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For subscription information, email gridfree@gridtoday.com All comments regarding content should be sent to: grideditor@gridtoday.com -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] A649 ) Making Grids Easy The Sun Grid Rack System is Ready to Deploy: * Powerful AMD x64 architecture * Runs your Solaris, Linux, and Windows applications faster! * Integrated at the factory -- just plug into your network IN THIS ISSUE: [ ] M386288 ) Larry Smarr on Future of Grid, Cyberinfrastructure [ ] M383424 ) Grid, HPC and SOA: The Real Thing? [ ] M386366 ) IBM Looking to Localize Grid [ ] A515 ) HP: Pioneering Grid Computing's Move Into The Enterprise Market SPECIAL FEATURES ============================================================== [ ] M386288 ) Larry Smarr on Future of Grid, Cyberinfrastructure By Derrick Harris, Editor In this Q&A, Larry Smarr, director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and NCSA founding director, discusses, among other things, the effects LambdaGrids will have on Grid computing, the timeline for a legitimate cyberinfrastructure in the United States and what he calls the "Third Era" for campus infrastructure. [ ] M383424 ) Grid, HPC and SOA: The Real Thing? By Labro Dimitriou, Contributing Author In this article, Labro Dimitriou, a Grid specialist with Platform Computing, discusses why Grid and SOA are here to stay. He also describes the technology "product stack" in order to identify strategic from tactical, and proposes best practices techniques for securing ROI and offering resilience to change and early adoption risks. [ ] M386366 ) IBM Looking to Localize Grid By Derrick Harris, Editor Although it's not on a philanthropic level with Big Blue's World Community Grid, IBM's Economic Development Grid initiative does seek to help out local governments and economies by bringing them the power of the Grid. Projects have already been announced in Cleveland, and IBM's Ken King says the wheels are in motion in other cities, as well. [ ] M386232 ) CCGrid 2005 Recap: The Closest Thing to Being There By Omer Rana, Cardiff University, et al If you missed the 5th IEEE Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2005), which was held May 9-12 in Cardiff, Wales, fear not. This article gives a detailed summary of the meetings and sessions that took place during the event, where the Grid portion "dominated" despite an effort to have equal cluster representation. [ ] A516 ) Creating a Virtual Worldwide Network Of Grid Computing Power - INTEL - SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ============================================================ [ ] M384085 ) DMTF, EGA Announce Partnership Under the agreement, these two leading industry consortia will cross-leverage each organization's domain expertise to help the DMTF's Common Information Model (CIM) continue to address enterprise Grid needs, and help enable EGA's utility accounting and provisioning requirements specific to enterprise Grid environments to complement the DMTF's work. [ ] M384079 ) DataSynapse, Tata Consultancy Services Form Partnership Under the terms of the agreement, TCS will promote, support and implement DataSynapse's GridServer software, providing customers with a highly scalable IT infrastructure able to solve application processing problems in real time for improved productivity, system optimization and business gain. [ ] M384090 ) Sun Launches SOA Services The initiative, called SOA Path, is designed to help customers practice, adapt, transform and hone their Java Web services using a pragmatic approach that delivers incremental, affordable benefits based on standards-based solutions. [ ] M386294 ) Gridbus Project Releases Grid Service Broker 2.0 The Grid Service Broker mediates access to distributed "autonomous" resources. It provides a declarative and dynamic parametric programming model and a rich set of Java APIs for creating Grid apps. It also allows programmers to create a user-level scheduler plugins that can replace default computational and data Grid scheduling algorithms that support service price-based resource allocation. [ ] 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 ================================================================== [ ] M383431 ) Grid's Role in Simulation Environments By Tomasz Haupt, CAVS, Mississippi State University In this article, Tomasz Haupt of the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS) at MSU discusses The Environment for Fire and Smoke Simulations, a system developed by CAVS for the Naval Research Laboratory. This simulation environment is being used by NRL as a design tool to