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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: [ ] M389414 ) Security, Security, Security [ ] M390691 ) ASPEED Exec Teaches Lesson in Grid-Enablement [ ] M388585 ) OSG Considers Essentials for U.S. LHC Collaborators [ ] A515 ) HP: Pioneering Grid Computing's Move Into The Enterprise Market SPECIAL FEATURES ============================================================== [ ] M389414 ) Security, Security, Security By Tony Hey, Contributing Author Security is a major issue in Grid computing, and in this article, Tony Hey, director of the U.K. e-Science Program, gives his two cents on the issue. He also recaps a recent meeting in London where experts from around the world gathered to discuss the various problems and issues surrounding Grid security. [ ] M390691 ) ASPEED Exec Teaches Lesson in Grid-Enablement By Derrick Harris, Editor In this interview, Kurt Ziegler, ASPEED Software's executive vice president of marketing and product management, speaks with GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris about Ziegler's recent whitepaper, "Designing Distributed Parallel Programs for Performance," and about the Grid market in general -- especially from ASPEED's position as a provider of application acceleration software. [ ] A516 ) Creating a Virtual Worldwide Network Of Grid Computing Power - INTEL - SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ============================================================ [ ] M387304 ) Base One Launches Information Sharing for Grid Computing This new release significantly extends Base One's successful software for developing Windows applications, by enabling the secure and easy sharing of information within and between enterprises running applications on totally different data base platforms. [ ] M387923 ) AXS-One Compliance Platform 3.5 Leverages Grid Computing The new offering features patent-pending Rapid-AXS, search technology that delivers groundbreaking "rapid access" search performance across massive volumes of archived data, leveraging low-cost commodity hardware. Rapid-AXS was designed to take advantage of Grid computing architecture to deliver fast and tunable search performance. [ ] 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 ================================================================== [ ] M388585 ) OSG Considers Essentials for U.S. LHC Collaborators By Katie Yurkewicz, Editor, Science Grid This Week The Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland will start taking data in about two years. What services will the Open Science Grid need to provide in order for U.S. particle physicists to make the most of the data from the LHC? This was the focus of the U.S. LHC OSG Technology Roadmap meeting, held May 4-5 at the University of Wisconsin. [ ] M388578 ) SDSC's TeraGrid Systems Enables 14-Billion-Year Sky Survey The simulation, which was most highly defined spatial and temporal simulation of the universe, was created using Enzo, a parallel, 3-D cosmology hydrodynamics code, and took place during a 48-hour period and involved more than 10,000 CPU hours on the center's TeraGrid system. [ ] M388592 ) Researchers Get $115,000 Grid/Cyberinfrastructure Grant Two University of Iowa (UI) researchers recently received about $115,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Department of Energy (DOE) for work in 2005 that may help link U.S. scientists to particle physics experiments in Europe and make the UI a powerhouse in data-intensive, scientific computing. [ ] M389970 ) Assoc. for Computing Machinery Joins World Community Grid ACM will encourage its 80,000 members worldwide to donate their idle computing time to World Community Grid in an effort to find answers to some of the world's most challenging problems through unparalleled computational research provided by IBM. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================= [ ] M390693 ) "I think that the challenge to adoption is that the notion of spreading applications across the enterprise's computers is being looked at as an 'all or nothing' proposition by some." -- Kurt Ziegler EVP of Marketing, Product Development, ASPEED Software [ ] 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 [ ] M387408 ) Sarvega Improves XML Security, Performance Platforms [ ] M389476 ) AMD Releases 'Pacifica' Specification [ ] M389482 ) Intel Delivers New Features for Desktop Processors Networking [ ] M388593 ) IGIB to Use Voltaire Grid Interconnect in HP Supercomputer [ ] M387343 ) SYSTIMAX Solutions Takes Calamos Investments to 10 Gb/s [ ] M387302 ) SDSC, Calit2 Open Synthesis Center [ ] M388668 ) Fujitsu Announces Latest 10 GbE Switch Chip Storage [ ] M388595 ) ExaGrid Chosen by Engineering Firm VHB for Data Protection [ ] M388568 ) Brocade to Expand SAN Connectivity for Intel Blade Server Operating Systems & Middleware [ ] M388602 ) ObjectFX to Participate in WS Interoperability Initiative [ ] M387305 ) Reactivity Securely Breaks Large XML Message Barrier General [ ] M389473 ) GGF Seeking Applicants for International Grid School [ ] M389969 ) Future of Semantic Grid to be Discussed at Int'l Meeting [ ] M387306 ) Introducing the National Digital Medical Archive [ ] M389479 ) Access Grid to Power 'Emerging Technologies' at SIGGRAPH [ ] M387294 ) Prudhomme to Lead Applied Social Science Efforts [ ] M387921 ) Eleven Chosen as NCSA/UIUC Faculty Fellows 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 Guidelines CONFERENCES & EVENTS ========================================================== [ ] A582 ) Calendar of Upcoming GRID Events (Updated 05.16.05) [ ] 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: promote@gridtoday.com ______________________________________________________________________ LAST WEEK'S TOP 5 ARTICLES ================================================= [ ] M386288 ) Larry Smarr on Future of Grid, Cyberinfrastructure [ ] M383424 ) Grid, HPC and SOA: The Real Thing? 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