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Here are some questions you might ask when considering whether to buy JIVA.

What is JIVA?
What does it do?
How much does JIVA cost?
What about security?
Do we face the sort of problems that JIVA is meant to solve?
What are our alternatives for solving these sorts of problems?
How does that cost compare to our alternatives?
How much performance […]

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The most current TCO data I have yet found (mentioned in my earlier TCO post) comes from Intel, in a collaborative study by its IT and Finance groups. This study would be a good place to start any consideration of TCO, though one should bear some things in mind about their results.
First, it (over-?) […]

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The total cost of ownership (TCO) for PCs is a key factor in deciding whether to invest in JIVA. Surprisingly, at least to a non-accountant like me, this is not so easy to determine. Even Intel admitted – after explaining why it chose not to include “soft costs” – that, “[a]n effective TCO model requires […]

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Here is the sentence that I usually use to describe JIVA:
“JIVA is a secure, generic, volunteer computing-based grid architecture.”
If you understand the constellation of grid computing architectures out there, this probably makes sense. If you are someone more like my mom, who is really smart but not a software engineer, […]

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Brain Murmurs created JIVA to make supercomputing more widely available. We launched this blog to make information about JIVA more available.
JIVA (”Java Integrated Virtual Machine Array”) is a secure, flexible, inexpensive grid computing solution. For people trying to solve certain sorts of problems, it uses their existing hardware resources to create a virtual […]

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We are in the process of developing a new application for JIVA. Syzygyx, Incorporated is doing research that requires the identification of substructural “functional groups” within a given compound.
The application, tentatively referred to at Syzygyx as “JIVA Chem,” will be given a compound database along with a specific compound C, and will have to […]

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We’ve been working on JIVA for a while now, and have set up this site in order to make information about JIVA and ourselves more accessible to people.
Stay tuned for information about grid computing, JIVA, us (Brain Murmurs), and our on-going projects.
-Daniel

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