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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: [ ] 104294) IBM LAUNCHES ITS WORLD COMMUNITY GRID [ ] 104299) OIF, GGF COME TOGETHER FOR OPTICAL NETWORKING WORKSHOP [ ] 104308) ActiveGrid TO PIONEER COMMERCIAL OPEN-SOURCE GRID APP SERVER [ ] 740120) Web Services Extend High-Performance Computing Grid Capabilities - INTEL - SPECIAL SECTION -- WORLD COMMUNITY GRID ==================================== [ ] 104294) IBM LAUNCHES ITS WORLD COMMUNITY GRID IBM, along with representatives of the world's leading science, education andphilanthropic organizations, launched World Community Grid, a global humanitarian effort that applies the unused computing power of individual and business computers to help address the world's most difficult health and societal problems. [ ] 104295) BUNSHAFT: WORLD COMMUNITY GRID NOT ABOUT TRUMPING COMPETITORS By Derrick Harris, Editor Large companies are always in the spotlight, and their motives are always questioned. However, in an interview with GRIDtoday, IBM's vice president of Grid computing, Al Bunshaft, makes it perfectly clear that IBM's motives in creating the World Community Grid were all about helping mankind and showcasing the power of Grid computing. [ ] 104296) UD'S PRESIDENT TOUTS IBM PROJECT, DEFENDS PUBLIC GRIDS By Derrick Harris, Editor GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris was able to speak with United Devices president Ed Hubbard about his company's role in developing the World Community Grid, among other topics, including Grid's evolution since SETI@home, and why skeptics need not worry about the security of public Grids. [ ] 104297) LEAD SCIENTIST ON PROTEOME PROJECT ON WORKING WITH BIG BLUE By Derrick Harris, Editor GRIDtoday spoke with Dr. Rich Bonneau from the Institute for Systems Biology, lead scientist on on the Human Proteome Folding Project, about how Grid computing will help his cause, and what it was like working with United Devices and industry bigshot IBM. [ ] 740117 ) HP -- Taking Distributed Computing To The Next Level SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 104298) GridCoord -- COORDINATING EUROPE-WIDE GRID INITIATIVES By Marco Vanneschi, Dept. of Computer Science, Pisa University GridCoord looks to strengthen cooperation among the funding agencies planning future activities, enhance collaboration between the research and user communities, and develop visionary national and EU programs and roadmaps enabling Europe to play a leadership role in Grid technologies and applications. [ ] 104299) OIF, GGF COME TOGETHER FOR OPTICAL NETWORKING WORKSHOP The OIF's invitation to the GGF to participate in a joint workshop arose through recognition by several OIF member company representatives that the GGF and the OIF share a common interest in the dynamic control of optical networks. Grid applications utilize wide-area distributed computing resources for large-scale computational tasks. [ ] 104300) TACC COLLABORATES IN LATIN AMERICAN GRID WORKSHOP This workshop will train Latin American computer scientists and developers to evaluate Grid software and requirements, to develop and deploy Grid technologies, and to port applications to Grids. Over 50 participants from eight Latin American countries are in attendance. [ ] 104301) SDSC, IBM ACHIEVE RECORD TRANSFER, SORTING RATES ON TeraGrid The SDSC/IBM team was awarded with the highest achieved StorCloud Bandwidth and I/Os per second for the Enzo submission. As part of the submission, the team also broke a world record by sorting a terabyte of random data in 487 seconds (8 minutes, 7 seconds), more than twice as fast as the previous record 1,057 seconds (17:37). The bandwidth achieved was 15GB per second. [ ] 740104 ) Extreme Performance: Get the new Sun Fire V20z server with AMD Opteron SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 104302) SUN, TELUS TEAM ON $1/CPU/HOUR PAY-FOR-USE COMPUTING Leveraging Sun's wholesale model for standardized Grid services, introduced in September 2004, TELUS will resell Sun's Web-based N1 Grid Computing services starting at $1 CPU/hour (USD), initially targeting financial services and oil and gas industries. [ ] 104303) CALLIDUS SOFTWARE TrueComp RECEIVES IBM GRID VALIDATION The IBM Grid enablement validation confirms that