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Making the Most of the Portofolio in Amazon EC2

A Sun white paper sets out to explain how to maximize the Sun GlassFish Portfolio in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) public cloud environment, with a focus on running applications using the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server in the EC2. The Sun GlassFish Portfolio is an open platform based on the Project GlassFish software, an open-source application server that implements Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE platform) technology.

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Easing the Transistion from Traditional Grid Computing to the Cloud

Ease the transition from traditional grid computing to cloud computing with Sun Grid Engine (SGE) 6.2 Update 3, which features a Service Domain Manager (SDM) Cloud Adapter that provides an interface to manage Amazon’s EC2 Amazon Machine Images (AMI). It also features Initial Power Saving support that uses the existing features of the Service Domain Manager to extract information about the ideal size of a cluster according to demand. The ability to flexibly add execution hosts as needed on demand delivers power and cooling cost savings.

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