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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: [ ] M366726 ) Grid Computing: How Europe is Leading the Pack [ ] M368166 ) Univa's Tuecke 'Cautiously Optimistic' About Grid Standards [ ] M366107 ) GENIE Seeks Answers on Global Changes [ ] A531 ) SGI's Roadmap to Gridcomputing With Walter Stewart Download RealPlayer SPECIAL FEATURES ============================================================== [ ] M366726 ) Grid Computing: How Europe is Leading the Pack By Wolfgang Gentzsch, Contributing Author With funding for Grid projects into the hundreds of millions of dollars and a continental research network connecting more than 3,000 sites, Europe truly is dedicated to the Grid. Here, Wolfgang Gentzsch lays out the "hows" and "whys" of Europe's Grid dominance, even going so far as to call the European Grid effort "a coordinated, single economic engine preparing to compete with Asia and the United States." [ ] M368166 ) Univa's Tuecke 'Cautiously Optimistic' About Grid Standards By Derrick Harris, Editor Univa CEO and co-founder, and founding member of the Globus Alliance, Steve Tuecke speaks with GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris about Grid's standing in the enterprise realm, its evolution from the lab to the data center and what industries are best utilizing the technology. He also comments on the need for standards, calling on IT companies to work together and be willing to compromise on this front. [ ] M368159 ) Cisco to Acquire Topspin for $250 Million This acquisition strengthens Cisco's ability to provide customers with specialized networking technology and services to allow them to build their data centers in a flexible, Grid-like fashion. The Topspin product line will extend Cisco's data center switching solutions to include InfiniBand-based server switching and will complement Cisco's existing network switching and storage switching solutions. [ ] M367522 ) Grid Project Seeks to Reduce 'Brain Drain' in SE Europe Over the past decade, Southeastern European countries affected by conflict have not only lost lives on a massive scale but also intellectual capacity. By providing state-of-the-art Grid computing technology and seed money for exchange visits abroad to universities, the joint UNESCO and Hewlett-Packard project aims to encourage young scientists to remain in the region and cooperate with the diaspora. [ ] A515 ) HP: Pioneering Grid Computing's Move Into The Enterprise Market SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ============================================================ [ ] M366737 ) Satyam/Sun Solution Center to Focus on 'Hot' Paradigms This is the first such center in India that would focus on building, testing and delivering leading-edge solutions around hot technology paradigms. The Solution Center will address mutually beneficial market/business opportunities and would initially focus on identity management, Grid computing, voice-enabled solutions and J2ME applications. [ ] M366734 ) Algorithmics Unveils Algo Suite 4.5 Among the many benefits of the new suite is extended Linux and Grid computing coverage, thereby lowering the cost of ownership and allowing firms to fully utilize existing resources. [ ] M366729 ) Variable Annuity Software Apps Help Satisfy Compliance The latest VA apps were developed using the MoSes platform, a preeminent financial projection software platform. These apps are fully transparent, allowing insurers to see the actual code used to make the calculations and, in turn, to trace the calculations and ease auditability. To facilitate high-speed applications, the MoSes platform also supports distributed processing and Grid computing technology. [ ] A506 ) Want to Know the Market Potential of Grid Computing Worldwide? Request Your Free Executive Summary http://www.insight-corp.com/survey/gridtoday.htm APPLICATIONS ================================================================== [ ] M366107 ) GENIE Seeks Answers on Global Changes by Andrew Price et. al., GENIE Project GENIE (Grid ENabled Integrated Earth System Model) is a new Grid-enabled modeling framework that can compose an extensive range of Earth System Models (ESMs) for simulation over multi-millennial