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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: [ ] M375264 ) Gelato Brings 'Linux on Itanium' Message to GridAsia [ ] M373254 ) LHC Computing Centers Join Forces for Global Grid Challenge [ ] M372621 ) Topspin Speeds Report Delivery to World's Credit Markets [ ] A515 ) HP: Pioneering Grid Computing's Move Into The Enterprise Market SPECIAL FEATURES ============================================================== [ ] M375264 ) Gelato Brings 'Linux on Itanium' Message to GridAsia By Derrick Harris, Editor GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris speaks with Gelato director Mark K. Smith about the organization in general, what Gelato and its members are up to at GridAsia, why Asia is such a hotbed for Grid, and why Linux on Itanium is the way to go. [ ] M373254 ) LHC Computing Centers Join Forces for Global Grid Challenge In a significant milestone for scientific Grid computing, eight major computing centers successfully completed a challenge to sustain a continuous data flow of 600MBps on average for 10 days from CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, to seven sites in Europe and the United States. The total amount of data transmitted during this challenge -- 500TB -- would take about 250 years to download using a typical 512 kilobit per second household broadband connection. [ ] M373935 ) Fermilab's DZero Experiment Crunches Record Data Using Grid computing, facilities in six countries around the globe have begun to provide computing power equivalent to 3,000 one-gigahertz Pentium III processors to crunch more experimental data than ever before. In six months, the computers will churn through 250TB of data -- enough to fill a stack of CDs as high as the Eiffel Tower. [ ] M374539 ) World Community Grid Powered by 100,000 Devices Recently, World Community Grid enlisted its 100,000th computer and its first university partner, Marist College, in the humanitarian effort to find answers to the world's most daunting scientific problems through unparalleled computational research provided by IBM. [ ] A506 ) Want to Know the Market Potential of Grid Computing Worldwide? Request Your Free Executive Summary http://www.insight-corp.com/survey/gridtoday.htm SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ============================================================ [ ] M372621 ) Topspin Speeds Report Delivery to World's Credit Markets Fitch Ratings deployed Topspin 90 InfiniBand-based Server Switches last fall to seamlessly interconnect its database servers into the high-performance, mission-critical Grid. Topspin's unique combination of high performance server clustering, and I/O virtualization provides Fitch Ratings with better performance and much lower costs for its Oracle 10G database. [ ] M373258 ) Reuters Intros Grid-Enabled Risk Management Solution Reuters Kondor Global Risk includes a risk engine for Monte-Carlo simulation based Potential Futures Exposures for better credit exposure analysis where traditional add-ons are too static. This computational functionality has been designed to make use of Grid technologies to ensure delivery of today's most demanding requirements for increased power and lower cost of ownership. [ ] M373936 ) Platform, Summit to Provide Grid for Risk Management Apps The integrated solution will enable Summit's Treasury and Capital Markets' customers to benefit from a highly scalable enterprise Grid solution to improve the performance of pricing, portfolio valuation and scenario analysis operations. [ ] M373915 ) Deutsche Post Simplifies Business Integration with 10g Deustche Post required a flexible infrastructure to help reduce the time and cost of integrating the company's many business systems, subsidiaries and applications, resulting from its aggressive merger and acquisition growth strategy. [ ] A607 ) Innovation Matters June 20-21, 2005 Sun Microsystems High Performance Computing Consortium - Europe 2005 Heidelberg, Germany http://www.sun-registration.com/hpc APPLICATIONS ================================================================== [ ] M372633 ) TACC, IBM UT Grid Project Celebrates Successful First Year Working in collaboration with Austin-based United Devices and the Condor Project at the University of Wisconsin, TACC and IBM have deployed two high-throughput computing resources -- Roundup and Rodeo. Both resources harness the idle cycles of PCs for use by researchers who need very large numbers of cycles on problems that can be broken apart into many smaller, independent tasks. [ ] M372703 ) World Community Grid Touted at Biology Symposium The Institute for Systems Biology announced at its 2005 international symposium on Computational Challenges in Systems Biology that ISB's Human Proteome Folding Project launched on IBM's World Community Grid in November 2004 has already predicted 50,000 protein structures. [ ] M375265 ) CrossGRID Researchers Develop Interactive Interface for Grids The most important new feature is that the system is interactive. The user works with a "virtual desktop" using commands and graphics windows that allow clear and easy access to all the resources on the Grid network, just like when someone browses through folders on a laptop computer. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================= [ ] M375266 ) "We see more Grid activity in Southeast Asia, China and South America out of necessity ... The day is quickly approaching when Europe and the U.S. will have to rely heavily on Grid computing to solve the next generation computational problems, as well." -- Mark K. Smith Director, Gelato Federation BREAKING NEWS ================================================================= Security [ ] M374543 ) Sarvega to Undergo Common Criteria EAL 4+ Evaluation [ ] M373918 ) Reactivity Demos WS-Security Interoperability Platforms [ ] M375189 ) AMD 64 Processors Deliver on Windows x64 Platform [ ] M373310 ) Verari Upgrades Octet 8-Way AMD Opteron-Based Server [ ] M372697 ) Bull to Resell Virtuozzo Server on Intel-Based Servers Networking [ ] M373257 ) Grid Helps Bring Free Public Service Content Online [ ] M372644 ) Extreme Networks Delivers Rapid Response for 10 Gb Networks [ ] M372690 ) Chelsio Delivers World Record Ethernet Performance [ ] M372698 ) Force10 Introduces 90-Port GbE Card [ ] M373129 ) Crescendo Delivers Performance Enhancements to Maestro [ ] M374542 ) LVL7 FASTPATH Supports Broadcom StrataXGS III Storage [ ] M372622 ) ExaGrid Systems Signs Four Additional Channel Partners [ ] M373131 ) 3PAR Server is Microsoft-Qualified [ ] M373306 ) Law Firm Builds Blade Server Data Center with EqualLogic Operating Systems & Middleware [ ] M372619 ) Conformative Systems Joins Four OASIS Technical Committees [ ] M373940 ) MIR3 Announces New Web Services Interface [ ] M373933 ) Synapta Services Builder exposes CICS, IMS transactions for SOA [ ] M373938 ) LogicLibrary Reports Cover Critical Components for SOAs General [ ] M372620 ) LinuxWorld Summit Educates Pharmaceutical Companies [ ] M373125 ) Sun's HPTC Traction Valued at $7B by IDC [ ] M374540 ) NSF Launches EPIC Collaboration [ ] M373144 ) SC|05 Education Program Announces May Deadline [ ] M373922 ) W3C Holds Rule Languages Workshop [ ] M374599 ) Stuart Wells to Drive Sun Grid; Youngjohns Heads to Callidus 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 05.02.05) [ ] 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 [ ] A383 ) Intel [ ] A382 ) Sun [ ] A381 ) HP For sponsorship information contact: Gridads@gridtoday.com ______________________________________________________________________ LAST WEEK'S TOP 5 ARTICLES ================================================= [ ] M369140 ) A Grid By Any Other Name [ ] M369192 ) Industry, Academia Meet on the Grid [ ] M370440 ) Australian College Developing 'Cycle-Stealing' Software [ ] M369807 ) Grid Spending by Financial Firms to Hit $1.2B, Says Report [ ] M369800 ) IBM, GemStone Speed App Deployment in Blade Environments ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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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