\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////////// GRIDtoday NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY --- Dec 2, 2002: Vol. 1, No. 25 --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 [ ] 100814) THE EVOLUTION OF GRID STANDARDS [ ] 100815) CHIPS TO CREATE UNIVERSAL GRID, SAYS NATIONAL SEMI CEO [ ] 100818) GridSystems' SOLUTION NOW AT IBM DESIGN CENTER [ ] 700004) While Others Talk about Visions of the Grid, SGI Enables Users to Do More Today SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 100814) THE EVOLUTION OF GRID STANDARDS Andrew Grimshaw, CTO and Founder, Avaki Corporation In this series of articles, Dr. Grimshaw will discuss the state of the art in grid computing, including the definition and benefits of grid computing, how grid software provides a return on investment, and this issue's topic: standards efforts in grid technology. [ ] 100815) CHIPS TO CREATE UNIVERSAL GRID, SAYS NATIONAL SEMI CEO The concept of building a radio chip into all devices and making all the devices interconnect is the way the chip industry is going. [ ] 100816) Wolfram RESEARCH ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF gridMathematica With the release of gridMathematica, Wolfram Research offers a complete parallel computing solution for dedicated grid clusters. [ ] 100817) Entropia DCGrid 5.1 SETS NEW STANDARD FOR PC GRID COMPUTING DCGrid 5.1 further optimizes application performance, providing advanced resource sharing, automation and enhanced grid management capabilities to take maximum advantage of grid resources. [ ] 100818) GridSystems' SOLUTION NOW AT IBM DESIGN CENTER InnerGrid unleashes the dormant power of all your computational resources (computers, data, applications) in one or more of your organizational networks, providing guaranteed, pervasive, and easily manageable solutions to solve the most complex research and business problems. [ ] 100819) GRID-BASED WEB SERVICES: DON'T INVEST TOO QUICKLY Web services needs surrounding infrastructure, such as charging models and the development of grid computing. Strong parallel technologies are still developing. [ ] 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 SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE [ ] 100820) SUN IS GOING TO START PUSHING GRID COMPUTING The grid computing solutions program will target vertical markets where Sun sees potential, such as life sciences, financial services and electronic design automation. [ ] 100821) ViPr USHERS IN REAL-TIME, GRID DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL VIDEO ViPr dramatically improves network-centric decision-making through remote visual collaboration and by integrating content that includes real-time, high-definition video streams, grid distributed super-computer processing and storage area networking. [ ] 100822) Level 3 BOOSTS Caltech BANDWIDTH WITH A GRID SOLUTION For Caltech, the Level 3 deal will help it participate in the CENIC program and other initiatives that seek to marry communications and networking to facilitate video-streaming, distance learning, grid distributed storage and remote imaging. [ ] 100823) InfiniBand HELPS LOS ALAMOS BUILD A LARGE GRID CLUSTER LANL is building a 128-processor grid cluster comprised of RLX blade servers running on Intel's Xeon chips and the Linux operating system. [ ] 100824) SciDAC PROJECT SEES GAINS WITH TOOLKIT'S GRID SOFTWARE Project leaders hope the popular toolkit's grid software and services will let them collaborate better -- and in different ways -- with partners across the U.S. and overseas. [ ] 100825) GRID TECHNOLOGY: HOW CAN YOUR ORGANIZATION BENEFIT? The Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York invite you to a conference sponsored by the Regional Development Agency Yorkshire. How Can Your Organization Benefit? A One Day Conference on the benefits of Grid Technology to be held on 29th January 2003 at the Thorpe Park Hotel, Leeds. [ ] 100826) Algorithmics & DataSynapse NOW SUPPORT Linux GRID CLUSTERS The initiative will enable current Sun customers to take advantage of the grid distributed computing capabilities by easily adding additional Sun computers. [ ] 700001) PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER, HP FORM GRID ALLIANCE SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS [ ] 100827) ASPEN OFFERS BROWSER-BASED BEOWULF GRID CLUSTER SOFTWARE Its ability to perform mission critical, non-critical, and support functions across a Beowulf grid cluster empowers an administrator with the ability to install nodes and upgrade operating system components in addition to end-user applications. [ ] 100828) LANE15 OFFERS A 10 GB GRID COMPUTING SOLUTION The 10Gb solution showcased is comprised of an 8-node grid cluster of Appro1224X enterprise class servers (powered by Intel Xeon Processors), the Lane15 Fabric Manager, the InfiniCon InfinIO 7000 Shared I/O, grid clustering system, and the InfiniCon InfiniServ 7000 10Gb/sec Host Channel Adapter. [ ] 100829) Linux NetworX UNVEILS GRID CLUSTER EVOLOCITY II The grid cluster is more reliable because it runs cooler, uses high-speed interconnects, and can hold up to 100 Intel Xeon 2.4Ghz processors. [ ] 100830) NATIONAL VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY LOOKING AT GRIDS FOR ANSWERS The NVO will both depend on grid computing and demonstrate its usefulness, astronomy being an uncommonly good test case, because of its large yet manageable universe of free, publicly available data. =========================================================================== [ ] 733341) BIO GRID ADVANCING LIFESCIENCE COMPUTING Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD December 4-5, 2002 The event will he held in ballroom I For more information please call 301-493-5500 or visit: http://www.bccenter.org . http://www.ejkrause.com/lifescience . BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= NETWORKING [ ] 100831) Remote Data Processing Makes tele-immersion A Networked Grid STORAGE [ ] 100832) TeraGrid Project Pushes Grid Storage Scalability PLATFORMS [ ] 100833) Marconi Demonstrates Broadband Global Grid Applications OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 100834) Intel Introduces Chipsets For Grid Servers & Workstations GENERAL [ ] 100835) Ximian Extends Grid Server-Based Management To SuSE Linux QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ]100814) "In grid computing there is a strong need for a widely agreed upon, well-designed and well thought-out architecture to tie the grid together. Without a common architecture and interoperability protocol, different vendor solutions will not talk to each other, and will form disjoint islands of grids." ----Dr. Andrew S. Grimshaw, Professor of Computer Science, University of Virginia, Founder and CTO of Avaki ============================================================================ [ ] 100715) InfiniBand Improves MPI Performance Greater Than 2 Times. 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