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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: [ ] 104177) OPEN LETTER FROM GGF CHAIR LINESCH [ ] 104185) DataSynapse GRID-ENABLES MAINFRAME REPORTING, MS EXCEL APPS [ ] 104178) CRAY EXTENDS OEM AGREEMENT FOR ALTAIR PBS PRO GRID TECHNOLOGY [ ] 740117 ) HP -- Taking Distributed Computing To The Next Level SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 104177) OPEN LETTER FROM GGF CHAIR LINESCH In his letter to the Grid community, GGF Chair Mark Linesch gives his thoughts on the recent GGF12 conference and turns his focus to the future, including an impending review of the overall GGF strategy and operating model by independent consultants. [ ] 104178) CRAY EXTENDS OEM AGREEMENT FOR ALTAIR PBS PRO GRID TECHNOLOGY PBS Pro enables customers in the government, life sciences, energy, research, logistics, manufacturing and financial industries to optimize the utilization of their high performance computing environments by aggregating computation resources into a virtual pool and intelligently scheduling their computational workload across this virtual pool. [ ] 104179) DRI, NEVADA ACES LAUNCH COLLABORATION, VISUALIZATION FACILITIES DRI's new facility, which is a large, state-of-the-art meeting room replete with 40-foot stereoscopic, three dimensional display, is the anchor location for the Nevada state Advanced Computing in Environmental Science Program (ACES), a National Science Foundation-funded, multi-year project linking Nevada's university and research campuses. [ ] 104180) ALTAIR PBS PRO SELECTED FOR 'COLUMBIA' SUPERCOMPUTER As part of Columbia, NASA will integrate a cluster of 20 interconnected SGI Altix 512-processor systems, for a total of 10,240 Intel Itanium 2 processors, to significantly increase the agency's capability and capacity through creation of "the Space Exploration Simulator." [ ] 740104 ) Extreme Performance: Get the new Sun Fire V20z server with AMD Opteron SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 104181) KONTIKI SOFTWARE ELIMINATES GRIDLOCK ON ENTERPRISE NETWORKS Kontiki's DMS eliminates network gridlock by securely delivering high quality video, software and other digital content to virtually any size audience at a fraction of the cost of alternatives by efficiently utilizing existing computing and network resources. [ ] 104182) ORACLE LATIN AMERICA SHEDS LIGHT ON NEW ON DEMAND PROSPECTS Oracle senior vice president of Latin America Luiz Meisler provided a comprehensive update on Oracle's business in Latin America, emphasizing the three key points of the show -- to give attendees the opportunity to learn about Grid Computing, the latest version of Oracle Applications (Oracle 11i10) and Oracle On Demand. [ ] 104183) PROXIMA TEAMS WITH SUN MICROSYSTEMS ON N1 GRID INITIATIVE Proxima Technology announced Centauri Business Service Manager software as an integral element of Sun Microsystems' much-heralded N1 Grid Instant Provisioning Reference Architecture. [ ] 740118 ) Multiprocessors, Clusters, Grids and Parallel Computing: What's the Difference? SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS ==================================================== [ ] 104184) AXCELEON OFFERS GRID MGMT SOLUTION FOR HP VOLUME CLUSTER SERIES As industry standard compute farms and clusters are becoming more available and affordable, the lack of applications and the difficulty of cluster management have become a problem. Using EnFuzion as the basic resource manager, a wide range of applications can take advantage of these scalable compute configurations. [ ] 104185) DataSynapse GRID-ENABLES MAINFRAME REPORTING, MS EXCEL APPS From document and report generation to complex spreadsheets, GridServer enables organizations to run business-critical transactions on a Grid environment, improving application processing speed, scalability and resource utilization. [ ] 104186) ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING NOW POSSIBLE USING GRID COMPUTING POWER Vancouver-based Lumerical Solutions Inc developed the electromagnetic simulation software, which allows engineers and scientists to model how light interacts with wavelength-scale structured materials. This software can now be used in combination with the powerful supercomputing facilities of WestGrid. [ ] 104187) NEC, SOFTRICITY TO OFFER ON DEMAND, FAULT TOLERANT APP MGMT Starting immediately, the two companies will offer a joint solution that combines Softricity's SoftGrid application management platform with NEC's Fault Tolerant servers to provide a robust application business continuity solution. [ ] 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 [ ] 104188) GuardedNet, TippingPoint To Automate Security Functions [ ] 104189) IBM Sees Surge In Attacks On 'Critical Infrastructure Providers' [ ] 104190) Kenai Systems, Forum Systems Sign Distribution Agreement [ ] 104191) Layer 7 Intros First Identity Bridging Solution For Web Services [ ] 104192) Twelve Companies Earn Liberty Alliance Interoperable Logo [ ] 104193) Protego Releases Threat Mitigation Appliance W/ Dist. Processing PLATFORMS [ ] 104194) AMD Expands Partner Roster For Validated Server Program [ ] 104195) CA To Support Intel Active Management Technology [ ] 104196) Oracle Sets Record TPC-H 1TB Benchmark Result [ ] 104197) Verari Positioned In Visionary Quadrant Of Gartner Report NETWORKING [ ] 104198) RLX, Voltaire Deliver 10 Gb/s InfiniBand Solution For Grids [ ] 104199) University Of Washington Chooses Looking Glass Dark Fiber [ ] 104200) FiberCo Facilitates Advanced Optical Network For Florida [ ] 104201) NTT Com, ISC Join Hands To Provide F-Root Server In Osaka STORAGE [ ] 104202) 3PAR Delivers Utility Storage For E-Commerce Grocer FreshDirect [ ] 104203) Intransa Demos Multi-Vendor Modular IP SAN Architecture OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 104204) OASIS Forms Technical Committees To Advance DCML [ ] 104205) Qlusters Supports OASIS To Advance Data Center Markup Language [ ] 104206) Active Endpoints Announces ActiveWebflow Professional [ ] 104207) Application Server Markets Expected To Reach $5.2B By 2009 [ ] 104208) Haley Systems Launches HaleyAuthority 5.0 For .NET, Java Apps [ ] 104209) New Members Join JAVA Business Integration Specification Effort GENERAL [ ] 104210) IBM's $70 Million University Research Investment Grows [ ] 104211) Yankee Group: Utility Computing A Real, Early-Stage Phenomenon [ ] 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 ========================================================== [ ] 104180) "NASA's project Columbia will greatly accelerate their scientific and space exploration capabilities which will be beneficial for many years to come." -- Bill Nitzberg, CTO for Grid Technologies, Altair JOB BANK =================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] 710) Akamai, D.E. 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