\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////////// GRIDtoday NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY --- Oct 21, 2002: Vol. 1, No. 19 --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 [ ] 100563) IAN FOSTER = GRID COMPUTING [ ] 100579) COMMISSION FUNDS GRID IN FIGHT AGAINST BREAST CANCER [ ] 100562) IDC REPORT ON GRIDS - NO SIGNIFICANT NEW REVENUE! [ ] 700004) SGI Demonstrates Long-Distance Visual Serving Across Canada -- Pioneering Visualization for the Grid SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 100560) BUSINESS READY TO EXPLOIT GRID COMPUTING By Zack Medicoff, The Globe Once grid computing becomes widespread, companies will be able to pay for supercomputing power by the hour rather than investing in highly expensive mainframes that sit idle much of the time. [ ] 100561) LINUX GRID CLUSTER SUPERCOMPUTERS EATS ITANIUM By Stephen Shankland, ZDNet News Quadrics and competitor Myricom make the equipment used to set up high-speed, fast-response connections for this newer breed of supercomputers. Previously, Quadrics' focus has largely been on Hewlett-Packard's Tru64 Unix servers using the Alpha processor, but customers are now seeking the better number-crunching abilities of Itanium and Xeon chips. [ ] 100562) IDC REPORT ON GRIDS - NO SIGNIFICANT NEW REVENUE! Advantages of the grid approach to distributed computing include increased utilization of computing resources, access to specialized computer systems, cost sharing, and improved management. [ ] 100563) IAN FOSTER = GRID COMPUTING By Om Malik Unlike the Internet, which primarily is a network for communications, grids are networks for computation--they are thinking, number-crunching entities. [ ] 100564) WILL THE GRID COMMUNITY AID CYBERPARASITES? By Bennett Daviss Reed, Business Information UK The idea of harnessing computers across the Net to create one huge number- cruncher has already proved its worth in more legitimate circumstances. [ ] 100565) ARE SERVERS THE ANSWER TO THE THE GRID LOAD BALANCE? By Brian Fonseca and Ed Scannell As dominant hardware providers forge separate visions of an automated datacenter utopia, smaller vendors are stepping into the grid void with technologies that optimize resource utilization and reduce operating costs. [ ] 100566) SMART CARDS: WILL THE STANDARDS MAKE IT PART OF THE GRID? The smart card is in fact part of a "distributed system" of computing power that also requires card-accepting devices and host computers to track the information on the card and respond to it as appropriate. [ ] 100567) CAN SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT INTEGRATE WITH GRID NEEDS? Systems management will likely be the final area where a major XML web services standard is published, with specifications expected from vendors and standards bodies early next year. [ ] 700002) Fujitsu's Grid Solution for the Sciences SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE [ ] 100568) CAPE CLEAR SOFTWARE HEADING FOR A GRID SOLUTION Although Cohesions product is designed to support a wide range of distributed computing mechanisms in and between typical multi-platform enterprises, Web Services has the potential to create a more unified and ubiquitous distribution architecture. [ ] 100569) GRID TEAM COLLABORATES TO SOLVE SECRET-KEY CHALLENGE RSA Laboratories, the research center of RSA Security Inc, the most trusted name in e-security, announces that a coordinated team of computer programmers and enthusiasts, known as distributed.net, has solved the RC5-64 Secret-Key Challenge. [ ] 100570) IBM IS OFFERING INTERNSHIP THAT SUPPORTS GRID COMPUTING Doing a sandwich year in industry as part of a university degree can expose you to some useful experiences. Ideally, you want to be doing something other than running the software testing scripts that no one else can be bothered with or doing coffee runs. [ ] 100571) GEORGE MASON U: GMU GRID CAPS COSTS, NOT SERVICE George Mason University is deploying a new highly scalable optical network that will enable the university to connect local area networks at each of its three campuses to create one virtual multi-campus Grid. [ ] 100572) Metis LAUNCHES PATHWAYS TO SUPPORT THE GRID Pathways is built on top of Metis MCP 5, the next-generation Peer to Peer solution that goes beyond traditional EAI, integrating all technologies, business logic and processes for Web services, composite applications, and grid computing. [ ] 100573) Silicon Genetics ANNOUNCES UPDATE TO GRID SOLUTION Answering the needs of IT professionals and researchers in high-throughput gene expression laboratories, Silicon