\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////////// GRIDtoday NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY --- Jul 22, 2002: Vol. 1, No. 6 --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 700003) New Software Powers Massive Grids in Commercial and Technical Markets; Groundbreaking Features Improve Customers' Return on Investments and Speed Time to Market IN THIS ISSUE [ ] 100136) WHAT IS THE GRID? A THREE POINT CHECKLIST [ ] 100139) ENTROPIA ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF DCGRID 5.0 [ ] 100145) SUN HOSTS HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CONSORTIUM [ ] 700002) Fujitsu's Grid Solution for the Sciences SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 100136) WHAT IS THE GRID? A THREE POINT CHECKLIST By Ian Foster Argonne National Lab & University of Chicago The recent explosion of commercial and scientific interest in the Grid makes it timely to revisit the question: What is the Grid, anyway? [ ] 100137) I-WIRE ACTIVATION FIRST STEP TO NATIONAL TERAGRID NETWORK A new network infrastructure connecting the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the StarLight facility on Northwestern University's Chicago campus, and Argonne National Laboratory in southwest suburban Chicago is the first connection in what will become the TeraGrid network, the fastest dedicated optical research network in the world. [ ] 100138) GLOBUS PROJECT & UK E-SCIENCE ANNOUNCE OGSA PARTNERSHIP The emerging Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) standard for distributed computing has garnered a significant endorsement from the United Kingdom e-Science Program. The UK data grid project will adopt OGSA as a common framework for on-line collaboration and contribute OGSA interfaces to database services for the Grid community. [ ] 100139) ENTROPIA ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF DCGRID 5.0 FOR GRID COMPUTING Entropia Inc, a leading provider of PC grid computing solutions, announced immediate availability of DCGrid 5.0, a powerful and cost-effective PC grid computing platform that provides high performance computing capabilities. [ ] 100140) BUILDING A COMMUNITY GRID - MY VIEW FROM THE TRENCHES By Fran Berman, Director, San Diego Supercomputing Center For many of us who have been working in Grid Computing for the last decade, the current environment is exhilarating. At present, there is strong interest in the Grid from researchers, developers, funding agencies, the commercial sector, and a growing segment of resource-limited applications communities. [ ] 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. SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE [ ] 100141) SUN SELECTS CALTECH'S CENTER FOR ADVANCED COMPUTING RESEARCH Sun Microsystem Inc has selected Caltech's Center for Advanced Computing Research as a Sun Center of Excellence (COE) in Large Scale Data Analysis and Storage. [ ] 100142) SIPACKETS ELECTED TO THE HYPERTRANSPORT CONSORTIUM BOARD SiPackets Inc an Alliance Semiconductor Company and a leading developer of integrated circuit (IC) solutions for high-performance and bandwidth-intensive networking, storage and server applications announced that it has been elected to the HyperTransport (HT) Consortium as a Promoter Member, the highest level of membership. [ ] 100143) PLATFORM & SGI TEAM-UP FOR INTEGRATED GRID SOLUTIONS On Tuesday July 16, Platform Computing, a leader in distributed and Grid computing software solutions, and SGI, a world leader in high-performance computing, announced a strategic relationship to deliver comprehensive, integrated Grid computing solutions that support SGI's Visual Area Networking concept. [ ] 100144) LATTICE ANNOUNCED AGREEMENT TO ACQUIRE CERDELINX TECH Lattice Semiconductor Corporation announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire privately-held Cerdelinx Technologies Inc of San Jose, California. [ ] 700004) SGI Demonstrates Long-Distance Visual Serving Across Canada -- Pioneering Visualization for the Grid SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS [ ] 100145) SUN HOSTS HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CONSORTIUM More than 100 leading IT professionals, scientists, engineers and luminaries from around the world converged at the Sun Microsystems' High Performance Computing Consortium (SHPCC) event to discuss high-end scientific and engineering computing issues and trends. [ ] 100146) EVOLOCITY CLUSTER TO BOOST LINUX TO SUPERCOMPUTING PROWESS By Matthew Broersma The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California is to build the world's largest and most powerful Linux supercomputer, for use with national security projects. The supercomputing cluster will consist of 962 nodes running on 1,920 2.4GHz Intel Xeon processors, with a theoretical peak of 9.2 teraflops (trillions of calculations per second). [ ] 100147) DELL BRINGS TOGETHER LEADERS IN CLUSTER COMPUTING Dell, an industry leader in high performance computing, hosted research experts from around the world to discuss advances in low-cost supercomputers to conduct cancer and AIDS research, seismic data analysis for oil exploration and large-scale simulations for oceanic tide modeling. [ ] 100148) SGI AND PLATFORM COMPUTING POWER U.K. GRID SGI, Platform Computing and the U.K. National Cosmology Consortium, headed by University of Cambridge Professor Stephen Hawking, announced a new joint initiative to create a national U.K. Cosmology Grid. [ ] 100149) LINUX NetworX TO RANK IN THE TOP 5 FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTERS Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) selected Linux NetworX to design, integrate and deliver what will be the largest and most powerful Linux supercomputer by Fall 2002. [ ] 100150) UNICORE - A GERMAN GRID DESTINED TO BE A STAR? UNICORE - Uniform Interfaces to Computing: With its browser-based access, UNICORE allows users the ease and security to tap into sophisticated German computers from almost anywhere in the world. BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 100151) Webwasher Provides Enhanced ContentReporter Product [ ] 100152) SilentRunner & Mass Soft Services Announce Security Alliance [ ] 100153) Differences & Development Behind Firewire And USB2 By Rob von Nesselrode PLATFORMS [ ] 100154) HP Reduces Server Administration Costs With Lights-Out NETWORKING [ ] 100155) SP Telecommunications Uses PLC Technology For Bandwidth [ ] 100156) 10 More Companies Join RapidIO Trade Association [ ] 100157) HyperTransport Tech Consortium Reaches 50 Member Milestone STORAGE [ ] 100158) ATTO Completes VERITAS Software Interoperability Testing OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 100159) Platform Releases First Grid-Enabled Job Scheduler [ ] 100160) Linux Fails To Deliver An Alternative To Windows GENERAL [ ] 100161) SGI Joins Global Grid Forum As Platinum Sponsoring Member [ ] 100162) Computer Associates Elects Four New Directors [ ] 100163) Atesto Technologies Names New CEO [ ] 100164) Visualization On The Grid QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ]100136) "Grid computing is concerned with coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in dynamic, multi-institutional virtual organizations." -- "The Anatomy of the Grid" Ian Foster Co-Authored by Steve Tuecke 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 [ ] 539) Microsoft | | [ ] 909) Fujitsu [ ] 942) Sun Microsystems | | | | | | | | For sponsorship information contact: gridads@gridtoday.com | |_____________________________________________________________________| GRIDtoday welcomes bylined comments for publication. 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