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For subscription information, email gridfree@gridtoday.com All comments regarding content should be sent to: grideditor@gridtoday.com -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 740120 ) Web Services Extend High-Performance Computing Grid Capabilities - INTEL - IN THIS ISSUE: [ ] 104533) GLOBUS SETS ITS EYES ON THE ENTERPRISE [ ] 104535) BUYYA'S GRID CORNER [ ] 104539) UNITED DEVICES TO BUILD GLOBAL GRID FOR JOHNSON & JOHNSON SPECIAL SECTION: GLOBUS CONSORTIUM ========================================= [ ] 104532) HP, IBM, INTEL, SUN LAUNCH GLOBUS CONSORTIUM Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel and Sun Microsystems announced the formation of the Globus Consortium, a new industry group dedicated to the commercial advancement of the Globus Toolkit, an open standards building block for enterprise-level Grid implementations. [ ] 104533) GLOBUS SETS ITS EYES ON THE ENTERPRISE By Derrick Harris, Editor GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris recently spoke with Greg Nawrocki, president of the Globus Consortium, about the newly-formed industry group. Nawrocki laid out the goals for the consortium, and also commented on the absence of Oracle and Microsoft, and the "symbiotic relationship" between the Globus Consortium and the EGA. [ ] 104534) ROBUST, INDUSTRIAL-STRENGTH TOOLKIT KEY TO ENTERPRISE GRIDS By Derrick Harris, Editor HP is one of the charter members of the Globus Consortium, and GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris recently spoke with Sara Murphy, HP's Grid marketing manager, about the company's role in the group and about the role that a robust Globus Toolkit will play in the future of enterprise Grid computing. [ ] 740117 ) HP -- Taking Distributed Computing To The Next Level SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 104535) BUYYA'S GRID CORNER By Rajkumar Buyya, Contributing Editor In the first installment of this periodic series, Rajkumar Buyya, GRIDtoday contributing editor, director of the GRIDs Lab at the University of Melbourne, and StorageTek Fellow of Grid Computing, gives some insights on the Grid industry based on his travels and experiences. In this piece, he discusses the status of Grid in India, where he recently spent a few weeks. [ ] 104536) SHANGHAI TO BUILD CHINA'S FIRST CITY-WIDE GRID FOR RESEARCH The goal of this ambitious project is to provide a city-wide infrastructure for sharing and exploiting scientific information contributed by industry and research organizations across the Shanghai Municipality. [ ] 104537) GRID PLUGTEST: INTEROPERABILITY ON THE GRID ETSI and INRIA organized a three-day Grid Plugtest, which started on Oct. 18. The objective was to learn, through user experience and open discussions, about the future features needed for the ProActive Grid middleware as well as to get important feedback on the deployment and interoperability of Grid applications. [ ] 104568) LATIN AMERICA GRID SUMMIT TO RAISE HEMISPHERIC COOPERATION Responding to a growing sense of common cause among high-technology leaders in Latin America, Tabor Communications Inc (TCI) has organized the first "VIP Summit on Grid Computing: Latin America," to take place Feb. 21-22 in San Jose, Costa Rica. The event will look to build an inter-regional high-tech community. [ ] 104538) UCSD EXPANDS CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM TO CHINA, THAILAND PRIME was launched in June 2004 with a $156,000, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the program secured additional funding from Cal-(IT)2 and the Geosciences Network. Organizational participants in PRIME include Sixth College, UCSD's Academic Internship Program, and PRAGMA. [ ] 740115 ) Run Faster. Up to 40% Performance Gains on Opteron Clusters Decide Slowly. Try our PathScale EKO Compiler FREE for 30 days. SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 104539) UNITED DEVICES TO BUILD GLOBAL GRID FOR JOHNSON & JOHNSON United Devices announced that it has entered into an agreement with Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, L.L.C. (J&JPRD), a Johnson & Johnson company, to use its United Devices' Grid MP platform to establish a worldwide Grid for its pharmaceutical research and development business. [ ] 104540) START-UP COMPANY TO FOCUS ON DATACENTER VIRTUALIZATION