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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: [ ] 103471) GRIDBUS HEAD GETS StorageTek GRID FELLOWSHIP [ ] 103475) ORACLE LOOKS TO DRIVE INDUSTRY SUCCESS OF GRID COMPUTING [ ] 103485) Voltaire Advances High Performance Storage For Grid Computing [ ] 740103 ) Managing Complexity: Distributed Systems Management at Intel SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 103471) GRIDBUS HEAD GETS StorageTek GRID FELLOWSHIP Rajkumar Buyya, currently head of the Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne's computer science department, was named the first StorageTek Fellow of Grid Computing. [ ] 103472) U.S., EU MEET TO EXPLORE GRID EXPANSION INITIATIVES The European Union has already been working to spread Grid networking endeavors. Their high-speed research and education network, GEANT, is spreading to Asia, the Balkans, Latin America, the Mediterranean and Russia via the use of shared Grid resources. [ ] 103473) McNealy KEYNOTE POINTS TO MAJOR SUCCESS FOR JAVA, THRASHES IBM Sun Microsystems opened day two of its ninth annual JavaOne software conference with a keynote by Scott McNealy, Sun's chairman and CEO. McNealy focused mainly on the worldwide acceptance and use of Java, but did take time to send a message to IBM. [ ] 740104 ) Extreme Performance: Get the new Sun Fire V20z server with AMD Opteron SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 103474) ALTAIR LAUNCHES ONLINE MESSAGE BOARD FOR GRID CUSTOMERS Altair announced the launch of iExchange to its registered clients on June 18 and describes the online message board center as "the communication infrastructure needed to nurture the growth of global community forums for CAE and Grid computing software users." [ ] 103475) ORACLE LOOKS TO DRIVE INDUSTRY SUCCESS OF GRID COMPUTING Oracle welcomed over 1,000 new and existing independent software vendor (ISV) partners to the first Oracle PartnerNetwork ISV Forum designed to help them speed industry solution development, and marketing and sales success. [ ] 740107 ) HPTC Grid Computing HP - Taking Distributed Computing to the Next Level APPLICATIONS =============================================================== [ ] 103476) SUN SELECTS DATADIRECT TO ENHANCE JAVA SYSTEM APPLICATION SERVER Sun and DataDirect Technologies are working together to evaluate other areas within Sun's business that could benefit from implementing DataDirect Connect for JDBC. [ ] 103477) INRA DEPLOYS NINE-SITE inSORS ACCESS GRID SYSTEM The Inland Northwest Research Alliance (INRA) recently purchased nine 8-Port Cubes, an Access Grid appliance, for all of its member locations. INRA also deployed an Enterprise Manager/Virtual Venue server and an IG "Archive and Live" Recorder server. [ ] 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 BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 103478) Forum, Solea Com To Expand WS Security Reach To Europe [ ] 103479) Teros, Netegrity Partner To Integrate ID Mgmt, App Security PLATFORMS [ ] 103480) Fujitsu, MS To Deliver Mainframe Capability On Open Platforms [ ] 103481) Verari To Offer New Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology Systems [ ] 103482) VMware Delivers Open Interface To Virtual Infrastructure NETWORKING [ ] 103483) Voltaire Joins IBM TotalStorage Proven Program [ ] 103484) UPenn Deploys Nortel Optical Platform To Support Internet2 STORAGE [ ] 103485) Voltaire Advances High Performance Storage For Grid Computing OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 103486) ObjectWeb To Federate Open Source ESB [ ] 103487) Oracle To Make 10g Available To Apple Developers [ ] 103488) Borland Expands J2EE Application Performance Optimization [ ] 103489) Sun Launches Comprehensive SOA Initiative [ ] 103490) Neogent Joins Sun iForce Partner Community [ ] 103491) ObjectFX Completes Oracle 10g Integration Requirements [ ] 103492) OSDL Creates New College, University Affiliate Program [ ] 103493) Sun Intros Most Significant, Advanced Java Release In 5 Years [ ] 103494) Apple Previews Mac OS X 'Tiger' [ ] 103495) VERITAS App Performance Mgmt Supports Java Enterprise System GENERAL [ ] 103496) Altair Engineering CEO Named 2004 Entrepreneur Of The Year [ ] 103497) Broad Industry Support Announced For SOA Blueprints [ ] 103498) Callidus Appoints David Pratt As Interim President, CEO [ ] 103499) DCML Working Group Specifications To Be Released In Fall [ ] 103500) Webify Director To Keynote 2004 IEEE Int'l Conference On WS QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 103473) "From Michigan to Mars, the Java community has really made its mark over the past 12 months, and the next year promises to be even more aggressive." -- Scott McNealy, Chairman/CEO, Sun Microsystems JOB BANK =================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] 710) Altair, *Center for Advanced Computing Research, Fujitsu Laboratories, HP, *Innovative Computing Laboratory, Intel, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, *Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Platform, United Devices, 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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