\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////////// GRIDtoday NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY --- Aug 5, 2002: Vol. 1, No. 8 --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 [ ] 100193) THE EDINBURGH EXPERIENCE [ ] 100191) RESPONSE TO IAN FOSTER'S "WHAT IS THE GRID?" [ ] 100192) BILL GATES HIGHLIGHTS ACADEMIC COLLABORATION KEY TO FUTURE [ ] 700004) SGI Demonstrates Long-Distance Visual Serving Across Canada -- Pioneering Visualization for the Grid SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 100191) RESPONSE TO IAN FOSTER'S "WHAT IS THE GRID?" By Wolfgang Gentzsch, Director, Grid Computing Sun Microsystems After two earlier definitions of Grid Computing, in 1998 and 2000, Ian Foster's new proposal of a checklist for determining whether a system is a Grid or not, is certainly a very valuable and respectable effort, especially in the light of the current "explosion" of worldwide interest in Grid which also causes some legitimate concern within the research community, and confusion elsewhere. [ ] 100192) BILL GATES HIGHLIGHTS ACADEMIC COLLABORATION KEY TO FUTURE At the third annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates, highlighted the technology innovation coming out of academia, and underscored the importance of Microsoft's continuing collaboration with universities and colleges. [ ] 100193) THE EDINBURGH EXPERIENCE By John Hurley, Editor at Large The Edinburgh experience achieved a new level of growth in "grid" awareness and participation. The registration count of around 900 largely exceeded original expectations of approximately 450 researchers, students, and vendors. [ ] 100194) INFINIBAND CLUSTERING & HPC: A PERFECT MATCH By Chris Eddington, Dir Technical Marketing, Mellanox Tech If you think the advantages of InfiniBand will not arrive for some time, you are wrong. The reality is that today you can easily assemble InfiniBand clusters with 2 GHz server blades or traditional servers, connected with low latency 10 Gb/s links that provider faster than SMP performance using Linux and other low cost industry standard components. [ ] 700002) Fujitsu's Grid Solution for the Sciences SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE [ ] 100195) DTI ANNOUNCES INSTALLATION OF NEW IMAGING SYSTEM DTI Integrated Business Solutions, a leading content management integrator in the Southeast, announced that it has successfully installed a new electronic document management system for the North Carolina Department of State Treasurer (DST). [ ] 100196) BUSINESS WLAN SHIPMENTS CONTINUE TO INCREASE AS PRICES FALL Even in the midst of the overall telecommunications industry funk, 2001 proved to be a stellar year for business Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) volume growth, with hardware shipments rising 175%, although prices fell fast and furiously. [ ] 100197) NOW LINUX USERS GET IBM VIRTUAL HOSTING SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE IT group IBM has launched a new service which it claims will allow corporations to tap into large-scale computing infrastructure 'on demand' over the Internet. [ ] 100198) TAIWANESE JOINT VENTURE ADOPTS CA'S UNICENTER Computer Associates International Inc (CA), announced that FarEasTone Telecommunications Co Ltd (FarEasTone), a joint venture between the Far Eastern Group and AT&T Wireless Services, is using CA's Unicenter AutoSys Job Management to significantly enhance the performance of its business-critical data warehouse operations and improve the timeliness of its market analysis. [ ] 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 [ ] 100199) THE ATEAM COMPLETES FIRST OF A SERIES OF TEST CAMPAIGNS The ATEAM (Advanced Test Engineering and Measurement) lab consortium announced the successful completion of the first of a series of test campaigns aimed at investigating complex networking issues by deploying an advanced measurement infrastructure across a wide area. [ ] 100200) HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS CHOOSES VIEWPOINT TECHNOLOGY Viewpoint Corporation, a world leader in innovative graphics software, announced that Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), one of the world's fastest growing enterprise storage providers and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd, has chosen Viewpoint Experience Technology for a 3D interactive tour that showcases the newly-announced Hitachi Freedom Storage Lighting 9900 V Series. [ ] 100201) CA'S UNICENTER AUTOSYS JOB MANAGEMENT 4.0 SETS NEW STANDARD Computer Associates International Inc announced the general availability of Unicenter AutoSys Job Management (Unicenter AutoSys JM) 4.0, the industry's most powerful and complete solution for automating the execution of critical application processes across today's complex, heterogeneous enterprise computing environments. BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 100202) CipherOptics Qualified By CNT For Use With CNT's IP Storage [ ] 100203) Kasten Chase Announces Launch Of Fed Channel Program [ ] 100204) Procinct Security Launches ProSentry 2.0 Internet Security [ ] 100205) Firewalls And Routers Not Adequate To Handle XML Content NETWORKING [ ] 100206) USC And INVESCO Select F5 Networks'BIG-IP Blade Controller [ ] 100207) Level 3 Announces Agreement With N.C. Research Center [ ] 100208) Raidtec Launches NAS File Server SNAZ E6 [ ] 100209) Teradyne And Accelerant Deliver First 6.25 Gb/s Backplane [ ] 100210) THUS Selects ADVA Optical Networking Platform STORAGE [ ] 100211) OpenReady Tested Status Awarded To InterSAN's PATHLINE [ ] 100212) SNIA Sets Stage For Breakthrough Storage Management Demo [ ] 100213) StorageTek Advances World-Class Automated Library Software [ ] 100214) VERITAS Enables Enterprise Storage For Linux-Server OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 100215) OSCAR v1.3 Cluster Software Stack Released GENERAL [ ] 100216) CENIC Board Selects First Chief Operations Officer QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 100191) "A Grid is a hardware and software infrastructure that provides dependable, consistent, and pervasive access to resources to enable sharing of computational resources, utility computing, autonomic computing, collaboration among virtual organizations, and distributed data processing, among others." ---Wolfgang Gentzsch, Director Grid Computing Sun Microsystems 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 [ ] 942) Sun Microsystems | | [ ] 909) Fujitsu | | | | | | For sponsorship information contact: gridads@gridtoday.com | |_____________________________________________________________________| GRIDtoday welcomes bylined comments for publication. 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