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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: [ ] 103864) ENTERPRISE GRID COMES TO EMEA WITH EGA COMMITTEE [ ] 103865) SUN INTRODUCES FIRST PAY-FOR-USE COMPUTING GRID [ ] 103861) GLIF MEETING ATTRACTS 60 ADV. NETWORKING, SCIENTIFIC APP LEADERS [ ] 740117 ) HP -- Taking Distributed Computing To The Next Level SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 103861) GLIF MEETING ATTRACTS 60 ADV. NETWORKING, SCIENTIFIC APP LEADERS The first week of September signifies the end of summer, but this year it also marked the start of a major global alliance to build the LambdaGrid, aptly named the Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF). [ ] 103862) SDSC NAMES VIJAY SAMALAM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR As executive director, Samalam will work with a strong team of leaders at SDSC in designing, developing and deploying a national Cyberinfrastructure. [ ] 103863) TEXAS TECH CHOOSES SAS FOR GRID COMPUTING Texas Tech has used SAS to Grid-enable various applications, focusing initially on finance, but plans to expand to other areas, such as genomics, in the future. One recent Texas Tech project involved analyzing stock portfolios to highlight a methodology in selecting and managing various portfolios. [ ] 740116 ) Distributed Computing - The Poor Man's Supercomputer SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 103864) ENTERPRISE GRID COMES TO EMEA WITH EGA COMMITTEE With the launch of regional activity in EMEA, the Europe, Middle East and Africa Regional Steering Committee (E-RSC) will liaise with other local Grid associations, support EGA membership recruitment and retention, as well as promote objectives, activities and standards adoption. [ ] 103865) SUN INTRODUCES FIRST PAY-FOR-USE COMPUTING GRID Using a pay-for-use pricing model starting at $1 per CPU per hour, Grid cycles can be purchased in packs of hours through Sun. Sun intends to offer a diverse set of computing plans and will also work with partners on a wholesale basis to take this capability to various industries and geographic markets. [ ] 103866) SCS, UNITED DEVICES BRING ENTERPRISE GRID TO ASIA-PACIFIC United Device announced that Singapore Computer Systems (SCS) will be a key distributor of the company's Grid MP Grid computing software. SCS chose United Devices due to the company's technical experience building large-scale Grid environments for highly diverse global corporations. [ ] 103867) HP DELIVERS NEXT PHASE OF UTILITY COMPUTING HP's modular approach to utility computing makes it easier for customers in volume markets to acquire and integrate the capabilities of the HP Utility Data Center into existing environments and deliver information technology as a service. [ ] 103868) BLUE TITAN GAINS MOMENTUM AS SOA INFRASTRUCTURE FOR FORTUNE 500 Blue Titan's Network Director is uniquely designed from the ground-up to leverage SOAs as a distributed services network, enabling enterprise architects to scale reliable sharing and reuse of services across lines of business, systems and geographies. [ ] 103869) IRI CONTENT-ON-DEMAND FACTORY TRANSFORMS CPG, RETAIL INDUSTRIES Developed in partnership with Acxiom Corp, the Content-on-Demand Factory is based on a powerful state-of-the-art Grid computing architecture enabling IRI to deliver daily data from select named retailers and InfoScan data approximately three times faster than today. [ ] 740115 ) Who's Boosting Opteron Performance at AMD, IBM and Sun? That would be us. Who's Ready for a FREE Trial? That would be you. Try our PathScale EKO Compiler FREE for 30 days. APPLICATIONS =============================================================== [ ] 103870) SDSC HOSTS GEON 2004 ALL-HANDS MEETING GEON, a ground-breaking five year NSF large Information Technology Research project, brings together information technology (IT) and geoscience researchers from multiple institutions in a large-scale collaboration that is building a modern cyberinfrastructure for the earth sciences and beyond. [ ] 103871) GigaSpaces, VOLTAIRE TO RAISE ENTERPRISE GRID PERFORMANCE, ROI The combined solution provides a high speed messaging infrastructure leveraging GigaSpaces' Grid-based solution for real time business applications and Voltaire's InfiniBand interconnect solutions for high performance Grid computing. [ ] 103872) SeaFire PRESENTS ULTRA HIGH-SPEED OFFLOAD ENGINE AT FERMI SeaFire has unveiled their Phase I development plans for an ultra high-speed offload engine system, to be used for Grid computing applications. The presentation was made on Sept. 16 to the United States Department of Energy (USDOE), at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois. [ ] 740104 ) Extreme Performance: Get the new Sun Fire V20z server with AMD Opteron BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 103873) NSF Cybersecurity Centers To Study Internet 'Ecology' [ ] 103874) CSIA Forms Coalition To Ratify European Convention On Cybercrime [ ] 103875) Fortinet Named Leader Of Unified Threat Mgmt Security Category [ ] 103876) Yankee Group Names Forum 'Winner' In Web Services Gateways [ ] 103877) Saudi Telecom Secures Networks With Juniper Networks Solutions PLATFORMS [ ] 103878) Appro Announces Availability Of 1U, 4U Quad Opteron Servers [ ] 103879) Egenera Continues To Expand Accelerate Alliance Program [ ] 103880) Stratus' W Series 2300 Lowers Price Of Fault-Tolerant Computing [ ] 103881) New Solaris Servers Running SPARC, AMD Opteron Processors NETWORKING [ ] 103882) SDSC Group Cooperates W/ China To Measure Int'l Network Traffic [ ] 103883) Bandwiz Grid Cache Tech Helps Deliver Large Files Over WANs [ ] 103884) Boeing, IBM Strategic Alliance Boosts Net-Centric Technology STORAGE [ ] 103885) SDSC Grid Technologies Help UCSD Boost Storage Of Digital Assets [ ] 103886) Atempo Delivers Time Navigator Reporter OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 103887) Oracle, Dell Deliver Increased Value For Windows Users [ ] 103888) JBoss Becomes Member Of Eclipse Foundation [ ] 103889) PeopleSoft, IBM Announce Significant Enterprise App Alliance [ ] 103890) JBoss Delivers JBoss Application Server 4.0 To Enterprise Market [ ] 103891) OGC Members Adopt Specification For Catalog Services [ ] 103892) Versant Announces New Open Access Suite For JDO, .NET [ ] 103893) webMethods Continues Commitment To Standards Leadership GENERAL [ ] 103894) President Nominates Arden Bement, Jr. To Head NSF [ ] 103895) Callidus Announces EIM Innovations At User Conference [ ] 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 ========================================================== [ ] 103864) "Enterprise requirements are a key focus for the GGF community and critical to the further development of our flagship OGSA architecture. 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LAST WEEK'S TOP 5 ARTICLES ================================================= [ ] 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 [ ] 103824) IBM ANNOUNCES SLEW OF GRID PROJECTS, INCLUDING EPA [ ] 103825) SURA GRID INITIATIVE ENDORSED BY SOUTHERN GOVERNORS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RETRIEVING ARTICLES There are 2 ways to retrieve articles: (1) Send a blank email to Gridmore@Gridtoday.com . On subject line, type number adjacent to article, no message text is necessary. or (2) Insert an x or an X (no other characters, please) within the square brackets adjacent to article(s). Return the marked copy to the address in the Reply-To: line of the GRIDtoday Table of Contents. 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