Trust, Virtual Teams, and Grid Technology

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Author(s): Genoveffa Jeni Giambona (University of Reading, UK), Nicholas L.J. Silburn (Henley Business School, UK)and David W. Birchall (Henley Business School, UK)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 16
Source title: Grid Technology for Maximizing Collaborative Decision Management and Support: Advancing Effective Virtual Organizations
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Nik Bessis (University of Bedfordshire, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-364-7.ch007

Keywords: Computer Science & IT / Grid & High Performance Computing / Information Science Reference / Systems and Software Engineering

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This chapter focuses on the collaborative use of computing resources to support decision making in industry. Through the use of middleware for desktop grid computing, the idle CPU cycles available on existing computing resources can be harvested and used for speeding-up the execution of applications that have “non-trivial” processing requirements. This chapter focuses on the desktop grid middleware BOINC and Condor, and discusses the integration of commercial simulation software together with free-to-download grid middleware so as to offer competitive advantage to organizations that opt for this technology. It is expected that the low-intervention integration approach presented in this chapter (meaning no changes to source code required) will appeal to both simulation practitioners (as simulations can be executed faster, which in turn would mean that more replications and optimization are possible in the same amount of time) and management (as it can potentially increase the return on investment on existing resources).

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