The Redwood Shores, California-based software company will sponsor 1.5m euros ($1.8m) worth of equipment over three years at CERN’s open lab for DataGrid applications, a collaboration between the nuclear research organization and industry partners including IBM Corp, Hewlett-Packard Co, Intel Corp, and Enterasys Networks Inc.
Oracle is the latest company to join the list of open lab supporters and will use the organization to test its Database 10g product against CERN’s Large Hedron Collider Computing Grid (LCG), which will link nearly 10,000 particle scientists around the world with the Large Hedron Collider (LHC).
Currently under construction, LHC will be the world’s largest scientific instrument and will be used to create particle collisions that might be used to understand the origins of the universe. The LCG will be used to analyze petabytes of collision data.
Oracle’s sponsorship will include software and funding for research fellows at CERN, as well as the availability of its development team expertise. The company is expecting to benefit through the rapid development of grid technologies thanks to the demands of the LHC project.
Although launched in September, Oracle Database 10g will not be generally available until later this month. The company claims that its 10g technology will enable multiple low-cost database and application servers to be clustered and treated as a virtual pool with capacity added in a modular fashion, and the system having no single point of failure.
Grid Control, an over-arching management console to enable companies to monitor, manage and optimize their Oracle grids, will also ship in December.
This article is based on material originally produced by ComputerWire.
