\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////////// GRIDtoday NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY --- Sep 23, 2002: Vol. 1, No. 15 --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 [ ] 100412) THE GRID COMPUTING LOOKING GLASS [ ] 100411) MANAGEMENT FOR THE GRID [ ] 100415) WILL PROFICIENT MAKE IT IN THE GRID NETWORKING SPACE? [ ] 700002) Fujitsu's Grid Solution for the Sciences SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 100410) INTERVIEW WITH CEES DE LAAT -- TALKING ABOUT THE GRID By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief The term grid also refers to a network of electrical conductors such as that which comprises a telephone or power distribution system. Local and regional grids may be interconnected with one another to form even more complex national grids. [ ] 100411) MANAGEMENT FOR THE GRID By Dmitri Tcherevik, V.P. Research & Development, CA Many of the same advances in technology that made grid computing possible can be leveraged to effectively manage grid computing environments. In this paper we will show how this can be accomplished. But first, let's take a look at some of the new challenges. [ ] 100412) THE GRID COMPUTING LOOKING GLASS By Ahmar Abbas, Editor at Large At the beginning of this summer we decided to create our own version of these nifty lists to see if we could gain some insight into the popular interest in grid computing. [ ] 100413) WACHOVIA, MORGAN CHASE BULLISH ON GRIDS Grid computing allows Morgan Chase to spread heavy-duty data processing tasks among all the computers that are available on the network, rather than dedicating certain hardware to certain duties. [ ] 100414) A REPLY TO - INTERNET PART 2~THE DAWN OF SUPERCOMPUTING The article "Internet Part 2: The Dawn of Supercomputing" by William Fellows (Grid Today, September 9, 2002) may lead to a misunderstanding about Internet2. [ ] 100415) WILL PROFICIENT MAKE IT IN THE GRID NETWORKING SPACE? By Steve Coplan, the451.com Proficient Networks has raised $12.5m in a second funding round from existing and new investors. The company is one of the contenders in the emerging route control space, and while the round should fund the company to profitability in a year's time, rivals can point to the far larger amounts they have raised as competitive weapons. [ ] 100416) IS THE MONO PROJECT GOING TO BE MICROSOFT'S GRID? By John Biggs, The N.Y. Times A partnership between a Microsoft project called .Net and an ordinarily Microsoft-bashing camp of programmers who have set out to produce a free twin of the .Net framework, a set of programming tools. The effort, called Mono, is a rare bridging of the chasm between the commercial world and free software, a movement in which the Linux operating system is at the forefront. [ ] 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 [ ] 100417) ENHANCED SOFTWARE INCORPORATES COMPUTE AND DATA GRID Avaki, a pioneer in global grid software solutions, has launched the latest version of its commercial grid software. AVAKI data grids provide secure, wide-area access to data, giving users and applications the ability to access files and data sets easily and conveniently regardless of location, administrative domain or platform. [ ] 100418) EGENERA ANNOUNCES TWO-WAY PROCESSING BLADE Egenera Inc, a leader in next-generation datacenter infrastructure, introduced a two-way Egenera Processing Blade leveraging the Intel Xeon processor 2.80 GHz. [ ] 100419) INTEL SEES CONVERGENCE OF COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS Embracing standards-based technologies that integrate communications and computing capabilities will provide a significant competitive advantage for corporate information technology (IT) operations, according to Intel Corporation officials. [ ] 100420) SONIC ENHANCES INDUSTRY'S 1ST ENTERPRISE SERVICE BUS - ESB The SonicXQ (ESB) is the only enterprise-class integration infrastructure for distributed business environments and computing models. With this release, Sonic extends market leadership in standards-based integration. [ ] 100421) PLATFORM DEBUTS SYMPHONY FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES Platform Computing Inc, a leader in distributed and Grid computing software solutions, debuted the beta version of a new Enterprise Grid solution that will dramatically change how commercial institutions leverage enterprise IT assets to gain competitive advantage. [ ] 700005) TurboGenomics Pipeline your Grid Life Science Applications SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS [ ] 100422) SGI PUTS CARDIFF UNIV AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE GRID With the just-completed installation of SGI collaborative visualization, high-performance computing and storage systems, Cardiff University, Wales, U.K. is poised to become a world leader in the development of advanced visualization systems for grid-based computing. [ ] 100423) SUPERCOMPUTER CENTRE IN SWEDEN EXPANDS SGI SHARED-MEMORY Demand for the 96-processor SGI Origin 3800 system and its shared-memory resources has been overwhelming since its installation in 2000. [ ] 100424) $5.5M PLEDGED TOWARD GSDI DEVELOPMENT This broad new initiative, with a value of more than $5.5 million (U.S.), supports the GSDI organization's mission of ready global access to geographic information. [ ] 100425) CLUSTER 2002 CONVENES SEPT. 24-26 IN CHICAGO The leading developers and researchers in cluster computing will meet Sept. 24 - 26 in Chicago for the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing. [ ] 100426) TINY MEMORY CHIPS MADE FROM MOLECULES Researchers at U.S. computer company Hewlett-Packard said they had created a computer memory chip using new molecular technology that takes miniaturisation further than ever before. BREAKING NEWS ============================================================== SECURITY [ ] 100427) SaberFile-HQ Server Available For Remote & Local Access [ ] 100428) RASP Order From U.S. Air Force For RASP Data Security [ ] 100429) Infoblox Introduces RADIUS One Server Appliance STORAGE [ ] 100430) Seagate, Intel & Silicon Unveil New Serial ATA II [ ] 100431) Intel Will Integrate Wind River's Award-Winning Tornado [ ] 100432) E-Z-SAN Partners Exhibited Storage Solution At IBC [ ] 100433) Emulex Announces Support For Microsoft's New Multipath NETWORKING [ ] 100434) Market Leader Highlighted Best-of-Breed Leadership [ ] 100435) InfiniCon Announces InfinIO 7000 For The Enterprise [ ] 100436) Lattice Provides FPSC Device To Extreme Networks [ ] 100437) NMCI Program Shows Network Growth Trend By Hunter Keeter, The Navy Marine Corps Intranet PLATFORMS [ ] 100438) SchlumbergerSema Develops Complete Platform For T-Mobile [ ] 100439) RedSwitch & Agilent Announce InfiniBand Switch [ ] 100440) LSI Unveil Its Biggest New Product Push In Eight Years By Eric Auchard [ ] 100441) IBM, Intel To Collaborate On Blade Servers By Eric Auchard [ ] 100442) Force10 Chooses Ixia To Validate 10 Gigabit Ethernet Line OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 100443) SPEC Releases Application Server Benchmark [ ] 100444) Platform Releases 1st Grid-Enabled Management Solution [ ] 100445) BEA Ships WebLogic JRockit 7.0 [ ] 100446) Communicant and IHP Announce Best-in-Class Performance [ ] 100447) Acronis Sets New Standard In System Utilities Design GENERAL [ ] 100448) Call For Papers & Participation At SSGRR Conferences In 2003 [ ] 100449) Is The Information On The Internet Reliable? [ ] 100450) Mellanox Announced Its Participation At The IDF [ ] 100451) Egenera Featured At Intel Developer Forum [ ] 100452) Akamai Participates In Windows Media 9 Series Beta Launch QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 100411) "Many of the same advances in technology that made grid computing possible can be leveraged to effectively manage grid computing environments." ---Dmitri Tcherevik, Divisional Vice President of Research and Development and technology strategist in the Office of the CTO, Computer Associates 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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