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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: [ ] M432349 ) The Grid-Based Proof-of-Concept Project [ ] M432338 ) Genworth Financial Meets Grid [ ] M431475 ) Defining Grid a Hot Topic at VIP Summit [ ] A515 ) HP: Pioneering Grid Computing's Move Into The Enterprise Market SPECIAL FEATURES ============================================================== [ ] M432349 ) The Grid-Based Proof-of-Concept Project By Rich Wellner, Contributing Author In this article, Rich Wellner, enterprise architect at Univa Corp., discusses how a good proof-of-concept (POC) project can help enterprises determine the efficacy of a Grid solution in a way that doesn't expose the business to an overly large risk. Examples include compute Grid, embarrassingly parallel and data Grid POCs. [ ] M432338 ) Genworth Financial Meets Grid By Kelly Vizzini, Contributing Author Kelly Vizzini, chief marketing officer of DataSynapse, tells about how Genworth Financial was able to better leverage resources and increase its competitive advantage by deploying a Grid computing solution. After it's success with a departmental strategy, the company opted for an enterprise-wide deployment. [ ] M431475 ) Defining Grid a Hot Topic at VIP Summit By Derrick Harris, Editor If the attendees of the GRIDtoday VIP Summit take one thing away from the event's first day, it might very well be that Grid computing -- both the technology and the market -- is desperately in need of a standard definition. [ ] 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 ============================================================ [ ] M432639 ) Sun, NLR to Extend Grid Computing Sun Microsystems and National LambdaRail announced an initiative to extend Sun's Grid efforts, which provide flexible access to distributed high-performance computing resources. [ ] M428473 ) Oracle Announces Availability of Database 10g Release 2 The new release adds compelling improvements in performance, availability, manageability and security to assist customers and partners in achieving a higher quality of service, while reducing the cost and complexity of information management. [ ] M428471 ) Salesforce.com Goes On Demand with Oracle Salesforce.com plans to deploy Oracle's robust, powerful and secure platform as a critical part of the backbone supporting its on-demand CRM applications and to help drive salesforce.com's success in delivering reliable, scalable application services around the clock. [ ] 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 ================================================================== [ ] M432615 ) New Obstacle Scattering Numerical Model Running on ENEA Grid By Silvio Migliori, ENEA, et al The authors from the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment, and Universita di Roma La Sapienza, discuss the technologies that are aided by research of wave propogation and scattering. They go on to discuss the creation of ENEA Grid and the new obstacle scattering numerical model currently running on it. [ ] M431456 ) CSC Announces Results Driven Computing Grid Computer Sciences Corp. announced its Results Driven Computing Grid (RDC Grid) offering, a new high-performance, public computing Grid service that provides secure, external computing resources to global clients who need to process large applications quickly, efficiently and securely. [ ] M431452 ) VeriCenter Provides IT for NASA's Return to Flight On the ground, millions of people from around the world will witness brilliant images of outer space on NASA's Web sites while NASA employees stay connected through a complex series of portals and intranets. The systems are supported by VeriCenter, which provides server capacity, bandwidth, storage and other managed services to the space agency. [ ] M431549 ) Fujitsu Unveils Technique for Enhanced ADME/Tox Predictions Among the technologies used in the news technique is Fujitsu in silico Screening platform -- a high-throughput, high-precision computer simulation of protein-ligand docking and free energy of binding calculations using BioServer Grid computing platform and proprietary simulation software. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================= [ ] M432646 ) "I think the Oracle Grid will definitely drive the market for clusters." -- Martin McCarthy CEO, The 451 Group BREAKING NEWS ================================================================= Security [ ] M432617 ) WS-I Revises Basic Security Profile 1.0 Document [ ] M431620 ) Radware Provides 10 Gb IPS to Korean University [ ] M431552 ) Oracle Simplifies SOA, Web Services Security [ ] M431583 ) HP Rolls Out ID Mgmt Solutions [ ] M431472 ) Entrust, Trustgenix Deliver Authentication w/ ID Federation [ ] M428470 ) Cenzic Gains $15M in Funding Platforms [ ] M431538 ) Mathematica 5.2 Breaks Memory Barrier w/ 64-Bit Computing [ ] M428474 ) FSMLabs Turbo-Charges AMD Processors in Embedded Apps [ ] M428475 ) Softricity Simplifies Virtualization with SoftGrid Upgrade [ ] M431623 ) Lenovo Sharpens PC Blade Computing with ClearCube Technology [ ] M432633 ) Momentum for Power Architecture Accelerates in Japan Networking [ ] M431618 ) U of Georgia Selects Foundry for High-Speed Network [ ] M431559 ) OpenIB Alliance Extends Charter to Include iWARP, Xen [ ] M431455 ) Opsware, BMC Advance Utility Computing [ ] M431535 ) Procera Equips ColoSpace Internet Data Center [ ] M428469 ) Israeli ISP Supports IPv6 Protocol Storage [ ] M428479 ) Emulex Announces OEM Agreement with Sun [ ] M431450 ) Sanrad, emBoot Team Up [ ] M431558 ) EqualLogic Achieves 500 Customer Milestone Operating Systems & Middleware [ ] M431454 ) IBM Issues 'Academic License' [ ] M431555 ) OSDL Appoints new Director to Lead Efforts in Europe [ ] M431578 ) IBM, Zend Team to Drive Adoption of SOA General [ ] M431612 ) NSF-Funded Centers Provide Record Amount of Supercomputing Time [ ] M431453 ) IDC Report Focuses on Success in Utility Computing [ ] M432616 ) NCSA Releases Tupelo for Metadata Archiving [ ] M432636 ) U.K. Brings Together World Leaders in Semantics [ ] M431576 ) IDC: Web Services Use to Greatly Increase Through 2009 JOB BANK ====================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] FL365 ) Arete Assoc., Cenzic, CSCS, D.E. Shaw Group, LONI, LSU, Mellanox, OSU, Softricity, TACC, Univa [ ] XJOBRATES ) Job Bank Rates and Guidelines CONFERENCES & EVENTS ========================================================== [ ] A582 ) Calendar of Upcoming GRID Events (Updated 07.18.05) [ ] 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 ================================================= [ ] 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 [ ] M418539 ) IBM Invests $10M in WestGrid Computing Facilities [ ] M414878 ) MPT Announces Early Beta Testing of Bioinformatics Solution ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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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