\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////////// GRIDtoday NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY --- Nov 4, 2002: Vol. 1, No. 21 --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 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 [ ] 100630) KESSELMAN LEADS TESTBED FOR NEW GRID SECURITY [ ] 100635) AN OVERVIEW OF DISTRIBUTED GRID COMPUTING [ ] 100641) DISTRIBUTED GRID COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS ARE ECONOMIC REALITY [ ] 733391) TERAGRID PARTNERS' CHOICE FORCE10 NETWORKS High Performance Ethernet for Cluster/Grid 336 GigE or 28 10GigE ports per chassis True 10GigE line-rate performance Robust L2 switching and L3 routing Visit us at SC2002 -- Booth #2035 SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 100630) KESSELMAN LEADS TESTBED FOR NEW GRID SECURITY Named after the three-headed dog who guarded Hades in Greek mythology, Kerberos was originally developed at M.I.T. Among the first users of the new Grid environment will be geophysicists working with USC Professors of Earth Sciences. [ ] 100631) ANALYSIS: LOOKING FOR MORE GRID POWER By Stephen Lawson and Ashlee Vance When data comes into a server or is sent out to a network, it needs to be processed, for example by being pulled out of packets or placed into packets. Traditionally, that processing has been done on the server's CPU, but as typical network interfaces have gone from 100Mbps to 1Gbps and begun heading toward 10Gbps, the bottleneck between server and network in some cases has shifted from the interface to the CPU. [ ] 100632) INDIA TO LAUNCH NEW GRID SUPERCOMPUTER IN DECEMBER The eventual I-Grid will jack up computing power 10 times by using advanced software as a glue for a network of machines to crunch enormous amounts of data. [ ] 100633) DECENTRALIZATION - NEW GRID/WEB SERVICES MANTRA? By Kevin Werbachinit In the coming decade, decentralization will be the critical challenge for the technology, media and telecommunications industries. Each has developed with the assumption that powerful central forces will manage development. [ ] 100634) GRID COMPUTING THE NEXT WAVE, SAYS IBM By Alastair Otter, ITWeb - All Africa Global Media Grid computing is going to be a huge part of the next phase of Internet computing, IBM marketing executive Dave Botha said at a presentation in Johannesburg."Grid computing is essentially about utilizing spare cycles of all the servers in the world today; basically bandwidth and performance on demand." [ ] 100635) AN OVERVIEW OF DISTRIBUTED GRID COMPUTING By Stephen Withers, Technology & Business magazine Distributed Grid computing -- which harnesses the power of multiple CPUs -- grew out of scientists' and academics' needs for processing power, but it is rapidly developing commercial applications. [ ] 100636) THE GRID WILL COMPLEMENT RATHER THAN REPLACE THE INTERNET By Kevin Werbachinit The demonstrations showed that the grid technology is maturing. And with companies such as the two dozen sponsors of iGrid, including IBM and Hewlett-Packard, pushing it, grid technology has a bright future. [ ] 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 [ ] 100637) MandrakeSoft & PARTNERS LAUNCH "CLIC" GRID CLUSTER LINUX The goal of the CLIC project is to provide a powerful, simple and easy to install Linux Grid Clustering system by unifying the various stages of installation, interconnect layer set-up and parallel applications deployment. [ ] 100638) WILL Akamai SOLIDIFIY GRIP ON GRID THROUGH DEAL WITH AOL? America Online selects Akamai as a scalable extension to its Web infrastructure. The agreement includes broadening of Akamai's footprint within AOL's global network [ ] 100639) CAN THE SETI@home SPACE GRID SURVIVE A NEW THREAT? The distributed computing project aiming to locate radio signals from intelligent aliens is under threat due to a lack of sponsorship.The future of SETI@home, an Internet-based distributed computing experiment to find radio signals from intelligent alien life-forms, is in serious danger as academics behind the project face a funding crisis. [ ] 100640) OXFORD U, IBM & UK GOVT BUILDING A GRID FOR BREAST CANCER eDiamond will be the first Grid built entirely with commercially available technology, including a first-of-its-kind software developed by Mirada Solutions to standardize new and existing digital mammogram images. [ ] 100641) DISTRIBUTED GRID COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS ARE ECONOMIC REALITY By Paul Krill, InfoWorld The economic realities in today's marketplace are driving companies to more efficiently deploy their resources, realizing significant cost savings by consolidating their IT infrastructures. [ ] 100642) XML GLOBAL & METASERVER OFFER A COMBINED GRID SOLUTION The combined efforts will allow customers to more efficiently meet integration challenges within and across the enterprise. [ ] 100643) SUN SHIELDS GRID FROM ATTACK, DISASTER The Sunnyvale, CA.