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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: [ ] 103742) NEW GGF CHAIR LINESCH SPEAKS [ ] 103750) VERISITY, PLATFORM DELIVER GRID-ENABLED VPA SOLUTION [ ] 103752) BIOLOGICAL INFORMATICS CONSORTIUM SELECTS UNITED DEVICES GRID MP [ ] 740113 ) Intel -- Grid Computing Harnesses the Power of Multitudes SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 103742) NEW GGF CHAIR LINESCH SPEAKS By Tom Tabor, Publisher GRIDtoday publisher Tom Tabor recently caught up with Linesch and took the opportunity to find out more about the man behind the title -- why he is the right man for the job, why he wanted the job, and his vision for the GGF -- as well as his views on working with other standards bodies and the increasing role of industry concerns in the world of Grid computing. [ ] 103743) DCML ORGANIZATION TO ADVANCE DATA CENTER STANDARD WITHIN OASIS The transition will result in the formation of the OASIS DCML Member Section, which will promote the use of utility computing by providing a standard way to represent the IT environment and enabling data center automation and system management solutions to easily exchange information about the environment under management. [ ] 103744) GridPP REACHES HALFWAY POINT, PRESENTS AT e-Science MEETING GridPP, the United Kingdom's particle physics Grid project, was set up by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council in 2000. On Sept. 1 the project reached its halfway point, with the official end of its first phase and the start of GridPP2. [ ] 103745) IBM TECHNOLOGY SERVES UP TIMELY US OPEN TENNIS RESULTS ON DEMAND Last year IBM introduced Tivoli ThinkDynamic Orchestrator, which permits autonomic provisioning between different applications, on different servers. During non-peak times for USOpen.org, the servers are also running protein folding and credit scoring applications for other IBM clients. [ ] 103746) TACC TO HOST NMI INTEGRATION TESTBED FINAL RESULTS WORKSHOP The nine core NMI Testbed sites will highlight the results and insights they have gained from over two years of middleware evaluation and integration, in enterprise as well as research applications. [ ] 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 ========================================================= [ ] 103747) THOMAS WEISEL PARTNERS USES xTier 2.0 FOR JAVA The xTier components can be utilized as the technical requirements of the application dictate and include a Grid Computing component, an Object Caching component, an Embedded Workflow component, a high-speed Object Marshalling (Serialization) component, a hierarchical Configuration Management component and a Job Scheduling component. [ ] 103748) IBM TO PROVIDE SUPERCOMPUTING POWER ON DEMAND FOR OIL INDUSTRY Customers of the IBM DCCOD center in Houston will have the ability to leverage IBM supercomputing power via a pay-as-you-go delivery model. Customers who already have substantial supercomputing capacity of their own can supplement that capacity to handle peak loads, leveraging IBM Grid technologies. [ ] 103749) OVERSTOCK.COM STANDARDIZES ON ORACLE GRID TECHNOLOGY Overstock.com will consolidate its Oracle-based clusters into a Grid, enabling it to better reallocate IT resources for high volume on-line transaction processing, query intensive data warehousing applications or however else needed. [ ] 103750) VERISITY, PLATFORM DELIVER GRID-ENABLED VPA SOLUTION As part of this joint agreement, best-in-class technologies are joined to automate and simplify verification, from executable plans to verification closure, to achieve higher predictability and enhanced quality in chip design at a lower system cost. [ ] 103751) WEBIFY SOLUTIONS ATTAINS 'ON DEMAND OPTIMIZED' STATUS The advanced designation is granted to only a select few independent software vendors that have verified enablement with a customer on at least two IBM middleware products and an IBM server, published an IBM joint customer win reference, and have written an IBM joint industry on demand solution brief. [ ] 740104 ) Extreme Performance: Get the new Sun Fire V20z server with AMD Opteron APPLICATIONS =============================================================== [ ] 103752) BIOLOGICAL INFORMATICS CONSORTIUM SELECTS UNITED DEVICES GRID MP Japan Biological Informatics Consortium is using Grid MP to configure an intra-organization Grid that utilizes the research center's numerous workstations, implementing