A Virtualization Experience: IBM Worldwide Grid Implementation

This IBM Redbook discusses the IBM Global Account Worldwide Grid (IGA WW Grid), an infrastructure for Grid computing deployed on the IBM intranet. The IGA WW Grid is a global network of heterogeneous resources for enabling internal business applications for Grid computing. Using virtualization, the IGA WW Grid is composed of IBM zSeries and pSeries servers distributed across the globe.

In this book, we discuss:
- Benefits provided by the IGA WW Grid
- Components of the IGA WW Grid
- Scheduling workloads on the Grid
- Enabling applications to run on the Grid