Virtual Iron Software will deliver an enterprise-class virtual computing platform enabling customers to implement a Real-Time Infrastructure (RTI) -- creating more flexible, rapid resource deployment and significantly lowering total cost of ownership and ensuring that enterprises are not locked into proprietary architectures and solutions. [ ] 104541) BLUE TITAN, WIPRO TO DELIVER SOA SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL ENTERPRISES The joint solution marries Blue Titan's SOA technology leadership with Wipro's global delivery of SOA solutions to the world's foremost enterprises. The Blue Titan alliance demonstrates the growing trend among large enterprises to deploy SOA solutions company-wide, instead of simply at departmental levels. [ ] 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 APPLICATIONS =============================================================== [ ] 104542) ALPHAWEST, SUN BOOST HYPERSONIC TESTING AT U OF QUEENSLAND The solution, consisting of 66 Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V20z Dual Opteron Servers, is being deployed as part of UQ's Computational Molecular Science cluster supercomputing facility to complement the existing 128 nodes Sun Xeon server-based Grid. It will be part of the university's ongoing research into future space technology concepts such as SCRAMjet propulsion and aerocapture. [ ] 104543) IBM GRID TECHNOLOGY POWERS WEB SITE FOR AUSTRALIAN OPEN The Grid uses IBM's Tivoli software to automatically allocate server capacity to manage the peaks in demand for the Web site. When demand is lower, the spare capacity will be used to carry out IBM research projects, including protein folding calculations for life sciences and a credit analysis system for financial services. [ ] 104544) GROUPS CREATE CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR MARINE RESEARCH, EDUCATION The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) announced that its scientists are collaborating with experts at four well-known institutions with the common goal of advancing community cyberinfrastructure for the future of marine research and education. BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 104545) DataPower Integrates RSA Federated Identity Manager [ ] 104546) Forum Systems Adds Stephen Norris To Board Of Directors [ ] 104547) Kavado Launches Enterprise-Class Threat Management System PLATFORMS [ ] 104548) Intel Accelerating Virtualization Effort [ ] 104549) AMD Donates Athlon 64-Powered Computers To Carnegie Mellon NETWORKING [ ] 104550) Calient Supports Rapid Growth In 'IP Over Optics' Networking [ ] 104551) Broadcom Announces StrataXGS III [ ] 104552) Foundry Intros New SuperX Family Of 10-Gigabit Ethernet Switches [ ] 104553) Internet2 Announces Key Milestone In HOPI [ ] 104554) Calient's Photonic Switches Deployed In UltraLight Network [ ] 104555) UCSD Faculty Brief Industry Partners At CNS Research Review STORAGE [ ] 104556) Brokerage Firm Selects Grid Storage Solution From EqualLogic OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 104557) OpenIB Alliance Achieves Acceptance For Linux Software Stack [ ] 104558) W3C Issues Three Web Services Recommendations [ ] 104559) Meiosys Releases MetaCluster UC Version 3.0 [ ] 104560) Black Duck Software Joins OSDL [ ] 104561) Sun Grants Open Source Community Access To Over 1,600 Patents [ ] 104562) Strong Momentum For Trolltech Qt Cross-Platform Software In 2004 GENERAL [ ] 104563) DataSynapse Completes Banner Year In 2004 [ ] 104564) Univa Names Paul Dave Vice President Of Professional Services [ ] 104565) Emic Nominated For 'Best Distributed Computing Solution' [ ] 104566) BRM Capital Leads $4.86 Million Investment In GigaSpaces [ ] 104567) GlobusWORLD Announces Keynotes, 'Enterprise Grid Track' Speakers QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 104534) "We're talking about a journey, we're not talking about something that is going to happen in the real short term, but the long-term value and potential is enormous." -- Sara Murphy, Grid Marketing Manager, HP JOB BANK =================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] 710) Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, Brown University, D.E. Shaw Group, *Intel Solution Services, 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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