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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: [ ] 103709) THE GRID: DEFINING THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET (Part 3 of 3) [ ] 103717) GRIDBUS RELEASES ALCHEMI [.NET ENTERPRISE GRID FRAMEWORK] v0.8.0 [ ] 103712) UNITED DEVICES GRANTED INTERNET GRID SEARCH PATENT [ ] 740104 ) Extreme Performance: Get the new Sun Fire V20z server with AMD Optero SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 103709) THE GRID: DEFINING THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET (Part 3 of 3) By Wolfgang Gentzsch, MCNC Grid Computing & Networking Services In the final installment of the series, Wolfgang Gentzsch discusses the many benefits of Grid technology, both micro and macro. Other topics discussed include agents of change, what comes next and how Grid computing will affect our future. [ ] 103711) NEC TO ESTABLISH GRID PROMOTION CENTER IN JAPAN NEC is aiming for a 30 percent share of the Japanese Grid computing market by 2008, which the company expects to swell 25 times to approximately $4.59 billion (500 billion yen) by then. [ ] 103712) UNITED DEVICES GRANTED INTERNET GRID SEARCH PATENT Using Grid computing techniques and leading search algorithms together could produce the most up to date indexes while allowing all media types to be included in search results. [ ] 740115) Who's Boosting Opteron Performance at AMD, IBM and Sun? That would be us. Who's Ready for a FREE Trial? Thant would be you. Try our PathScale EKO Compiler FREE for 30 days. SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 103713) CHORUS SYSTEMS JOINS IBM AUTONOMIC COMPUTING INITIATIVE This partnership allows Chorus Systems to leverage the autonomic capabilities within IBM products while helping to develop new technologies that advance the cause of autonomic computing. [ ] 103714) NEW MetiLinx CONNECTOR ENABLES REAL-TIME UTILITY COMPUTING This updated version of the MetiLinx Connector extends MOM 2005 to virtualize and unify heterogeneous server and partition environments, giving customers the platform for real-time utility computing. [ ] 103715) PLUMTREE UNVEILS NINE CUSTOMER CASE STUDIES The white paper shares how one Plumtree customer achieved a return on investment (ROI) of 564 percent on a set of expert location and collaboration applications, how another saved $4 million a year in communications costs with a dealer dashboard application. [ ] 103716) THOR-LO SELECTS CORIO APPLICATIONS ON DEMAND Corio Applications on Demand is a service that delivers enterprise applications from leading independent software vendors. Customers "pay-as-you-go" and avoid expensive upfront project and infrastructure costs. [ ] 740114 ) HP -- Making the Utility Data Center a Power Station for the Enterprise Grid SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS ==================================================== [ ] 103717) GRIDBUS RELEASES ALCHEMI [.NET ENTERPRISE GRID FRAMEWORK] v0.8.0 Alchemi is an enterprise Grid computing framework for Windows built using .NET with the primary goal of being easy to use. It provides the runtime machinery to construct a high-throughput enterprise Grid environment out of underutilized desktops, and a programming environment to develop Grid applications. [ ] 103718) GROMACS BIOCHEMICAL SOFTWARE PORTED TO ClearSpeed PROCESSOR ClearSpeed's unique parallel architecture is designed to dramatically accelerate floating-point processing, enabling supercomputing capabilities on affordable platforms including clusters and workstations. [ ] 103719) PYTHON/GLOBUS TOOLS SPEED UP DEVELOPMENT OF DATA GRID FOR LIGO LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, is a facility dedicated to detecting cosmic gravitational waves -- ripples in the fabric of space and time -- and interpreting these waves to provide a more complete picture of the universe. [ ] 103720) R-GMA INCLUDED IN LATEST LCG RELEASE LCG recently announced a new release of their Grid Software, LCG-2_2_0, which now includes the R-GMA (Relational Grid Monitoring Architecture) middleware. R-GMA is important for a number of experiments that will use it for monitoring their jobs and for the new LCG accounting infrastructure. [ ] 740113 ) Intel -- Grid Computing Harnesses the Power of Multitudes BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 103721) Demarc Launches Sentarus Threat Management Software [ ] 103722) SPI Dynamics, GuardedNet To Provide Integrated Solution [ ] 103723) SSH Joins HP Group To Provide Integrated Enterprise Security [ ] 103724) ViaSat KG-250 IP Network Encryptor Receives NSA Certification PLATFORMS [ ] 103725) Intelligent Light FIELDVIEW 10 Expands 64-Bit Platform Support NETWORKING [ ] 103726) Cisco's Strengths, Weaknesses Exposed In Router Market Study [ ] 103727) Comcast Peers With Pittsburgh GigaPoP [ ] 103728) Report Names Force10 Fast Growing Layer 3 10 GbE Provider [ ] 103729) Mercury Announces First Multi-Chassis, Serial RapidIO Systems [ ] 103730) S2io To Offer 10 GbE Technology For Sun's Solaris OS STORAGE [ ] 103731) Hummingbird, Attunity To Offer Mainframe Data Integration [ ] 103732) Logicworks Announces Managed Oracle 10g For Linux OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 103733) BEA Ships BEA WebLogic Platform ISV Edition [ ] 103734) LogicLibrary Announces Logidex 3.5 For J2EE, .NET [ ] 103735) Tridium Takes Major Role In OASIS' oBIX Technical Committee [ ] 103736) OSDL Bolsters Linux Kernel Testing [ ] 103737) RightNow Joins Web Services Interoperability Organization [ ] 103738) WS-I Promotes Profiles To Final Material Status GENERAL [ ] 103739) DOE's ESnet To Host Collaborative Services Workshop At LBNL [ ] 103740) Abrahams To Lead Expanded Engineering Efforts At Blue Titan [ ] 103741) Engineered Intelligence Names Chun Xia VP Of Solutions, Services [ ] 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 QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 103712) "This patent proves there is a tremendous amount of innovation still to come from combining Grid computing techniques with other mainstream technologies." -- Virginia Turezyn, Managing Director, Constellation Ventures JOB BANK =================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] 710) Altair, D.E. 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