\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////////// GRIDtoday NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY --- Nov 11, 2002: Vol. 1, No. 22 --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 [ ] 100700) Bristol-Myers GRID REVEALS NEW DRUGS [ ] 100706) BigBangwidth DEBUTS NEW GRID COMPUTING OnRamp SOLUTION [ ] 100703) IN THE NEXT 5 YEARS GRID COMPUTING WILL MOVE TO ALL SECTORS SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 100700) Bristol-Myers GRID REVEALS NEW DRUGS By John McCormick At Bristol-Myers every PC processor tied into the grid is employed full time. Platform Computing's ActiveCluster package sits on a server, and schedules and allocates work to the company's Windows-based PCs based on machine availability and capability. [ ] 100701) SGI HELPS GEOSCIENTISTS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE GRID'S POWER This effort is a demonstration of the impact that remote, collaborative visualization can have on oil and gas exploration. With SGI's Visual Area Networking solution, it's now possible for two corporate partners to interpret large volumes of data collaboratively, enabling them to make rapid drilling and field development decisions. [ ] 100702) I.B.M LOOKS TO THE GRID By Steve Lohr For The NY Times I.B.M. is by no means alone in its pursuit of utility computing or computing on demand. Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, EDS, Accenture and other companies are working on the software, hardware and services for utility computing. [ ] 100703) IN THE NEXT 5 YEARS GRID COMPUTING WILL MOVE TO ALL SECTORS By Marie Leone, CFO.com Grid computing is a massive smoothing technique for asset allocation. In grid computing, PCs, servers, and workstations are linked together ? one giant daisy chain, if you will. That linking of systems means computing capacity is never wasted. [ ] 100704) WHAT IS THE ROLE OF InfiniBand ARCHITECTURE FOR THE GRID? By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief, GRIDtoday. These companies are at each stage of the value chain in bringing new technology such as Infiniband (IB) to the GRID market. As such they are well placed to give us a better understanding of how IB will impact the GRID market and what IB products will be on display at SC2002. [ ] 100705) Entropia DCGrid DELIVERS COST-EFFECTIVE COMPUTING POWER Evotec OAI purchased Entropia for the strength of its PC grid solution, domain expertise in the discovery and pharmaceutical markets and the enterprise-focused business model. [ ] 100706) BigBangwidth DEBUTS NEW GRID COMPUTING OnRamp SOLUTION By Alan Beck, Editor in Chief, GRIDtoday There has been a lot of work done to define the hardware and software architecture of Grid computing on high-speed networks such as Internet2, CANARIE and West Grid. [ ] 733391) FORCE10 NETWORKS TO DEMONSTRATE WORLD'S MOST SCALABLE CLUSTER/GRID NETWORK AT SC2002 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 SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE [ ] 100707) ONLINE GAMING INDUSTRY FINALLY GETS A LOAD OF THE "GRID" By D.C. Denison, The Boston Globe Major players like IBM are pushing the computing grid concept to enable a future where computing power becomes a utility, just like electricity. If the idea spreads, some technology-oriented business plans are going to get a lot leaner when they get to the computer processing part: "Dish it off to a grid" may become a viable, low-cost option. [ ] 100708) WILL LION & IBM SUCCEED WITH THE DRUG RESEARCH GRID SOLUTION? The new e-business on-demand service will enable life sciences companies to tap into "virtual" computing power from a single point of access, resulting in faster and more accurate research results. [ ] 100709) IBM PLUGS IN NEW "GRID BLADE" SERVER By Stephen Shankland, ZDNet News Blade servers became popular as a method to stack a number of low-end servers into a small area to save office space. Now, that original concept has been expanded to higher-end servers with more complex processors. [ ] 100710) Akamai's GRID SOLUTION HELPS Yahoo's! CUSTOMERS Akamai extends relationship with Yahoo! to provide superior worldwide user experience. [ ] 100711) AXCELEON MOVES INTO THE GRID CLUSTERING ARENA Clustering is an increasingly popular method of tackling