UPS and Grid Computing

“Using technology to differentiate ourselves from our competitors has always been fundamental to our success, and it’s one of the reasons we’re moving forward with [grid] technology,” Brian Cucci, manager of the Advanced Technology Group at UPS said during a Webcast last week with DataSynapse, the company that supplies the Atlanta-based company its grid software.
The software, called Grid Server, is now in production use at UPS and lets the company distribute a billing invoice application that once ran on an expensive mainframe across a group of cheaper x86 systems running Linux.
“Most of the organizations we spoke to adopted grid in a little different way. They pursued it to solve that killer business problem such as not having enough horsepower with their existing infrastructure,” Cucci said. "