Melvin Koh's Weblog
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Thursday November 23, 2006
HPC Consortium 2006, Tampa
I attending Sun HPC consortium and the Supercomputing 2006, both held in Tampa, last week. This time, the HPC consortium was held in a very wonderful golf resort, but too bad I don't play golf. As usual, we had many great presentations by our Sun folks, customers and partners. Josh Simons gave a very nice summary of the 3 days on his blog, but I just want to highlight something that I find very interesting, which is the Secure Grid Portal by HPCVL.
The Secure Grid Portal (SGP) is based on the integration of Sun Java Portal Server, Sun Secure Global Desktop (previously known as Tarantella) and the certificate authority system by Entrust. The neat thing about SGP is that being integrated with Secure Global Desktop, it is able to remotely launch GUI applications with the need to install any additional software other than a modern web browser. There is a public demo of the Secure Global Desktop for everyone to test. Perhaps the Sun Grid Compute Utility can do something like this for launching interactive applications.
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