\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////////// GRIDtoday NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY --- Nov 25, 2002: Vol. 1, No. 24 --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 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 [ ] 100784) TeraGrid DEMO AT SC2002 HIGHLIGHTED GRID CAPABILITIES [ ] 100780) NEW PATTERNS FOR GRID COMPUTING [ ] 100799) SUN'S FIRE LINK UNDERLIES GRID SUPERCLUSTERS [ ] 700002) Fujitsu's Grid Solution for the Sciences SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 100780) NEW PATTERNS FOR GRID COMPUTING PricewaterhouseCoopers' predicts that Internet computing will result from the convergence of several developments already underway. For example, grid computing enables large-scale aggregation and integration of computing, storage, network, and other information resources across organizational boundaries. [ ] 100781) IBM ITANIUM 2 SERVERS APPEAR IN MASSIVE NCSA GRID CLUSTER By Ashlee Vance The NCSA has started work on a massive grid cluster that will combine the computing power of 3,300 Itanium 2 processors from Intel. [ ] 100782) Fujitsu PARTNERS WITH THE MIND ELECTRIC TO DEVELOP OPEN GRID Software platforms designed to support service-oriented architectures are a critical missing link for grid services to move from architectural blueprint to enterprise deployment. As a leader in delivering innovative technologies to the market, Fujitsu is at the forefront of developing advanced grid architectures to fulfill this requirement. [ ] 100783) SGI REINFORCES CONTINUED LEADERSHIP IN GRID SOLUTIONS While others talk about visions of the grid, SGI allows users to do more today with high-productivity grid computing; grid computing is all about dealing with massive data sets. [ ] 100784) TeraGrid DEMO AT SC2002 HIGHLIGHTED GRID CAPABILITIES StorageTek announced that it provided the disk sub-systems and technical support for the TeraGrid demonstrations at Supercomputing 2002 (SC2002), a conference that brought together a worldwide community of computer scientists to celebrate achievements and envision the future of high performance grid computing, networking, and data technologies. [ ] 100785) IBM THROWS WEIGHT BEHIND GRID UTILITY MODEL By Jaikumar Vijayan IBM is opening four On-Demand design centers around the world to help companies test the concept using IBM Web services, Linux and grid computing technologies. [ ] 700004) While Others Talk about Visions of the Grid, SGI Enables Users to Do More Today SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE [ ] 100786) UnitedLinux MAKES ITS COMDEX DEBUT The UnitedLinux effort bore its first fruit at the Comdex Fall 2002 trade show, with SuSE and the SCO Group announcing new products based on the common software underpinnings. [ ] 100787) GRID CLUSTER IN SWEDEN BUILT WITH THE DOLPHIN WulfKit3 The NSC grid cluster is taking a three-dimensional cluster architecture to new performance levels and clearly demonstrating the power and scalability of the WulfKit3 interconnect technology. [ ] 100788) Oracle TOUTS CUSTOMER USE OF DATABASE GRID CLUSTERS By Rick Whiting Oracle says nearly 1,000 customers have purchased its real application grid clusters software, including Merrill Lynch, Southwest Airlines, and Travelocity, and that it has 530 customers for its outsourcing services. [ ] 100789) LSU GRID SUPERCOMPUTER IS SUPER CHEAP By Katie Dean When you build a Beowulf grid cluster, you really do it yourself -- you buy the pieces and you put it together. [ ] 100790) InfiniBand PROVIDES SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE FOR GRID CLUSTERS The InfiniBand architecture provides superior performance compared with alternative technologies for grid cluster applications. Using an InfiniBand host channel adapter (HCA), Network Appliance is able to significantly improve throughput and reduce latency between the grid clustered nodes. [ ] 100791) FIRST ENSTARA DEPLOYED FOR GRID APPLICATION The powerful grid distributed cyberinfrastructure project is designed to support data-intensive scientific research and collaboration, especially in earth and biomedical sciences. [ ] 100792) Axceleon MOVES HIGH-PERFORMANCE GRID COMPUTING HIGHER Organizations are often utilizing virtual processing software, such as EnFuzion, to deploy grid clusters of high volume, high performance, and low cost rather than using a single larger system as their platform for computationally intensive applications. [ ] 100793) IBM HELPS DEVELOPERS PROVIDE ON-DEMAND GRID APPLICATIONS By Katie Dean IDC forecasts a $20 billion dollar worldwide market for software as a service by 2006. [ ] 700001) PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER, HP FORM GRID ALLIANCE SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS [ ] 100794) CCSI ANNOUNCES CLUSTERON SUPER GRID CLUSTER COMPUTER The CCSI Clusteron is designed for supercomputing applications, high density server installations, Beowulf grid clusters and other compute-intensive applications. [ ] 100795) Fujitsu UNVEILS SPARC SERVER FOR GRID COMPUTING Through collaboration with VERITAS, Fujitsu will deliver a solution that allows customers 24x7 access to mission critical data and addresses their business requirements for efficiency, flexibility, and cost-effective grid computing. [ ] 100796) ANOTHER BRIGHT LIGHT IN THE FUTURE OF THE GRID By Kevin Maney, USA Today An optical grid gateway can take a beam of light coming in on a fiber-optic line from one city and bounce it into an optical fiber going out to another city -- and do it at one-hundredth of the cost of a typical $10 million optical switch. [ ] 100797) GRID PROGRAMMING CHALLENGE COMING TO A COMPUTER NEAR YOU! The Grid Wars Challenge is a parallel programming challenge where participating developers submit "C by C" battle programs that will fight against each other for control of parallel processors. [ ] 100798) GRID SUPERCOMPUTER TO USE OPTICAL FIBERS By John Markoff, The NY Times The optiputer will initially consist of about 500 processors linked via an optical switching system that will permit parts of the computer to share information at the speed of light. Each of the grid clusters is based on Intel microprocessors and runs the Linux operating system. [ ] 100799) SUN'S FIRE LINK UNDERLIES GRID SUPERCLUSTERS Sun Microsystems will be expanding its supercomputing capabilities to sectors like educational institutions and biomedical research with a new grid clustrer that will help most data centers improve their operations. [ ] 100800) TACC & PLATFORM COLLABORATE TO DEVELOP GRID OF GRIDS By partnering with industry leaders like Platform, Texas Advanced Computing Center hopes to accelerate the collaborative nature of science on grids. [ ] 100801) U OF ALBERTA GRID TRANSFERS DATA AT WORLD RECORD PACE What Bryan Caron and the other members of his Canadian team demonstrated in this latest speed test is that they are well on the way to achieving the kind of very high speed interconnections that are absolutely vital for LHC's grid to function effectively. BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= STORAGE [ ] 100802) SpinServer Grid Cluster Records Highest NAS Scores [ ] 100803) Reliaty Backup Offers Support For Grid Environments NETWORKING [ ] 100804) Belgacom, Nortel: An Optical Grid For The European Commission [ ] 100805) Topspin Demonstrates 10 Gbps Switching Solution For Grids OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 100806) PolyServe Gets Funding To Develop Grid Software Clusters By Mike Ricciuti, ZDNet News GENERAL [ ] 100807) SC2002 Featured Innovative NASA Research And Grid Technology QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 100780) "Our latest finding is that the development of grid computing architectures, protocols and middleware by the research community is likely to lead directly to solutions that will overcome these obstacles and allow Web services deployment to proceed." ---Eric M. Berg, Managing Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers' Global Technology Centre ============================================================================ [ ] 100715) InfiniBand Improves MPI Performance Greater Than 2 Times. 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