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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: [ ] 103823) AN OPEN LETTER TO THE COMPUTER SCIENCE COMMUNITY [ ] 103834) U.S. SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING ENTERS NEW ERA WITH Grid3 [ ] 103826) GGF'S WALTER STEWART LAYS OUT SOLID CASE FOR GRID [ ] 740117 ) HP -- Taking Distributed Computing To The Next Level SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 103823) AN OPEN LETTER TO THE COMPUTER SCIENCE COMMUNITY By Tony Hey, Director of e-Science, EPSRC In this letter, Tony Hey espouses the benefits and goals of the $444 million U.K. e-Science initiative, including the the e-Infrastructure (Cyberinfrastructure in the United States), and attempts to correct any misapprehensions about e-Science that are still out there in the international computer sciences community. [ ] 103824) IBM ANNOUNCES SLEW OF GRID PROJECTS, INCLUDING EPA Among those IBM has helped with Grid solutions are the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Nippon Steel, Siemens Mobile and NTT Communications. Big Blue also announced it has completed work with 10 leading software companies to ready their applications for Grid computing. [ ] 103825) SURA GRID INITIATIVE ENDORSED BY SOUTHERN GOVERNORS The Southern Governors' Association endorsed an IT initiative of SURA -- efforts to enable Grid computing, thereby enhancing science capacity and improving economic competitiveness in the southern United States. Gov. Kathleen Blanco of Louisiana announced that the state would commit $40M over the next 10 years to support and expand utilization of this new research tool. [ ] 103826) GGF'S WALTER STEWART LAYS OUT SOLID CASE FOR GRID Recently, GRIDtoday had an opportunity, on the eve of GGF12, to speak to Walter Stewart, SGI's global coordinator of Grid strategy and co-chair of the Plenary Program at GGF, on his views on a variety of Grid issues. [ ] 103827) G-CLUSTER GRID BRINGS HIGH-END GAMING INTO HOMES The Amino set-top box connects to G-cluster's Grid of computer servers in the service provider's central office via broadband connection and receives game graphics and sound to display on the television screen in real time. [ ] 740116 ) Distributed Computing - The Poor Man's Supercomputer SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 103828) ACTUATE COMPLETES IBM GRID COMPUTING ENABLEMENT PROGRAM Actuate's Grid-enabled platform allows companies to more cost-effectively deploy financial management, customer self-service and sales management reporting applications and ensure that these strategic applications are always available. [ ] 103829) MAZDA, NEC TO TEST GRID-BASED CORE SYSTEM Mazda Motor Corp and NEC Corp announced that Mazda will test Grid computing technology, which will be incorporated into its core system, in order to efficiently utilizes the IT resources of many servers in various locations and provide countermeasures in case of disasters. [ ] 103830) CALLIDUS SPEEDS ROI WITH EIM'S ONLY GRID-BASED ARCHITECTURE The TrueComp Grid meets the unique incentive management requirements of Global 5000 enterprises, allowing them to process millions of transactions for tens of thousands of employees, in the shortest time period. [ ] 103831) LogicaCMG ENTERS GLOBAL SAP NetWeaver PARTNER INITIATIVE SAP NetWeaver works with existing IT infrastructures to facilitate and manage change, as well as enabling the Enterprise Services Architecture, SAP's blueprint for service-oriented business solutions. [ ] 103832) ORACLE GRID LETS PARTNERS DELIVER SOLUTIONS ON DEMAND The new offering, Oracle On Demand for ISVs, allows ISVs to remotely manage and deliver their applications leveraging the Oracle On Demand Grid as their technology infrastructure to seamlessly provide their customers with on demand solutions that are secure, scalable, cost effective and easy to manage. [ ] 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. APPLICATIONS =============================================================== [ ] 103833) BERKELEY'S BOINC LETS HOME USERS JOIN CLIMATE PREDICTION GRID A new computing platform developed at the University of California-Berkeley, called BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing), now lets users participate in many Internet computing projects and tell their computers how much time to devote to each. The latest project to move to BOINC is Climateprediction.net. [ ] 103834) U.S. SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING ENTERS NEW ERA WITH Grid3 Grid3 uses the Internet to combine the computational resources of 26 universities and national laboratories across the United States to serve the computing needs of more than 10 research groups in particle physics, astrophysics, bioinformatics and computer science. [ ] 103835) SUN MICROSYSTEMS TO POWER PROVINCE-WIDE RESEARCH IN QUEBEC New data resulting from this research will contribute to the advancement in knowledge and treatment of brain diseases, such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, as well as other neurological and mental illnesses like schizophrenia, depression and epilepsy. [ ] 103836) GridIron EXTENDS USE OF GRID FOR DIGITAL VIDEO PRODUCTION In addition to faster preview processing, X-Factor 1.5 now speeds rendering of the Adobe After Effects Render Queue, enables the use of large, high-resolution digital video files on network drives and Storage Area Networks, and supports the enhanced security features of Windows XP SP2. [ ] 103837) MERISANT SELECTS CORIO APPLICATIONS ON DEMAND Corio Inc, an enterprise application service provider, announced that Merisant Company has chosen Corio Applications on Demand to support its enterprise applications. Through the Corio Full Service delivery model, Corio will provide infrastructure, application management and support services. [ ] 740104 ) Extreme Performance: Get the new Sun Fire V20z server with AMD Opteron BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 103838) Web Services Leader Digital Evolution Acquires Flamenco Networks [ ] 103839) Fortinet Introduces FortiGate 5000 Network Security Platform [ ] 103840) XWall WS Firewall Released On Borland JBuilder 2005 Companion CD [ ] 103841) Layer 7, Oracle To Deliver Flexible, Web Services Security [ ] 103842) Novell Delivers Tools, Capabilities To Simplify ID Management PLATFORMS [ ] 103843) Advertising.com Implements BladeLogic Data Center Software [ ] 103844) IBM Unveils Second-Generation AMD Opteron-Based Server [ ] 103845) Microsoft Announces General Availability Of Virtual Server 2005 NETWORKING [ ] 103846) Intel Outlines Strategy For Improving The Internet [ ] 103847) Force10 Intros TeraScale E-Series STORAGE [ ] 103848) HP Details StorageWorks Grid Strategy OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 103849) Mindreef Connects Development, Testing, Support For Agile SOAs [ ] 103850) Novell, Partners Establish Network To Promote Linux Adoption [ ] 103851) FSG, OSDL Collaborate On Enterprise Linux Standards [ ] 103852) Allstream To Develop Network-Resident XML Services [ ] 103853) SPI Dynamics Becomes Microsoft Certified Partner [ ] 103854) Versant Announces New Open Access Suite For JDO, .NET [ ] 103855) Borland, Vignette Leverage J2EE, New Java Standards GENERAL [ ] 103856) Business Objects Positioned In Visionary Quadrant In ETL Market [ ] 103857) DMTF Grows To 3,000 Members, Takes Lead In Utility Computing [ ] 103858) Oracle Names Juergen Rottler EVP For Oracle On Demand [ ] 103859) Systinet Senior Program Manager Elected OASIS Committee Co-Chair [ ] 103860) Verari Systems Closes $13.275 Million Series B Equity Round [ ] 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 ========================================================== [ ] 103826) "Any organization that is content with the way it deals with data today and sees little need to grow its ability to deal with data can afford to ignore Grids -- particularly because they are likely to be out of business in three years." -- Walter Stewart, Co-Chair of Plenary Program, GGF JOB BANK =================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] 710) Akamai, Cranfield University, D.E. 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