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For subscription information, email gridfree@gridtoday.com All comments regarding content should be sent to: grideditor@gridtoday.com -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 740124) Creating a Virtual Worldwide Network Of Grid Computing Power - INTEL - IN THIS ISSUE: [ ] 104570) GGF CHAIR LINESCH ON GRID'S 'ECOSYSTEM OF VALUE' [ ] 104571) SUN LIGHTS UP $1/CPU/HR HOUR 'SUN GRID' [ ] 104577) 8M EURO ALLOCATED TO EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS GRID SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 104570) GGF CHAIR LINESCH ON GRID'S 'ECOSYSTEM OF VALUE' By Derrick Harris, Editor Using a joint presentation at Oracle OpenWorld as a springboard, GRIDtoday editor spoke with GGF chair Mark Linesch, who also heads up the Adaptive Enterprise program at HP, about the working relationship between these two bodies, and about how an "ecosystem of value" will help accelerate a shared goal of pervasive Grid computing. [ ] 104571) SUN LIGHTS UP $1/CPU/HR HOUR 'SUN GRID' Sun Grid allows customers and partners to derive immediate benefits from an open, Grid-based computing infrastructure on a utility basis by giving them more choice and control over how they purchase and leverage IT. [ ] 104572) COMPUTER SCIENTISTS WORK, PLAY AT MARDI GRAS CONFERENCE This year's conference was titled "Frontiers of Grid Applications and Technologies." As Grid software becomes more mature and reliable, new applications are necessary so that computers worldwide will be speaking the same language. Thus, researchers came together at this year's Mardi Gras Conference to concentrate on exploring these new applications. [ ] 740123) Robust, Industrial-Strength Toolkit Key to Enterprise Grids SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 104573) BEA EXPANDS WORLDWIDE SOA PRACTICE SOA is an approach to application development that breaks down business applications into "services" -- specific pieces of functionality -- which can be combined and reused. This modular approach allows businesses to build applications that can provide more flexibility, and that can be efficiently built, combined and reused. [ ] 104574) TALK AMERICA DIALS UP ENTERPRISE GRID COMPUTING WITH ORACLE Central to the company's technology infrastructure is Oracle Application Server 10g on Linux. Talk America will utilize Oracle Application Server 10g's J2EE capabilities to build and deploy custom Java applications in a Grid environment. [ ] 104575) REGULATORY PRESSURES INCREASING DEMAND FOR COMPUTING POWER A recent whitepaper by DataSynapse, titled "The Impact of Grid Computing in Financial Services," outlines how increasing regulatory and competitive pressures are forcing financial services firms to rethink their existing IT infrastructures. [ ] 104576) SeeBeyond SHOWCASES FINANCIAL SERVICES SOA SOLUTION Developed in partnership with Sun Microsystems, this solution automates the management of processes related to corporate actions and delivers to financial services customers the benefits of improved governance, reduced risk, reduced costs and improved customer service. [ ] 740115) Run Faster. Up to 40% Performance Gains on Opteron Clusters Decide Slowly. Try our PathScale EKO Compiler FREE for 30 days. APPLICATIONS =============================================================== [ ] 104577) 8M EURO ALLOCATED TO EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS GRID The EMBRACE initiative has been established in order to enable data providers to create searchable interfaces to their databases that will all conform to a common set of standards. By applying this method to Europe's largest and most widely used biomolecular databases, the consortium will effectively create a "data Grid," maximizing the value of these vital resources. [ ] 104578) CORNELL THEORY CENTER, ASPEED BEEF UP FINANCIAL APPS WITH .NET By tapping the advantages of Microsoft's .NET framework together with dynamic load balancing from ASPEED, ASPEED's clients are now able to seamlessly exploit the advantages of Windows-based, high-performance computing from industry standard applications such as Excel. [ ] 104579) ActiveGrid JOINS OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT LABS ActiveGrid is focused on enabling transactional applications to be scaled across a Grid of low-cost commodity computers. The company is building its products around the popular LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and the PHP, Python and Perl scripting languages) stack of open source 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 BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 104580) DataPower Announces XI50 XML Integration Appliance v3.1 [ ] 104581) Fortinet Adds Multi-vendor Support, Security Event Correlation [ ] 104582) Forum Showcases Solutions At Web Services On Wall St. Conference [ ] 104583) Forum Systems, Kenai Systems Announce Strategic OEM Relationship [ ] 104584) External-Facing Web Services On Rise According To Survey PLATFORMS [ ] 104585) HP, Cisco Enhance HP BladeSystem Capabilities [ ] 104586) Hitachi Selects Topspin For Blade Server Solutions [ ] 104587) CBI SafeBoot Solutions To Support 64-Bit AMD, Intel Processors [ ] 104588) Sun Fire E25K Server Running Oracle 10g, Solaris 10 Sets Record NETWORKING [ ] 104589) Voltaire Expands InfiniBand Alliance With SGI [ ] 104590) MCI Brings Largest Next-Generation Internet Test Bed Online [ ] 104591) Agentis Intelligent Software Helps Manage Dynamic Events STORAGE [ ] 104592) Paremus, 3PAR To Create Unique Utility Datacenter Solution [ ] 104593) Gov't Agencies Turning To EqualLogic For Storage Grids OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 104594) JOnAS Completes J2EE 1.4 Compatibility Certification [ ] 104595) New Law Center Founded To Assist Open Source Software Developers [ ] 104596) Levanta Joins Open Source Development Labs [ ] 104597) Progress Software Application Partners Turn To OpenEdge [ ] 104598) Sun Announces Availability Of Solaris 10 Operating System [ ] 104599) Active Endpoints Announces ActiveWebflow Standard GENERAL [ ] 104600) Academia, Government, Enterprise Come Together At GlobusWORLD [ ] 104601) IBM Announces New Generation Of Faculty Awards For Innovation [ ] 104602) SC'05 StorCloud Applications Call For Participation [ ] 104603) Univa Expands With Addition Of Vas Vasiliadis As VP Of Marketing QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 104570) "Anybody I can get to help accelerate the adoption of Grid standards and technologies in the marketplace is a friend of mine." -- Mark Linesch, Chair, GGF 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 ======================================================== [ ] 740121) Bio-IT World Conference & Expo May 17-19, 2005 Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA http://www.bioitworldexpo.com [ ] 740122) USENIX's Annual Technical Conference 2005 April 10-15, 2005 Anaheim, California http://www.usenix.org/usenix05/hpc 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 | | | | | | [ ] 527) Intel [ ] 942) Sun Microsystems | | [ ] 934) Hewlett-Packard | | | | | | | | For sponsorship information contact: Gridads@Gridtoday.com | |_____________________________________________________________________| GRIDtoday welcomes bylined comments for publication. LAST WEEK'S TOP 5 ARTICLES ================================================= [ ] 104533) GLOBUS SETS ITS EYES ON THE ENTERPRISE [ ] 104532) HP, IBM, INTEL, SUN LAUNCH GLOBUS CONSORTIUM [ ] 104535) BUYYA'S GRID CORNER [ ] 104534) ROBUST, INDUSTRIAL-STRENGTH TOOLKIT KEY TO ENTERPRISE GRIDS [ ] 104537) GRID PLUGTEST: INTEROPERABILITY ON THE GRID ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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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