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For subscription information, email gridfree@gridtoday.com All comments regarding content should be sent to: grideditor@gridtoday.com -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] A515 ) HP: Pioneering Grid Computing's Move Into The Enterprise Market IN THIS ISSUE: [ ] M352617 ) The Path to Grid-Friendly Software Licensing [ ] M352603 ) World's Largest Computing Grid Surpasses 100 Sites [ ] M353346 ) Panel at HPCC to Include Grid Luminaries, Including Catlett [ ] A531 ) SGI's Roadmap to Gridcomputing With Walter Stewart Download RealPlayer SPECIAL FEATURES ============================================================== [ ] M352617 ) The Path to Grid-Friendly Software Licensing By Brooklin J. Gore, Contributing Editor In this article, Brooklin J. Gore, senior fellow at Micron Technology Inc., discusses how different licensing models might be used in Grid environments. Gore suggests the most expeditious path to fully-Grid-enabled applications is for application vendors to first address Grid-unfriendly licensing models and then address the associated technical issues. [ ] M353345 ) The 451 Group: Licensing an Obstacle to Grid App Deployment The 451 Group believes current enterprise software licensing models are throttling Grid computing deployments and that these models, which have been built around legacy concepts of enterprise application use, are presenting an increasing problem for enterprise IT managers as they pursue implementations of Grid applications. [ ] M352603 ) World's Largest Computing Grid Surpasses 100 Sites The Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG) project announced that the computing Grid it is operating now includes more than 100 sites in 31 countries. This makes it the world's largest international scientific Grid. [ ] M352675 ) WS-I Advances BSP Documents, Explores New Items By Alan J. Weissberger, Contributing Editor Alan Weissberger attended the WS-I Community Meeting, which was held March 8-11 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and offers a report of what was covered. Among the highlights was a representative of the Burton Group who stated that over 70 percent of its Fortune 300 clients recognize the value of WS-I deliverables and are including them in their IT requirements. [ ] M353346 ) Panel at HPCC to Include Grid Luminaries, Including Catlett Grid Strategies Inc. CEO Mike Bernhardt will moderate a panel discussion at the High Performance Computing and Communications Conference that includes: Charlie Catlett, senior fellow at ANL; Stephen Wheat, principal scientist in Intel's HPC program office; Wolfgang Gentzsch, managing director of Grid computing and networking services for MCNC; and Walter Stewart, coordinator of SGI's global Grid strategy. [ ] A516 ) Creating a Virtual Worldwide Network Of Grid Computing Power - INTEL - SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ============================================================ [ ] M352602 ) Satyam Joins Hands with United Devices Satyam Computer Services Ltd. announced its global strategic alliance with United Devices (UD), a United States-based provider of secure Grid solutions. Satyam is a global partner of United Devices and the scope of the alliance extends to solution implementation, technical services, training and professional services. [ ] M352582 ) Microsoft Announces Digital Pharma Initiative The solutions framework is launched with the support of more than 18 life sciences solutions companies, all of which have committed to delivering solutions and services that align with the Digital Pharma vision and use Microsoft's .NET Framework, the programming model for building Extensible Markup Language (XML) Web services and applications. [ ] 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 APPLICATIONS ================================================================== [ ] M351436 ) Einstein@Home to Exceed 55,000 Users on Einstein's Birthday Only three weeks after its Feb. 19 kick-off, the Einstein@Home gravitational wave detection program is one of the fastest growing distributed computing projects in the world, adding roughly a thousand users a day. [ ] M352641 ) Students Help Design, Manage Weather-Sensing Radar System The students, working with the Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) in the UMass College of Engineering, are building an array of sensors, called a test bed, that produces very accurate rainfall data to be used to predict flooding, wind fields, and for crop hydrology. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================= [ ] M353917 ) "Customers will need to consider licensing issues when they make purchasing decisions, while the vendors will need to provide an abstract resource model that accommodates applications being run on virtual resources as in the case of Grid computing." -- William Fellows Principal Analyst, The 451 Group BREAKING NEWS ================================================================= Security [ ] M351437 ) Members Approve SAML v2.0 as OASIS Standard [ ] M352595 ) Forum Opens New Offices in Europe to Address Security Demand Platforms [ ] M352594 ) MEW-IS Offers Hosting Services Based on Egenera BladeFrame [ ] M353920 ) Dutch Chambers of Commerce Chooses IBM for Virtualization Networking [ ] M352627 ) U.S. DoE Selects NLR for Next-Generation Backbone Network [ ] M352605 ) Voltaire Solutions Deployed by HP in Utility Computing Center [ ] M352578 ) Extreme Networks Delivers 10 GbE Network to Agere Systems [ ] M352581 ) Forbes.com Expands with Foundry Solutions Storage [ ] M352601 ) Intransa Program Builds on Storage Grid Architecture Operating Systems & Middleware [ ] M352583 ) webMethods Contributes to W3C Web Services Recommendations [ ] M351438 ) SCO OpenServer 6 Prepares for Release [ ] M351427 ) BEA Leads Industry in Java Performance Benchmark Records [ ] M351499 ) Opsware Automation w/ SUSE LINUX Helps Lower TCO General [ ] M351433 ) Call for Papers: Int'l Workshop on Autonomic Grid Networking [ ] M352607 ) SimDesk Highlights Utility Computing Model at Conference [ ] M352606 ) Akamai to Acquire Speedera Networks 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 ========================================================== [ ] A521 ) USENIX's Annual Technical Conference 2005 April 10-15, 2005 Anaheim, California http://www.usenix.org/usenix05/hpc [ ] A560 ) Networld + Interop 2005 May 1 - 6, 2005 Las Vegas, NV http://www.interop.com/ [ ] A502 ) Bio-IT World Conference & Expo May 17-19, 2005 Hynes Convention Center, Boston,MA http://www.bioitworldexpo.com [ ] A537 ) FiRe 2005 Future in Review: A Strategic News Service Conference May 23-26, 2005 San Diego, CA http://www.futureinreview.com/ [ ] A567 ) Security '05 14th USENIX Security Symposium August 1-5, 2005 Baltimore, Maryland http://www.usenix.org/events/sec05/ ______________________________________________________________________ Full background information on all sponsoring companies Firms marked with an * have updated their info in the last 30 days [ ] A382 ) Sun [ ] A383 ) Intel [ ] A381 ) HP [ ] A384 ) SGI For sponsorship information contact: Gridads@gridtoday.com ______________________________________________________________________ LAST WEEK'S TOP 5 ARTICLES ================================================= [ ] M350223 ) Why is Project MegaGrid so MegaQuiet? [ ] M349591 ) Walter Stewart on SGI's Role in Ever-Evolving World of Grid [ ] M350221 ) IBM Provides Access to Blue Gene Supercomputer On Demand [ ] M350215 ) New Solutions Extend SGI'S Drive to Advance Grid Computing [ ] M348953 ) First Industrial Application Running on EGEE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RETRIEVING ARTICLES To retrieve articles: 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. For help, send an email message to Gridhelp@Gridtoday.com and state problem. GRIDtoday is available on the WWW at http://Gridtoday.com/ -------- Modify your preferences or unsubscribe here: http://news.tgc.com/al.jsp?vk=IFzix6Fu&un=dolinsky@gsu.by&an=360