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For subscription information, email gridfree@gridtoday.com All comments regarding content should be sent to: grideditor@gridtoday.com -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 700003) PLATFORM COMPUTING MAKES EQUITY INVESTMENT IN POWERLLEL, STRENGTHENING FINANCIAL SERVICES EXPERTISE IN THIS ISSUE: [ ] 100107) GRID -- NOT JUST FOR SUPERCOMPUTERS [ ] 100109) SUN SELECTS DARTMOUTH fMRI DATA CENTER AS SUN CENTER [ ] 100110) AN INTERVIEW WITH ENTROPIA'S ANDREW CHIEN [ ] 700002) Fujitsu's Grid Solution for the Sciences SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 100107) GRID COMPUTING -- NOT JUST FOR SUPERCOMPUTERS Courtesy of Tom Garritano, Project Manager, GRIDS Center The GRIDS Center has contributed core software to the initial NSF Middleware Initiative release (NMI-R1). The Globus Toolkit, Condor-G and Network Weather Service (NWS) combine to form a suite of Grid applications that are packaged together for easy installation, configuration and use. [ ] 100108) THE GLOBAL GRID CHALLENGE By Christopher Lazou In the last two articles, I focused mainly on the Earth Simulator and device technology developments for Petaflop/s computing from NEC Japan and hardware developments by vendors in the USA, which are mostly driven by requirements from the nuclear weapons Federal Laboratories under the auspices of the ASCI programme. [ ] 100109) SUN SELECTS DARTMOUTH COLLEGE fMRI DATA CENTER AS SUN CENTER Palo Alto, CA. -- Sun Microsystems, Inc., has selected Dartmouth College's fMRI Data Center as a Center of Excellence in Neuroscience. [ ] 100110) AN INTERVIEW WITH ENTROPIA'S ANDREW CHIEN By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief Grid Today invited Dr. Andrew A. Chien, co-Founder and CTO of Entropia and member of the Global Grid Forum Steering Group and director of the Peer to Peer Area to discuss the role of PCs in enterprise grids, and the kinds of applications and markets where adoption of PC grids is happening. SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE [ ] 100111) HP EXPANDS PRODUCTS AND SOLUTIONS FOR ORACLE9i CLUSTERS HP introduced a broad range of products and solutions for Oracle9i Real Application Clusters, further strengthening its position as a leading supplier of Oracle database solutions. [ ] 100112) INTEL BEGINS SHIPPING ITANIUM 2 PROCESSORS Santa Clara, CA. -- Intel Corporation announced that it has begun initial commercial shipment of Itanium 2 processors and that systems and software based on the new processors are expected to be available beginning this quarter. [ ] 100113) NEW YORK LIFE SELECTS ON TECHNOLOGY TO MANAGE WORKSTATIONS Waltham, MA. -- ON Technology Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure management solutions, announced that New York Life Insurance Company has chosen its proprietary ON Command CCM software to manage as many as 15,000 mission-critical workstations for employees, agents and brokers in more than 200 U.S. locations. [ ] 100114) SCALI ANNOUNCES CLOSURE OF SECOND INVESTMENT ROUND Scali AS announced that it has closed the second round of its Series B funding round. New investor Four Seasons Venture III led the round. Intel Capital joined as an investor and existing investors Kongsberg Gruppen and SND Invest also participated. [ ] 100115) APPLICATION SERVERS CLUSTERING TECHNOLOGIES & TRENDS Milpitas, CA., Strategic Focus, a market research and product evaluation firm based in Milpitas, California announced the release of a white paper on Application Servers Clustering Technologies & Trends. [ ] 100116) INTEL-BASED SYSTEMS POWER AUDI'S HIGH-TECH CAR SAFETY TESTS German car manufacturer AUDI AG will use Intel Corporation-based servers from Fujitsu-Siemens to optimize its car safety testing procedure. [ ] 700001) Itanium-powered Performance Computing in Norway With The Universities of Tromso & Oslo: Intel(TM) Itanium(TM) processor-powered Hewlett-Packard Systems Are Being Groomed to Become A Critical Part of A Powerful High Performance Computing (HPC) Grid Being Built in Norway. SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS [ ] 100117) LLNL SCIENTISTS CREATE HIGH RESOLUTION CLIMATE SIMULATION Atmospheric scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have performed the first global climate simulations with spatial resolutions of roughly 50 km (30 miles). [ ] 100118) INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CLUSTER COMPUTING AND THE GRID 3rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2003), held in Toshi Center Hotel, Tokyo, JAPAN, calls for papers and participation. [ ] 100119) NSF PROVIDES $3.7 MILLION FOR NCSA-BASED NLANR/DAST Champaign, IL. -- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $3.7 million to the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) Distributed Applications Support Team (DAST) to continue providing technical support, tools development, and community education to the NSF-funded high- performance networking and applications communities. [ ] 700004) SGI Demonstrates Long-Distance Visual Serving Across Canada -- Pioneering Visualization for the Grid BREAKING NEWS ============================================================== SECURITY [ ] 100120) Study Finds Israel & Hong Kong Hotbed For Cyberattacks [ ] 100121) WAM!NET Announces Net Hosting Service For The Feds PLATFORMS [ ] 100122) NEC Released "TX7" Series Server With Intel's Latest CPU [ ] 100123) RedSwitch And NEXCOM Announce High Performance Partnership [ ] 100124) PMC-Sierra Ships Second Generation CMOS NETWORKING [ ] 100125) A Symposium On High Performance Interconnects [ ] 100126) StarNet Launches X-Solutions.com Interoperability Site STORAGE [ ] 100127) New Storage Architectures Drive File System Research [ ] 100128) EMC To Offer Open, Platform-Independent Storage Services OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 100129) IBM Dips Into Directory With New Server & Services [ ] 100130) MSC.Software Releases World's 1st High Performance Linux [ ] 100131) IBSS Announces New Synapse Productivity Product [ ] 100132) WinINSTALL & Ad OnDemand Software Reunited GENERAL [ ] 100133) Intel Developer Forum Conference Dates Announced [ ] 100134) Larry Ellison Added To Keynote Lineup At LinuxWorld [ ] 100135) SC2002 Posters Deadline Approaching QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 100113) "Our success in this very competitive industry is based on our ability to reduce IT costs substantially, while offering other important benefits, such as rapid disaster recovery." ----Robert L Doretti, chairman, president and CEO ON Technology CONFERENCE CALENDAR ======================================================== GRIDtoday is proud to be affiliated with the following organizations: Global Grid Forum The Globus Project The Leading Edge of Grid Computing Developing Fundamental Technologies for Researchers Worldwide for Computational Grids http://www.gridforum.org http://www.globus.org [ ] 700) Conferences & Seminars GRIDtoday INFORMATION ====================================================== [ ] 701) Subscriptions & Removals [ ] 702) About GRIDtoday [ ] 703) Index of Back Issues [ ] 706) FAQ / Contact Information [ ] 707) Submitting Letters and Articles _____________________________________________________________________ | | | Full background information on all sponsoring companies | | Firms marked with an * have updated their info in the last 30 days | | | | | | [ ] 921) SGI [ ] 934) Hewlett-Packard | | [ ] 527) Intel [ ] 537) PLATFORM | | [ ] 909) Fujitsu [ ] 942) Sun Microsystems | | [ ] 539) Microsoft | | | | | | For sponsorship information contact: gridads@gridtoday.com | |_____________________________________________________________________| GRIDtoday welcomes bylined comments for publication. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RETRIEVING ARTICLES There are 2 ways to retrieve articles: (1) Send a blank email to gridmore@gridtoday.com . 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