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[ ] 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: [ ] 104381) GRID DOMINATES FLOOR AT ORACLE OpenWorld [ ] 104384) DELL, EMC, INTEL, ORACLE LAUNCH 'PROJECT MegaGrid' [ ] 104386) VIRTUALIZATION, REGULATORY TRENDS WILL STIMULATE GRID [ ] 740120) Web Services Extend High-Performance Computing Grid Capabilities - INTEL - SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 104381) GRID DOMINATES FLOOR AT ORACLE OpenWorld By Derrick Harris, Editor GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris discusses his impressions and shares his experiences from two days at the Grid-heavy Oracle OpenWorld conference. If attendees weren't familiar with Grid computing when they arrived, they are now. [ ] 104382) GLOBAL GRID EXCHANGE NOW AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE USE An initiative of the WVHTC Foundation, the Global Grid Exchange harnesses the power of the Internet to aggregate the idle or unused computer processing resources throughout the State of West Virginia. [ ] 104383) NCSA, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA DEVELOPING DEPENDABLE GRIDS The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the University of Virginia have received a National Science Foundation Information Technology Research grant of more than $2 million to research and develop technologies for dependable Grid computing. [ ] 104384) DELL, EMC, INTEL, ORACLE LAUNCH 'PROJECT MegaGrid' The four companies are combining certain core technologies and technical resources to ease the burden of integration for their customers, and to develop a complete enterprise Grid computing solution that outperforms traditional SMP offerings at a fraction of the cost. [ ] 104385) WS-I BOARD NEARING APPROVAL OF SECURITY SCENARIOS FOR WS-I BSP By Alan J. Weissberger, Contributing Editor The WS-I Board of Directors has commenced review of the draft document, "Security Scenarios for WS-I Basic Security Profile." This document was already approved by the WS-I BSP WG which requested Board level approval. [ ] 740117 ) HP -- Taking Distributed Computing To The Next Level SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 104386) VIRTUALIZATION, REGULATORY TRENDS WILL STIMULATE GRID By Alan J. Weissberger, Contributing Editor One of two premier IEEE telecommunications conferences each year, IEEE Globecom was held in Dallas from Nov. 29 through Dec. 3. The conference featured keynote speeches from industry luminaries, a telecom business forum, design and developers forum, research-oriented papers and several tutorials -- including one on high-performance global Grid networks. [ ] 104387) FUJITSU, IBM TO PROMOTE OPEN STANDARDS FOR AUTONOMIC COMPUTING Initial areas of collaboration are expected to include existing or new standardization efforts related to the Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) Event Format, standardization of a set of actions to manage IT resources, and standards related to software installation and deployment. [ ] 104388) FRANCE TELECOM, FUJITSU ANNOUNCE GRID PROJECT Leveraging existing Grid computing technology from France Telecom and Fujitsu, the first phase of the initial project will have an internal focus, to dramatically facilitate analysis of the huge volume of France Telecom's data, such as for data mining and customer billing. [ ] 104389) INFORMATICA FURTHER EXTENDS GRID CAPABILITIES FOR PowerCenter Now offered as a complement to the Informatica PowerCenter data integration platform, Cassatt's Collage software for automating IT operations for on-demand computing can help customers leverage Informatica's industry-leading performance capabilities in a Grid environment at an even lower hardware infrastructure cost. [ ] 104390) SUN TEAMS WITH ORACLE TO EASE DATA CENTER 'GRID'-LOCK' Sun Microsystems Inc and Oracle Corp continue their joint collaboration around a set of integrated Grid computing solutions designed to help commercial enterprises harness the power of Grid computing and to achieve better utilization of existing IT assets. [ ] 740104 ) Extreme Performance: Get the new Sun Fire V20z server with AMD Opteron APPLICATIONS =============================================================== [ ] 104391) ORACLE ENTERPRISE MANAGER 10G RELEASE 2 HIGHLIGHTS GRID CONTROL Oracle announced Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 2, highlighting new Grid control capabilities (Oracle Grid Control). This single, integrated solution for provisioning, administering and monitoring applications and