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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: [ ] M369140 ) A Grid By Any Other Name [ ] M369192 ) Industry, Academia Meet on the Grid [ ] M369807 ) Grid Spending by Financial Firms to Hit $1.2B, Says Report [ ] A531 ) SGI's Roadmap to Gridcomputing With Walter Stewart Download RealPlayer SPECIAL FEATURES ============================================================== [ ] M369140 ) A Grid By Any Other Name An opinion column by Mike Bernhardt At the recent HPCC conference, "Grid" was undoubtedly one of the hottest topics and is viewed by a number of industry leaders as enabling a possible convergence of HPC and mainstream computing. In this column, GRIDtoday columnist Mike Bernhardt discusses recent observations -- and his opinion that it's important not to get hung up on the definition of Grid. [ ] M369192 ) Industry, Academia Meet on the Grid By Owen Appleton, CERN Industry and academia are not always the most natural of collaborators, but in the field of Grid computing, things may be changing. This week Owen Appleton looks at CGG, a geophysical services company, and speaks to Dominique Thomas, its software development manager. [ ] M370440 ) Australian College Developing 'Cycle-Stealing' Software Supported by a grant from Microsoft, researchers from Queensland University of Technology have developed a framework called G2, which supports the creation of secure "cycle stealing" networks on the Internet. It allows people to contribute computing power using nothing more than a Web browser. [ ] A515 ) HP: Pioneering Grid Computing's Move Into The Enterprise Market SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ============================================================ [ ] M369807 ) Grid Spending by Financial Firms to Hit $1.2B, Says Report With current technology spending for the utility data center/Grid at $88 million, comprised of $48 million for software and $41 million in services, TABB Group currently projects that this market will increase by as much as 1,400 percent to $1.2 billion by 2010. [ ] M369809 ) Digipede Announces Public Beta Program The public beta program provides users with a powerful software tool that parcels out the most complex computing jobs within a department, or across an entire enterprise network, by dynamically allocating the computing power of both dedicated and idle resources. [ ] M370418 ) Avue Technologies Streamlines with Oracle 10g After evaluating a number of products, Avue found that Oracle BPEL Process Manager was the only product with out-of-the-box functionality providing the tightest integration with Avue's existing technology systems. Moving forward, Avue plans to use Oracle software to provide the foundation for its Grid infrastructure. [ ] M371377 ) Key OEMs Support AMD Dual-Core Opteron AMD has launched the first enterprise-class x86 dual-core processor for servers and workstations. In support of the announcement of the Dual-Core Opteron, the company announced key OEM and system builder customers that will introduce a broad portfolio of server and workstation dual-core solutions. [ ] 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 ================================================================== [ ] M369119 ) InforSense, BioTeam to Deliver Grid For Bioinformatics The companies will work to integrate the BioTeam's informatics clustering kit, iNquiry, with InforSense's workflow-based integrative analytics environment, InforSense KDE, to provide the world's first high performance Grid computing environment for bioinformatics study in life science industrial and research organizations. [ ] M370431 ) Dutch Research Lab Tests Grid Potential GridXpert helped the Netherlands-based Philips Research Laboratories with a project to investigate the potentials of deploying Grid computing technology within the Philips Research community. They used Philips' Positron Emission Tomography system simulation tools to illustrate the advantages. [ ] M369198 ) Pancreatic Cancer Latest Target of P2P Computer Campaign Through the Screensaver-LifeSaver project's collaborative international network of "Laboratories without Walls," pancreatic researchers will work with several newly identified protein targets related to the development of pancreatic cancer. [ ] M369120 ) GridIron, Microsoft Unveil X-Factor for Windows Media Encoder For digital post-production professionals working in film-quality and HD (high-definition) formats, X-Factor for Windows Media Encoder takes advantage of the superior quality and compression of the Windows Media Format with the same or better encoding speed than for standard definition on a single computer. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================= [ ] M370441 ) "We need the large manufacturers, like IBM or HP, to really invest in [Grid stnadards]. We need standards, and we can't afford to change our software every two or three years as they change. I think these standards need to come from industry, so we need to wait for [large IT companies], to say 'we fully support this.'" -- Dominique Thomas Software Development Manager, Compagnie General de Geophyisique [ ] 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 [ ] M370521 ) 14 Vendors Collaborate on WS-Security [ ] M369811 ) Forum Intros Forum Federal Information Assurance Gateway 4.3 [ ] M369103 ) Liberty Alliance Extends Interoperable Testing Program [ ] M371994 ) Enterasys Debuts New Router for Security Platforms [ ] M369800 ) IBM, GemStone Speed App Deployment in Blade Environments [ ] M369117 ) Dual Core Era Begins [ ] M369121 ) Tsunami Research Changes Name, Announces New Solution [ ] M369202 ) Appro Blade Servers to Support Dual-Core Opteron Processors [ ] M369100 ) Azul Unveils Network Attached Processing Compute Appliance [ ] M370412 ) InterSystems, Egenera Form Alliance [ ] M372009 ) Wolfram Research Optimizes for AMD64 Platforms Networking [ ] M370409 ) Internet2, HP Support National HOPI Testbed [ ] M369204 ) China, Russia, U.S. Build, Manage Fiber-Optic Network [ ] M370413 ) ReelTime, Scream Networks Create Gridcast Platform [ ] M369105 ) Foundry Announces Package for App Switching, SSL Acceleration [ ] M370414 ) Voltaire Demos Virtual Data Center Solution [ ] M371378 ) Wurd Media Teams with LX Systems Storage [ ] M370422 ) Popular Telephony Announces PeerioData P2P Data Storage App Operating Systems & Middleware [ ] M369808 ) IBM, Microsoft, Others to Submit WS-RM to OASIS [ ] M369106 ) Fidelity Adopts IFX as Enterprise Messaging Standard [ ] M369109 ) Systinet Simplifies SOA with GIF [ ] M369108 ) SOA Software Offers Free Registry [ ] M371379 ) Sun Delivers Java ES 3 [ ] M371995 ) Neon Glows over Oracle General [ ] M369866 ) IBM Paves Way for Mainstream Adoption of Autonomic Computing [ ] M369867 ) Towns to lead Persistent Infrastructure Directorate at NCSA 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 04.25.05) [ ] 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 ================================================= [ ] M366726 ) Grid Computing: How Europe is Leading the Pack [ ] M368166 ) Univa's Tuecke 'Cautiously Optimistic' About Grid Standards [ ] M368159 ) Cisco to Acquire Topspin for $250 Million [ ] M367522 ) Grid Project Seeks to Reduce 'Brain Drain' in SE Europe [ ] M366107 ) GENIE Seeks Answers on Global Changes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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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