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For subscription information, email gridfree@gridtoday.com All comments regarding content should be sent to: grideditor@gridtoday.com -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 700004) SGI Demonstrates Long-Distance Visual Serving Across Canada -- Pioneering Visualization for the Grid IN THIS ISSUE [ ] 100278) BRISTOL-MYERS SELECTED PLATFORM TO BUILD ENTERPRISE GRID [ ] 100310) NCSA'S GPT SOFTWARE HELPS SIMPLIFY GRID COMPUTING [ ] 100300) HIGH-SPEED NETWORK CONNECTION TIES TOP UNIVERSITIES TO ORNL [ ] 700002) Fujitsu's Grid Solution for the Sciences SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 100276) A CAMPUS FOR COLLABORATION By Michel Marriott, The NY Times IT erupts from Case Western Reserve University's campus in an explosion of rippling brick, warped glass and cascading shingles of stainless steel frozen between Ka and Boom. [ ] 100277) SDSC & ENTROPIA REPORT SUCCESS IN PARTNERSHIP The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)and Entropia Inc announced early success with their partnership to provide industry-leading distributed computing capabilities to computational science and engineering projects at SDSC. [ ] 100278) BRISTOL-MYERS SELECTED PLATFORM TO BUILD ENTERPRISE GRID Platform Computing announced that Bristol-Myers Squibb Company selected Platform ActiveCluster to build the largest Enterprise Desktop Grid in production in the world. [ ] 100279) KAOHSIUNG CITY GOVERNMENT TARGETS INTEL ARCHITECTURE Intel Corporation has announced an initiative with the city government that aims to transform Kaohsiung into an "e-City" through next- generation technological deployments. [ ] 700003) New Software Powers Massive Grids in Commercial and Technical Markets; Groundbreaking Features Improve Customers' Return on Investments and Speed Time to Market SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE [ ] 100280) SUPER COMPUTER SELECTS WorldCom FOR HOSTING SERVICES WorldCom announced that Super Computer Inc, a revolutionary online computer gaming company, has selected WorldCom Internet Colocation Services to power its cutting-edge services which support millions of online video game players [ ] 100281) ACER IMPROVES DECISION-MAKING & COSTS WITH CA'S AllFusion Computer Associates announced that the Acer Inc. has deployed CA's Advantage Data Transformer Enterprise Metadata Edition, AllFusion ERwin Data Modeler, and AllFusion Model Manager to build a state-of-the-art "Think Tank" for managing its global business interests. [ ] 100282) COMPUTER GIANTS THAT ONCE SCORNED LINUX CHANGE TUNE Linux, the obscure, freely distributed computer operating system software created by a Finnish grad student, has been generally ignored or disparaged by the biggest computing companies. [ ] 100283) LINUXWORLD DELIVERS NEW PRODUCTS, ACTIVE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT IDG World Expo conferences and events for IT markets announced that LinuxWorld Conference & Expo/San Francisco 2002 increased by 12% over last year. [ ] 100284) FLUENT ANNOUNCES REMOTE SIMULATION FACILITY A world leader in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software, Fluent Inc.announces the general availability of its Remote Simulation Facility (RSF). [ ] 100285) CA SOLUTIONS ENABLE LEADING MIDDLE EASTERN FINANCIAL GROUP Computer Associates International Inc CA announced that Mashreqbank, one of United Arab Emirates' largest financial services institutions, has deployed CA's AllFusion Process Management Suite to maximize the efficiency of its IT development staff while boosting the quality of the business-critical applications they deliver. [ ] 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 [ ] 100286) HIGH-THROUGHPUT DOCKING AND SCORING APPLICATION DEPLOYED United Devices, a leader in distributed computing software and services, announced its joint effort with Accelrys to launch a second phase of the Cancer Research Project on the world's largest commercial PC grid. [ ] 100287) DataSynapse JOINS EGENERA ALLIANCE PROGRAM DataSynapse Inc and Egenera Inc announced that DataSynapse has joined the Egenera Alliance program. [ ] 100288) RackSaver DELIVERS SECOND SUPERCLUSTER TO UNIV OF DELAWARE RackSaver announced that the University of Delaware's Bartol Research Institute has completed installation and benchmarking of its second RackSaver supercluster system. [ ] 100289) INTERVIEW: SCHWARTZ DRIVES LINUX INTO THE ENTERPRISE Sun's executive vice president of software argues case for credible OS and desktop alternative. [ ] 100290) HIGH-SPEED NETWORK CONNECTION TIES TOP UNIVERSITIES TO ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory's new computer link to Atlanta is 200,000 times faster than the fastest dial-up connections typical of home computers and is expected to spur significant advances in science and economic development in the region and beyond. BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 100291) CA Uses eTrust To Protect Government-Wide Network [ ] 100292) Sophos To Expand Into The China Internet Security Market NETWORKING [ ] 100293) NetScout Delivers nGenius Probe To Monitor EtherChannel [ ] 100294) PLX Announces Dvelopment Of I/O Interconnect Devices [ ] 100295) Peribit Announces Products To Prioritize WAN Bandwidth STORAGE [ ] 100296) Actona Technologies Secures $7 Million In Series B Funding [ ] 100297) DataDirect Certifies Max-T's InfinARRAY Cluster File System [ ] 100298) EMC Expects Growth By Expansion Of Electronic Data PLATFORMS [ ] 100299) CA Continues Winning Ways At Linuxworld Conference & Expo [ ] 100300) NCSA's GPT Software Helps Simplify Grid Computing [ ] 100301) Intel To Debut Faster Pentium 4 By Duncan Martell [ ] 100302) UnitedLinux Prepares First Beta-Testing By Matthew Broersma, ZDNet OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 100303) Lakeview Appoints Dennis Schmidt As User Interface Architect [ ] 100304) Abbey National Improves Quality of IT Service With Proxima [ ] 100305) SPEC Calls For Benchmark Contributions GENERAL [ ] 100306) Conference On Linux Clusters Will Be Held Oct. 23-25, 2002 [ ] 100307) Microway Announces CW Cluster Based On Platform Clusterware [ ] 100308) United Devices Adds New Vice President Of Engineering [ ] 100309) Dave Zabrowski Named President and CEO Of S2io Technologies QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 100287) "Given today's environment, customers are seeking solutions that can transform the performance, reliability and costs models of their enterprise applications." ---David Markowitz, Vice President of Product Marketing, DataSynapse 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. LAST WEEK'S TOP 5 ARTICLES ================================================= [ ] 100248) THE GRID IDENTITY CRISIS: DEFINING IT AND ITS REALITY [ ] 100249) HOW DOES ONE REALLY CHARACTERIZE GRID COMPUTING? [ ] 100251) SUN ANNOUNCES A NEW LINUX VERSION OF SUN ONE GRID ENGINE [ ] 100257) THE Gridbus: SERVICE-ORIENTED GRID COMPUTING & BUSINESS [ ] 100261) 1ST U.S. SUPERCLUSTER INSTALLED FEATURING WulfKit3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RETRIEVING ARTICLES There are 2 ways to retrieve articles: (1) Send a blank email to gridmore@gridtoday.com . On subject line, type number adjacent to article, no message text is necessary. or (2) Insert an x or an X (no other characters, please) within the square brackets adjacent to article(s). Return the marked copy to the address in the Reply-To: line of the GRIDtoday Table of Contents. 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