Grid Use on Hold for Transaction Workloads

摘要

It isn't hard to find en-thusiastic supporters of grid computing, such as Mike Oilman, a vice president at Bank of America Corp. who manages grids used to analyze financial risks. The grids are projected to save the bank "tens of millions of dollars" through productivity gains and reduced hardware costs, Oltman said last week. But like most grid users, Oltman is applying the technology to compute-intensive batch-processing jobs such as financial calculations — not to business transactions.