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For subscription information, email gridfree@gridtoday.com All comments regarding content should be sent to: grideditor@gridtoday.com -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] A516 ) Creating a Virtual Worldwide Network Of Grid Computing Power - INTEL - IN THIS ISSUE: [ ] M339689 ) Romancing the Grid [ ] M339684 ) European Space Agency Tackles Grid in Two-Day Workshop [ ] M340180 ) Digipede Launches Distributed Computing on Windows [ ] A531 ) SGI's Roadmap to Gridcomputing With Walter Stewart Download RealPlayer SPECIAL FEATURES ============================================================== [ ] M339689 ) Romancing the Grid An opinion column by Mike Bernhardt Welcome to "The Business of Grid," an opinion column by Mike Bernhardt, CEO of Grid Strategies Inc. and long-time contributing writer to GRIDtoday. In this recurring column, Bernhardt will provide opinion and insight on timely topics deemed of interest to the readers of GRIDtoday. We hope you enjoy this column and we welcome your feedback. [ ] M339684 ) European Space Agency Tackles Grid in Two-Day Workshop A recent two-day workshop at the European Space Agency's center in Italy covered scientific and also industrial Grid computing applications, highlighting current systems as well as the likely course of future Grid development and applications. [ ] M338044 ) Three U.S. Sites Add Clusters to CERN Grid By Derrick Harris, Editor The National Science Foundation has given $3 million grants to three sites for the purpose of creating clusters that will serve as nodes for an international Grid as part of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project at CERN. [ ] M340850 ) Sun to Award Grid Research Grants Just weeks after Sun announced its vision for a new era in network computing and unveiled major elements of its new Sun Grid utility offering, Sun is announcing its intent to award spare cycles to deserving research efforts. Sun has already begun planning with two of the world's leading research universities: University of California-Berkeley and University of Southern California. [ ] A515 ) Robust, Industrial-Strength Toolkit Key to Enterprise Grids SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ============================================================ [ ] M340277 ) GRIDtoday Presents Webcast on 'The Business of Grid' Titled "The Business of Grid," the 33-minute broadcast features industry luminary Walter Stewart, global coordinator of Grid strategy at SGI and co-chair of the Plenary Program at Global Grid Forum. He discusses the latest events in this fast-moving market segment that are resulting in broader adoption of Grid computing, especially in the commercial sector. [ ] M340173 ) United Devices Announces Availability of Capacity Mgmt, Unified Job Scheduling These solutions have been engineered based on feedback from more than 60 customer deployments of United Devices' Grid MP platform and influenced by the demands of enterprise customers over the last 18 months. Current Capacity Management and Unified Job Scheduling customers include Johnson & Johnson and another Top 5 global pharmaceutical company. [ ] M339014 ) Demandware Launches Customizable On-Demand Ecommerce Platform The solution, Demandware eCommerce, is the first customizable product that allows users to pick and choose the features and functionality and automatically adjust computing capacity for seasonal peaks, with pay-as-you-go pricing. [ ] M340852 ) BEA Expands Worldwide SOA Practice BEA is making available a Web-based tool that is designed to quantitatively measure and benchmark a company's baseline for pursuing SOA as its IT strategy. Called the "The BEA Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Readiness Self-Assessment," the instrument reflects the BEA SOA Practice methodology and is designed to provide IT maturity comparisons against similar companies within key domains. [ ] A442 ) Run Faster. Up to 40% Performance Gains on Opteron Clusters Decide Slowly. Try our PathScale EKO Compiler FREE for 30 days. APPLICATIONS ================================================================== [ ] M339638 ) GridIron Releases X-Factor 1.5 for Adobe After Effects The new X-Factor capabilities were developed for digital professionals working in high-resolution formats for film and high definition broadcast. GridIron X-Factor uses the power of Grid computing to improve productivity and streamline the creative workflow by distributing the work ordinarily performed on a