-based server manufacturer unveiled its Enterprise Continuity program, a collection of services and technology designed to prevent network failure by physically separating computers that work together in a unified cluster. [ ] 700002) Fujitsu's Grid Solution for the Sciences SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS [ ] 100644) HP BUILDS VISUALIZATION GRID CLUSTER FOR THE DOE'S NNSA The ASCI PathForward committee in cooperation with ASCI's Visual Interactive Environment for Weapon Simulation (VIEWS) committee has awarded a three-year contract to HP to develop advanced high-performance visualization technology based on scalable visualization grid clusters. [ ] 100645) UNIV OF TEXAS TO JOIN ITALIAN RESEARCH PROJECT ON GRID As a part of the project, an innovative, very high-speed photonic demonstrator, named Metro-Core, will be built in Pisa. Metro-Core "will be at the forefront of the European research, allowing experiments not only on grid computing, but also on several other high-speed interactive services for the E-society." [ ] 100646) COMPUTERS IN GRID BIOTECHNOLOGY As for grid computers, these are distributed widely geographically and can encompass different types of computers. The problem is that grid computers have a slow network so it is nearly impossible to have all computers work on a single problem simultaneously. [ ] 100647) ENTROPIA & CCDC LAUNCH GRID COMPUTING PARTENERSHIP The DCGrid platform is a cost-effective alternative to acquiring new hardware or to compromising research. DCGrid harvests the idle processing cycles of desktop PCs in an enterprise network for processing large jobs from many applications. [ ] 100648) MODVIZ MAKES REAL-TIME 3-D GRID VISUALIZATION A REALITY Affordable, high-quality, computer-based 3-D visualization of complex models and processes in real-time -- a technological "Holy Grail" for industries of every type -- is being made possible by ModViz Inc, a new Silicon Valley startup whose software turns grid clusters of ordinary personal computers into super graphics engines. [ ] 100649) IS THE GRID SPAWING NEW IDEAS IN DIGITAL COMPUTING?. By Byron Spice, Post-Gazette Science Editor Visible Woman, like her Visible Human male counterpart, is a digital reconstruction of a cadaver that was thoroughly X-rayed, scanned with CT and MRI machines and then sliced into thin sections and photographed. The result is a giant computerized database that provides detailed views of all of her organs, bones and other body parts. [ ] 100650) Extreme AIDS HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH WITH A GRID SOLUTION Each stage in our quest to bring benefit from the publicly available genome sequences is a huge challenge to us -- to bring benefit to humankind from the sequence of our genome, of our shared Book of Life, we have to deploy scalable and flexible systems as rapidly and as seamlessly as possible. [ ] 100651) ZEROSOFT OFERS A WIRELESS SOLUTION FOR THE GRID. This software platform enables a new generation of on-demand mobile servers to run, deploy, and manage enterprise Grid applications over networks of handheld devices. [ ] 700004) SGI Demonstrates Long-Distance Visual Serving Across Canada -- Pioneering Visualization for the Grid BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 100652) L-3 Announces Encryptor Contract For U.S. Govt Grid [ ] 100653) Clearswift Supplies CS e-Sweeper For The London Grid NETWORKING [ ] 100654) Scientists Plan To Shake Hands Via The Grid STORAGE [ ] 100655) Zambeel Deployes Grid Storage At DOE's NERSC PLATFORMS [ ] 100656) Intel Hyperthreads Fastest P4 To Support The Grid OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 100657) Opal-RT Unveils RT-LAB 6.1 For Grid Computing GENERAL [ ] 100658) Platform Takes Center Stage At Grid Computing Conference [ ] 100659) Conference On Programming The Grid With Java COG Nov 4-8 QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ]100635)"Grid computing technology allows you to coordinate and manage multiple distributed resources, and clustering supports a collection of resources under a single administrative domain. For grid computing to move forward, clustering needs to become more sophisticated, so that you can start to externally manage it to do this dynamic provisioning." ---Dr. Ian Foster, Associate Division Director and Senior Scientist, Head of Distributed Systems Lab, Argonne National Labratories, Professor of Computer Science, University of Chicago. ============================================================================ 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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