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For subscription information, email gridfree@gridtoday.com All comments regarding content should be sent to: grideditor@gridtoday.com -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 740098 ) ALTIX(TM) FAMILY OF SERVERS AND SUPERCLUSTERS SGI Combines the Industry Leading Performance Of the Intel(TM) Itanium(TM) 2 Processor With a Production-Class Linux(TM) Soltion IN THIS ISSUE: [ ] 103084) 10 APPLICATIONS POWERED BY GRID COMPUTING [ ] 103079) GRID RENAISSANCE: INTERVIEW W/ ALAN BLATECKY [ ] 103082) NEW ALLIANCE TO DRIVE ADOPTION OF GRID IN ENTERPRISES [ ] 740097 ) Intel - Deploying Hardware and Software in a Large Enterprise SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 103079) GRID RENAISSANCE: INTERVIEW W/ ALAN BLATECKY By Alan Beck, Editor-In-Chief On the heels of his leaving SDSC for RENCI (see orignal GRIDtoday article at http://www.tgc.com/breaking/1738.html), Alan Blatecky talks with Alan Beck about the reasons for his departure and his views on the future of Grid computing, among other topics. [ ] 103080) GRID ATTACKS RAISE CONCERNS AMONG SECURITY EXPERTS Security experts are concerned over recent attacks on Grid-based supercomputers at colleges, universities and research institutions which have resulted in online network research crashes. Can these machines now be used to infiltrate certain Web sites or parts of the Internet? [ ] 103081) DAMIEN COORDINATOR DISCUSSES APPLYING GRID TO INDUSTRY Specialized design problems can require massive computing efforts. Middleware tools to harness the power of Grid computing have been proven to work in real industrial applications, through the work of IST project DAMIEN. [ ] 103082) NEW ALLIANCE TO DRIVE ADOPTION OF GRID IN ENTERPRISES The initial Enterprise Grid Alliance Board includes EMC, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, HP, Intel, NEC, Network Appliance, Oracle and Sun Microsystems. Other founding members are AMD, Ascential Software, Cassatt, Citrix, Data Synapse, Enigmatec, Force 10 Networks, Novell, Optena, Paremus and Topspin. [ ] 103083) GGF RESPONSE TO ENTERPRISE GRID ALLIANCE Now that EGA has been formally announced, GGF is having discussions with EGA to determine how to best collaborate in the best interest of the Grid community, in both industry and research sectors. [ ] 103084) 10 APPLICATIONS POWERED BY GRID COMPUTING By Brooklin J. Gore, Senior Fellow, Micron Technology Inc This report, along with two other new, groundbreaking Grid reports from IDC and the Economic Strategy Institute will be released at Gt'04 and included with conference registration. www.gridtoday.com/04/conference/index.html [ ] 103085) GridTalk: AN AUDIO INTERVIEW WITH JANE PATTERSON By Marc Strassman Jane Patterson is the executive director of the North Carolina Rural Internet Access Authority. In this role, she has been instrumental and effective in the process of expanding broadband Internet access into underserved and often isolated parts of her state. [ ] 103086) 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. [ ] 103087) SHANKAR NAMED TeraGrid SITE LEAD FOR INDIANA UNIVERSITY In his new capacity, Shankar will facilitate the integration of IU's substantial computing, massive data storage, visualization and networking resources, as well as a number of IU's world-class scientific data repositories, into the TeraGrid. [ ] 103088) DEFINING A CONCEPT FOR EXTENDING NETWORK SYSTEMS, SERVICES By K.S. Venkatram In this article, I will proceed with the related Nth'Connection Core Engineering, Interaction with Open Universal Technology Stations/Servers, effectiveness in working with remote services and systems. [ ] 103089) AKAMAI COMPETING WITH GOOGLE? Akamai, a small company that went public in November 1999 with the fourth most successful IPO ever, is utilizing a large network of computers to possibly compete with Google. [ ] 740099 ) THREE NEW, GROUNDBREAKING GRID REPORTS RELEASES Three New, Groundbreaking Grid Reports from IDC, Economic Strategy Institute and Micron Technologies to be Released at Gt'04 and will be included with conference registration. http://www.gridtoday.com SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 103090) ASRC BROADENS COMMITMENT TO CORIO APPLICATIONS ON DEMAND Corio Development is a pay-as-you-go, on demand service to support enterprise application development projects. Corio Development delivers a secure, fully patched infrastructure "sandbox" environment in as little as five days. [ ] 103091) EGENERA, 3PAR DELIVER UTILITY COMPUTING FOR DATA CENTERS The