GRIDtoday's "Breaking News" Log onto GRIDtoday.com at the beginning and the end of your day for up to the minute news and information in the Global Grid Community. www.Gridtoday.com \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////////// GRIDtoday NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY --- Feb 23, 2004: Vol. 3, No. 08 --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This issue will reach 30,000 readers ------- Article retrieval instructions are at the end of this file. For subscription information, email gridfree@gridtoday.com All comments regarding content should be sent to: grideditor@gridtoday.com -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 740084 ) HP Collaborates with University at Buffalo To Advance Computational Research *** OPINIONATED *** ABOUT GRID COMPUTING? GRIDtoday WANTS TO PUBLISH YOUR VIEWS! We are actively seeking quality features, opinion pieces, commentaries, analyses, and technical expositions from informed readers. If you have written material you believe might be suitable for publication in GRIDtoday, forward it in plain ASCII to alan@tgc.com. All submissions will be acknowledged; suitable pieces will receive full feature status in GRIDtoday. Don't wait; your perspectives could soon shake the world of Grid technology! IN THIS ISSUE: [ ] 102706) NEW ACCESS GRID TUTORIALS RELEASED [ ] 102707) DMTF ANNOUNCES NEW WORKING GROUP FOR UTILITY COMPUTING [ ] 102715) IBM EMBRACES ECLIPSE ENVIRONMENT FOR AUTONOMIC COMPUTING [ ] 740085 ) GRIDtoday 2004 WHO'S DEPLOYING GRID COMPUTING AND HOW MUCH IS IT COSTING? Pennsylvania Convention Center May 24 - 26, 2004 www.gridtoday.com SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 102706) NEW ACCESS GRID TUTORIALS RELEASED The tutorials take you from determining whether or not your organization will benefit from an AG, through installing, configuring, and operating (including troubleshooting) an AG. [ ] 102707) DMTF ANNOUNCES NEW WORKING GROUP FOR UTILITY COMPUTING The DMTF Utility Computing Working Group will operate in close collaboration with other organizations, like GGF and OASIS Web Services Distributed Management Technical Committee, to develop standards related to utility computing. [ ] 102708) NRC PIONEERING GRID COMPUTING IN CANADA By Gabriel Mateescu, National Research Council Canada The Research Computing Support Group (RCSG) at the National Research Council Canada (NRC) has designed and implemented a distributed software system, called SpectroGrid, which provides remote access to spectroscopy instruments located at the NMR facility and at other sites. [ ] 102709) OMG CHARTERS NEW SUBGROUPS, ELECTS ARCHITECTURE BOARD MEMBERS Reflecting the group's expanding range of interests, OMG members chartered four new subgroups and elected architecture board members during its recent meetings in Anaheim, Calif. [ ] 102710) 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. [ ] 740086 ) Intel Outlines Platform Innovations For More Manageable, Balanced And Secure Enterprise Computing SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 102711) DCML DOUBLES MEMBERSHIP WITHIN THREE MONTHS OF INCEPTION The 10 new members of the DCML Organization include software, services and Web management companies AssuredWeb, Blazent, Cadena Software, Covalent Technologies, Etagon, NetContinuum, Peregrine Systems Inc, Qlusters, Speedera Networks and Tideway Systems. [ ] 102712) FORCE10 POSTS 160 PERCENT GROWTH IN SHIPPED 10 GbE Ports According to the Dell'Oro Group's most recent quarterly Ethernet Switch Report, Force10 experienced 160 percent growth in Layer 3 10 Gigabit Ethernet port shipments, compared with third quarter 2003 shipments. [ ] 102713) PLATFORM COMPUTING APPOINTS PAUL MCFEETERS AS CFO In this position, McFeeters will align the company's corporate structure and management processes with the continued acceleration of Platform's growth and profitability. [ ] 740087 ) Sun Microsystems Boost Resource Utilization Fuel Productivity Gain Competitive Advantage SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS ==================================================== [ ] 102714) eSpatial ANNOUNCES COMPATIBILITY WITH ORACLE DATABASE 10g As part of the Oracle 10g beta program, eSpatial tested iSMART, its flagship geospatial product for business applications, with Oracle 10g and is ready to upgrade customers from Oracle9i to Oracle Database 10g technology, which is now available. [ ] 102715) IBM