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For subscription information, email gridfree@gridtoday.com All comments regarding content should be sent to: grideditor@gridtoday.com -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 740095 ) Sun Grid Everywhere Technologies IN THIS ISSUE: [ ] 102919) CHARLIE CATLETT SPEAKS ABOUT LEAVING GGF [ ] 102930) SUN DEMOS MASSIVE MULTI-PLAYER JAVA GAME SERVER PROTOTYPE [ ] 102935) INTERNET COMPUTING FINDS MORE CANCER GROWTH INHIBITORS Grid Computing for Commercial Organizations - Final Days! Join: AOL - Eli Lilly - Boeing - Credit Suisse First Boston - Intel - Acxiom EDS - St. Jude's - IDC - Johnson & Johnson - Wachovia - GGF - Force 10 IBM - DataSynapse - MIT - Sun Microsystems - United Devices -VIEO ...just to name a few of the organizations whose executives will be sharing management challenges, decisions and expertise related to Grid technologies and deployment. Come to Grid Today 2004 (Gt'04), May 25 & 26, Philadelphia,PA Only 6 days left to save $100! Early registrations discounts end March 31! SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 102919) CHARLIE CATLETT SPEAKS ABOUT LEAVING GGF By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief GRIDtoday Editor-in-Chief Alan Beck's interview with the Global Grid Forum's Charlie Catlett, who recently stepped down as GGF chair. Topics covered include the futures of Catlett and the GGF, as well as competition with other entities. [ ] 102920) NATIONAL LambdaRail GRID COULD BE BOON TO LOCAL ECONOMIES The benefits of being a part of the Grid are clear enough. Areas with infrastructures capable of supporting the Grid will attract a lot of money for academic, defense and commercial research. However, questions as to how the Grid will work still remain. [ ] 102921) SINGAPORE GRID TO BOOST GRID COMPUTING Giz@NUS will serve as a testing ground for pilot projects on Grid computing, so users can see how they can benefit from such shared resources. It will also serve an educational role. [ ] 102922) 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. [ ] 102923) SGI CTO TO DISCUSS NEXT-GEN. ARCHITECTURES IN HPCC KEYNOTE Goh will keynote this prestigious event for the second year in a row. His presentation, "Factors Influencing the Design of Next-Generation High End Computing and Visualization Architectures: facilitating scientific discovery to planned serendipity," will take place on Tuesday, March 30 at 9 a.m. [ ] 102924) SMART NEIGHBORHOOD MECHANISMS FOR CHANGE MANAGEMENT By K.S. Venkatram For the Grid Community, the article is a review of the Change Management spectrum defined across my various investment opportunities and interests for profits in Change Management, and planning Business Suites. [ ] 740092 ) HP to Accelerate Adaptive Enterprise Strategy With Acquisition of Novadigm and Consera Software SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 102925) GAME GRID COMPANY RAISES $10 MILLION TO EXPAND SERVICES Butterfly.net, an IBM-backed company aimed at creating an on-demand computing infrastructure for running online games, said it has received another $10 million in funding from supporters including networking equipment giant Cisco Systems. [ ] 102926) DELL SAVES MONEY W/ MICROSOFT SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT SERVER 2003 Dell enhanced its server deployments and saved money by implementing Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003, according to Dell IT executive LaVerne Council, in a keynote speech. [ ] 102927) HP, IDA IN $22M INITIATIVE TO DEVELOP GRID IN SINGAPORE As part of the collaboration, Singapore will become the first Asia-Pacific node in the Global Operational Grid, which is built by a worldwide consortium that counts HP as a member. [ ] 102928) INTRINSYC ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT W/ SAP FOR ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE Under the terms of the contract, SAP will be licensing Intrinsyc's Ja.NET enterprise application bridging software and integrating this with SAP NetWeaver, SAP's open and advanced technology platform for business applications today. [ ] 102929) QLUSTERS ANNOUNCES DAVE MARTIN AS CHAIRMAN, CEO Qlusters Inc, a leader in enterprise cluster management, announced that Dave Martin has joined the company as chairman and CEO. Martin brings with him over 30 years of success in leading Enterprise IT companies and providing strong CEO leadership