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For subscription information, email gridfree@gridtoday.com All comments regarding content should be sent to: grideditor@gridtoday.com -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 740054) Our In-House LinuxBIOS Expertise Simplifies Cluster Management IN THIS ISSUE: [ ] 102446) SUN HELPS FUND SETI GRID [ ] 102433) HARVARD USES IBM TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE 'CRIMSON GRID' [ ] 102441) WORLD'S LARGEST GRID-BASED SUPERCOMPUTER GIVEN GO-AHEAD [ ] 740080) Sun Introduces Infrastructure Solution for Grid Computing SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 102431) ASTRONOMERS DEVELOP AUTONOMOUS OBSERVATION PROGRAM A computer program has recently been developed by astronomers that is able to streamline the capabilities of telescope observation. [ ] 102432) AT&T, SURA ANNOUNCE AGREEMENT TO ADVANCE GRID INFRASTRUCTURE AT&T and the Southeastern Universities Research Association announced a collaboration agreement that will allow the nation's research and education community to use AT&T's newest national network infrastructure for experimental work on the next generation of networking technology and applications, called Grid networking. [ ] 102433) HARVARD USES IBM TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE 'CRIMSON GRID' Harvard University announced that it is working with IBM to establish a university-wide computing Grid. The "Crimson Grid" will be used by students and faculty for research, data sharing and collaboration in such areas as life sciences, engineering and applied sciences. [ ] 102434) MVAPICH SOFTWARE SPEEDS SUPERCOMPUTER PROCESSING Ohio State University researchers are answering questions about global climate change and the make up of complicated molecules with MVAPICH, a new software designed to manage communication between cluster nodes. [ ] 102435) NSF NMI RELEASE 4.0 FEATURES LATEST IN GRID SERVICES The release, available free to the public at http://www.nsf-middleware.org , is designed to facilitate sharing of online resources. NMI-R4 includes a robust collection of tools and services for organizations to build their security and identity management infrastructure. [ ] 102436) VIEO CTO ELECTED TO LEAD ADAPTIVE COMPUTING CONSORTIUM The AQ/RM initiative was launched at The Open Group's 2003 Conference. The charter of the AQ/RM consortium is to gain recognition, acceptance and endorsement of a common industry management architecture and set of standards profiles to ensure interoperability. [ ] 740081) The Future is Grid HP is Pioneering Grid Computing's Move Into the Enterprise Market SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 102437) IBM EXPANDS GRID, AUTONOMIC COMPUTING SERVICES IBM introduced Grid and Autonomic Computing services that combine business consulting knowledge with research and technology expertise to help customers gain competitive advantage in their respective industries. [ ] 102438) MICROSOFT, ECLIPSYS ANNOUNCE MULTIYEAR STRATEGIC ALLIANCE The goal of the strategic alliance is to provide innovative healthcare enterprise solutions that integrate with a wide array of legacy applications, are easier to implement and maintain, and are more adaptable to current and future customer needs -- at a lower total cost of ownership. [ ] 102439) IBM TO DELIVER ENTERPRISE LINUX v.3 ACROSS eSERVER SYSTEMS BM and Red Hat announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.3, Red Hat's newest offering, is now available across the entire IBM eServer product line. The two companies are also announcing that Red Hat Enterprise Linux is now packaged with sales of IBM's xSeries and BladeCenter servers in Japan, North America and eventually around the world. [ ] 740078) Intel - Creating a Virtual Worldwide Network of Grid Computing Power SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS ==================================================== [ ] 102440) STUDY QUANTIFIES BEA WebLogic WORKSHOP PRODUCTIVITY BENEFITS The study, conducted by Crossvale Inc, found that BEA WebLogic Workshop helps developers create an application nearly eight times faster and with almost one-fourth the lines of code written or modified versus building the same application with IBM WSAD. [ ] 102441) WORLD'S LARGEST GRID-BASED SUPERCOMPUTER GIVEN GO-AHEAD This Grid, known as GridPP2 will eventually form part of a larger European Grid, to be used to process the data deluge from CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, when its new facility, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), comes online in 2007. [ ] 102442) TECH GROUP AIMS AT PROFIT-FRIENDLY FILE-SHARING The world's largest software and music companies, together with a broad alliance of companies, said they would work together in a bid to transform Internet file sharing from a haven for piracy into a potential profit center. [ ] 102443) GRIDBUS PROJECT TO RELEASE GridSim 2.2 SOFTWARE The open source Gridbus Project, led by the Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne (Australia) is pleased to release the next-version of Grid simulation software, the GridSim 2.2 toolkit. [ ] 102444) DOCTORS SEE POTENTIAL FOR GRID-ENHANCED 3-D MEDICAL TRAINING In a University of Chicago demonstration, RSNA attendees viewed a projected 3-D model of a patient's abdominal vasculature generated by MRI data. [ ] 102445) SMARTS UNVEILS END-TO-END MGMT OF WebSphere ENVIRONMENTS Further extending InCharge's ability to intelligently analyze and holistically manage mission-critical application services, the newest solution provides total real-time visibility