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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 [ ] 100314) THE ROI ON COTS: INDUSTRY'S STUDY REVEALS SCALE OF SAVINGS [ ] 100312) HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING: P2P'S POWERFUL PROMISE [ ] 100315) IBM SOFTWARE EMPIRE GROWING AMID SLUMP [ ] 700002) Fujitsu's Grid Solution for the Sciences SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 100312) HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING: P2P'S POWERFUL PROMISE By Salvatore Salamone, Bio-ITWorld The computer industry has taken notice and is trying to cater to the trend, primarily through the work of a couple of grid initiatives. Just as Platform Computing was introducing its new commercial LSF product, the National Science Foundation (NSF) was launching NMI Release 1.0, a software and tools kit to help scientists implement distributed computing via the Internet. [ ] 100313) KOKUYO AND NTT JOINT TESTS TARGET UBIQUITOUS SERVICES An important element of ubiquitous services is that services must overcome the limitations of space, and must be accessible from any location. NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories (NTT Labs) have been promoting R&D in Shared PC systems, one of the methods of making these services a reality. [ ] 100314) THE ROI ON COTS: INDUSTRY'S STUDY REVEALS SCALE OF SAVINGS Until now, the return on investment (ROI) value of COTS Components has been elusive to purchasers. Using established industry metrics based on lines of source code, the study for the first time shows how investing in an expert-built COTS component or Web service may offset the development costs of applications to the tune of millions of dollars. [ ] 100315) IBM SOFTWARE EMPIRE GROWING AMID SLUMP By J. Bonasia, Investor's Business Daily The Internet's rise in the 1990s spurred IBM to change strategic course. Now it's focused more on lucrative high-tech services. Such services include designing, building, running and maintaining computer systems for corporate clients. [ ] 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 [ ] 100316) SERVERS QUADRUPLE INSTITUTE'S COMPUTING POWER SGI Japan has announced that a 384-CPU SGI Origin 3800 server system installed at Japan's National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED) has begun operation, following installation last May. [ ] 100317) HP UNVEILS FIRST MULTI-PROCESSOR BLADE SERVER ARCHITECTURE First to market with the concept of blade servers in 2001, HP now delivers the next wave of the HP ProLiant BL line of industry-standard server blades and further expands the industry's most comprehensive and strongest portfolio of blade products and management software for enterprise data centers and service providers. [ ] 100318) SOLID OFFER BEST FLEET AUTOMATION SYSTEMS AVAILABLE TODAY Solid FlowEngine provides a robust transactional data platform that manages intelligence throughout the distributed Nexus business environment, making it easy to move data between vehicles and enterprise systems and enabling ICS to offer the best fleet automation systems available today. [ ] 100319) SUN'S StorEdge SOFTWARE USES WEB-BASED ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT The new platform ties together existing management applications under a single view. StorEdge Enterprise Storage Manager software uses Common Information Model (CIM) and Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM), the two primary elements of the Storage Networking Industry Association's draft storage management specification, formerly known as Bluefin. [ ] 100320) DELL ANNOUNCES HIGH-PERFORMANCE SYSTEM FOR CORPORATE CUSTOMERS Dell's strategy of delivering enterprise technology at low prices removes significant barriers for small-and medium-sized businesses to take advantage of server technologies, and is a major reason why Dell is the leading supplier of server hardware to SMB customers in the U.S. [ ] 700005) TurboGenomics Pipeline your Grid Life Science Applications SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS [ ] 100321) CREATING THE VIRTUAL PATIENT By Susan Aschoff, Times Publishing Company The project was conceived almost 15 years ago and today includes researchers from the University of South Florida, dozens of medical schools and more than 40 countries. The goal is to take a standardized male and female anatomy, digitized for the computer and accessible by Internet, and make it more than pretty pictures. [ ] 100322) HIGHEST DATA CAPACITY IN TWO DIMENSIONAL CODE The VSCode symbol provides the world's highest density printable 2D code. The VSCode can store 4.45 Kbytes (approximately one page of printed text) in a 3/4 inch by 3/4 inch space. [ ] 100323) SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION CONNECTS TO Internet2 BACKBONE Using Abilene enables applications such as uncompressed high-definition television quality video; remote control of scientific instruments such as mountaintop telescopes and electron microscopes; collaboration using immersive virtual reality; and grid computing. [ ] 100324) THINK COMPUTER PRODUCTS RELEASES LATEST ThinkTank 'Q' SERVER The unit was initially designed for NASA and used as a node within a linux based cluster configuration.Server Management support includes IPMI/IPMB, SDR, SEL, FRU and I2C. BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 100325) CNT Extends FAStT Mirroring Far Beyond Native Fibre Channel [ ] 100326) Symantec's Norton Ghost 2003 Provides Enhanced Ease-Of-Use [ ] 100327) Athena Releases TeraFire Security Coprocessors NETWORKING [ ] 100328) Cisco Mounts Storage Offensive [ ] 100329) Internet2 Links Educators & Students From Wa To Va [ ] 100330) Tolly Verifies Line-Rate Performance Of 10 Gigabit Ethernet [ ] 100331) WLAN Equipment Volumes Continue To Shine In 2Q02 STORAGE [ ] 100332) Intelligent eMail Management An Enterprise Challenge [ ] 100333) EMC Offers Hardware To Challenge HP & SUN By Ross Kerber, Boston Globe [ ] 100334) Imation Storage Professional Services Expands Portfolio [ ] 100335) Network Appliance Joins InfiniBand Trade Association PLATFORMS [ ] 100336) Pentium 4 Processor Sets New Standards For High-Performance [ ] 100337) Lexra Announces Highest Performance 32-bit RISC Processor [ ] 100338) STMicro, Motorola and Philips Unveil New Chip Platform [ ] 100339) Virtex-II Pro Offering From Xilinx Performs 40% Faster OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 100340) Gateway Launches All-New Line Of Servers [ ] 100341) Lane15 Delivers InfiniBand Fabric Management Software [ ] 100342) Scali ClusterEdge Now available For Intel Itanium 2 [ ] 100343) Smartronix Designs Tool For Evaluating LAN Equipment GENERAL [ ] 100344) Conference on Cluster Computing - September 24-26, 2002 [ ] 100345) First In-Depth User Conference Presented By Sun QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ]100312) "Convergence of peer-to-peer and grid computing is a natural outcome of recent distributed systems thinking." ----Colin Evans, Director of Distributed Systems, Intel Labs 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 [ ] 955) TurboGenomics | | | | | | | | For sponsorship information contact: gridads@gridtoday.com | |_____________________________________________________________________| GRIDtoday welcomes bylined comments for publication. 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