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Grid Computing for BizTalk

Recently I've come across several projects using custom pipelines to receive, uncompress and parse all sorts of legacy formats and to create billing statements as PDF. I believe such custom pipelines to be ideal for grid computing to offload serious CPU work to other boxes and to keep it all super scalable.

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Free .NET Grid Computing software

Free .NET Grid Computing software

Digipede Tecnologies has a free Developer Edition for grid computing with free licence for a server and 2 nodes (ie. 2 computers or 2 CPUs running any version of Windows supporting .NET 1.1/2.0)

 

Read more abour Digipede grid computing from these blogs:

http://powersunfiltered.com/
http://westcoastgrid.blogspot.com/
http://krgreenlee.blogspot.com/
http://et.cairene.net/

Windows .NET grid computing

Microsoft and grid computing

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2009167,00.asp

and what if MS bought Digipede? I do hope they do!! I've used similar .NET grid computing software before in a financial services environment which could easily saturate 400-500 CPUs of parallel work on 4-5 different OSs and CPU types.

 

previous posts about Microsoft Windows Grid computing

http://weblogs.asp.net/ngur/archive/2004/09/14/229573.aspx
http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2004/12/29/343969.aspx
Free .NET Grid Computing software