Genetics has streamlined data handling and added new features to their Enterprise Solution for expression informatics. [ ] 100574) ANOTHER SUN GRID CLUSTERING BLADE SERVER? The word on the street is that Sun Microsystems Inc is getting ready to make a whole slew of server announcements in November, possibly including the Sun Fire V1280 12-way server, Sun's first entries into the blade server market, its WildCat"system clustering technology, and maybe even a refreshed Linux server line, Timothy Prickett Morgan writes. [ ] 100575) SGI'S VISUAL AREA NETWORKING SOLUTION ADDS PUNCH TO THE GRID Visual Area Networking leapfrogs over earlier technology barriers to transform business-proven visualization infrastructure into international collaborative decision-making hubs for geographically distributed team members who are involved in every phase of the energy enterprise. SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS [ ] 100576) SCIENTISTS LAUNCHING A TRANSPARENT" VIRTUAL GRID COMMUNITY Creating a grid-enabled version of SnB puts UB Team in a position to really tackle larger structures and at the same time create collaborative environments between users of programs who can benefit from each other's expertise without working together in a traditional sense," said Miller. [ ] 100577) DELL ACKNOWLEDGE EXCEPTIONAL USE OF COMPUTING GRID CLUSTERS The award is part of an initiative by Dell to acknowledge exceptional use of the company's high-performance computing grid clusters for groundbreaking commercial research and projects that can benefit society. These grid clusters link large numbers of standards-based servers and storage systems together to act as a single resource to solve complex computational problems. [ ] 100578) AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES TO BE CONNECTED BY A SUPER-FAST GRID By Jane Richardson, The Australian GrangeNet would let Australian educators and scientists engage with the builders of Internet 2. GrangeNet is a quantum leap in communications infrastructure. Other applications will include the promotion of co-operation between industry and research organisations and the facilitation of business development based on advanced communications products and services. [ ] 100579) COMMISSION FUNDS GRID IN FIGHT AGAINST BREAST CANCER This is the purpose of MammoGrid, a new seven partner research project funded under the Information Society Technologies (IST) section of the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme. [ ] 100580) HAS THE MILITARY REALIZED THE POWER OF GRID COMPUTING? Retired Vice Adm. Arthur Cebrowski, a leading exponent of transformation, wrote several years ago that the transition to grid-centric warfare "will prove to be the most important revolution in military affairs in the past 200 years." [ ] 100581) OptIPuter BOOTS UP HIGH-CAPACITY OPTICAL GRID By Karen Heyman Similar distributed computing projects provide access to supercomputing power and storage, but OptIPuter developers say their network will also offer next- generation bandwith provisioning, which will allow long-distance collaborators to work together in real time, for example, on a massive image file. [ ] 100582) NEW RECORD SET AT IGRID2002 FOR MOVING INFORMATION By combining SABUL with the DSTP protocol for remote data analysis and distributed data mining and layering them over Photonic Path Services, it is now possible to analyze Gigabyte size data sets anywhere in the world. BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= STORAGE [ ] 100583) LightSand Provides More Grid Distributed Storage Support [ ] 100584) Spinnaker Offers Another Grid Distributed Solution PLATFORMS [ ] 100585) parvus Helps Sandia Develop A Portable Linux Grid Cluster NETWORKING [ ] 100586) Tsunami Protocol Will Speed Data Transfer Over The Grid [ ] 100587) Quadrics Delivers Interconnects For Grid Clusters OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 100588) STMicro & AMD Collabarate On Grid Cluster Technology [ ] 100589) Egenera Announces Two-Way Grid Processing Blade GENERAL [ ] 100590) Platform Extends Value Of Grid Computing Solutions [ ] 100591) Grid Computing Advocates To Meet In Chicago QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 100560) "Once grid computing becomes widespread, companies will be able to pay for supercomputing power by the hour rather than investing in highly expensive mainframes that sit idle much of the time." ---Robert Gordon, CEO, Markham, Ont.-based, Platform Computing 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. 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