\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////////// GRIDtoday NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY --- Oct 7, 2002: Vol. 1, No. 17 --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 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. IN THIS ISSUE [ ] 100499) HOW GRID COMPUTING WILL CHANGE E-COMMERCE [ ] 100500) HARNESSING THE POWER OF GRID COMPUTING [ ] 100498) GETTING A GRIP ON GRIDS [ ] 700004) SGI Demonstrates Long-Distance Visual Serving Across Canada -- Pioneering Visualization for the Grid SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 100493) WHAT'S A GRID ANALYST TO DO? By Ahmar Abbas, Editor-at-Large There are definitely some hurdles in grid deployments by enterprises: They range from application ISVs not adopting their licensing models for the new "thousand" CPU paradigm to cultural and organizational problems. [ ] 100494) REALITY STRIKES THE GRID By Frank Dzubeck In reality, the grid is in its infancy, with a primary focus on computational computing and a secondary focus on database computing. The yet-to-be-tackled problem of transactional computing - the major form of computing within corporations today - is still in its earliest research phase within vendor laboratories. [ ] 100495) SUPPORT SOUGHT FOR SAR GRID COMPUTING PLAN The Hong Kong government and private sectors have been called on to back a revolutionary plan to share and access all computing resources in the SAR as easily as electricity from a wall socket. [ ] 100496) UNDERSEA DATA NETWORK PLANNED FOR MONTEREY BAY Computer networks and power grids are common enough on land, but over the next three years a team of oceanographers will be extending such networks thousands of feet beneath the sea. [ ] 100497) IBM OFFICIAL ENVISIONS SHIFT AWAY FROM INDIVIDUAL PCS By Richard A. D'Errico, The Business Review The future is not in selling computers, but in selling computing power, with users connecting to a power grid similar to the electric grid that lets users purchase only the power they need, according to IBM. [ ] 100498) GETTING A GRIP ON GRIDS By Paul McNamara, Network World United Devices CEO Ed Hubbard gets his back up a bit at the suggestion that the grid computing market has yet to lose the training wheels. "I would disagree with you," Hubbard says. [ ] 100499) HOW GRID COMPUTING WILL CHANGE E-COMMERCE By Lou Hirsh, E-Commerce Times Server technology improvements are poised to turbocharge the way companies run their e-commerce operations, ranging from the way they process transactions to the methods they use to snag new sales. [ ] 100500) HARNESSING THE POWER OF GRID COMPUTING The expression "power to the people," holds true when IBM announced its support for an initiative known as grid computing, which brings the power of supercomputing to individual level. [ ] 100501) NORTEL DELVES INTO SSL DEVICE SPACE By Steve Coplan, the451.com In an effort to stave off multiple threats, ranging from Cisco's VPN gateways, NetScreen's firewalls and the emerging class of multifunction devices, Nortel has started to articulate, albeit in vague terms, the outline of a unified architecture for its networking product lines. [ ] 700002) Fujitsu's Grid Solution for the Sciences SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE [ ] 100502) LEVEL 3 SUPPORTS iGRID 2002 WITH 10 Gb TRANSATLANTIC LINK Level 3 Communications Inc, a strong supporter of scientific research communities worldwide, has activated a 10 Gbps transoceanic link between Chicago and Amsterdam in support of the multi-Gigabit bandwidth needs of iGrid 2002, September 23-26 in Amsterdam. [ ] 100503) inSORS TO ACCESS GRID ENABLE GGF-6 WORKING GROUP SESSIONS inSORS Integrated Communications Inc, a Chicago-based communications firm and Silver Sponsor of the Global Grid Forum, is proud to announce that it will utilize the inSORS Grid (IG) platform to enable distance collaboration for many of the working and research group sessions of the Global Grid Forum 6 meeting to be held in Chicago, Illinois, October 14-18. [ ] 100504) MICROSOFT AND HP FORM .NET ALLIANCE Microsoft and HP announced a worldwide initiative to enable enterprises to connect their information, people, systems and devices in ways that help them reach new levels of business agility and competitive advantage through .NET and Web services. [ ] 100505) GRIDSYSTEMS, AWARDED WITH THE EUROPEAN IST PRIZE The European IST Prize, with the support and sponsorship of the European Commission, is the most distinguished award for groundbreaking products that represent the best of European innovation in information society technologies. [ ] 100506) AGILENT PICKS UP REST OF REDSWITCH By Jim Wagner Agilent Technologies announces the buyout of a switch "fabric" silicon designer to boost its InfiniBand switches. [ ] 700005) TurboGenomics Pipeline your Grid Life Science Applications SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS [ ] 100507) Wind River INTRODUCES INDUSTRY-FIRST SOLUTION Wind River Systems Inc, a leading provider of software and services for creating connected devices, introduced the WIND POWER ICE hardware bring-up and software development tool. [ ] 100508) IBM SETS UP BIOTECH GRID-ENABLED RESEARCH CENTER U.S.-based IBM set up a biotechnology research and development center in Taiwan--IBM Life Sciences Center of Excellence--the company's first in the Asia-Pacific region. [ ] 100509) SDSC TO PLAY MAJOR ROLE IN SIX NSF INFO TECH RESEARCH AWARDS The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) will help design and develop the information technology (IT) underpinnings for tomorrow's research in the geosciences, environmental science, biology, and other fields by playing a key role in six Information Technology Research (ITR) initiatives announced by the National Science Foundation (NSF). [ ] 100510) RESEARCHERS FASHION NEW PARADIGM FOR DATA-INTENSIVE COMPUTING The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $13.5 million over five years to a consortium led by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). [ ] 100511) OHIO UNIV'S CENTER WILL HELP GRID RESEARCH DO MORE Ohio University's new Center for Intelligent, Distributed and Dependable Systems soon will be helping researchers develop software that allows networked computers to do more. [ ] 100512) Connectix ADDRESSES GROWING DEMAND FOR SERVER CONSOLIDATION As a leader in Virtual Computing, Connectix announces BladeLogic, ProTier and LeoStream as the first development partners to deliver the next generation server management solutions to global 2000 enterprises. BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= STORAGE [ ] 100513) PacketLight Receives Brocade Fabric Aware Status SECURITY [ ] 100514) NeoScale Will Demonstrate Storage Data Encryption [ ] 100515) Protegrity & nCipher Announce Database Security Software NETWORKING [ ] 100516) Optical Switch Upgrade Provides sunrise With New Services [ ] 100517) Fujitsu Introduces Next-Generation SONET PLATFORMS [ ] 100518) A Sun Enticement To Deploy Web Services By Larry Greenemeier, Information Week [ ] 100519) Force Introduces UltraSPARC-IIi+ Embedded Server Blade OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 100520) Sixfold Technologies Launches At Cluster 2002 GENERAL [ ] 100521) HP ProLiant Has Delivered First Linux TPC-C Benchmark [ ] 100522) Executive From Platform Computing Joins Powerllel QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 100493 ) "I believe that grid computing activities in the academic and research community are absolutely critical and most importantly, they are complementary to commercial grid developments." ---Ahmar Abbas, Editor-at-Large, Managing Director, Grid Technology Partners. 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