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IN THIS ISSUE: [ ] 102872) GGF BEGINS SEARCH FOR SUCCESSOR TO CATLETT [ ] 102875) IBM, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON BUILD 'ICONIC GRID' [ ] 102883) $48 MILLION COMPUTING COMPLEX AVAILABLE [ ] 740089) GRIDToday 2004 GRID SECURITY - STRATEGIES ADDRESSING BREACHED OR FAILED GRIDS www.gridtoday.com SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 102872) GGF BEGINS SEARCH FOR SUCCESSOR TO CATLETT The Global Grid Forum Steering Group is initiating a search for a new GGF chair as a successor to Charlie Catlett, who will complete a five-year term as founding chair of GGF in October of this year. Catlett will continue his role as a member of the GGF Steering Group and GGF editor of Grid standards. [ ] 102873) NOTE FROM CHARLIE CATLETT AT GGF10 The GGF10 meeting here in Berlin has been quite busy with over 600 people. A lot of discussions about out Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) being more closely coupled with Web services through a new set of Web services specs. [ ] 102874) PHATBOT TROJAN USES PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS TO INFECT A new, sophisticated hacker tool that models itself after controversial peer-to-peer networking like Kazaa is being carefully watched by computer security experts and government officials. [ ] 102875) IBM, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON BUILD 'ICONIC GRID' The University of Oregon, Electrical Geodesics Inc (EGI) and IBM announced a new project that uses Grid computing, Linux and IBM supercomputer technology to speed and improve the diagnosis of brain conditions, including Epilepsy, stroke and depression. [ ] 102876) OPEN SOURCE AND JBOSS: A THREAT TO TOP VENDORS? Though JBoss's software does not include all the features that IBM's WebSphere or BEA's Web-Logic does, it has the companies worried over its open source strategy for corporate customers. This new funding could make JBoss a serious contender in the market alongside IBM and BEA. [ ] 102877) STATES WEIGH WARNING TO PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS In what could become an escalation in the war against peer-to-peer networks, the highest ranking law enforcement officers in the individual states are preparing to weigh in on the debate over the popular services. [ ] 102878) 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. [ ] 102879) SDSC'S DATA ACCESS TECHNOLOGY NAMED 'BIGGEST AND FASTEST' The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) announced that its Data Access technology has received the "Biggest, Fastest in the West" award from the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC). [ ] 102880) UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, IBM TO BUILD LARGEST CAMPUS GRID UT Grid, led by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at UT, will unite the vast computational resources of the nation's largest university campus, boasting more than 50,000 students and some 20,000 faculty and staff members. [ ] 102881) TELECOM FOCUS SESSION AT GGF10 IN BERLIN By Uwe Harms In the telco session, more than 80 participants discussed the topic of Grid and service providing. There have been different approaches concerning the research and scientific networks contrary to the requests of that community to the commercial telcos, where they should deliver new software and billing systems. [ ] 102882) OPEN UNIVERSAL DECISION-MAKING, TOTALING THEORY, TECH MODEL By K.S. Venkatram In this article I will proceed with the mechanism of the Nth'Connection, the effectiveness in working with remote services and systems. [ ] 102883) $48 MILLION COMPUTING COMPLEX AVAILABLE The major resources in a $48 million project to provide high-performance computing in Alberta and British Columbia are now available for general use by the research community, scientists heading up the WestGrid project announced. [ ] 740090) Intel Outlines How Architectural Innovation Will Reshape The Information Age SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 102884) BARC USES LINUX TO BUILD GRID COMPUTING NETWORK Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) has successfully deployed a full-scale Grid network at its campus, bringing the commercial enterprise model closer to reality. [ ] 102885) MIRROR IMAGE SELECTS EQUINIX TO EXPAND GLOBAL NETWORK Mirror Image selected Equinix's Silicon Valley, New York and Washington, D.C., area network-rich Internet Business Exchange (IBX) centers for this expansion in order to provide customers with increased capacity and superior network connectivity. [ ] 102886) HP FURTHERS ADAPTIVE ENTERPRISE WITH TruLogica ACQUISITION The acquisition is not uncommon for HP, who has acquired several smaller companies within the last few months. HP's major competitors, Sun Microsystems and EMC, also have purchased their fair shares of companies recently. [ ] 740091 ) Sun Microsystems Sun Infrastructure Solution for Grid Computing: Life Sciences SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS ==================================================== [ ] 102887) AccuRev INTEGRATES WITH SUN JAVA STUDIO Together, advanced capabilities in AccuRev/CM and Java Studio Standard allow developers to manage, control and protect development artifacts graphically in Java Studio's powerful IDE. [ ] 102888) TeraGrid BREAKS DOWN RESEARCH BARRIERS The $50 million-plus effort announced by the National Science Foundation three years ago is creating the most powerful supercomputing facility for open scientific research in the world. [ ] 102889) VIRTUAL SUPERCOMPUTERS JOIN HUNT FOR NEW DRUGS Networks of Internet-linked computers -- many in people's homes -- are breaking the constraints that tight budgets and a lack of number-crunching power once imposed on researchers' quests for important new medicines. [ ] 102890) HP SOLUTIONS LET SPEEDERA DELIVER 'OUT OF THIS WORLD' CONTENT HP announced that Santa Clara-based Speedera Networks -- a leading global provider of on-demand distributed application and content delivery services -- has deployed Linux-based HP ProLiant DL360 servers to enhance its network performance and capacity. [ ] 102891) GRID COMPUTING SYSTEM ADOPTED BY J.P. MORGAN CHASE BANK J.P. Morgan Chase Investment Bank is attempting to harness the computing power of seven separate financial risk management systems in order to reduce cost and strengthen service for internal customers. [ ] 102892) TeraGrid TARGETS INCLUDE GALAXY FORMATION, POLLUTION CLEANUP The first computing resources of TeraGrid became fully available for scientific use in January, and some of the first applications will be tracking the formation of galaxies in the early universe and finding the most efficient and least expensive ways to clean up groundwater pollution. BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 102893) Cisco Systems To Acquire Twingo Systems [ ] 102894) SecureBox Servers Meet FIPS-197 AES-Encryption Levels [ ] 102895) MesoCom Announces New Solutions For Managing P2P File Sharing PLATFORMS [ ] 102896) New IBM Servers Redefine Standards [ ] 102897) IBM Unveils AMD Opteron-Based Workstation [ ] 102898) Future Supermicro SuperServers To Support 64-bit Extensions NETWORKING [ ] 102899) N.C. State Scientists Develop Breakthrough Internet Protocol [ ] 102900) Chiaro Networks' Enstara IP/MPLS Platform Selected By CERN [ ] 102901) EVERGROW Research Project Seeks To Devise Internet Of Future [ ] 102902) Foundry Establishes 10-GbE Price-Performance Leadership [ ] 102903) GigaBeam Announces First Two Products As Alternative To Fiber [ ] 102904) InfiniCon Demos Oracle 10g Cluster At Server Blade Summit [ ] 102905) MiLAN Introduces New Gigabit Ethernet Switch Family [ ] 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 [ ] 102906) BakBone Announces Comprehensive Support For Oracle 10g [ ] 102907) BEA Technology Can Melt Frozen Data Across Enterprise OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 102908) Unicenter WSDM Management Pack Helps Ensures Reliability [ ] 102909) Jamcracker Enables Pivot Path Solution For SUSE LINUX [ ] 102910) NetPro Announces New Management Packs For MOM 2000 [ ] 102911) nVision Introduces Distributed .NET Exception Mgmt Solution [ ] 102912) Perforce Integrates Fast SCM W/ IBM WebSphere Studio, Eclipse [ ] 102913) Enterprise Edition Of Poseidon For UML Available Online GENERAL [ ] 102914) CTC Opens Second Session Of Windows HPC Workshop [ ] 102915) Oracle Reports Fiscal Q3 Earnings Per Share Of 12 Cents [ ] 102916) Oracle University Introduces Oracle Database 10g Curriculum [ ] 102917) Oracle Executive Paul Ciandrini Hired As Plumtree COO [ ] 102918) SweGrid Gives Researchers Computer With Superpower QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 102889) "Frankly, at the moment, I think we are limited more by our imaginations than we are by the technology." -- Mike Brady, Professor of Information Engineering, Oxford JOB BANK =================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] 710) Bycast Inc, CCLRC e-Science Centre, General Electric, HP, Indiana University, Institute for Scientific Research, MCNC, The Ohio State University, NEC Europe, Osaka University, Platform (2), Tech-X Corp, United Devices (3), University of Nebraska, University of West England, Whitestein Technologies [ ] 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 ================================================= [ ] 102829) GRID ESCALATES AS IT INVESTMENT PRIORITY [ ] 102834) IBM: OPEN SOURCE IS KEY FOR INNOVATION, INTEGRATION [ ] 102836) IBM ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR GERMAN D-GRID INITIATIVE [ ] 102838) LINDOWS ADDS P2P SERVERS TO CORPORATE INFRASTRUCTURE [ ] 102832) 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. 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