The workhorses of the IBM grid infrastructureare the grid engines

desktop PCs, workstations or servers that run the UNIX, Microsoft

Windows or Linux operating systems .

 These compute resources execute various jobs submitted

to the grid, and have access to a shared set of storage devices.

The IBM Grid Offering for Risk Management and Compliance

relies on grid middleware from DataSynapse to create distributed

sets of virtualized resources.

The production-proven, awardwinning

DataSynapse GridServer application infrastructure platform

extends applications in real time to operate in a distributed computing

environment across a virtual pool of underutilized compute resources.

GridServer application interface modules allow risk management and

compliance applications and nextgeneration development of risk management

and compliance application platforms to be grid-enabled.

IBM DB2 Information Integrator

enables companies to have integrated,

real-time access to structured and unstructured information across

and beyond the enterprise. Critical to the grid infrastructure, the software

accelerates risk and compliance analytics applications that process massive

amounts of data for making better informed decisions.

DB2 Information Integrator provides

transparent access to any data source, regardless of its location,

type or platform.