TrueComp can leverage a Grid environment of heterogeneous technologies and geographically-dispersed systems. [ ] 104304) THE GRIDBUS PROJECT TO RELEASE ExcelGrid SOFTWARE ExcelGrid is a tool that helps in extending Microsoft Excel from the desktop to enterprise and global Grids as they provide the benefits of improved job execution speed and result in getting processing done faster. [ ] 104305) SUN ANNOUNCES SERVICE OPTIMIZED DATA CENTER PROGRAM Utilizing Solaris 10 and Sun's N1 Grid technologies, the program can help customers improve IT integration across data centers and business units. [ ] 104306) WS-RELIABILITY RATIFIED AS OASIS STANDARD Developed through an open process, WS-Reliability provides a method to guarantee message delivery over the Internet, enabling companies to conduct reliable business-to-business trading or collaboration using Web services. [ ] 104307) FRENCH INSURER SELECTS PRIMA TO IMPLEMENT SOA VISION With Prima Platform, CNP Assurances will increase its ability to adapt to changes in the marketplace and reduce the costs and complexity of maintaining its back- to front-office infrastructure. [ ] 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 =============================================================== [ ] 104308) ActiveGrid TO PIONEER COMMERCIAL OPEN-SOURCE GRID APP SERVER The new Grid Application Server from ActiveGrid will, for the first time, enable CIOs to deploy business-critical, mainstream applications across a "transaction Grid" of low-cost computers. [ ] 104309) THE GRIDBUS PROJECT TO RELEASE GRID SERVICE BROKER v1.2 The Grid Service Broker, developed as part of the Gridbus Project at the University of Melbourne, mediates access to distributed resources, and supports a declarative and dynamic parametric programming model for creating Grid applications. [ ] 104310) SARVEGA, EGENERA DELIVER VIRTUAL XML GRID SOLUTION The solution provides high XML performance with a low total cost of ownership. As a result, companies can use this solution to move core business applications to a reliable, high performance XML Web Services computing environment. [ ] 104311) GRIDBUS TOOLKIT TO SUPPORT UTILITY COMPUTING ON GLOBAL GRIDS The Gridbus Project has also developed a Windows/.NET-based desktop clustering software and Grid job Web services to support the integration of both Windows and Unix-class resources for Grid computing. [ ] 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 BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 104312) Carnegie Mellon To Create Research Lab W/ Korean Security Agency [ ] 104313) ForeScout Launches Free Service That Monitors Network Threats [ ] 104314) M-Tech Joins Liberty Alliance Project [ ] 104315) AmberPoint, Reactivity Partner To Manage, Protect Web Services [ ] 104316) SPI Dynamics Delivers Advanced Web App Security Testing Solution [ ] 104317) Sun Launches Unique New Accelerator For Secure App Delivery PLATFORMS [ ] 104318) Solaris 10 Brings 64-Bit Performance To Enterprise Apps [ ] 104319) Qlusters Announces SEMPRE Management Platform [ ] 104320) Sun Ups UltraSPARC Server Performance With Solaris 10 [ ] 104321) Opsware Teams With VMware To Meet Need For Mgmt Of Products NETWORKING [ ] 104322) Highest Performance Internet Communication Achieved At SC04 [ ] 104323) EI Intros XF RDMA Ethernet Server Adapter With MPI-XF Software [ ] 104324) GlobalConnect Installs Foundry's Compact 10 GbE Edge Switches STORAGE [ ] 104325) Network Appliance Powers Up Storage Grid OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 104326) Sun Launches Revolutionary Solaris 10 [ ] 104327) BEA Announces Open-Source Milestones For Apache Beehive [ ] 104328) Oracle, Sun Announce Oracle Database 10g For Solaris 10 OS [ ] 104329) Voyager Capital Becomes First Venture Firm To Join OSDL GENERAL [ ] 104330) GenoMed Names Werner Dubitzky To Science Advisory Board [ ] 104331) TIBCO Continues To Extend Support For Web Services Standards QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 104297) "I was a little afraid of working with Big Blue at first, but they've been great." -- Rich Bonneau, Scientist, Institute for Systems Biology JOB BANK =================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] 710) 3DGeo Development Inc, Akamai, D.E. 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