\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////////// GRIDtoday NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY --- Sep 16, 2002: Vol. 1, No. 14 --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 700004) SGI Demonstrates Long-Distance Visual Serving Across Canada -- Pioneering Visualization for the Grid IN THIS ISSUE [ ] 100379) GRID COMPUTING OR MODULAR COMPUTING? [ ] 100381) OpenHSF INITIATIVE - A VISUALIZATION FORMAT FOR THE GRID [ ] 100378) WHAT IS OUR GRID? [ ] 700002) Fujitsu's Grid Solution for the Sciences SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 100378) WHAT IS OUR GRID? By Henry E. Schaffer, PhD -- North Carolina State University Our grid comprises, and will continue to comprise, a heterogeneous set of compute and storage resources, schedulers, file systems, and security policies integrated with grid middleware into a distributed computing platform. [ ] 100379) GRID COMPUTING OR MODULAR COMPUTING By Paul Krill, Editor at Large -- InfoWorld Call it grid computing. Or modular computing. Or policy-based computing or utiliy computing. Intel, which is opting for the modular designation, is preaching distribution of processing power to boost performance and reliability. [ ] 100380) GRID IS HERE; WHERE'S THE WEB? By Shane Kite, Senior Staff Reporter-Securities Data Publishing The real advantage of grid computing is its ability to free up a firm's IT resources for application development and customer service, in addition to enhancing internal efficiencies and computing management. Trading-critical analytics and risk management are two major areas for distributed computing. [ ] 100381) OpenHSF INITIATIVE - A VISUALIZATION FORMAT FOR THE GRID? The OpenHSF Initiative was launched to establish an open, common visualization format for the efficient exchange of rich 2D/3D data between disparate applications. The OpenHSF Initiative hopes to build a stronger relationship with industry vendors and to establish an even greater involvement in the promotion of this powerful, ubiquitous standard that ultimately may be part of the Grid. [ ] 100382) FIRST SITES ON NEESgrid NOW UP AND RUNNING Called NEESgrid, this infrastructure will soon link earthquake engineering sites across the country, provide data storage facilities and repositories, and offer access to high-performance computing applications used for conducting simulations. [ ] 700005) TurboGenomics Pipeline your Grid Life Science Applications SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE [ ] 100383) AVAKI & HP DEAL PROVIDES A SCALABLE GRID SOLUTION Under the terms of the agreement, HP will resell AVAKI 2.5 grid software around the globe. The AVAKI grid software will be available with HP's family of high-performance AlphaServer systems running Tru64 UNIX and industry- standard ProLiant servers running the Linux and Windows operating systems. [ ] 100384) PLATFORM SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH HP TO DELIVER GRID SOLUTIONS Platform, signed a global agreement with HP.to provide consulting and integration services to deliver comprehensive Linux, Windows, HP-UX, and Tru64 UNIX Grid computing and clustering solutions to joint customers around the world. [ ] 100385) CTC EXTENDS SERVER CLUSTERING EXPERTISE CLOSER TO THE GRID The Cornell Theory Center (CTC), Cornell University's high-performance computing and interdisciplinary research center, announced that it plans to extend its expertise in server cluster technology with development of a 16 node Windows based server cluster utilizing InfiniBand architecture. [ ] 100386) MORE TO DELL'S CLUSTER SUCCESS THAN MEETS THE EYE By David Berlind At first glance, a story about Dell supplying the computers to power a 2,008-system cluster at the State University of New York in Buffalo appears quite remarkable. [ ] 100387) SUMMIT ON WEB SERVICES REVEALS KEYNOTE DETAILS The Summit will discuss changes facing today's businesses as they transition to the next generation Internet - characterized by service-oriented application architectures, increasing bandwidth, wireless connectivity, seamless mobility, high performance grid computing and more stable, safe and flexible Internet infrastructure. [ ] 100388) PSION ANNOUNCES CONNECTIVITY FOR MOBILE ENTERPRISE DEVICE Psion Teklogix, a global provider of rugged mobile devices and wireless LAN system implementation and support, announced an enhanced Symbian operating system (OS) and an upgraded PC card slot allowing ISDN and General Packet Radio Services (GPRS) connectivity for its netBook mobile computer, a sub-notebook-sized solution for the mobile sales, service and professional field workforce. [ ] 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 [ ] 100389) NCSA TO SHOWCASE LATEST INFINIBAND HPC CLUSTERS AT IDF NCSA is a partner in the TeraGrid project, a National Science Foundation initiative to build and deploy the world's largest, fastest, most comprehensive, distributed infrastructure for open scientific research. NCSA also leads the National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance), an NSF- funded partnership to prototype an advanced computational infrastructure for the 21st century. [ ] 100390) SGI Origin SERIES SYSTEMS POWERS U.S. EARLY-WARNING RADAR The UEWR is an important part of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense System, a fixed, land-based, missile defense system with land-and space-based detection systems capable of responding to a limited strategic ballistic missile threat to the United States. [ ] 100391) Force10 SHIPS MOST SCALABLE AND HIGHEST PERFORMANCE ROUTER The E-Series provides unmatched scalability, line-rate performance, and full L2 switching and L3 routing functionality for high-performance Ethernet applications. [ ] 100392) VISUAL AREA NETWORKING -- A REALITY? Visual Area Network technologies are improving the accuracy of surgery, giving surgeons and physicians separated by hundreds of miles or even continents the ability to visualize, manipulate and share complex data in a way that was impossible just a few months ago. [ ] 100393) OPEN-SOURCE MOVEMENT -- AN IRRESISTIBLE TREND IN ASIA By Danyll Wills, South China Morning Post China is at the forefront of Linux's drive and IBM sees this open-source movement as an irresistible trend in Asia, with the mainland becoming one of the most aggressive of converts. BREAKING NEWS ============================================================== NETWORKING [ ] 100394) Voltaire & Hitachi To Co-Operate In InfiniBand Development [ ] 100395) Kasenna Shatters Performance Metrics For Video-On-Demand [ ] 100396) Baydel Announces Breakthrough File Networking Performance [ ] 100397) WulfKit High-Speed Interconnect Now Supports Intel Itanium2 STORAGE [ ] 100398) Maxtor Breaks Industry Record-Ships 80 GB Per Platter Drives [ ] 100399) Punk, Ziegel Announces Its First Technology Showcase [ ] 100400) Storage Computer To Focus On Swan Optical Networking Market PLATFORMS [ ] 100401) Force Announced Its CPCI-740 (SBCs) Rated At 1.4GHz [ ] 100402) Agere Unveils 2nd-Generation PayloadPlus Network Processor [ ] 100403) QLogic Introduces Remote Management Controller On A Chip OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 100404) AMCC Achieves Unparalleled Device Integration [ ] 100405) Scali Makes ScaMPI Library Available For InfiniBand GENERAL [ ] 100406) Workshop On Communication Architecture For Clusters [ ] 100407) Private Companies Are Not Prepared For Cyber Terrorism Attack By Thanassis Cambanis, Boston Globe [ ] 100408) Light Reading Tests Layer 7 Switches [ ] 100409) Conference On IT Research & Applications 2002 (Citra2002) QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 100380) "The real advantage of grid computing is its ability to free up a firm's IT resources for application development and customer service, in addition to enhancing internal efficiencies and computing management. 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