this Grid for protein modeling and virtual screening via a Grid-enabled software product developed by JBIRC. [ ] 103753) METATOMIX PROVIDES REAL-TIME JUDICIAL INTEGRATION SOLUTION The system will be used by Florida judges to achieve a real-time, centralized, unified view and understanding of all pertinent information from across numerous database systems -- knowledge necessary for effective court case sentencing and processing. [ ] 103754) GRIDS CENTER SOFTWARE SUITE RELEASE 5.1 NOW AVAILABLE The release notes include changes since NMI 5.0, component notes, Condor 6.6.6 release notes, NWS 2.10.1 release notes and uberftp updates since NMI 5.0. [ ] 103755) ORION ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP FOR gridMathematica gridMathematica combines the power of the world's leading technical computing environment with modern computing clusters and Grids to solve the most demanding problems in mathematics, science, engineering and finance. [ ] 103756) QNX AWARDED PATENT FOR INNOVATION IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING With QNX's patented distributed kernel technology, applications on any device can transparently access the hardware and software resources of any other connected device, without extra programming. [ ] 103757) vCompute UNVEILS 'ON-DEMAND' SUPERCOMPUTING FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH Virtual Compute's Bioinformatics Group understands that research methodologies in medical fields are compute-intensive. Therefore, vCompute has assembled cutting edge supercomputing resources, algorithms and heuristics that are computationally efficient on both Grid-based and serial or parallel supercomputing systems. [ ] 740114 ) HP -- Making the Utility Data Center a Power Station for the Enterprise Grid BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 103758) Aladdin eSafe4 FR2 Achieves OPSEC Certification From Check Point [ ] 103759) Protego Ships Threat Mitigation Appliance For SMBs [ ] 103760) Radware, Oracle To Deliver Optimized, Secure Enterprise Apps [ ] 103761) Internet Security Company Signs OEM Agreement With Silicom PLATFORMS [ ] 103762) Fujitsu Unveils Four-Way Blade Server For Data Centers [ ] 103763) Four J's Development Tools Announces Availability Of Genero 1.3 [ ] 103764) Windows/Solaris/Red Hat Available On Sun Fire Blade 1600 [ ] 103765) BEA Announces Global Seminar Program On Creating SOAs NETWORKING [ ] 103766) Level 3 Helps Create Michigan LambdaRail Research Network [ ] 103767) Chelsio To Provide 10GbE, Protocol Acceleration For Solaris OS [ ] 103768) DoE's ESnet To Increase Network Performance, Reliability W/ MANs [ ] 103769) Major U.K. Initiative To Aid Dublin Core Metadata Development [ ] 103770) F5 Networks BIG-IP Validated Compatible With Oracle 10g [ ] 103771) Foundry Leads In 10-Gigabit Ethernet Layer 3 Market Share [ ] 103772) Foundry Announces Enhancements To ServerIronXL STORAGE [ ] 103773) Attunity Provides EII For MS SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 103774) webMethods Highlights Web Services Management Support [ ] 103775) Developer Momentum Builds For Java Enterprise System [ ] 103776) IBM Commits To Developer Support Around Cloudscape Database [ ] 103777) Sun Java Workstations Take Industry By Storm [ ] 103778) Leading Linux-Based Collaboration Server Available Under GPL [ ] 103779) OSDL Names Diane Peters As General Counsel [ ] 103780) StrikeIron, DataFlux To Provide Hosted Data Quality Web Services [ ] 103781) Unify Speeds Delivery Of Business Process Automation Apps GENERAL [ ] 103782) Acxiom Grid Technology Earns Company Top Industry Award [ ] 103783) Private Investors, Mgmt Team Complete Acquisition Of Bandwiz [ ] 103784) DataSynapse Reinforces Position As Provider Of Grid Solutions [ ] 103785) Forrester Research: US IT Spending Will Grow 7 Percent In 2005 [ ] 103786) HP Offers Customers Jumpstart On Financing Adaptive Enterprise [ ] 103787) OSDL To Host Enterprise Linux Summit [ ] 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 ========================================================== [ ] 103742) "The full promise of Grid computing cannot be realized until commercial organizations implement the standards and best practices and make them available in the marketplace." -- Mark Linesch, Chair, Global Grid Forum JOB BANK =================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] 710) Altair, D.E. 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