timescales, to study ice age cycles and long-term human-induced global change. [ ] M365446 ) Scientists Probe Space with Latest SGI Technology Among the Grid projects utilzing SGI technology are COSMOS, which is testing theories of the universe's origin, and a project at the University of California that uses NASA's Columbia system in a Grid environment to identify the role of thermonuclear instabilities in supernovae. [ ] M366052 ) ASPEED Software Ships ACCELLERANT 3.1 ASPEED's ACCELLERANT software offers financial services, pharmaceutical and other organizations that rely on computationally-intense applications unprecedented ability to allow existing programs to leverage new multi-CPU, cluster and Grid configurations, while ensuring predictable and highly scalable run times. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================= [ ] M368176 ) "I am cautiously optimistic that in the next few years a set of standards will emerge that clearly define what it means to be 'on the Grid.'" -- Steve Tuecke CEO/Co-Founder, Univa Corp. [ ] A607 ) Innovation Matters June 20-21, 2005 Sun Microsystems High Performance Computing Consortium - Europe 2005 Heidelberg, Germany http://www.sun-registration.com/hpc BREAKING NEWS ================================================================= Security [ ] M366031 ) Liberty Releases Interface Specs for ID-Based Web Services Platforms [ ] M367526 ) SAS, Intel Collaborate to Deliver Powerful BI Solution Networking [ ] M368172 ) LITE Groundbreaking Marks Innovative Collaboration [ ] M367523 ) ADVA Optical Networking Joins Internet2 [ ] M368175 ) Club iT, Alcatel Bring Grid-Based Gaming to CYTA miVision Storage [ ] M366057 ) Mellanox, Terrascale Enable Low-Cost Grid I/O [ ] M366728 ) Intransa to Expand IP-SAN Adoption in South Asia [ ] M368173 ) Digital Dimension Chooses Isilon Clustered Storage [ ] M366023 ) 3PAR Transforms Centralized Disaster Recovery Operating Systems & Middleware [ ] M366025 ) Xgrid Among Features of Apple's New 'Tiger' [ ] M365362 ) VMware Unveils Fifth-Gen Desktop Virtualization Software General [ ] M368174 ) SDSC's NEESit Introduces NEEScentral 1.0 [ ] M366055 ) W3C Presents at WWW2005 in Japan [ ] M365445 ) Callidus Appoints William B. Binch to Board of Directors [ ] M366053 ) Evident Appoints Ex-DataSynapse COO as EVP, Field Operations [ ] M366727 ) Opsware Wins Sallie Mae Contract for IT Automation JOB BANK ====================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] FL365 ) *Callidus Software, *ClearSpeed, CSC, D.E. Shaw Group, LSU, *SAIC, TACC, University of Southampton, Whitestein Technologies [ ] XJOBRATES ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations CONFERENCES & EVENTS ========================================================== [ ] A582 ) Calendar of Upcoming GRID Events (Updated 04.18.05) [ ] A603 ) Western Grid Summit 2005 April 19-20, 2005 Banff, Alberta http://www.westgrid.ca/gridsummit.html [ ] A560 ) Networld + Interop 2005 May 1 - 6, 2005 Las Vegas, NV http://www.interop.com/ [ ] A591 ) Forbes Seminar: The Business of Grid Computing May 5, 2005 The Harvard Club of New York, NY www.forbesconferences.com [ ] A572 ) CCGrid 2005: Cluster Computing and Grid http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/ccgrid2005/ Cardiff, UK (May 9-12, 2005) (Registration now Open) [ ] A590 ) Forbes Seminar: The Business of Grid Computing May 11, 2005 The City Club of San Francisco, CA www.forbesconferences.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 [ ] A381 ) HP [ ] A383 ) Intel [ ] A382 ) Sun For sponsorship information contact: Gridads@gridtoday.com ______________________________________________________________________ LAST WEEK'S TOP 5 ARTICLES ================================================= [ ] M363838 ) Stripped-Down Grid: A Lightweight Grid for the Have-Nots [ ] M363854 ) Two Sets of 'Composable' Web Services Specs to be Tested [ ] M364526 ) ActiveGrid CEO Elaborates on Innovative New Releases [ ] M362965 ) Grid Index Shows Adoption Rising Worldwide [ ] M364863 ) ActiveGrid Releases Open Source Grid Application Server ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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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