\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////////// GRIDtoday NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY --- June 24, 2002: Vol. 1, No. 2 --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This issue will reach 30,000 readers ------- Article retrieval instructions are at the end of this file. For subscription information, email gridfree@gridtoday.com All comments regarding content should be sent to: grideditor@gridtoday.com -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 700001) Itanium-powered Performance Computing in Norway With The Universities of Tromso & Oslo: Intel(TM) Itanium(TM) processor-powered Hewlett-Packard Systems Are Being Groomed to Become A Critical Part of A Powerful High Performance Computing (HPC) Grid Being Built in Norway. IN THIS ISSUE: [ ] 100034) GOVERNMENTS CHOOSE LINUX, NOT WINDOWS [ ] 100036) ANDREESSEN: BROWSER WARS AREN'T COMING BACK [ ] 100037) IS THE GRID OVERHYPED? [ ] 700002) Fujitsu's Grid Solution for the Sciences SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 100030) LETTER TO THE EDITOR In the following letter GridSystems Consultant, Kico Borras Palmer, talks about his own introduction to and observances of GRID technology. [ ] 100031) IBM EXECUTIVE SAYS GRIDS WILL BE A BREAKTHROUGH In the opening keynote at the industry's first business show for Grid computing, IBM's Grid computing general manager predicted businesses can improve the utilization of their technology infrastructures by 30 percent or more by taking advantage of Grid technologies to enable on-demand computing. [ ] 100032) COMPUTER POWER PROJECTS YIELD VALUABLE INFORMATION by Gary Wilkinson and Jack Schofield Most of the world's computer power sits idly on desktops, but projects that can harness it are yielding valuable information, find Gary Wilkinson and Jack Schofield. [ ] 100033) BUSH: BE "AGGRESSIVE" ON BROADBAND President Bush praised the technology industry as a crucial component in America's war against terrorism and offered encouraging remarks for companies in the business of high-speed Internet access. [ ] 700003) PLATFORM COMPUTING MAKES EQUITY INVESTMENT IN POWERLLEL, STRENGTHENING FINANCIAL SERVICES EXPERTISE SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE [ ] 100034) MORE GOVERNMENTS CHOOSE TO USE LINUX, NOT WINDOWS by Kathryn Balint, SD Union-Tribune If the federal government and 18 states, including California, think Microsoft is an illegal monopoly that's strangling its competitors, then why do they keep buying its software? [ ] 100035) PLATFORM ENHANCES POWERFUL GRID COMPUTING SOLUTIONS Platform Computing Inc, a leader in distributed computing software solutions, announced major enhancements to its Enterprise Grid computing solutions that boost utilization of enterprise IT resources to nearly 100 percent. [ ] 100036) ANDREESSEN INTERVIEW: BROWSER WARS AREN'T COMING BACK by Matt Berger At a favorite dim sum eatery off the posh University Avenue strip in Palo Alto, California, Internet visionary Marc Andreessen sat down with IDG News Service to talk about his company, Loudcloud Inc, and the future of "utility" computing in which enterprise customers pay for the hosting and management of their IT systems the same way they pay a power company for electricity. [ ] 100037) IS THE GRID OVERHYPED? Gartner picks out the most hyped technology developments of the year. Should GRID computing be on the roster? [ ] 100038) HUTCHISON-PRICELINE IMPLEMENTS ORACLE9i Oracle Systems Hong Kong Limited announced that Hutchison-Priceline is using Oracle9i Real Application Clusters as the foundation for all of its Asia travel service transactions. [ ] 100039) DataSynapse PRESENTS LiveCluster SOLUTION There was great interest shown at this year's SIA show where DataSynapse showcased its LiveCluster software in the IBM booth running on an IBM 1300 Linux-cluster Server. SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS [ ] 100040) NEW NETWORK STARTED FOR TESTING ADVANCED IT TECHNOLOGIES The Mid-Atlantic Crossroads consortium and the Naval Research Laboratory have launched the next-generation Advanced Technology Demonstration Network, an unclassified Department of Defense research network. [ ] 700004) SGI Demonstrates Long-Distance Visual Serving Across Canada -- Pioneering Visualization for the Grid BREAKING NEWS ============================================================== SECURITY [ ] 100041) Cylink NetHawk Provides Security For Compaq SANworks [ ] 100042) MTI Extends Reach Into High-Security Government Data Arena [ ] 100043) Network-1 Appoints Seasoned vice presidents PLATFORMS [ ] 100044) Itanium 2 Chips Roar Into Servers [ ] 100045) Promicro Announces Low Density, High Performance Servers [ ] 100046) RackSaver Announces Support For Intel's New Server NETWORKING [ ] 100047) Icron Technologies Corp Gets European Patent For ExtremeUSB [ ] 100048) NEON Unveils Technology For Transparent Access To Data [ ] 100049) Paceline Systems Co-Sponsors IBTA IT Roadshow [ ] 100050) 10GEA Announces Ratification Of 10 GB Ethernet Standard [ ] 100051) Voltaire Dispels Misconceptions About InfiniBand STORAGE [ ] 100052) DataDirect To Discuss High-Throughput Infrastructures [ ] 100053) City of Calgary Standardizes On McDATA's SANavigator [ ] 100054) HP Announces Industry's First Commercial UPC Compiler OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 100055) Nasdaq Japan Selects PROGNOSIS Systems Management Software [ ] 100056) PolyServe Launches System Software To Take On UNIX Market [ ] 100057) Rapidfire Introduces Peer-To-Peer Database Connectivity Software GENERAL [ ] 100058) Cisco Chosen To Upgrade Taiwan Academic Network [ ] 100059) Sistina Software Completes Its Executive Team QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 100056) "The ability to manage a massive database application as a single file, across multiple industry standard servers running different operating systems is the holy grail CIOs have been waiting for." -- Arun Taneja, Senior Analyst, The Enterprise Storage Group CONFERENCE CALENDAR ======================================================== GRIDtoday is proud to be affiliated with the following organizations: Global Grid Forum The Globus Project The Leading Edge of Grid Computing Developing Fundamental Technologies for Researchers Worldwide for Computational Grids http://www.gridforum.org http://www.globus.org [ ] 700) Conferences & Seminars GRIDtoday INFORMATION ====================================================== [ ] 701) Subscriptions & Removals [ ] 702) About GRIDtoday [ ] 703) Index of Back Issues [ ] 706) FAQ / Contact Information [ ] 707) Submitting Letters and Articles _____________________________________________________________________ | | | Full background information on all sponsoring companies | | Firms marked with an * have updated their info in the last 30 days | | | | | | [ ] 921) SGI [ ] 934) Hewlett-Packard | | [ ] 527) Intel [ ] 537) PLATFORM | | [ ] 909) Fujitsu [ ] 942) Sun Microsystems | | [ ] 539) Microsoft | | | | | | For sponsorship information contact: gridads@gridtoday.com | |_____________________________________________________________________| GRIDtoday welcomes bylined comments for publication. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RETRIEVING ARTICLES There are 2 ways to retrieve articles: (1) Send a blank email to gridmore@gridtoday.com . 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