Grid Services

GRID EFFICIENCY
Citihub provides a set of Grid services aimed at both application owners and infrastructure managers focusing on the efficiency of individual or aggregated enterprise Grid environments.


Grid Optimisation
Are your application developers squeezed by increasing processing demands with limited budget and space constraints?

What changes can be made to applications and grid settings to drive higher efficiencies freeing up existing resources for additional computations?

Changes to the application and/or grid scheduler could result in efficiency savings of 400% or more.

Citihub can provide expertise and process in grid and high performance computing covering:

>> Optimising the Grid (opinion)
>> Street#Grid 2008: Cutting edge applications (opinion)

Enterprise Grid
Viewed at the enterprise level, most grid environments present a huge productivity opportunity. Grid organization, alignment to business silos, geographical location and sometimes management strategy, all limit the ability to drive up the utlisation of grid infrastructure which can easily aggregate to >10,000 nodes.

Citihub provides industry-leading expertise and processes to review and restructure your existing grid infrastructure to identify the scope for savings through:

• Application performance analysis and issues with grid enabling applications
• Suitability and review of applications to new processor architectures
• Suitability and selection of optimized high performance libraries
• Grid efficiency and utilization analysis
• Grid scheduling strategy optimization (SLA’s to scheduling)
• Grid consolidation
• Globalization
• Data centre reviews & sourcing
• Efficient hardware selection

Our services cover:

• Business case / ROI development
• Technical architecture
• Program management
• Technical project management.

>> Is your Grid burning money? (opinion)
>> Street#Grid 2008: The Global Grid (opinion)
>> Grid consolidation (opinion)
>> Are Blade Servers really worth the price premium? (opinion)