EMBRACES ECLIPSE ENVIRONMENT FOR AUTONOMIC COMPUTING IBM announced the availability of an Eclipse-based Autonomic Computing Toolkit for developing self-managing capability in IT environments. The toolkit will be the first integrated collection of assets and tools, with support provided, to assist software developers in designing and testing autonomic solutions. [ ] 102716) ObjectWeb LICENSES J2EE TECHNOLOGY COMPATIBILITY TEST SUITE The ObjectWeb Consortium is demonstrating its commitment to the compatible J2EE technology industry by joining the Apache Software Foundation and the JBoss Group, which were the first open source organizations to license the J2EE 1.4 platform specification and CTS. [ ] 102717) SUN ANNOUNCES AGGRESSIVE DEVELOPER PROMOTION The promotion includes a free AMD Opteron-based server plus extensive tools, support and services to develop and test enterprise applications. BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 102718) Atmel Announces Trusted Computing Group 1.2 Security Processor [ ] 102719) Eicon Networks Acquires Shiva Business BREAKING NEWs [ ] 102720) Forum Systems' Web Services Firewall To Stop Hidden Threats [ ] 102721) IBM, Cisco To Team Up On Security Technology [ ] 102722) Imperva SecureSphere v2 Stops Known, Unknown Attacks On Apps [ ] 102723) Netreo Introduces New Security Platform [ ] 102724) Passwords Not Enough To Protect Complex Data [ ] 102725) Reconnex Product Prevents Disclosures Of Critical Info [ ] 102726) RSA Confirms Commitment To Industry Standards Organizations [ ] 102727) Two NCSA-Developed Tools Set Sights On Network Attacks [ ] 102728) SIIA To Use Rainbow SSL VPN To Conduct Codie Voting Online PLATFORMS [ ] 102729) Appro Announces 1U, HyperBlade Servers Based On Itanium 2 [ ] 102730) IBM eServer Shatters Record For Computing Power [ ] 102731) IBM Perfects Making Low Power, High Performance Processors [ ] 102732) Intel, In Shift, Unveils 64-Bit PC Chip Feature NETWORKING [ ] 102733) ADVA Announces Polish Supercomputing Center As Customer [ ] 102734) Force10 Introduces Zero Packet Loss Hitless Technology [ ] 102735) Tellabs Enhances 8800 Series Of Multi-Service Routers [ ] 102736) Verilink Introduces New Router Products [ ] 102737) Xilinx Introduces AdvancedTCA Development Platform [ ] 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 STORAGE [ ] 102738) TeraText Solutions Announces Database System Release 4.2 [ ] 102739) Texas Memory Systems, Sun Certify Ramsan-320 Solid State Disk OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 102740) GreenTea Software Establishes Grids [ ] 102741) IBM releases Free Q104 Software Evaluation Kit [ ] 102742) Opsware Inc Unveils Opsware System 4 Japanese Edition [ ] 102743) InnerAccess Partners, Seagull Software Strategic Partners [ ] 102744) webMethods Integration Platform 6.1 Increases Performance GENERAL [ ] 102745) GDA To Offer Complete Set Of Advanced Switching IP Cores [ ] 102746) Phoenix Launches Adv. 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Environment For Core Software [ ] 102747) UNESCO, HP Install Grid In BiH QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 102707) "The collaboration will deliver the usability the industry requires, and provide standards that capitalize on existing efforts to deliver the management capabilities that will be essential to creating the tools and frameworks necessary for utility computing." -- Charlie Catlett, Chair, Global Grid Forum JOB BANK =================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] 710) Cardiff University, CCLRC e-Science Centre, General Electric, HP, Indiana University, Institute for Scientific Research, MCNC, The Ohio State University, *NEC Europe, Osaka University, Platform (2), Swiss Centre for Scientific Computing, United Devices (3), 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 Leading the global standardization effort for Grid computing www.ggf.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 ================================================= [ ] 102668) SPECIFICATIONS TO UNIFY GRID, WEB SERVICES [ ] 102662) CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE TO REVOLUTIONIZE SCIENCE [ ] 102664) ENOUGH TALK: TECHNOLOGY DOES SOMETHING ABOUT THE WEATHER [ ] 102674) FERMILAB EXPERTS HELP BRING GRID TO CLASSROOMS [ ] 102663) FLOW-BASED ROUTING BREAKTHROUGH DEMONSTRATED ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. 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