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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: [ ] 104502) WiMAX MAY BE USED TO ACCESS GRID COMPUTER SITES [ ] 104503) WELL-KNOWN HPC VETERAN SEES GRID AS BIG DEAL IN 2005 [ ] 104505) ENIGMATEC, GigaSpaces PARTNER ON EFFICIENT COMPUTING INITIATIVE [ ] 740120 ) Web Services Extend High-Performance Computing Grid Capabilities - INTEL - SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 104502) WiMAX MAY BE USED TO ACCESS GRID COMPUTER SITES By Alan J. Weissberger, Contributing Editor A new application of WiMAX is now just emerging -- one that has great potential for use in providing broadband access to Grid computer sites. AT&T and other long distance carriers have been interested in using WiMAX to extend their long haul private line and broadband data networks to business customers. [ ] 104503) WELL-KNOWN HPC VETERAN SEES GRID AS BIG DEAL IN 2005 Of the marketing service providers interviewed by Mike Bernhardt's Grid Strategies, all of whom have clients in the HPC or Grid computing space, 94 percent of the firms have confirmed forecasts for revenue growth attributed to clients increasing their Grid computing marketing efforts in calendar year 2005. [ ] 104504) COMPUSYS HPC, GridXpert SIGN NEW PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT Compusys HPC will be installing GridXpert Synergy Products across the organization, to connect four HPC cluster resources in three European countries, creating a unique Grid technology demonstration facility, that will be available via the Compusys HPC Labs. [ ] 740117 ) HP -- Taking Distributed Computing To The Next Level SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 104505) ENIGMATEC, GigaSpaces PARTNER ON EFFICIENT COMPUTING INITIATIVE The joint solution provides financial services firms with a highly scalable self-managed data Grid infrastructure that combines the GigaSpaces' Grid-based solution for real-time transactional business applications with Enigmatec's automated policy-based management. [ ] 104506) NEC AMERICA CachePortal DEPLOYED GLOBALLY IN MARSYS DATA CENTERS Designed to radically improve their clients' end-user's application experience, CachePortal leverages its cache management software architecture for intelligent dynamic content validation processing in order to independently maintain cached content. [ ] 104507) OPALIS SUPPORTS AUTONOMIC CAPABILITIES BY LEVERAGING IBM TOOLKIT Opalis Software released an OpalisRobot Connector Access Pack for the Common Base Event format. One benefit of the new CAP is automated corrective actions based on events that conform to the CBE format, allowing trouble tickets to be resolved automatically, removing manual IT efforts. [ ] 104508) 75 PERCENT OF EUROPEAN DEVELOPERS EXPECT TO DEVELOP SOAs IN 2005 BEA Systems has released the results of a survey of more than 1000 European developers. The results show that almost 75 percent of developers surveyed are either developing, or expect to be developing, service-oriented architectures (SOA) this year. [ ] 740115 ) Run Faster. Up to 40% Performance Gains on Opteron Clusters Decide Slowly. Try our PathScale EKO Compiler FREE for 30 days. APPLICATIONS =============================================================== [ ] 104509) MAKING WEB SERVICES MESSAGE EXCHANGES RELIABLE, SECURE By Alan J. Weissberger, Contributing Editor NEC, Fujitsu and Hitachi have recently submitted a new document to the OASIS WS-RM TC, for review as a possible Application Note or Technical Report on use of the WS-Reliability standard. This new document describes different ways to make WS-Reliability and WS-Security work together. [ ] 104510) GRIDWAY PROJECT TO RELEASE GRIDWAY 4.0 DEVELOPMENT RELEASE The GridWay framework provides a submission agent that incorporates the runtime mechanisms needed for transparently executing jobs in a Globus-based Grid. [ ] 104511) RES, SOFTRICITY ANNOUNCE GLOBAL ALLIANCE Real Enterprise Solutions (RES) and Softricity Inc announced a technology alliance partnership that includes RES' Windows management and maintenance solutions support of Softricity's SoftGrid application virtualization platform. [ ] 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 [ ] 104512) Poll Reveals Investments Not Addressing Areas At Greatest Risk [ ] 104513) Secure Elements CLASS 5 AVR Product Enters Compatibility Phase [ ] 104514) Astaro Security Appliances Based On Unified Threat Mgmt Software PLATFORMS [ ] 104515) Online Grocer Enhances Datacenter Ops W/ Egenera BladeFrame [ ] 104516) OpenVMS Users Can Now Run COBOL Apps On HP Integrity Servers [ ] 104517) Sun's Solaris Systems For SPARC Take Market By Storm NETWORKING [ ] 104518) UCSD, CENIC Put Campus On CalREN 10 GbE Network [ ] 104519) Chelsio Communications Raises $25 Million Series C Funding STORAGE [ ] 104520) Cbeyond Maximizes Storage Efficiency With 3PAR Thin Provisioning [ ] 104521) Digi-Data Achieves Microsoft Certification W/ STORM Xtreme Array [ ] 104522) ONStor Announces Industry's Most Scalable NAS Gateway OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 104523) Empirix Launches Load Testing Solution For Web Apps [ ] 104524) Reactivity Teams W/ F5 To Secure Web Services Deployment [ ] 104525) ObjectWeb Brings Open Source To Heart Of Mainstream Enterprises [ ] 104526) Samba Creator Andrew Tridgell Joins OSDL [ ] 104527) Vignette Named Leader In META Group Evaluation GENERAL [ ] 104528) SDSC's Berman Joins Nat'l Advisory Medical Sciences Council [ ] 104529) Opsware Achieves High Ranking In Data Center Automation Report [ ] 104530) SDSC Visualizations Featured On Science Channel [ ] 104531) Sonic, BearingPoint, Sun Launch 10-City Tour On SOAs QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 104503) "A large number of computing platform suppliers and software companies will invest significant amounts of R&D and marketing money in Grid computing initiatives as they jockey for position in this rapidly expanding market segment." -- Mike Bernhardt, Founder/CEO, Grid Strategies JOB BANK =================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] 710) *Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, Brown University, D.E. Shaw Group, *Linux Networx, Louisiana State University, Tabor Communications, Texas Advanced Computing Center, *University of Oklahoma, University of Southampton, University of Virginia [ ] 711) Job Bank Rates and Regulations CONFERENCE CALENDAR ======================================================== The Center for Computation & Technology at LSU 13th Mardi Gras Conference "Frontiers of Grid Applications and Technologies" 3-5 February 2005 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana USA http://www.mardigrasconference.org [ ] 740121) Bio-IT World Conference & Expo May 17-19, 2005 Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA http://www.bioitworldexpo.com GRIDtoday is proud to be affiliated with the following organizations: The Globus Project Developing Fundamental Technologies for Computational Grids http://www.globus.org Global Grid Forum Leading the global standardization effort for Grid computing www.ggf.org [ ] 700) Conferences & Seminars GRIDtoday INFORMATION ====================================================== [ ] 701) Subscriptions & Removals [ ] 702) About GRIDtoday [ ] 703) Index of Back Issues [ ] 706) FAQ / Contact Information [ ] 707) Submitting Letters and Articles [ ] 709) Advertising Opportunities _____________________________________________________________________ | | | Full background information on all sponsoring companies | | Firms marked with an * have updated their info in the last 30 days | | | | | | [ ] 921) SGI [ ] 934) Hewlett-Packard | | [ ] 527) Intel [ ] 942) Sun Microsystems | | | | | | | | For sponsorship information contact: Gridads@Gridtoday.com | |_____________________________________________________________________| GRIDtoday welcomes bylined comments for publication. 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