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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: [ ] 104132) SUN UNVEILS NEXT LEVEL OF PAY-FOR-USE GRID MODEL [ ] 104128) BUILDING A DYNAMIC UTILITY COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT [ ] 104129) WEST VIRGINIA FUNDS FIRST OPEN PUBLIC GRID COMPUTING EFFORT [ ] 740104 ) Extreme Performance: Get the new Sun Fire V20z server with AMD Opteron SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 104128) BUILDING A DYNAMIC UTILITY COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT By Kevin Hartig and Dennis Reedy, Sun Microsystems This is an article written by Kevin Hartig and Dennis Reedy about how to build a low cost utility computing environment with open source software. It describes the use of the Rio platform and how it dynamically manages and monitors Apache and Tomcat servers. [ ] 104129) WEST VIRGINIA FUNDS FIRST OPEN PUBLIC GRID COMPUTING EFFORT The Global Grid Exchange will utilize the power of the Internet to aggregate the idle or unused computer processing resources throughout the state. With access to such resources, the Global Grid Exchange will soon be the largest open public computing Grid in the world. [ ] 104130) PARABON GRID PLATFORM TO POWER WORLD'S LARGEST OPEN PUBLIC GRID The West Virginia High Technology Consortium (WVHTC) Foundation and Parabon Computation Inc announce a strategic partnership in which Parabon's secure Grid computing platform, Frontier, will be the core technology used to drive the Global Grid Exchange. [ ] 104131) NCSA SELECTS THOM DUNNING AS DIRECTOR Dunning comes to NCSA from Tennessee, where he was the director of the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences in Oak Ridge, a distinguished professor of chemistry and chemical engineering at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and a distinguished scientist in computing and computational sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. [ ] 740118 ) Multiprocessors, Clusters, Grids and Parallel Computing: What's the Difference? SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 104132) SUN UNVEILS NEXT LEVEL OF PAY-FOR-USE GRID MODEL The Sun Utility Computing for High-end Grid offering will be delivered through Sun partners and is designed to address the compute-intensive requirements and business needs of customers in industries such as petroleum and energy, life sciences, financial services, media and entertainment, automotive and manufacturing. [ ] 104133) ACTIONAL, WESTBRIDGE MERGE, RAISING BAR FOR SOA ENABLEMENT The newly formed company, which will operate under the name of Actional Corp, also unveiled the Actional SOA Command and Control Platform, an industry breakthrough in SOA enablement made possible through the combination of the merged companies' technologies and domain expertise. [ ] 104134) C24 JOINS ENIGMATEC EFFICIENT COMPUTING PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM The C24 Integration Grid uses a new generation of modular, high performance Grid-based technologies to provide intelligent data management distributed across a Grid infrastructure for linear scalability and unparalleled performance. [ ] 104135) GridXpert DEPLOYS GRID AT ARCELOR FLAT CARBON STEEL Grid Computing has enabled Arcelor FCS to homogenize its IT resources. The group has reduced its scientific IT costs by more than 20 percent, while managing to optimize its compute power by 35 percent and multiply its scientific IT resource utilization rate by three. [ ] 104136) OPSWARE MULTI-DATA CENTER DISASTER RECOVERY GAINING ADOPTION Opsware Inc, a provider of IT automation and utility computing software, announced increasing adoption of the Opsware System's Multimaster capabilities, which automate operations across geographically dispersed data centers and significantly reduce the costs associated with disaster recovery. [ ] 104137) SUN, SEEBEYOND AGREEMENT BRINGS PRACTICAL SOA TO CUSTOMERS With both companies actively participating on the Java Business Integration specification (JSR 208), this partnership is based on a strong alignment around current and emerging industry standards such as JMS, Java Connector Architecture and BPEL. [ ] 740117 ) HP -- Taking Distributed Computing To The Next Level APPLICATIONS =============================================================== [ ] 104138) ELYSIUM, NEXROOT LAUNCH GRID SOLUTION TO TRANSLATE 3D CAD DATA CADportal is written in Java using Grid computing architecture to streamline and enable the CAD translation process. Grid technology enables dynamic access to additional computing resources by integrating computers over a network and dispatching jobs in parallel to multiple computer nodes. [ ] 104139) TECH LABORATORIES INCORPORATES AUTONOMIC COMPUTING INTO DynaTrax This Autonomic management continually monitors the DynaTraX Technology environment, generates events in the Common Base Event format, analyses the information received, and by utilizing the Autonomic Management Engine, executes a response based on a plan. [ ] 104140) AKAMAI UNVEILS WEB APPLICATIONS ON DEMAND Akamai introduced a series of Web applications that businesses can rapidly deploy, without the need to purchase any hardware or other "fixed assets," and receive computing capacity when and where it is needed. [ ] 104141) PIPELINE CONTRACTOR SELECTS INTACCT/IBM ERP ON DEMAND SOLUTION O.J. Pipelines switched to Intacct to reduce operating costs and more effectively collaborate with remote field teams, ensuring headquarters has instant access to key financial information about each project. [ ] 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. BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 104142) Oblix, Forum Systems To Deliver Pervasive Security For SOAs [ ] 104143) Kenai Announces Web Services Inspection Tool [ ] 104144) Liberty Alliance Continues Aggressive Growth [ ] 104145) Netegrity Announces IdentityMinder 6.0 PLATFORMS [ ] 104146) BMC Software Teams With VMware To Deliver Business Service Mgmt [ ] 104147) EI Announces MPI-XF Support For AMD Opteron Processors [ ] 104148) Emulex FC HBA Selected By NEC For Blade Server Connectivity [ ] 104149) BEA Ships Service Oriented Architecture-Based Mobile Solution [ ] 104150) Microsoft Drives More Value To Enterprise Computing [ ] 104151) RadiSys Announces AdvancedTCA-Based Blade Server [ ] 104152) SGI Seizes Lead In Database Performance For Mid-Sized Servers [ ] 104153) Unisys, SAS Unveil Linux-based Business Intelligence [ ] 104154) Verari Systems Named To Deloitte Technology Fast 500 NETWORKING [ ] 104155) Level 3 CEO Calls For Free-Market Approach To Telecom Regulation [ ] 104156) Aprisma Delivers SPECTRUM Business Service Intelligence Solution [ ] 104157) McNealy Tells IT Pros To Challenge Conventional Wisdom STORAGE [ ] 104158) EqualLogic, Sun Microsystems Enter Into Reseller Agreement [ ] 104159) Exanet Breaks Record Performance Levels With Grid-Based Solution OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 104160) CA Unveils New Releases Of AllFusion 2E And AllFusion Plex [ ] 104161) Echelon Server Links Enterprise Software Apps To Remote Machines [ ] 104162) New Real-Time OS Boasts Improved Multi-OS Partitioning [ ] 104163) GT Software, PolarLake To Provide Mainframe WS Solutions [ ] 104164) JBoss Introduces JBoss jBPM [ ] 104165) HP, Microsoft Achieve Milestone For .NET Initiative [ ] 104166) Unisys Joins Open Source Development Labs [ ] 104167) Parasoft Increases Effectiveness Of Web Services Development [ ] 104168) UC4's Scheduling Software Receives SAP NetWeaver Certification [ ] 104169) Vintela Demos Windows-To-Unix/Linux/Java/Mac Integration GENERAL [ ] 104170) Internet Visionary Smarr To Deliver SC Global Keynote [ ] 104171) Altair Contributes Software To 28 Engineering Institutions [ ] 104172) Blue Titan Extends Commitment SOAs In Automotive Industry [ ] 104173) EDS Forms Alliance To Drive Next-Gen Delivery Of Technology [ ] 104174) GridIron Software Opens Silicon Valley Office [ ] 104175) OSDL Enterprise Summit To Feature Panel On Utility Computing [ ] 104176) SGI Reports First Quarter Financial Results [ ] 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 ========================================================== [ ] 104129) "This is an innovation that will make our state a leader in a very promising technology area. 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