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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: [ ] 103171) INT'L TEAM GETS BIG RESULTS WITH TeraGrid [ ] 103174) EXECUTIVES EMPHASIZE NEED FOR PERVASIVE INTEROPERABILITY [ ] 103181) UNITED DEVICES UNVEILS DYNAMIC GRID INFRASTRUCTURE SUITE [ ] 740101 ) G E T U N W I R E D INTERNET CAFE at Gt04 Sponsored by INTEL SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 103171) ANGLO-AMERICAN TEAM GETS BIG RESULTS WITH TeraGrid In a three-month project centered on the Supercomputing 2003 conference last November in Phoenix, a Boston-U.K. team of scientists linked more than 6,000 processors and 17 teraflops of computing at six different facilities on two continents. [ ] 103172) EXPLORING THE MANY AVENUES FOR BUSINESS CONTINUITY Techniques for business continuity, which have basically consisted of high availability mechanisms and real-time data replications, may soon be radically affected with the advent of various new technologies. [ ] 103173) CCT HPC MANAGER ON THE OUTLOOK FOR LINUX CLUSTERS By Derrick Harris, Assistant Editor GRIDtoday interviews Brian Ropers-Huilman, CCT's HPC manager, about the current state and future of Linux clusters and their place in HPC. [ ] 103174) EXECUTIVES EMPHASIZE NEED FOR PERVASIVE INTEROPERABILITY At The Open Group's Spring 2004 conference, "Boundaryless Information Flow: Managing the Flow," industry and government executives discussed the challenges of information management and emphasized the need for pervasive interoperability and a holistic approach. [ ] 103175) 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. [ ] 740100 ) Sun Microsystems Helps Found The Enterprise Grid Alliance As Blue-Chip Technology Companies Drive Adoption Of Grid Computing SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 103177) ACXIOM NAMED AMERICAN BUSINESS AWARDS FINALIST Acxiom is one of six finalists in the "Most Innovative Company" category. Entries are judged on specific accomplishments within the category, related to past performance and industry standards. Other finalists in the category include UPS, Humana Inc, and Memphis Light, Gas and Water. [ ] 103178) AIGT, LEHMAN BROTHERS ENTER INTO MULTI-YEAR AGREEMENT Based on a utility computing model, the engagement calls for the migration and consolidation of Lehman Brothers' operating environment to AIGT's Livingston, N.J., data center and ongoing management of the firm's back-office operations. [ ] 103179) EGENERA BladeFrame AVAILABLE ON immixTechnology GSA SCHEDULE Under this agreement, immixTechnology will help to facilitate the government procurement process and accelerate the sale of Egenera solutions to the public sector. [ ] 103180) IPVoice COMMUNICATIONS INTENDS TO ACQUIRE NETSCO SERVICES NETSCO would become an integral part of the IPVoice Homeland Security strategy by combining with Digital Computer Integration Corp (DCI), a majority-owned subsidiary of IPVoice. [ ] 103181) UNITED DEVICES UNVEILS DYNAMIC GRID INFRASTRUCTURE SUITE These new offerings stand to dramatically improve utilization and performance of new and existing compute assets as well as deepen the company's penetration into large, distributed enterprise computing. [ ] 740099) THREE NEW, GROUNDBREAKING, ECONOMIC GRID REPORTS RELEASED 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 APPLICATIONS =============================================================== [ ] 103182) BEA, MOTIVE PARTNER TO HELP REDUCE COMPLEXITY IN APP MGMT Motive plans to incorporate BEA WebLogic Server in the company's next-generation management products. By leveraging BEA's unified, simplified and extensible infrastructure platform, Motive customers can more easily integrate Motive applications into their existing BEA WebLogic environments. [ ] 103183) TACC RELEASES GridPort VERSION 3.0 The new features include improvements to GridPort architecture, administration client, demo portal and enhanced GridPort usability. [ ] 103184) UNIVERSITY OF YORK INSTALLS VITA NUOVA'S INFERNO GRID The Inferno Grid will be used to support distributed computation for sequence matching using BLAST and biomolecular simulations using CHARMM (Chemistry at Harvard Molecular Mechanics). [ ] 103185) MKS TOOLKIT EASES PORTING UNIX CODE, SCRIPTS TO 64-BIT WINDOWS Enterprise customers and ISVs now have a single solution