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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) Solution IN THIS ISSUE: [ ] 103263) GRID: A WORK IN PROGRESS WITH $4B POTENTIAL [ ] 103264) MCNC, ALREADY A GGF MEMBER, JOINS ENTERPRISE GRID ALLIANCE [ ] 103272) VOLTAIRE LENDS SUPPORT TO CERN GRID PROJECT [ ] 740101) Grid Computing Solutions Run on Intel(R) Architecture-based Platforms Visit the Internet Cafe at Gt'04, Booth #213 SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 103263) GRID: A WORK IN PROGRESS WITH $4B POTENTIAL By Derrick Harris, Editor GRIDtoday recently sat down with HP's marketing manager for Grid computing, Sara Murphy, to find out how more about managing Grid computing expectations, and to find out what Grid projects HP is working on. [ ] 103264) MCNC, ALREADY A GGF MEMBER, JOINS ENTERPRISE GRID ALLIANCE MCNC's goal is to work with members of the organizations to help establish a mutually beneficial relationship between the Global Grid Forum standards organization and the commercial-focused Enterprise Grid Alliance. [ ] 103265) BUSINESS WEEK NAMES SDSC'S BERMAN TOP WOMAN OF TECHNOLOGY San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) Director Fran Berman has been named one of the top women in technology by the editors of Business Week magazine. Berman is featured along with seven other elite women in the technology industry including Susan Bostrom of Cisco and Lorrie Norrington of Intuit. [ ] 103266) TurboWorx CEO: BUSINESS CONSIDERATIONS TO DRIVE GRID DESIGN In an interview with GRIDtoday, TurboWorx President and CEO Jeff Augen discusses, among other things, the formation of the difficulties surrounding commercial Grid computing and what the future holds for Grid technology. [ ] 740102) See DataDirect Networks Storage Networking solutions for Grid at Gt'04 Booth 500 SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 103267) DASSAULT AVIATION JOINS ObjectWeb CONSORTIUM Dassault Aviation, a leader in top-of-the-line business jets, has joined ObjectWeb, a consortium of leading companies and research organizations from around the world that have joined forces to produce advanced components for distributed software infrastructures. [ ] 103268) GE FINANCIAL WINS AWARD FOR USE OF GRID TECHNOLOGY Grid computing has helped the company achieve a 10-fold improvement in cycle time for complex actuarial models. [ ] 103269) IDC: WEB SERVICES-BASED PROFESSIONAL SERVICES MKT HEATING UP According to this study, services firms report significant increases in the number of projects, in project complexity, and in the penetration of Web services in their every day services activities. [ ] 103270) GRID SPEEDS UP RISK ANALYTICS IN NEW SOLUTION Full risk analytics on complex option portfolios with 2,000 trades can now be performed in less than 30 seconds. These improvements enable clients to manage global, cross-asset class books containing volume vanilla instruments and structured products in real time, 24-7. [ ] 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 SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS ==================================================== [ ] 103271) BASE ONE RELEASES TOOLS FOR BUILDING COMMERCIAL GRID APPS This version of its programmer's toolkit extends its successful software for building Windows cluster and Grid computing applications with Visual C++ to support the other main .NET programming languages: C#, Visual Basic.NET and ASP.NET. [ ] 103272) VOLTAIRE LENDS SUPPORT TO CERN GRID PROJECT The InfiniBand technology from Voltaire was chosen for CERN openlab because it provides the CERN opencluster interconnects with four essential features: low latency, very high bandwidth, low CPU overhead and powerful connectivity to storage. [ ] 103273) OnLine ToolWorks ANNOUNCES GENERAL RELEASE OF SmartBatch 2004 With the Enterprise Edition of SmartBatch 2004, customers can leverage idle computing resources with a load-balancing application Grid. Any computer in the Grid can be sent application activity. [ ] 103274) webMethods CUSTOMERS MOVE AWAY FROM PROPRIETARY APP SERVERS The use of open source application server technologies continues to grow and take market share away from traditional proprietary application server vendors. For example, the JBoss open-source application server is experiencing high customer demand. [ ] 740100) Sun Microsystems Helps Found The Enterprise Grid Alliance As Blue-Chip Technology Companies Drive Adoption Of Grid Computing BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 103275) New Book Lays Down Basics Of Web Services Security [ ] 103276) XML Firewall Secures SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft Web Services PLATFORMS [ ] 103277) Developer Resources For IBM Power Architecture Now Available [ ] 103278) Verari Offers Latest Opterons Across Server, Workstation Lines NETWORKING [ ] 103279) Ammasso Unveils RDMA-Enabled Ethernet Server Adapter [ ] 103280) Coridan Releases Early Access Version Of DMF [ ] 103281) Sun Appoints John Fowler As EVP Of Network Systems [ ] 103282) L-3's RedEagle KG-240 Receives NSA Certification [ ] 740096) HP -- Grid Computing: IT outside the box STORAGE [ ] 103283) ZANTAZ Grid-Based Archiving Solution Wins Award OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 103284) BEA 'Beehive' To Accelerate Java Adoption [ ] 103285) Server Developer, Security, Services Provider Bull Joins OSDL [ ] 103286) Marist College To Open OSDL Linux Research Site GENERAL [ ] 103287) Callidus Increases Commitment To TruePerformance Solution [ ] 103288) Paremus Contributes To Enterprise Grid Alliance QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 103264) "With a keen focus on the implementation of standards in vendor products to ensure interoperability among competitors, we consider the Enterprise Grid Alliance to be complementary to the current Global Grid Forum work." -- Wolfgang Gentzsch, Managing Director Of Grid, MCNC JOB BANK =================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] 710) Bycast Inc, *C&C Research Laboratories/NEC Europe Ltd, *Computer Sciences Corporation, HP, Intel, *Louisiana State University, Raytheon Company Army Research Laboratory, *Swiss Center for Scientific Computing, 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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