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For subscription information, email gridfree@gridtoday.com All comments regarding content should be sent to: grideditor@gridtoday.com -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 733390) FIRST GLOBUSWORLD CONFERENCE TO BE HELD Event will be at the Hilton San Diego Resort, January 13-17, 2003 In a further sign that Grid computing is coming of age, the inaugural GlobusWorld conference will occur in San Diego next January. The event will feature 2 and 1/2 days of invited talks, panels and posters focused on the Globus Toolkit TM, a set of software and service that is the de facto standard for Grids. IN THIS ISSUE [ ] 100599) GRID COMPUTING: STATE OF THE ART REPORT [ ] 100600) HP's FIORINA MAKES GRID COMPUTING A STRATEGIC PRIORITY [ ] 100605) POWERING UP THE SUPER GRID [ ] 700002) Fujitsu's Grid Solution for the Sciences SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 100599) GRID COMPUTING: STATE OF THE ART REPORT By Mark Baker, Rajkumar Buyya, and Domenico Laforenza The early efforts in Grid computing started as a project to link supercomputing sites, but have now grown far beyond their original intent. In fact, many applications can benefit from the Grid infrastructure, including collaborative engineering, data exploration, high-throughput computing, and of course distributed supercomputing. [ ] 100600) HP's FIORINA MAKES GRID COMPUTING A STRATEGIC PRIORITY Specifically, the company said it will center its cross-company R&D investments in IT management and utility computing software, mobile infrastructure and devices, security technologies, and the creation, distribution and management of new kinds of rich media, including images, audio and video, across networks. [ ] 100601) RESEARCH LAB TO ACCOMMODATE GRID CLUSTER GROWTH Clustering is a method of linking multiple computers, or compute nodes, together to form a unified and more powerful system. Linux NetworX is in the process of building three systems for national laboratories in the United States that are expected to rank within the top ten supercomputers in the world. [ ] 100602) NSF HELPS EXPAND TERAGRID ROJECT The National Science Board [NSB] approved awards of about $35 million to be made by the National Science Foundation [NSF] to three research institutions to expand the previously funded TeraGrid project, a multi-year effort to build and deploy the world's largest, fastest, most comprehensive, distributed infrastructure for open scientific research. [ ] 100603) WILL THE GRID BRIGHTEN THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET? The difference will be a wave in IT as businesses buy computer processing power in grids -- like electricity -- to get more of it cheaply, says IBM Global Services, Australia and New Zealand, chief executive officer Brendon Riley. [ ] 100604) HPC IS COMMERCIAL GRID TESTING GROUND The HPC market is where vendors test out the ideas that will drive tomorrow's commercial products. The current generation of servers from all of the major vendors - IBM, Sun Microsystems, HP, Fujitsu Siemens - may look on the outside like vanilla symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) servers, but under the covers, they more closely resemble the parallel machines favoured by supercomputer buyers today. [ ] 100605) POWERING UP THE SUPER GRID By Pauline Tam Bill St. Arnaud and Wade Hong are helping to build a virtual grid of supercomputers to bolster the next wave of e-science. Together with 2,000 physicists from around the world, Carleton University professor Gerald Oakham is working on an experiment that will run on a colossal atom-smashing machine. [ ] 100606) APPLE'S GRID EFFORTS BEARING FRUIT By Salvatore Salamone, Bio-IT World For years, Apple's desktop systems have been widely embraced by the scientific community for their ease of use, high performance and affordable price. Yet most serious life science computation today is done on computers from other vendors. [ ] 100607) GRID KEY TO THINKING COMPUTERS IBM plans to announce that it has established a new Autonomic Computing group, which will act as Big Blue's hub for research and product development in computers that incorporate abilities like self-diagnostics. [ ] 100608) YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED -- ABOUT THE GRID & MORE And if anyone believed that future HPC systems would all move towards a homogenous structure, it seems that they will be disappointed. [ ] 700004) SGI Demonstrates Long-Distance Visual Serving Across Canada -- Pioneering Visualization for the Grid SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE [ ] 100609) Folding@home REPORT FIRST DISTRIBUTED GRID COMPUTING SUCCESS As you read this sentence, millions of personal computers around the world are working overtime - performing complex computations on their screensavers in the name of science. [ ] 100610) BIENNIAL iGrid EVENT UNVEILES GLOBAL IGITAL VIDEO The International Center for Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR) at Northwestern University and Path1 Network Technologies have demonstrated an innovative capability for global, high-quality, high-performance digital video at the recent international iGrid2002 Conference in Amsterdam. [ ] 100611) NUS RIGS UP HOMEGROWN GRID By Tang Weng Fai THE National University of Singapore (NUS) has cobbled together an innovative high-end computer that could just make it into the ranks of the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world. The entire exercise cost NUS just $500,000. [ ] 100612) QUADRICS GRID SOLUTION NOW SUPPORTS INTEL SERVER CHIPS By Ashlee Vance Quadrics, based in Bristol, England, has provided its QsNet network card to research institutions to create massive clusters of servers running the Linux operating system. [ ] 100613) Universia & GridSystems TO PROVIDE RESEARCHERS GRID ACCESS The Universia.net portal CEO, and Joan Mass‘, GridSystems president, have signed a collaboration agreement with the goal of provide access to all the university research groups to the new Grid technology. SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS [ ] 100614) UNIV OF ALBERTA TO BUILD A MOLECULAR CHEMISTRY GRID By Scott McKeen, Journal Staff Writer - The Edmonton Journal A serious shortage of world-class computing power in Canada prompted University of Alberta scientists to create the next best thing -- a countrywide, virtual supercomputer. [ ] 100615) WILL THE SOFTWARE GAMING INDUSTRY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE GRID? The developing technology of grid networks is getting early commercial use in gaming as Martinsburg, W.Va.-based Butterfly.net has deployed a server grid for multiplayer games. Butterfly.net's grid is among the first to allow multiplayer games to scale and support unlimited players. [ ] 100616) GLOBAL SIGNED NEW GRID CONTRACT WITH CERN IN EUROPE This announcement provides further proof of Global Crossing's capabilities in GRID computing and in supplying research and education globally with the highest quality network capabilities and performance. [ ] 100617) AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT FUNDS ADVANCED GRID NETWORK The grid network will support a number of Australia's research communities that require major bandwidth such as computational physics and engineering, bio-informatics, environmental and climactic modelling, media services, and astronomy. [ ] 100618) STANFORD GIVES DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING AN A By Evan Hansen Staff Writer, CNET Scientists at Stanford University have demonstrated tangible proof that scientific experiments can be conducted using thousands of low-end PCs wrangled together into loosely linked networks. BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 100619) AMD's Hammer Takes Steam Out Of Intel By Michael Singer [ ] 100620) An Inovative Approach To Grid Computing Disaster Recovery By Sumner Lemon PLATFORMS [ ] 100622) Future Computer Architectures - Heading Towards The Grid [ ] 100623) Intel Offers Another Chip-More Support For Grid Computing By Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com STORAGE [ ] 100621) Web Office Unveils Virtual Private Grid Storage Network OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 100624) Powerllel Claims Go-Faster Algorithms For Grid GENERAL [ ] 100625) Ian Foster To Receive 2002 Lovelace Medal QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 100600) "In challenging economic times, customers need help managing their costs and improving their returns -- fast. It's more important than ever that their technology strategy supports and fuels their business strategy." ---Shane Robison, Senior Vice President and CTO, Hewlett Packard ============================================================================ [ ] 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. 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