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    A Model for Resource Sharing for Internet Data Center Providers within the Grid

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    Internet data center providers are still struggling to lower the operational costs of their data centers. One reason is the low utilization of servers over a long period of time during the day. The paper describes a system for optimizing the server resources within Internet data centers, which host different services such as web servers or enterprise resource planning systems. The system, called resource management system, allows Internet data center providers to allocate their resources in an economically efficient way. The results may indicate that there is free capacity or a lack of capacity. Based on the results, the resource management system can sell or purchase resources on the Grid. The idea behind this approach is to enable Internet data center providers to gradually transition from the current environment to an environment where utility computing is possible. Our approach separates between the local resource allocation and the external one (Grid)

    Designing and managing ERP systems for virtual enterprise strategy:a conceptual framework for innovative strategic thinking

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    The business environment today is transforming towards a collaborative context compounded by multi-organizational cooperation and related information system infrastructures. This chapter aims to examine Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems development and emerging practices in the management of multi-organizational enterprises and identify the circumstances under which the so-called ‘ERPIII' systems fit into the Virtual Enterprise paradigm; and vice versa. An empirical inductive study was conducted using case studies from successful companies in the UK and China. Data were collected through 48 semi-structured interviews and analyzed using the Grounded-Theory based Methodology (GTM) to derive a set of 29 tentative propositions which were then validated via a questionnaire survey to further propose a novel conceptual framework referred to as the ‘Dynamic Enterprise Reference Grid for ERP (DERG-ERP)'; which can be used for innovative decision-making about how ERP information systems and multi-organizational enterprises – particularly the Virtual Enterprise may be co-developed

    Investigating grid computing technologies for use with commercial simulation packages

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    As simulation experimentation in industry become more computationally demanding, grid computing can be seen as a promising technology that has the potential to bind together the computational resources needed to quickly execute such simulations. To investigate how this might be possible, this paper reviews the grid technologies that can be used together with commercial-off-the-shelf simulation packages (CSPs) used in industry. The paper identifies two specific forms of grid computing (Public Resource Computing and Enterprise-wide Desktop Grid Computing) and the middleware associated with them (BOINC and Condor) as being suitable for grid-enabling existing CSPs. It further proposes three different CSP-grid integration approaches and identifies one of them to be the most appropriate. It is hoped that this research will encourage simulation practitioners to consider grid computing as a technologically viable means of executing CSP-based experiments faster
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