Archive for the 'Caching' Category
New Grid, HPC, Cloud book
February 27th, 2009A new book I co-authored has been released entitled “TheSavvyGuideTo HPC, Grid, DataGrid, Virtualisation and Cloud Computing. The aim of TheSavvyGuideTo book range is to get people up to speed as quickly as possible on the subject matter of the books.
Although the book covers a range of technologies it is a good read for anyone who wants a good concise overview of the HPC, Grid, Cloud space etc, whoever they are. Of course, GigaSpaces is covered in the book as well as many other vendors and technologies, which are all covered objectively.

Ultra-Scalable and Blazing-Fast: The Sun Fire x4450-Intel 7460-GigaSpaces XAP Platform - 1.8 million operations/sec!
February 9th, 2009Introduction
Over the past several years highly concurrent applications have faced some serious challenges when trying to scale on multi core machines. GigaSpaces scale-out-application server aims to solve this problem by freeing the user from dealing with the need to handle concurrency while building his distributed application.
For the last few weeks we ran a joint [...]
.NET local cache is out
December 17th, 2008On my previous post I've talked about the upcoming new local cache for .NET that introduces ultra fast caching performance.
http://blog.gigaspaces.com/2008/12/07/ultra-fast-local-cache-implementation-for-net/
This cache has now been released as part of our early access program for the upcoming 7.0 version. This implementation gives you the power of ultra fast, reliable and self healing distributed cache, combined with the GigaSpaces server application platform in one [...]
Ultra fast local cache implementation for .NET
December 7th, 2008Native In-Memory Performance for .NET Clients
As you may know, since version 6.6 GigaSpaces XAP.NET has become a separate offering, with a native .NET look & feel, considerably better performance and improved ease of use. We are continuing to improve XAP.NET, and one feature that users have consistently been asking for is native .NET local cache support. The [...]
Local Cache, Local View or Embedded Space? - GigaSpaces Data Access - How and Why
November 24th, 2008GigaSpaces includes several runtime options and API to access the IMDG. These includes: - Local Cache - Local View (available only for GigaSpace) - Embedded Space - Remote space Where the API to access your data could be GigaSpace API or GigaMap API (JMS API and JDBC API are also available).
This post will compare the Local [...]