heavy-duty computing tasks by uniting multiple PCs or servers into a network that functions like a single powerful machine. Initially used by university researchers, clustering is gaining favour with businesses that need to take on high-end computing jobs, such as geological analysis and investment portfolio modeling. [ ] 100712) BEA POURS LIQUID DATA -- A SOLUTION TO HELP THE GRID? By Paul Krill Liquid Data for WebLogic is a product for real-time data access and data aggregation. It's really providing information visibility into front-end applications and for taking data from multiple, disparate data sources and combining them. [ ] 700001) Control Architecture for Service Grids in a Federation of Utility Data Centers SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS [ ] 100713) U OF A AND C3.ca CREATE POWERFUL GRID CLUSTER IN CANADA The University of Alberta and C3.ca led a nationwide, multi-institutional effort to link thousands of computers together to solve an important computational chemistry problem in one day: a task that would normally take six years to complete. [ ] 100714) WEST VIRGINIA COMPANY JOINS GRID COMPUTING CONSORTIUM The Institute for Scientific Research Inc, a scientific research and development company in Fairmont, W.Va, has become the newest member of the Super Computing Science Consortium, a regional partnership that seeks to advance energy and environmental technologies through the application of high-performance computing and communications. [ ] 100715) PATIENTS BRAIN IMAGES SHARED IN 1ST GRID IMAGING NETWORK The GCRC will coordinate the nationwide effort to link and share vast amounts of computerized data from brain images of people who have schizophrenia. In addition, researchers participating in the project will create standardized, powerful discovery tools for future brain studies in large populations. [ ] 100716) DEMO TO OFFER FIRST LOOK AT GRID VIRTUAL EARTHQUAKE LAB The demonstration at the NEES partners' meeting at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) will use shake tables equipped with sensors to simulate an earthquake. The experimental data will be streamed live to the NEESgrid, where it will be visualized, reviewed and analyzed. [ ] 100717) SC2002 TO FEATURE MOST ADVANCED GRID CONFERENCE NETWORK Over 50 volunteers representing more than 35 leading companies, universities and research laboratories will assemble SCinet, the high-performance network built each year to support the SC conference, on the floor of the Baltimore Convention Center. [ ] 100718) SUN AND CANADA'S NRC COLLABORATING ON GRID COMPUTING The two organizations are collaborating to create a grid computing network powered and managed by Sun technology for the Canadian bioinformatics research community. [ ] 700004) SGI Demonstrates Long-Distance Visual Serving Across Canada -- Pioneering Visualization for the Grid BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= PLATFORMS [ ] 100719) Intel Doubles Cache On New Xeons; Adding Power To The Grid By Michael Kanellos [ ] 100720) NEC Jumping In The Grid Server Market With Itanium 2 Plans By Roger Howorth STORAGE [ ] 100721) Unisys Simplifies Grid Distributed Environments NETWORKING [ ] 100722) Agere & Infineon To Develop High-Speed Wireless Grid LAN By John Leyden OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 100723) New NSF "Middleware" Advances Collaborative Grid Research [ ] 100724) Borland Retools JBuilder 8: A Move Towards Grid Integration? By Mike Ricciuti, ZDNet News GENERAL [ ] 100725) NIDISC03: Nature Inspired Grid Distribted Computing Workshop [ ] 100726) inSORS Utilized Grid To Highlight Presentations At GGF QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 100706) "In high-performance Grid computing applications, OnRamp congestion can be defined as the traffic congestion in local area networks. In order for individual workstations running high-performance applications to transfer large amounts of data at high speeds, they must have a very fast OnRamp to the grid right from the desktop." --- Dan Gatti, CEO, BigBangwidth ============================================================================ [ ] 100715) InfiniBand Improves MPI Performance Greater Than 2 Times. 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