capabilities. [ ] 102930) SUN DEMOS MASSIVE MULTI-PLAYER JAVA GAME SERVER PROTOTYPE Sun will showcase Java technology for game developers at its booth and kick off a Java Game Developer Contest with approximately $50,000 in prizes donated by the contest sponsors IGN/GameSpy, AMD and Tapwave. [ ] 102931) SUN MICROSYSTEMS, VIGNETTE LEVERAGE JOINT TECHNOLOGIES Sun Microsystems Inc and Vignette Corp announced plans to bring to market a joint collaboration solution to address the specialized needs of medium-sized to large organizations. [ ] 102932) VISUAL MINING ANNOUNCES UNITED DEVICES AS NetCharts CLIENT To shorten development time, United Devices uses Visual Mining's NetCharts Server to fulfill their graphical reporting needs, rather than develop their own reporting and report serving software. [ ] 740094 ) Intel - Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS ==================================================== [ ] 102933) LexisNexis USES CALLIDUS SOFTWARE FOR SALES INCENTIVE MGMT The company performed an extensive selection of many leading EIM solutions and selected Callidus' TrueComp for its combination of scalability, sophistication and flexible architecture. [ ] 102934) COVAD STANDARDIZES ON BEA WebLogic PLATFORM 8.1 Covad, whose broadband network passes 45 million homes and businesses, has been a long-time BEA customer, and has previous versions of BEA WebLogic Server running on more than 120 processors. [ ] 102935) INTERNET COMPUTING FINDS MORE CANCER GROWTH INHIBITORS By using the spare computer time of thousands of PCs connected to the Internet to form a large supercomputer, Find-a-Drug has been able to evaluate the potential of more than 500 million molecules and produce a set of molecules that are predicted to inhibit the growth of various types of cancer cell. [ ] 102936) ESTABLISHED HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION CHOOSES RAINING DATA The combination of Pick Data Provider for .NET and Microsoft technologies provides Landmark Healthcare performance improvements in real-time integration with existing processes and also expands the reach of its application by providing Internet and intranet capabilities. BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 102937) Apreo Announces Workstation PolicyShield [ ] 102938) Certicom Announces Security Builder Crypto-C# For MS .NET PLATFORMS [ ] 102939) Apple Begins Shipping Xserve G5 To Customers [ ] 102940) Appro Server Delivers High-Density, Supercomputing Power NETWORKING [ ] 102941) China Launches Next-Generation Internet [ ] 102942) Cisco Intros Innovations For Catalyst Intelligent Switches [ ] 102943) Coyote Point To Deliver Blade Server Load Balancing Solutions [ ] 102944) Fujitsu Introduces 10GbE Switch Chip W/ 10GBASE-CX4 Support [ ] 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 [ ] 102945) PolyServe Clustering Software Adds Support For Oracle 10g OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 102946) Novell Launches New Version Of SuSe Linux [ ] 102947) Beijing Software Testing Center Joins OSDL [ ] 102948) BitKeeper Doubles Pace Of Linux Development [ ] 102949) Epicor Supports MS Visual Studio 2005, .NET Framework 2.0 [ ] 102950) Novell Ships GroupWise For Linux [ ] 102951) Opsware Expands European, Australian Presence [ ] 102952) Candle Announces Two New PathWAI Solutions [ ] 102953) Winternals Insight For AD Resolves Critical Failures GENERAL [ ] 102954) Red Hat Linux To Ship With IBM POWER Systems QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 102919) "I think it's not good to have competing activities driving or developing standards, because it confuses the market and dilutes the value of the work." -- Charlie Catlett, Chair, Global Grid Forum JOB BANK =================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] 710) *Australian National University, 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 ================================================= [ ] 102875) IBM, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON BUILD 'ICONIC GRID' [ ] 102880) UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, IBM TO BUILD LARGEST CAMPUS GRID [ ] 102873) NOTE FROM CHARLIE CATLETT AT GGF10 [ ] 102876) OPEN SOURCE AND JBOSS: A THREAT TO TOP VENDORS? [ ] 102883) $48 MILLION COMPUTING COMPLEX AVAILABLE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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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