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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: [ ] 103400) IBM READIES FOR $12B GRID MARKET BY 2007 [ ] 103394) GIMPS PROJECT DISCOVERS NEW LARGEST KNOWN PRIME NUMBER [ ] 103404) Gridbus PROJECT TO RELEASE GridSim TOOLKIT 3.0 [ ] 740105 ) HP Technical Report Grid Services for Data Center Resource Reservation SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 103394) GIMPS PROJECT DISCOVERS NEW LARGEST KNOWN PRIME NUMBER Josh Findley, a volunteer in the Mersenne.org research project called the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), has discovered the largest known prime number. He used his home PC and free softwar as part of an international Grid of 240,000 networked computers in virtually every time zone of the world. [ ] 103395) ACCESS GRID HELPS HIGH SCHOOLERS LEARN SUPERCOMPUTING SKILLS Four Washington, D.C.-area high school students will gain hands-on training and experience with high performance computing through a unique summer program offered by the Joint Educational Facilities (JEF) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). [ ] 103396) EARLY LBNL GRID EXPERIMENT, VIRTUAL FROG, STILL A WEB STAPLE While the Virtual Frog has remained virtually unchanged over the past decade, the research behind the site has advanced by leaps and bounds, leading to Berkeley Lab's prominent role in the development of Grid technologies. [ ] 740103 ) Managing Complexity: Distributed Systems Management at Intel SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 103397) AKAMAI DELIVERS FOR LEADING SOUTH AMERICAN E-TAILERS The Akamai EdgeSuite service enables businesses to avoid the cost of building out their own infrastructure to support end-user traffic demands, choosing rather to rely on Akamai's secure global platform to distribute their Web content and applications. [ ] 103398) CALLIDUS, IBM DELIVER COMPENSATION SOLUTIONS TO PHARMA INDUSTRY The companies will jointly market the Callidus TrueComp solution to help pharmaceutical and life sciences customers accelerate Enterprise Incentive Management implementations, making use of IBM's e-business on demand infrastructure and Callidus' rules-based Grid architecture that provides scalability on-demand. [ ] 103399) HP GIVES CIOs 'CONTROL POINT' FOR MANAGING ADAPTIVE ENTERPRISE Combining new software, recently acquired technologies and innovative professional services, HP has created a customer-oriented portfolio focused on four core solution areas: Business Management, IT Service Management, Application Management and Infrastructure Management. [ ] 103400) IBM READIES FOR $12B GRID MARKET BY 2007 IBM announced that seven leading application software developers, including Citrix, Cognos and Engineous Software, have completed work with IBM to ready their applications for Grid computing. [ ] 103401) GENALYTICS, PLATFORM COMPUTING FORM JOINT PARTNERSHIP As part of this joint agreement, business analysts can now analyze data and create more accurate predictive models in less time within a Grid computing environment. [ ] 103402) POWERLLEL RAISES $5.6M IN FIRST ROUND OF VENTURE FUNDING Powerllel provides solutions for accelerating the performance of applications by adapting them to run in a parallel and distributed computing environment. Powerllel reduces the development time, costs and risks associated with implementing distributed and parallel computing solutions. [ ] 740106 ) HELP DEFINE THE FUTURE OF GRID Take a 5 Minute Survey and Get a Free Market Overview A $250 VALUE Summary Results Will Be Published in GRIDtoday SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS ==================================================== [ ] 103403) VITA NUOVA SUPPLIES INFERNO GRID TO EVOTEC OAI Evotec OAI is using the Inferno Grid to further speed up the drug discovery process. Around 250 of the company's PCs are connected to the Grid so that their spare computing cycles can be put to profitable use; a further 150 computers will be added in the near future. [ ] 103404) Gridbus PROJECT TO RELEASE GridSim TOOLKIT 3.0 The Gridbus Project at the University of Melbourne, Australia has released the next-version of Grid simulation software, the GridSim 3.0 toolkit with support for advanced reservation of resources. [ ] 103405) RUTGERS LIBRARIES INSTALL INFERNO DATA GRID TO SUPPORT CETH CETH has a large number of original texts and translations relating to the works of Aristotle and other early philosophers. This data is located on a collection of Linux machines but is accessed by lecturers and researchers, for the main part, from Windows PCs. [ ] 740104 ) Extreme Performance: Get the new Sun Fire V20z server with AMD Opteron BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 103406) Blade Fusion Joins Aladdin Secured Solution Partner Program [ ] 103407) eEye, BigFix To Provide Solution For Enterprise Networks [ ] 103408) RLX Raises Bar With Release Of Server Management Suite [ ] 103409) Sana Security, Service Integrity To Offer Web Services Security PLATFORMS [ ] 103410) Actional Unveils Next Phase Of SOA Management Offerings [ ] 103411) CrownPeak Intros On-Demand Content App Development Platform [ ] 103412) Intel ESAA Cuts Costly Red Tape For Server OEMs [ ] 103413) Oki, BEA Deliver Converged IT, Telecommunications Platform NETWORKING [ ] 103414) Chinese Cable Company To Acquire 21,000-Mile Fiber Optic Network [ ] 103415) MCI, CIENA, Mintera Demo Ultra Long-Haul Connection At 40 Gbps [ ] 103416) Network Associates Unveils Next-Generation Network, Host IPS STORAGE [ ] 103417) Acopia Switches Offer Global Management Of Unstructured Data [ ] 103418) Acxiom Grid Innovation Wins 'Radical Data Warehousing' Award [ ] 103419) EqualLogic Delivers 10,000 rpm In iSCSI Storage Array OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 103420) Acucorp, Oracle Ease Migration From Legacy To Open Platforms [ ] 103421) SCO UnixWare 7.1.4 Offers Enhanced Security, Web Services [ ] 103422) UXComm Announces AutonomIQ For Utility Management [ ] 103423) Wyse Enhances Linux-Based Thin Clients GENERAL [ ] 103424) Callidus Appoints David Pratt To Board Of Directors [ ] 103425) Fujitsu, WfMC To Demo Business Process Interoperability [ ] 103426) HP Reaches Milestone, Sells 100,000 Blade Servers [ ] 103427) Ellison Points To Grid As Reason For Strong Fourth Quarter [ ] 103428) Tarari Achieves $13.8 Million In Series B Funding [ ] 103429) Digital Harbor Joins W3C QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 103396) "The Virtual Frog was a direct result of our early work in wide-area distributed computing and visualization. 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