GridServer Feature List

Key Features of GridServer 5.x:

Feature	Function
Administrative dashboard	Grid-wide management view using dynamic AJAX
Broker and engine management	New APIs and user interfaces for controlling multiple engines and brokers
Integration with LDAP	Provides authorization and authentication services
User-defined roles	Create access control lists for predefined and custom user roles
Resource deployment	Deploy resources using less disk capacity and network bandwidth
Property-based affinities	Soft selection of compute engines for applications
Property and affinity aware balancer	Policy engine for sharing compute nodes between business units now accounts for application preferences
Improved execution engine controls	Incremental enhancements including smooth scaling, virtual memory watchdog, extended UI idle scheduling, auto-cancel and blacklist thresholds
Single point license management	License file only needs to be uploaded to director nodes
Evolving standards compliance	Support .NET 2.0, Windows Vista, WS-I Basic Profile, RHEL 5, and new versions of compilers, Java runtimes, and reporting databases
Service-level data encryption	Symmetric encryption of direct data transfer files
High performance computing	Dynamically distributes workload to execution engines
Shared infrastructure	Enable applications to run in a shared services model
Adaptive runtime provisioning	Re-allocation of resources to applications based on runtime demand and tiered policy
Policy-based management	Define scheduling and sharing policies for service execution
Code and resource deployment	Mirror application resources (code and data) onto execution engine local disk