Open Source Comes To Cloud Computing : A closer look at MRG

Messaging with Realtime and Grid Integration

Messaging and Grid integration benefits include:

- Data distribution across the grid

- Leveraging messaging for the management and monitoring of all of MRG, including the grid

- Low-latency scheduling of jobs onto the grid.  By leveraging Messaging and Realtime, MRG can schedule jobs in the millisecond range—much faster than other grid platforms.  This opens up new classes of work for grids to compute

Advanced Message Queueing Protocol (AMQP)

One major advantage that Red Hat MRG has over other messaging software is its default support of AMQP.  AMQP is a user driven messaging protocol standard designed to allow different distributed applications to natively talk with each other.

For example Vendor A’s trading application can use this protocol to talk with Vendor B’s trading application. As AMQP has risen in popularity over the last few years, companies such as Cisco have also built devices to allow you to bridge between AMQP and other messaging. 

If you use AMQP as the messaging protocol for your distributed applications you won’t have to budget for developers to work on methods to integrate your distributed applications.

In other words, using AMQP will save on the tremendous complexity and administrative overhead of having to integrate communication between different applications whilst enabling optimal architectures and performance. A protocol such as AMQP can enable future applications and architectures to take advantage of the full power of distributed deployments as it eliminates the headaches of integration.

Red Hat MRG or Bust?

Due to the limited size of this report, we can only give you a brief overview of the benefits of MRG and it would be worth your time to investigate further benefits by reading the white papers on the MRG offering.

Over the last decade Red Hat has shown that the Open source model for computing is a viable and sustainable business model realising hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings for companies. From this standpoint alone, apart from the benefits already covered in this article the product is worth an in-depth look.

If you would like more technical information and white papers visit http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/MRG_WhitePaper.pdf