into the IBM WebSphere environment. [ ] 102446) SUN HELPS FUND SETI GRID Sun announced it will fund the worldwide release of a new generation of SETI@home, a scientific experiment managed by a group of researchers at the Space Sciences Laboratory of the University of California-Berkeley that uses Internet-connected computers in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. [ ] 102447) TARGACEPT USES GRID COMPUTING FOR DRUG DISCOVERY Targacept should move more drug compounds ready for clinical trials next year now that a joint venture in so-called Grid computing is in place with software developer Noregon Systems Inc. [ ] 102448) WS-I DELIVERS SAMPLE APPLICATIONS FOR BASIC PROFILE The WS-I Sample Application 1.0 provides a configurable collection of Web services which exercise the WS-I Basic Profile 1.0 using a supply chain scenario that models the interactions between multiple retail storefronts, warehouses and manufacturers. [ ] 102449) WORLD'S BIGGEST COMPUTER GRID POURS WATER ON TROUBLED OILS Scientists two continents apart plugged simultaneously into the combined processing power of HPCx and CSAR in the United Kingdom and the United States' TeraGrid machines -- loosely equivalent to 30,000 typical PCs -- to run massive 3-D simulations of some of the most ubiquitous and complex fluids on Earth. [ ] 740073 ) CALL FOR SPEAKERS GRID TODAY 2004 (Gt04) -- the first major conference and exhibition to focus on the emerging market for commercial business applications of Grid computing, has issued a Call for Speakers We are looking for high-level speakers from commercial organizations to speak on applications and implementation of Grid computing http://www.gridtoday.com BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 102450) CenterBeam Standardizes On BigFix To Deliver Patch Management [ ] 102451) E-Mail 'Cluster Bombs' A Disaster Waiting To Happen [ ] 102452) Hifn Announces Fully Integrated 7954 Security Processor [ ] 102453) Ping Identity, HP To Extend Federated Identity Management [ ] 102454) Radware Releases Multi-Function Intrusion Prevention Solution [ ] 102455) Reactivity Firewall Protects From XML Parser Vulnerabilities [ ] 102456) Netilla, Twingo Partner To Protect From Untrusted Computers PLATFORMS [ ] 102457) AMD Opteron Processors Power New High-End Workstation [ ] 102458) HP, IBM, Others Lead New DMTF Server Management Working Group [ ] 102459) Raritan Introduces Web-based Serial Server Mgmt Solution [ ] 102460) Santa Cruz Server Enables ISPs To Deliver Value-Add Solutions [ ] 102461) Sony, Toshiba Partner To Develop High-Performance 65nm Chip NETWORKING [ ] 102462) AESP Announces Websmart 10/100 Ethernet Switching Products [ ] 102463) Cisco Beefs Up High-End Routers [ ] 102464) Foundry Networks Wins New Contract With BBC [ ] 102465) Level 3 Expands European Network To Vienna [ ] 102466) New MiLAN Products Provide Enhanced Security, Access Control [ ] 102467) NetPro Ships DNSAnalyzer 4.0 With On-Demand Diagnostics [ ] 102468) Xilinx Enables Next Generation Metro Area Networks STORAGE [ ] 102469) ExaGrid Systems Appoints Vice President Of Engineering OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 102470) BEA Announces Two Industry-Standard Java Benchmark Results [ ] 102471) Compuware, BEA Expand Alliance To Accelerate J2EE Development [ ] 102472) Microsoft Unveils Beta Of Host Integration Server 2004 [ ] 102473) Torvalds, Morton Release Linux Kernel 2.6 Production Kernel [ ] 102474) Novell Linux Services Changes Face Of Enterprise Computing GENERAL [ ] 102475) Cape Clear Announces Web-Based Real-Time Data Integration [ ] 102476) DataSynapse To Lead Financial Service Workshop At GlobusWORLD [ ] 102477) INS Selects Aventail To Secure Anywhere Access [ ] 102478) Oki Electric, BEA Systems Form Global Strategic Alliance [ ] 740069 ) CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION 4th International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2004: IEEE support pending final approval) 19-22 April, Chicago, Illinois, USA http://www.mcs.anl.gov/ccgrid2004 QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 102433) "A Grid could potentially provide the tools to solve any type problem, from a complex literature search to mining the genome." -- Dr. Jayanta Sircar, IT Diector, Harvard DEAS JOB BANK =================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] 710) CCLRC e-Science Centre, First Option, General Dynamics Decision Systems, HP, Indiana University (2), Institute for Scientific Research, MCNC, Osaka UNiversity, Platform (2), Red Hat, *Swiss Centre for Scientific Computing, United Devices (3), University of Southern California (2) [ ] 711) Job Bank Rates and Regulations CONFERENCE CALENDAR ======================================================== GRIDtoday is proud to be affiliated with the following organizations: [ ] 740071) globusWORLD The premier GRID conference featuring the Globus Toolkit January 20-23, 2004 - San Francisco, CA www.globusworld.org Global Grid Forum The Leading Edge of Grid Computing for Researchers Worldwide http://www.Gridforum.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 [ ] 709) Advertising Opportunities _____________________________________________________________________ | | | 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 [ ] 942) Sun Microsystems | | [ ] 909) Fujitsu [ ] 943) Linux Networx | | | | | | | | For sponsorship information contact: Gridads@Gridtoday.com | |_____________________________________________________________________| GRIDtoday welcomes bylined comments for publication. 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