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For subscription information, email gridfree@gridtoday.com All comments regarding content should be sent to: grideditor@gridtoday.com -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 740082 ) HP Collaboration and Competency Network Advanced Technologies to Simplify The Complexity of Grid Solutions IN THIS ISSUE: [ ] 102590) IAN FOSTER ON GLOBUS: WHAT WILL COME [ ] 102598) HP FIRST COMMERCIAL MEMBER OF CERN LHC COMPUTING GRID [ ] 102594) YANKEE GROUP: UTILITY COMPUTING AN UNPRECEDENTED OPPORTUNITY [ ] 740083 ) Sun Microsystems More Horsepower to Solve Today's Most Critical Business Problems SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 102590) IAN FOSTER ON GLOBUS: WHAT WILL COME One of the co-creators of the Globus Toolkit, Ian Foster from Argonne National Laboratory, provided one of the keynotes on "Globus and the Grid: State of the Union" for some 450 attendees at this week's GlobusWORLD 2004 conference. [ ] 102591) IT SHOPS KEEPING THEIR EYES ON GRID DEVELOPMENT IT shops seeking to implement Grid for the first time are taking comfort in the rise of inexpensive and robust Intel-based hardware and Linux-based software platforms over the past year. [ ] 102592) CENIC, PNWGP CREATE FIRST EXTENSIBLE PEERING COLLABORATION The implementation of this novel international peering facility, known as Pacific Wave, creates a new peering paradigm by removing the geographical barriers of traditional peering facilities. [ ] 102593) THIS WEEK'S BRIEF ANALYSES OF RECENT GRIDtoday NEWS ITEMS By Rolf McClellan Following are brief evaluations of recent news stories from GRIDtoday. Rolf McClellan has nearly 20 years of experience in the network and computer industry. [ ] 102594) YANKEE GROUP: UTILITY COMPUTING AN UNPRECEDENTED OPPORTUNITY The key to making this alignment happen will be management tools that provide automation and control of the infrastructure and visibility into the performance of business services. [ ] 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 SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 102595) CALLIDUS APPOINTS NEW VICE PRESIDENT OF SERVICES, SUPPORT In this position Richard Furino will lead the organization in delivering implementation and integration services for Callidus products, as well as head up the technical product support and education services to Callidus customers. [ ] 102596) CUSTOMERS, ISVs FLOCKING TO LINUX ON IBM POWER-BASED SYSTEMS IBM's unique 64-bit POWER architecture systems are helping companies consolidate new Linux and Open Source applications to meet the on-demand computing needs of today through scalable and robust IBM eServer solutions. [ ] 740078 ) Intel - Creating a Virtual Worldwide Network of Grid Computing Power SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS ==================================================== [ ] 102597) IBM BLADE SERVERS ACE AT AUSTRALIAN OPEN Snap-together blade servers, piloted at last year's U.S. Open, were used for the first time at this year's Australian Open to run the results system. The scoring system, owned by IBM, has been supplied to Tennis Australia for the past 12 years on a utility computing basis. [ ] 102598) HP FIRST COMMERCIAL MEMBER OF CERN LHC COMPUTING GRID HP will link computing resources at its HP Labs locations in Palo Alto, Calif., and Bristol, England, as well as HP Brazil and HP Puerto Rico to CERN's LHC Computing Grid (LCG) to help manage and analyze the massive quantities of data expected to be produced by the facility. [ ] 102599) QUANTIVA LEADS INDUSTRY INTO ERA OF 'ADAPTIVE' ORGANIZATIONS QAS's adaptive qualities enable it to become a crucial component of the industry's leading automated IT initiatives, including adaptive, autonomic, on-demand and utility computing. [ ] 102600) TenFold ANNOUNCES LoadBalancing FEATURE With LoadBalancing, a TenFold-powered application automatically checks the load on individual server computers and routes end-users to a server computer that has available capacity. BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 102601) Aladdin eToken Now Supports Citrix MetaFrame Products [ ] 102602) ArcSight's Raffael Marty Appointed To MITRE OVAL Board [ ] 102603) IBM, SUSE LINUX Achieve Higher Level Of Linux Security PLATFORMS [ ] 102604) IBM Increases Performance, Memory Capacity For pSeries 655 [ ] 102605) NPU Market Gets Reincarnated -- Intel Market Share Leader [ ] 102606) SonicWALL Announces New Pro Series Platforms NETWORKING [ ] 102607) APCON Signs Three New International Distributors [ ] 102608) Foundry Expands High Performance Switching Solutions [ ] 102609) NLR Appoints Montano As Director Of Development & Operations [ ] 102610) Procket Selected By AARNet For Core Backbone [ ] 102611) Quick Eagle Networks Rolls Out New 4300 Access Router Series [ ] 102612) SITA SC, Aventail To Deliver An SSL VPN Managed Service STORAGE [ ] 102613) EMC, Oracle Help Customers Manage Inactive Database Records OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 102614) Norvergence Standardizes On BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 [ ] 102615) WMPI II Provides Support For Wide Range Of Linux Platforms [ ] 102616) Web Services Finally Can Grow Up, Join Workforce [ ] 102617) NEC Soft Joins OSDL [ ] 102618) Parasoft Releases SOAPtest 2.5 For Web Services Testing GENERAL [ ] 102619) Oracle Simplifies Outsourcing Costs With User-Based Pricing [ ] 102620) TSANet Announces Three New Members QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 102598) "There are few facilities in the modern scientific world with the significance of CERN's LHC and fewer still that present such massive technological challenges." -- Wolfgang von Ruden, Head of IT Department, CERN JOB BANK =================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] 710) Cardiff University, CCLRC e-Science Centre, First Option, General Electric, HP, Indiana University (2), Institute for Scientific Research, MCNC, Osaka UNiversity, Platform (2), Swiss Centre for Scientific Computing, United Devices (3), University of Southern California (2), University of West England [ ] 711) Job Bank Rates and Regulations CONFERENCE CALENDAR ======================================================== GRIDtoday is proud to be affiliated with the following organizations: The Globus Project Developing Fundamental Technologies for Computational Grids http://www.globus.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 | | | | | | | | For sponsorship information contact: Gridads@Gridtoday.com | |_____________________________________________________________________| GRIDtoday welcomes bylined comments for publication. LAST WEEK'S TOP 5 ARTICLES ================================================= [ ] 102535) ORACLE 10g STUNS IN BETA TEST [ ] 102531) GRID, WEB SERVICES STANDARDS TO CONVERGE [ ] 102545) SOFTWARE FUTURE DEPENDS ON INDUSTRY STANDARDS [ ] 102532) INDIA PLANS GRID FACILITIES FOR BIO-INFORMATICS [ ] 102533) THIS WEEK'S BRIEF ANALYSES OF RECENT GRIDtoday NEWS ITEMS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RETRIEVING ARTICLES There are 2 ways to retrieve articles: (1) Send a blank email to Gridmore@Gridtoday.com . On subject line, type number adjacent to article, no message text is necessary. or (2) Insert an x or an X (no other characters, please) within the square brackets adjacent to article(s). Return the marked copy to the address in the Reply-To: line of the GRIDtoday Table of Contents. RETRIEVAL EXAMPLE, METHOD (1): To: Gridmore@Gridtoday.com Subject: 100001 100005 100009 For help, send an email message to Gridhelp@Gridtoday.com and state problem. 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