that will allow them to migrate both 32-bit and 64-bit UNIX/Linux applications for deployment on 64-bit Windows platforms. [ ] 103186) PLATFORM ACCELERATES PRODUCT QUALITY, SAFETY FOR ENTERPRISES Platform Computing announced a global Industrial Manufacturing Acceleration Center and new Grid-enabled solutions to help manufacturing, automotive and aerospace customers enable their infrastructures and applications for Grid computing. [ ] 103187) POINDEXTER ADDS UTILITY COMPUTING TO POE OPTIMIZATION SUITE SmartServe is the company's innovative technology that provides trafficking, campaign management and detailed reporting by leveraging the concept of utility computing. [ ] 740096 ) HP -- Grid Computing: IT outside the box BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 103188) Aventail, WholeSecurity To Provide Endpoint Security [ ] 103189) IMERYS Selects SilverBack IT, Security Monitoring Software [ ] 103190) Arrest Made In United Kingdom "Phishing" Case [ ] 103191) Security Takes Lead In Red Hat Enterprise Linux [ ] 103192) SafeNet Luna SA Hardware Security Module Supports Oracle 10g [ ] 103193) Sygate Attracts Former Cisco Security Leader PLATFORMS [ ] 103194) Standards-Based HP Integrity Servers Up To 128 Processors [ ] 103195) StarNet Launches 64-Bit PC X Server For Opteron Systems [ ] 103196) Tarari Lays Out Roadmap For XML Silicon Products [ ] 103198) Transmeta Efficeon Processor Enables JM-net Blade Server NETWORKING [ ] 103199) Alacritech Samples Small, Powerful Multi-Port Gigabit TOE ASIC [ ] 103200) Bintec Ships New VPN Access Line [ ] 103201) CENIC Initiative Can Speed Broadband Deployment Nationally [ ] 103202) Foundry Establishes IPv6 Leadership [ ] 103203) Force10 Networks To Showcase 10GbE Technology During N+I [ ] 103204) INS Releases NetControl 2.0 for Next Generation IP Management [ ] 103205) Overture Awarded Patents For Breakthrough In Circuit Emulation [ ] 103206) Packeteer Demonstrates Benefits Of App Traffic Management [ ] 103207) University Of Oregon Deploys Procket PRO/8801 Router [ ] 103208) Siemens Intros HiPath 8000 Real-Time IP System [ ] 103209) 3Com Scales Up Network Management Application Suite STORAGE [ ] 103210) HP Delivers Solution Based On Industry-First 'Storage Grid' OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 103211) Oracle 10g Sets World Record [ ] 103212) Hybrid Kernel Boosts Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 [ ] 103213) Seagull Software Reports New Major Shareholders [ ] 103214) StarNet Launches Free Linux Tech Support Service [ ] 103215) Virtual Global Releases TeamIntel 2004i [ ] 103216) Burlington Selects Topspin For Server Virtualization [ ] 103217) Tridium, QNX Announce OEM Agreement [ ] 103218) VERITAS Launches New Products And Services [ ] 103219) Insights Into Insight For Active Directory GENERAL [ ] 103220) CENIC CEO, President Resigns To Lead National LambdaRail [ ] 103221) Finisar To Acquire Infineon Fiber Optics Business [ ] 103222) Foundry Expands Mgmt Team With Addition Of New Sales VP [ ] 103223) Glimmerglass Chooses MEMSCAP For Products Manufacturing [ ] 103224) Packeteer Appoints New Vice President Of Marketing [ ] 103225) New, Existing Customers Bump up Speedera's Revenue QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 103181) "Unlike the academic and public-sector scientific world, commercial implementations of Grid are overwhelmingly done using software products from young, innovative companies whose products power successful enterprise Grid applications today." -- Carl Claunch, Vice President of Research, Gartner JOB BANK =================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] 710) Bycast Inc, HP, Intel, *Raytheon Company Army Research Laboratory, 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. LAST WEEK'S TOP 5 ARTICLES ================================================= [ ] 103120) CONCLUSION: 7 STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL GRID COMPUTING [ ] 103124) GETTING A DIRECTION IN THE SEA OF GRID [ ] 103122) IBM, MICROSOFT CONSPICUOUSLY ABSENT FROM EGA [ ] 103121) INTERVIEW WITH DELL'S CLUSTERING DIRECTOR [ ] 103118) RECENT SURVEY IDENTIFIES MOST INFLUENTIAL GRID JOURNALISTS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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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