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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: [ ] M417634 ) Grid Computing: Square Pegs, Round Holes and a Good Cigar [ ] M418119 ) Follow Up from GGF14: Telco Meeting, Other GGF Activities [ ] M415209 ) Grid Collaboration Realizing International Potential [ ] A515 ) HP: Pioneering Grid Computing's Move Into The Enterprise Market SPECIAL FEATURES ============================================================== [ ] M417634 ) Grid Computing: Square Pegs, Round Holes and a Good Cigar By Mike Bernhardt, Contributing Author In his latest column, Mike Bernhardt seeks to gain a fresh perspective on the state of Grid adoption by speaking with various vendors, end-users and experts, including a lengthy discussion with an anonymous IT executive over coffee and fine cigars. Bernhardt's conclusion: By incorporating a new way of thinking, we might find that square pegs can, in fact, fit into round holes. [ ] M418119 ) Follow Up from GGF14: Telco Meeting, Other GGF Activities By Alan J. Weissberger, Contributing Author In his final report from GGF14, Alan Weissberger discusses the formation of a telco community group, which will look to develop informational documents rather than specifications or profiles, as well as other sessions, including one on the EGA Reference Model -- a document Weissberger calls "very abstract" for a group with such a targeted focus. [ ] A705 ) Windows Grid Computing - Starting at $995 Do More. Faster. The Digipede Network is the first commercial .NET Grid computing software. Radically easier to buy, install, learn and use than other grid solutions. Learn more at www.digipede.net. SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ============================================================ [ ] M417365 ) eXludus Technologies Receives $1.5M in Seed Financing eXludus Technologies is developing a family of software products addressing the need to transport data efficiently in Grid computing applications. eXludus' technology removes data serving limitations and enables larger problems to be solved on larger cluster and Grid deployments than ever before. [ ] M417364 ) Callidus, IBM to Transform CSAA's Incentive Compensation IBM and Callidus Software announced that the California State Automobile Association has implemented their joint open standards-based Enterprise Incentive Management solution to automate the design, administration, reporting and analysis of sales incentive and variable compensation for the organization's sales force. [ ] 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 ================================================================== [ ] M415209 ) Grid Collaboration Realizing International Potential Virtual research collaboration is being taken to a new level with the creation of the very first international, interdisciplinary computer Grid. It has been established by the Worldwide Universities Network -- at five sites in three countries more than 5,000 miles apart. [ ] M418539 ) IBM Invests $10M in WestGrid Computing Facilities Canada's largest computing Grid has become even better thanks to $10 million in technology and in-kind contribution support from IBM Canada Ltd. The investment will help researchers combat viruses, cure cancer, develop new pharmaceuticals, understand the human mind and better predict the weather. [ ] M414878 ) MPT Announces Early Beta Testing of Bioinformatics Solution MPT's version of BLAST is a high-speed and high-throughput implementation of the National Center for Bioinformatics' BLAST software that transparently and efficiently harnesses the power of hundreds of compute nodes for large queries and databases. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================= [ ] M426831 ) "The very fact that Grid computing is applicable across the entire application, system and data stack guarantees that vendors in each space will have their own messaging." -- Kelly Vizzini Chief Marketing Officer, DataSynapse BREAKING NEWS ================================================================= Security [ ] M415210 ) Ping Identity Announces First SAML 2.0 Product Platforms [ ] M416398 ) Dual-Core Itanium Processor Achieves Benchmark [ ] M419826 ) Fujitsu, Novell Deliver Linux for High-Performance Servers Networking [ ] M418242 ) OMG Standard Supports Network-Centric Operations Storage [ ] M418540 ) Mitel Selects HP Canada for Multimillion Dollar IT Renewal Operating Systems & Middleware [ ] M415211 ) Novell, Lumen Sign Contract on Lumenation Hyper-Portal General [ ] M418371 ) Astronomy Looks into the Future JOB BANK ====================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] FL365 ) Arete Assoc., CSCS, D.E. Shaw Group, LSU, OSU, TACC, Univa, Utah State University [ ] XJOBRATES ) Job Bank Rates and Guidelines CONFERENCES & EVENTS ========================================================== [ ] A582 ) Calendar of Upcoming GRID Events (Updated 06.20.05) [ ] P357M382453 ) Security '05 14th USENIX Security Symposium August 1-5, 2005 Baltimore, Maryland http://www.usenix.org/events/sec05/ [ ] P357M382454 ) SC|05 - Gateway to Discovery November 12-18, 2005 Seattle, Washington 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 [ ] A381 ) HP [ ] A383 ) Intel [ ] A704 ) Digipede For sponsorship information contact: promote@gridtoday.com ______________________________________________________________________ LAST WEEK'S TOP 5 ARTICLES ================================================= [ ] M412070 ) Report from GGF14: Finally, OGSA is Real! [ ] M412052 ) Digipede Seeking to End Windows Neglect [ ] M409175 ) Digipede Ships Grid Software for Microsoft Windows [ ] M409178 ) GGF Collaborates with SDOs [ ] M409985 ) Oracle to Co-Lead Enterprise Java Beans 3.0 Spec w/ Sun ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RETRIEVING ARTICLES To retrieve articles: Insert an x or an X (no other characters, please) within the square brackets adjacent to article(s). Return the marked copy to the address in the Reply-To: line of the GRIDtoday Table of Contents. For help, send an email message to Gridhelp@Gridtoday.com and state problem. GRIDtoday is available on the WWW at http://Gridtoday.com/ -------- Modify your preferences or unsubscribe here: http://news.taborcommunications.com/al.jsp?vk=IFzix6Fu&un=dolinsky@gsu.by&an=360