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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: [ ] M356563 ) GGF Looks to Future with Three-Fold Focus [ ] M356619 ) Working Toward a Semantic Grid [ ] M354717 ) Platform CEO: Chinese Grid Market to Parallel Economic Growth [ ] A531 ) SGI's Roadmap to Gridcomputing With Walter Stewart Download RealPlayer SPECIAL FEATURES ============================================================== [ ] M356563 ) GGF Looks to Future with Three-Fold Focus By Mark Linesch, Contributing Editor GGF chair Mark Linesch discusses recent strategic work and discussions, out of which emerged a three-fold focus to enable the GGF's mission to "lead the pervasive adoption of Grid computing for research and industry." The elements of this focus are: Community involvement; Standards; and Operational Efficiency." [ ] M356619 ) Working Toward a Semantic Grid By Tony Hey, Contributing Editor In this article, Tony Hey, director of e-Science for the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council, discusses a recent paper wherein the authors outline the 12 key concepts for the semantic Grid, and five key technologies that some U.K. e-Science projects are using to address these requirements. [ ] M354717 ) Platform CEO: Chinese Grid Market to Parallel Economic Growth By Derrick Harris, Editor Recently, Platform Computing announced its increased presence in China, including two big new research customers and an increased headcount in the country. Here, Songnian Zhou, CEO and co-founder of Platform Computing, speaks with GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris about, among other things, why China is such an important market and what verticals are driving Grid adoption. [ ] A516 ) Creating a Virtual Worldwide Network Of Grid Computing Power - INTEL - SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ============================================================ [ ] M354702 ) HP Helps NASDAQ Prepare for Growth Turning to HP and its powerful portfolio, NASDAQ will implement a range of HP solutions to build an Adaptive Enterprise in which business and IT are synchronized to capitalize on change. Under terms of the agreement, NASDAQ purchased more than 500 processors for its HP NonStop servers running HP OpenView enterprise management software designed to deliver 24-7 operations and consistent monitoring. [ ] M355233 ) Informatica Joins Enterprise Grid Alliance Informatica's EGA membership reinforces the company's commitment to Grid computing, which helps customers leverage existing hardware server assets to increase IT responsiveness and enhance data integration performance and cost-effectiveness. [ ] 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 ================================================================== [ ] M355772 ) Good Prospects By J. William Bell, NCSA Access Magazine Editor Using TeraGrid resources, a multidisciplinary team from UT, The Ohio State University, and Rutgers University is at work on software tools that improve companies' oil reservoir management. The tools allow them to better exploit existing reservoirs, find new reservoirs and minimize drilling's adverse environmental impact. [ ] M356549 ) IBM Accelerates Grid Across Automotive, Transport Industries Land Rover and ZJ Transportation, with assistance from IBM Business Consulting Services, are utilizing new Grid computing-based solutions built on IBM's engineering and design collaboration offering that are designed to increase competitive advantage, speed time-to-market and reduce operating costs. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================= [ ] M357085 ) "The Grid market in China parallels the country's adoption of IT -- relatively early stage, uneven, large-scale and poised for rapid growth." -- Songnian Zhou CEO/Co-Founder, Platform Computing BREAKING NEWS ================================================================= Security [ ] M354660 ) Indiana Selects McAfee to Safegaurd Cybersecurity Program [ ] M354679 ) Novell Delivers on Identity-Driven Computing Strategy [ ] M355249 ) Forum Systems Signs Agreement w/ Ness Technologies Platforms [ ] M356551 ) Dell Unveils New Four-Processor Servers, Software, Services [ ] M355756 ) VMware, IBM Drive More Value into Blade Servers [ ] M355231 ) Sychron to Demo Policy-Based Utility Computing Networking [ ] M355214 ) Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium Doubles in Size [ ] M356552 ) Opsware Integrates with Micromuse Netcool Storage [ ] M355228 ) HP Enhances StorageWorks Grid Architecture [ ] M354701 ) EqualLogic PeerStorage Array Certified w/ CA BrightStor Operating Systems & Middleware [ ] M354669 ) New OMII Grid Middleware Available for Redhat [ ] M354681 ) Novell, JBoss Expand Partnership [ ] M355232 ) Reactivity Extends XML Web Services Infrastructure into SOA [ ] M354662 ) OSDL Enters Fast-Growing Korean Linux Market General [ ] M356627 ) Strategic Deals Drive Growth for Oracle During Third Quarter [ ] M355230 ) Sun Names New Execs [ ] M356547 ) Research and Markets: Analysis of Japan Web Services 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/ [ ] A572 ) CCGrid 2005: Cluster Computing and Grid http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/ccgrid2005/ Cardiff, UK (May 9-12, 2005) (Registration now Open) [ ] 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 [ ] A383 ) Intel [ ] A382 ) Sun [ ] A381 ) HP [ ] A384 ) SGI For sponsorship information contact: Gridads@gridtoday.com ______________________________________________________________________ LAST WEEK'S TOP 5 ARTICLES ================================================= [ ] M352617 ) The Path to Grid-Friendly Software Licensing [ ] M352603 ) World's Largest Computing Grid Surpasses 100 Sites [ ] M353345 ) The 451 Group: Licensing an Obstacle to Grid App Deployment [ ] M351436 ) Einstein@Home to Exceed 55,000 Users on Einstein's Birthday [ ] M353346 ) Panel at HPCC to Include Grid Luminaries, Including Catlett ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RETRIEVING ARTICLES To retrieve articles: Insert an x or an X (no other characters, please) within the square brackets adjacent to article(s). 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