Grid Computing
Infrastructure
Nguyen Quang Huy
Senior Technical Sales Consultant
Agenda
y Business Challenges
y Solution - How Can Oracle Help?
y Benefits
y Market Momentum & Proof Points
y Summary
Agenda
y Business Challenges
y Solution - How Can Oracle Help?
y Benefits
y Market Momentum & Proof Points
y Summary
The Four Fundamental Goals of I.T.
y Better Information
y Better Processes
y Better Quality of Service
y Lower Cost
…Balancing The Goals Is Complex
Business
Processes
Business
Information
Quality of
Service
Cost
Problem: Islands of Computation
Financials

Verification 2
User
Authentication 2
Account
Validation 2
y Hard to adapt to
changing business
requirements
y Duplication of
functionality means
wasted resources
y Small fixes require large
investments of time and
labor
Inflexible, Inefficient, Hard to Maintain
Problem: Monolithic Applications
Problem: Complex Infrastructure
Screen
Scrape
Screen
Scrape
Screen
Scrape
Screen
Scrape
Message
Queue
Message
Queue
Message

Application
Application
Application
Application
Application
Application
Application
Costly, Inflexible and Incompatible
79% of Budget Spent on Maintaining Existing
Systems
Which Is Very Expensive To Manage…
Source: Gartner 2004
Information Technology Evolution
Mainframe
Mainframe
Computing
Computing
Client
Client
-
-
Server
Server
Computing
Computing
Internet
Internet
Computing
Computing
Grid

3 Tier Architecture
Enterprise Processes
Enterprise Processes
Blade Servers
Blade Servers
Low Cost SAN, NAS
Low Cost SAN, NAS
Grid
Grid
-
-
Enabled DBMS
Enabled DBMS
Service Oriented Arch.
Service Oriented Arch.
Composite Processes
Composite Processes
Grid Computing
y Expensive Processors
y Expensive Storage
y Idle Excess Capacity
y Single Points of Failure
y Add Capacity in Large Units
y $20,000 per GHz
y Cheap Processors
y Cheap Storage
y No Excess Capacity
y Fault tolerant
y Add Capacity Modularly
y $860 per GHz (30X cheaper)

9 Increase Service Levels
9 Higher Availability
Application technology Consolidation
Technology Consolidation
Automate
Consolidate
Standardize
“The typical enterprise, with mainframe,Unix and Windows
deployments, could save between 8.5% & 10.5% of the data
center budget by implementing standardization, automation and
consolidation.”
Gartner Research
July 2003
Next Steps for IT…
Agenda
y Business Challenges
y Solution - How Can Oracle Help?
y Benefits
y Market Momentum & Proof Points
y Summary
Consolidation:
Why Doesn’t Everyone Just Do It ?
Cons
y High Risk
y High Cost
Pros
y Better
Information
y Better
Processes

• Limitless capacity
• Constant availability
• Pay less, get more
Consolidation:
Highest Performance at Low Cost
0
200,000
400,000
600,000
800,000
1,000,000
1,200,000
1x64 16x4
TPM-C
1,008,144
1,008,144
1,184,893
1,184,893
$8.33 /tpmC
$8.33 /tpmC
$5.52 /tpmC
$5.52 /tpmC
Same 1.5 GHz Itanium2 CPUs
Source: TPC, as of January 1, 2004: Oracle Database 10g with Real Application Clusters, 16 nodes of 4-way HP Integrity rx5670, 1,184,893 tpmC, $5.52/tpmC,
available 4/30/2004. Oracle Database 10g on 64-way HP Integrity Superdome, 1,008,144 tpmC, $8.33/tpmC, available 4/14/2004.