Sun to marry iPlanet portal to Grid Engine

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Author: JT Smith

The Register is reports: “Sun Microsystems Inc will announce today that it has created a set of Java-based frameworks that integrate its iPlanet Portal Server with its Grid Engine software… Sun’s Grid Engine software is used to aggregate the unused processing capacity in Solaris and Linux workstations and servers…supercomputers. Sun has estimated that workstations and server spread around companies are generally only working 5% to 20% of the time, and says that by using Grid Engine software, companies can push the CPU utilization of their workstations and servers as high as 98%.”