systems is ideal for enterprise Grid computing environments. [ ] 104392) SUN MICROSYSTEMS, AIST TO CREATE INNOVATIVE GRID ENVIRONMENT Sun Microsystems (Japan) and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) signed an agreement to collaborate in R&D for evaluating the practicability and performance of a large-scale Grid computing environment. [ ] 104393) GigaSpaces ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF ENTERPRISE APPLICATION GRID This new version offers major enhancements over previous versions, adding powerful data Grid, messaging and parallel processing components and delivering in-memory levels of performance as well as high reliability to transactional, data intensive, business-critical enterprise applications. [ ] 104394) IBM TO HELP PARTNERS QUICKLY BUILD, DEPLOY VERTICAL SOLUTIONS The technical resources are based on Grid and IBM Virtualization Engine technologies through the Virtual Innovation Center for Hardware, which enables business partners to access a "virtual" pool of IBM resources. [ ] 740115 ) Run Faster. Up to 40% Performance Gains on Opteron Clusters Decide Slowly. Try our PathScale EKO Compiler FREE for 30 days. BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 104395) CSIA Calls On White House To Improve Cyber Security [ ] 104396) ImageWare Showcases IWS Biometric Engine At Oracle OpenWorld [ ] 104397) Penn Mutual Deploys Oblix COREid For Identity Management [ ] 104398) Sarvega Selected By State Of WI To Secure DoJ XML Web Services [ ] 104399) Secure Elements Joins Oracle PartnerNetwork PLATFORMS [ ] 104400) Objectivity Underscores Scalability At Intel-SGI PAC [ ] 104401) Autonomy Launches IDOL 5.0 [ ] 104402) BEA Unveils New Version Of Flagship Product, Code-named Diablo [ ] 104403) Egenera, Oracle To Offer Grid-Ready Solution [ ] 104404) Oracle Uses Intel's 64-BitPlatforms To Make Latest Database Fly [ ] 104405) Opsware To Acquire Network Automation Leader, Rendition Networks NETWORKING [ ] 104406) Cisco Maintains Strong Lead In Enterprise Router Market [ ] 104407) Comcast Extends National Fiber Infrastructure [ ] 104408) Topspin Expands InfiniBand Agreement With HP [ ] 104409) Spanish University Selects Juniper Solution For R&D Network [ ] 104410) Transmode Links Univ. Of Manchester Super Computing Facilities [ ] 104411) Spirent Communications Unveils High Density 10 GbE System STORAGE [ ] 104412) Ascential Achieves Highest Level Of IBM Grid Validation [ ] 104413) New EMC Proven Solution Speeds Oracle Database 10g Migrations [ ] 104414) Intelenet Creates Utility Computing Service With EqualLogic [ ] 104415) HP Ranks No. 1 In Worldwide Total Disk Storage Systems [ ] 104416) Xiotech, Oracle, CIBER Simplify 10g RAC Implementations OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 104417) Guangzhou Middleware Research Center Joins ObjectWeb [ ] 104418) JBoss Intros Advances Across Federated Open Source Projects [ ] 104419) Industry Leaders To Develop Blueprint For Data Center Of Future [ ] 104420) Call For Participation: OMG Open Source Modeling, IDEs Workshop [ ] 104421) OSDL, Bull Cooperate On Open Source POSIX Test Suite [ ] 104422) Brixlogic Joins WS-I Advocate Program GENERAL [ ] 104423) University Consortium Offers Grid Applications Workshop [ ] 104424) Cassatt Launches On Demand Vision For Automating IT Operations [ ] 104425) GlobusWORLD 2005 Announces New Enterprise Grid Track [ ] 104426) Kontiki Raises $8.6M To Extend Grid Delivery Of Digital Content [ ] 104427) Powerllel Now ASPEED Software [ ] 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 ========================================================== [ ] 104384) "Mainframes have been the gold standard for performance for 40 years, but no longer." -- Larry Ellison, CEO, Oracle JOB BANK =================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] 710) 3DGeo Development Inc, Akamai, D.E. 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LAST WEEK'S TOP 5 ARTICLES ================================================= [ ] 104358) GRID COMPUTING -- HYPE OR TRIPE? [ ] 104359) GridXpert CEO ON GRID MATURATION IN EUROPE [ ] 104360) NCSA TO LEAD GridShib PROJECT [ ] 104361) IT VENDORS RELEASE ROYALTY-FREE SOFTWARE FOR RELIABLE MESSAGING [ ] 104362) EGA REACHES 25 MEMBERS; FIRST VAR, END-USER JOIN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. RETRIEVAL EXAMPLE, METHOD (1): To: Gridmore@Gridtoday.com Subject: 100001 100005 100009 For help, send an email message to Gridhelp@Gridtoday.com and state problem. 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