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For subscription information, email gridfree@gridtoday.com All comments regarding content should be sent to: grideditor@gridtoday.com -------------------- * -------------------- [x] 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 [ ] 100167) INTERNET DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING IS VIABLE NOW [ ] 100187) AVAKI 2.5 DELIVERS WAN ACCESS WITH LAN PERFORMANCE [ ] 100169) SANDIA SELECTS GLOBUS IN FIRST COMMERICAL ADOPTION [x] 700004) SGI Demonstrates Long-Distance Visual Serving Across Canada -- Pioneering Visualization for the Grid SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 100166) SUN MICROSYSTEMS INVESTING IN OPEN COMPUTING By Gretchen Hyman, the internet.com The sky might appear to be falling in the tech sector, but Sun Microsystems thinks the future is looking rosy as it continues to invest in technology-minded educational and research institutions. [ ] 100167) INTERNET DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING IS VIABLE NOW, SOME SAY By Paul Shread Security and attitudes aren't yet ready for commercial Grid computing over the Internet. At least that's the view of most Grid computing insiders. [ ] 100168) ICES VENDORS KEEP THE ICE FLOWING According to IDC The integrated collaborative environments (ICEs) market for corporate messaging and collaboration is expected to hit $1.57 billion in revenue by 2002, a slight decline from the prior year. [ ] 100169) SANDIA SELECTS GLOBUS IN FIRST COMMERICAL ADOPTION Platform Computing, a leader in distributed and Grid computing software solutions, announced that Sandia National Laboratories has selected Platform Globus 2.0 in the industry's first commercial end-user adoption of the Globus Toolkit. [x] 700002) Fujitsu's Grid Solution for the Sciences SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE [ ] 100170) SIDE EFFECTS & SUN ACHIEVED RENDERING ACROSS A COMPUTE FARM Side Effects Software, developer of the award-winning Houdini family of 3D software, and Sun Microsystems announced that Axyz Animation Inc has successfully achieved distributed rendering across a Linux-based compute farm using Sun Grid Engine software with the Houdini 3D solution. [ ] 100171) NEW CENIC INITIATIVE -- ONE GIGABIT OR BUST Delivering robust end-to-end broadband Internet capabilities to every education institution, business and home is the focus of California's Next Generation Internet (NGI) Roundtable and Centers initiative. [ ] 100172) HP BOARD FORMS TECH POLICY COMMITTEE By Dawn Kawamoto - Staff Writer, CNET News.com Hewlett-Packard's board of directors has formed a technology committee to study such key issues as the company's transition to Itanium processors. The committee will oversee some of HP's most pressing technology issues, which includes greater use of direct sales and ensuring its research work is firmly aligned with corporate strategy, a source close to the company said. [ ] 100173) SUN RETURNS TO PROFIT & STILL SEES ANOTHER LOSS Computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc reported its first quarterly profit in a year but forecast another loss as it fights for deals in the midst of the technology downturn. [ ] 100174) SECURE.DATA NOW AVAILABLE FOR ORACLE DATABASE TECHNOLOGY Protegrity Inc announces the introduction of Secure.Data for Oracle9i Database on IBM AIX and Microsoft Windows Server 2000--an "out-of-the-box" automated database encryption solution with protected key-management software for selectively encrypting and securing enterprise relational database information at the data-item level. [ ] 100175) COMMVAULT DETAILS VIRTUALIZATION PROMISES & CHALLENGES Transcending the SAN and Including All Attached Storage Devices are Keys to Maximized Hardware Utilization and Simplified Enterprise Management Addressing what is rapidly becoming known in the storage management industry as "the V-word." [ ] 100176) NEED FOR SPEED SPURS RPI, IBM PARTNERSHIP Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and IBM Corp. are partnering on a $ 33 million research center in Troy to develop infrastructure for the next generation of high-speed, broadband data pipelines and computer networks that will be 1,000 times faster than today's. [x] 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. SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS [ ] 100177) HP-PNNL SUPERCOMPUTER-LARGEST COMPUTING RESOURCE ON THE GRID HP announced at the Global Grid Forum that the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will connect a 9.2-teraflop HP supercomputer to the DOE Science Grid. [ ] 100178) NVIDIA QUADRO4 POWERS OHIO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER GRAPHICS NVIDIA, a worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, announced that the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) has purchased and deployed over 50 NVIDIA Quadro 4 900 XGL workstation graphics boards for an integrated visualization cluster used to research large scale (Terascale) visualizations. BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= PLATFORMS [ ] 100179) Entropia Announces DCGrid 5.0 For PC Grid Computing [ ] 100180) Computer Facility Locating In Upstate New York NETWORKING [ ] 100181) Spinnaker Networks Appoints Industry Veteran [ ] 100182) Industry Leaders Join Forces To establish Web3D Standard STORAGE [ ] 100183) JNI FCX2-6562 Dual-Port PCI HBA Qualified By EMC [ ] 100184) BASF IT Implements High Availability McDATA SAN Solution [ ] 100185) Confluence Networks Continues To Strengthen Team OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 100186) MPI Announced License Agreement With MPI/Pro & Veritas [ ] 100187) AVAKI 2.5 Delivers WAN Access With LAN Performance [ ] 100188) CollabNet Provides Sourcecast For The Helix Community GENERAL [ ] 100189) Akamai Reports Second Quarter EBITDA Loss Of $8.3 Million [ ] 100190) Leading Graphics Companies To Provide Technology Update QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 100179) "No matter which way you slice it, the business case for grid computing is quite clear. 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