idea both of the technicalities…
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Build a grid app with Python, Part 1
This tutorial marks the first of a series of tutorials that will teach you the mechanics of a grid and how to develop a grid using Python as your supporting language. At the end of the series, you should have a good idea both of the technicalities…
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Configuring Apache 2.0 as a Forward Proxy Server
Setting up a proxy server can be an effective way of speeding up your web acess and simultaenously poviding you with a framework for filtering content and restricting access to websites and the Internet. For full details of how to set up Apache 2….
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Build Python grid applications with the Globus Toolkit Tutorial
Building grid applications can be complicated – there are so many different aspects and components to the system that it’s impossible to simply leap in the process. However, there are toolkits out ther and available that can help you. The most mat…
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The Future of Grid Services
Grid services are undergoing a veritable explosion of growth at the moment. But how do you choose a grid solution? Do you look for standards, Web services compatibility, development environment compatibility, or just marketing hype? With so much c…
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Bandwidth Management in Grids
One of the problems with distributing work around a group of machines is that it can become difficult to track the distribution of work, which can lead to problems with bandwidth. This doesn’t mean bandwidth in terms of network performance, althou…
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IIS vs. Apache, Looking Beyond the Rhetoric
For some time, Apache and Microsoft have commanded the lion’s share of the Web server market. While Apache is the clear-cut winner in the Netcraft and Security Space monthly surveys, Internet Information Server dominates among Fortune 1000 enterpr…
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Merging grids and web services
Two of the hottest technologies at the moment are Grid computing and Web services, but are the two compatible? In this article, Martin C. Brown looks at how the two systems are actually very compatible and describes the benefits of using Web servi…
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Grid computing — moving to a standardized platform
One of the problems with any computing technology is getting the different components to talk to each other. This is why we have standards. But how do we apply standards in Grid computing? What standards are available? And how much can you really …
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Performing Configuration Testing Using HTTPD-Test’s Perl Framework
HTTPD-Test is a collection of tools that provide ways of testing HTTP servers in general. The previously covered Flood (see Staying Out of Deep Water: Performance Testing Using HTTPD-Test’s Flood), is one such tool. As the name implies, Flood enab…