relationship between Egenera and 3PAR capitalizes on the IT trend toward utility computing infrastructures within the data centers of large enterprises and service providers. [ ] 103092) McNealy ON MICROSOFT: 'THEY'RE BIG.' By Derrick Harris, Assistant Editor Sun chairman and CEO Scott McNealy used this week's Sun iForce Partner Summit to discuss some recent changes at the company, including Sun's newly formed partnership with rival Microsoft and the appointment of Jonathan Schwartz to the position of president and chief operating officer. [ ] 103093) SUN HELPS HUNDREDS OF CUSTOMERS UNLEASH VALUE FROM INNOVATION From major financial enterprises such as Charles Schwab and Toyota Financial Services to leading health care companies such as McKesson Corp and BAYER Healthcare AG, organizations throughout across numerous industries are benefiting from Sun's open, secure and price performant systems. [ ] 103094) VERITAS CMO WAXES TECHNICAL ON ENABLING UTILITY COMPUTING In a persuasive keynote at the International Oracle Users Group conference, Jeremy Burton outlined a roadmap for extending the power of Oracle databases across the enterprise utilizing the full range of VERITAS utility computing software building blocks. [ ] 740100 ) Sun Microsystems Helps Found The Enterprise Grid Alliance As Blue-Chip Technology Companies Drive Adoption Of Grid Computing APPLICATIONS =============================================================== [ ] 103095) JetBrains LAUNCHES EARLY ACCESS PROGRAM FOR IntelliJ FABRIQUE JetBrains Fabrique is a Rapid Application Development framework for creating custom Web and enterprise applications. With powerful new tools and extensive available libraries and components, Fabrique dramatically speeds development of J2EE applications. [ ] 103096) TCP LINDA NOW AVAILABLE FOR WINDOWS TCP Linda gives users without expertise or training in parallel programming the ability to build new parallel applications or to "parallelize" existing sequential applications easily and intuitively. [ ] 103097) OSRM CLAIMS LINUX FREE OF COPYRIGHT ABUSE Open Source Risk Management (OSRM), set up by lawyer and venture capitalist Daniel Egger, plans to offer standard product liability insurance to major Linux vendors, big corporate users and individual developers of Linux. [ ] 103098) SUN HELPS DEFINE NEXT GENERATION OF WEB SERVICES With a small-footprint J2EE platform suitable for broad adoption and embedding in third-party systems and applications, the Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8 brings J2EE 1.4 technology into volume markets. [ ] 740096 ) HP -- Grid Computing: IT outside the box BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 103099) New Product Enables Management Of Local Group Policy Objects [ ] 103100) Security Task Force Recommends Standards-Based Solutions [ ] 103101) Company Awarded $337M For Homeland Security Data Network [ ] 103102) Parasoft SOAPtest 2.6 Supports WS-Security [ ] 103103) Core Internet Technology Vulnerable, Experts Say PLATFORMS [ ] 103104) AMD64 Design Team Honored As Innovators Of The Year NETWORKING [ ] 103105) BellSouth Provides Additional Data Transport Capabilities [ ] 103106) S2io, Caltech, CERN, Microsoft Set Internet2 Land Speed Record [ ] 103107) Silicom Announces New Product Line STORAGE [ ] 103108) Insider Analyzes Storage Virtualization OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 103109) S2 Systems Uses CocoBase Enterprise O/R To DriveOpeN/2 Support [ ] 103110) Middleware Company, DevelopMentor Form Community Alliance [ ] 103111) NorduGrid Middleware Released GENERAL [ ] 103112) Virtual Reality Class Highlights Collaborative Technology [ ] 103113) e-Suds Goes Into Full Implementation At Carnegie Mellon [ ] 103114) Japanese Systems Integrator Ten Art-ni Joins OSDL [ ] 103115) Qlusters Retains Michelle Arden As Executive Consultant [ ] 103116) SC Global Seeking To Bridge Communities Through Presentations [ ] 103117) Users Of GridIron X-Factor Plug-In See Dramatic Improvements QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 103082) "Comprised of a remarkable group of technology companies, the EGA was formed to accelerate the adoption of Grid computing in the enterprise." -- Donald Deutsch, President, Enterprise Grid Alliance JOB BANK =================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] 710) Australian National University, Bycast Inc, Cray, HP, *Intel, Platform, Tech-X Corp, *United Devices (2), University of Nebraska, 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. 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