perform virtual vulnerability tests of the new generation of ships and virtual tests of effectiveness of new fire suppression systems. [ ] M384762 ) EGEE Speeds Up Hunt for New Malaria Drugs The number of malaria cases and deaths has increased in many parts of the world, mainly because the most widely used drug, Chloroquine, has been rendered useless by drug resistance and because the mosquitoes that carry malaria have become increasingly resistant to common insecticides. In molecular biology research, parasite proteins have been identified which are potential targets for drugs against malaria. [ ] M383442 ) LBNL Technology Speeds Up Searches of Large Databases A search technology developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory makes the job of speeding up the searching process to quickly locate interesting events while ignoring millions of others much easier. [ ] M385623 ) NIAID to Deploy 160-Site inSORS Grid Solution The National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has chosen the inSORS Grid platform for a 160-site deployment. The total sites connected should grow to over 1,000 in the near term. The NIAID is managing a high-profile grant for research into biodefense techniques. [ ] M386293 ) Hungarian ClusterGrid Project using EtherDrive Storage Blades The ClusterGrid Project, which integrates Intel processor PCs into a single, large, countrywide interconnected set of clusters, uses EtherDrive Storage Blades for highly scalable storage support. EtherDrive storage easily accommodates storage needs of the mostly Linux operating system. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================= [ ] M386299 ) "The reason the Grid movement is radical is mainly sociological, in my view. It requires us to give up personal ownership of our hardware and live off the resources of others -- a much more collectivistic mentality than most are willing to entertain." -- Larry Smarr Director, Calit2 [ ] 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 [ ] M383510 ) WS-I Promotes Security Document to Final Material Status [ ] M384726 ) ClearCube PC Blades Aid Computer Security at LANL Platforms [ ] M386292 ) Bull Announces Eight-Processor Ultra Compact Servers [ ] M384095 ) Cassatt Teams with NEC America on Blade Server Management [ ] M384096 ) New Fujitsu Servers Feature Processors Exceeding 2 GHz [ ] M384078 ) Opsware Announces Breakthrough Technology [ ] M383418 ) Raza Licenses MIPS64 Architecture for Next-Gen Processors Networking [ ] M384191 ) Internet Speed Records Set [ ] M384093 ) Library of Congress Joins Internet2 [ ] M384771 ) InfiniCon Systems Rebrands as SilverStorm Technologies Storage [ ] M385624 ) Princeton Softech Expands Support for HP ILM Solution [ ] M384087 ) Scali Launches Heterogenous Cluster, Storage Management Suite [ ] M383416 ) PolyServe Integrated into HP Clustered Enterprise Solution Operating Systems & Middleware [ ] M384080 ) OASIS Committee to Standardize Software Installation [ ] M384077 ) China's GMRC Gets on Board with ObjectWeb [ ] M383438 ) NetBeans IDE Offers Complete Java Platform Support [ ] M383509 ) Actional Introduces Next Step in SOA Migration Solution General [ ] M386289 ) Tony Hey Joins Microsoft [ ] M385622 ) TACC Launches Int'l Partnership Program in Advanced Computing [ ] M384081 ) Cisco Completes Topspin Acquisition [ ] M386291 ) ASPEED's Ziegler Presents 3 Case Studies at LinuxWorld JOB BANK ====================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] FL365 ) BlueArc, Bycast, ClearSpeed, D.E. Shaw Group, LSU, Mountain View Data, NCAR, SAIC, TACC, Texas A&M, Whitestein Technologies [ ] XJOBRATES ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations CONFERENCES & EVENTS ========================================================== [ ] A582 ) Calendar of Upcoming GRID Events (Updated 05.16.05) [ ] 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/ [ ] A654 ) SC|05 - Gateway to Discovery November 12-18, 2005 Seattle, Washington, USA Housing Now Open to All Attendees! http://sc05.supercomputing.org/travel ______________________________________________________________________ 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 For sponsorship information contact: Gridads@gridtoday.com ______________________________________________________________________ LAST WEEK'S TOP 5 ARTICLES ================================================= [ ] M382398 ) Grid Licensing: Life in the Middleware Jungle [ ] M382455 ) Grids Playing Prominent Role in Life Science Research [ ] M382449 ) EGA Reference Model: A Closer Look [ ] M382409 ) Where Will Grid Go for Reliable Messaging? 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