single workstation computer over several computers in a network. [ ] M340180 ) Digipede Launches Distributed Computing on Windows The Digipede Network is the first commercial distributed computing solution based entirely on Microsoft .NET. The system radically improves the performance of real-world business applications and is easier to buy, install and use than other solutions. [ ] M339686 ) Phoenix Integration Launches CenterLink Grid Computing Software CenterLink helps companies bring new products to market faster by: harnessing Grid resources to accelerate optimization of design alternatives; enhancing collaboration to improve design process effectiveness; enabling Web-based monitoring and control for distributed access to the engineering process; and managing collections of simulation results for improved traceability of product design data. [ ] M340177 ) Speedera Launches FlexComputing for Distributed Application Hosting This distributed hosting solution enables customer applications to be higher performing, more scalable, more reliable and more resistant to security attacks, while eliminating the need for customers to invest in added server and network infrastructure. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================= [ ] M341420 ) "Nobody needs to know where the electricity comes from, or how it is transmitted, it is just there to be used. With Grids, the same is true of processing power." -- Domenico Laforenza National Research Center Institute of Information Science and Technology (Italy) [ ] A506 ) 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 [ ] M339015 ) Forum Addresses Grid Security at RSA 2005 [ ] M339017 ) Liberty Alliance Releases Second Version of WS Framework Specs [ ] M340848 ) OASIS Federated Identity Lab Demonstrates SAML 2.0 Interoperability [ ] M339023 ) Reactivity Brings Federated Identity to XML Web Services [ ] M339025 ) XML Networking Leader Sarvega Unveils XML Guardian Gateway 5.0 Platforms [ ] M340174 ) Topspin Expands VFrame Developers Program [ ] M339019 ) Virtual Iron Adds Power to Industry-Standard Computers [ ] M339026 ) Egenera Introduces Processing Blades Based on AMD64 Technology [ ] M339027 ) AMD Intros Highest Performing 4P, 2P X86 Processors for 32-, 64-Bit Computing [ ] M339032 ) Intel Advances Enterprise Platforms from Desktop to Datacenter Networking [ ] M340237 ) Voltaire Offers Support for Xen Server Virtualization [ ] M339038 ) Internet2 Selects Force10 E-Series for National Deployment [ ] M339020 ) Pankaj Shah Selected to Lead OSC's OARnet Operating Systems & Middleware [ ] M340179 ) DataSynapse Achieves Novell YES Certification [ ] M340934 ) ASPEED Selects Critical Software Technology for ACCELLERANT [ ] M339675 ) Novell to Expand Linux Solutions for the Data Center [ ] M339680 ) Report Says SOA Mgmt Market Primed for Growth [ ] M340172 ) Educational Software Vendors Support Solaris 10 General [ ] M339679 ) CA's CEO: Open Standards Vital to Unlocking Open Innovation [ ] M340178 ) Cheng Wu Joins Ammasso Board of Directors JOB BANK ====================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] FL365 ) Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, D.E. Shaw Group, *Imperial College, Intel Solution Services, Linux Networx, LSU, *SARA, Tabor Communications, TACC, University of Oklahoma [ ] XJOBRATES ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations CONFERENCES & EVENTS ========================================================== [ ] A388 ) 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 [ ] A521 ) USENIX's Annual Technical Conference 2005 April 10-15, 2005 Anaheim, California http://www.usenix.org/usenix05/hpc [ ] A502 ) Bio-IT World Conference & Expo May 17-19, 2005 Hynes Convention Center, Boston,MA http://www.bioitworldexpo.com ______________________________________________________________________ Full background information on all sponsoring companies Firms marked with an * have updated their info in the last 30 days [ ] A383 ) Intel [ ] A384 ) SGI [ ] A382 ) Sun [ ] A381 ) HP For sponsorship information contact: Gridads@gridtoday.com ______________________________________________________________________ LAST WEEK'S TOP 5 ARTICLES ================================================= [ ] M337357 ) Phoenix CoreArchitect Helps Save Time, Money in Development [ ] M337410 ) Preparing for the Grid [ ] M340167 ) Cheng Wu Joins Ammasso Board of Directors [ ] M337412 ) Managed Network Services: The Way to Interconnect Grid Sites? 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