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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: [ ] M403561 ) Pharma Grids Facing Obstacles Aplenty [ ] M403500 ) Grid Community Must 'Get Security Story Straight' [ ] M398562 ) Univa Spearheads Enterprise Enhancements to Globus Toolkit [ ] A515 ) HP: Pioneering Grid Computing's Move Into The Enterprise Market SPECIAL FEATURES ============================================================== [ ] M403561 ) Pharma Grids Facing Obstacles Aplenty By Derrick Harris, Editor If you haven't had the chance to read The 451 Group's recently released report on Grid adoption in the pharmaceutical industry, don't panic. GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris spoke with Steve Wallage, director of research at The 451 Group, about it. Wallage offers some great insights into who's using Grids, why some are not and what vendors can do to get a foothold in this potentially large Grid market. [ ] M403500 ) Grid Community Must 'Get Security Story Straight' By Derrick Harris, Editor With GGF14 in Chicago just a week away, GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris spoke with GGF chair Mark Linesch about where certain aspects of the Grid market stand heading into the conference. A complement to Linesch's article on the future of the OGSA in last week's issue, this Q&A focuses on Grid standards and security, and how they affect adoption in both the academic/research and enterprise/industry sectors. [ ] M402583 ) Grid: The Future of Enterprise Information Processing By Michael J. Andrescavage, Andrescavage Software Michael J. Andrescavage, chief software architect of Andrescavage Software Inc., discusses how enterprise information processing systems have become so complex and why Grid computing is the key to reining in the ever-increasing complexity. [ ] A516 ) Creating a Virtual Worldwide Network Of Grid Computing Power - INTEL - SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ============================================================ [ ] M398562 ) Univa Spearheads Enterprise Enhancements to Globus Toolkit Univa announced that the Globus Consortium has commissioned Univa to add enterprise-level functionality to the Globus Toolkit 4.0 software. Among the projects underway are a priority bug-fixing system, Web service execution management standards and globalization support. [ ] M399286 ) Platform Hosts Top Investment Banks to Plan for Enterprise Grid At Platform's first Financial Services Customer Advisory Council the Council senior management from eight major investment banking and insurance firms came together to explore the future of grid technology in the financial services industry and to discuss their achievements, best practices and requirements going forward. [ ] M399200 ) DataSynapse, Summit Systems Scale Risk Analysis Combining the strength of DataSynapse's infrastructure software, GridServer, with Summit Systems' trading, operations and risk management platform, the integrated solution improves application performance, resilience and time to market, driving cost savings and revenue generating opportunities for financial services firms. [ ] M399204 ) Platform, Macrovision Optimize Grid Software Licensing The new solution provides mutual customers the highest degree of license awareness and control, allowing dynamic allocation of application licenses based on business and development project priorities to optimize their existing Grid computing implementations. [ ] 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 ================================================================== [ ] M399239 ) WestGrid, SHARCNET Move Toward Canadian Supercomputer Network While this first step does not yet fully integrate WestGrid's and SHARCNET's facilities into a unified computing "Grid," the dedicated high bandwidth connection means researchers and scientists working at member institutions can share and transmit massive amounts of data, with virtually no constraints on bandwidth. [ ] M402368 ) PSA Peugeot Citroen Advances Grid Strategy w/ Platform PSA Peugeot Citroen, the second largest European manufacturer of passenger cars and utility vehicles, will use Platform LSF-HPC to speed up its design process and crash test simulation to enable faster development of safe, quality vehicles, while reducing the operational costs associated with automotive design. [ ] M403549 ) EGEE Makes Rapid Earthquake Analysis Possible Using the advanced Grid infrastructure of the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project, researchers at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), France, were able to analyze, within 30 hours of it occurring, the large Indonesian earthquake that struck on March 28. [ ] A607 ) Innovation Matters June 20-21, 2005 Sun Microsystems High Performance Computing Consortium - Europe 2005 Heidelberg, Germany http://www.sun-registration.com/hpc QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================= [ ] M403503 ) "It is difficult to find oil, create new drugs, develop new risk instruments or deliver new network-based services without being an aggressive user of IT. We are seeing quite a bit of interest from all these verticals along with the telco and manufacturing industries, but it is difficult to call the [Grid adoption] race at this point." -- Mark Linesch Chair, Global Grid Forum BREAKING NEWS ================================================================= Security [ ] M398561 ) Web Services Authentication Still a Home-Grown Affair [ ] M399215 ) Forum Systems Achieves Certification from Check Point Platforms [ ] M399216 ) Intel Software Tools Unlock Potential of Multi-Core Platforms [ ] M399876 ) IBM eServer Cluster 1350 Offers Broad Portfolio Networking [ ] M399198 ) European Commission to Speed Up GEANT2 Research Network [ ] M399303 ) SDSC Group Supports International GLORIAD Network [ ] M399205 ) Akamai Completes Acquisition of Speedera Networks [ ] M399213 ) Opsware, nLayers to Offer Real-Time Service Discovery Storage [ ] M399210 ) Endavo Expands Entertainment Product Line with EnHance Operating Systems & Middleware [ ] M403548 ) ActiveGrid Forges Best-of-Breed LAMP Partnerships [ ] M398565 ) Tripos Embraces Service-Oriented Informatics [ ] M399193 ) Eclipse Approves Device Software Development Platform Project [ ] M399863 ) Sun Addresses SOA Governance with Sun Service Registry [ ] M402369 ) MRO Maximo Suite Delivers Standards-Based Web Services General [ ] M403501 ) Undergrads to Research CI at Pacific Rim Universities [ ] M403550 ) ASPEED Clears Path to Optimizing Application Performance JOB BANK ====================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] FL365 ) CSCS, D.E. Shaw Group, Informatica, LSU, Mountain View Data, TACC, Univa, Utah State University [ ] 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 [ ] A383 ) Intel [ ] A382 ) Sun [ ] A381 ) HP For sponsorship information contact: promote@gridtoday.com ______________________________________________________________________ LAST WEEK'S TOP 5 ARTICLES ================================================= [ ] M396791 ) Future of OGSA, Web Services in Hands of IT Community [ ] M396739 ) Grid and the Migration to SOA [ ] M395972 ) 451 Group Looks at Grid in Pharmaceutical Industry [ ] M396694 ) Edinburgh Offering Postgraduate Degree in e-Science [ ] M395971 ) SOA, Utility Computing Among Gartner's Hot Topics of 2005 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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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