\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////////// GRIDtoday NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY --- Dec 9, 2002: Vol. 1, No. 26 --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 [ ] 100840) GRIMSHAW ANSWERS THE QUESTION: WHAT IS A GRID? [ ] 100841) DR. IAN FOSTER JOINS THE inSORS ADVISORY BOARD [ ] 100842) THE GRID WILL PLAY A CENTRAL ROLE IN CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE [ ] 700007) FREE History of Supercomputing Poster by IDC and Linux NetworX SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 100840) WHAT IS A GRID? By Andrew Grimshaw CTO and Founder, Avaki Corporation This feature defines what grids will become by shaping dialogue, customer requirements and expectations, and what software vendors (both commercial and government) produce. [ ] 100841) DR. IAN FOSTER JOINS THE inSORS ADVISORY BOARD inSORS Integrated Communications Inc has announced that Dr. Ian Foster has joined the inSORS Advisory Board. [ ] 100842) THE GRID WILL PLAY A CENTRAL ROLE IN CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE Grid and supercomputing will play a central role in the future, National Science Foundation Director Rita Colwell said in a keynote address to the Supercomputing 2002 conference in Baltimore. [ ] 100843) JAPAN'S GRID SYSTEM SENDS RECORD-SPEED DATA TO US Integrating seven PC grid clusters located both in the U.S. and Japan, separated by a distance of over 10,000 kilometers, and then using a single application to send large volumes of data via multiple TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) streams across the Pacific Ocean has never been done before, according to AIST. [ ] 100844) NCSA TO FINALLY IMPLEMENT A MASSIVE TERAGRID SAN NCSA's TeraGrid cluster will include 230 Tbytes of spinning disk initially, running in IBM FastT 700 arrays. [ ] 100845) NSF MOVES TO NEXT STEP IN GRID COMPUTING The ETF award will provide money to integrate two computing environments to create an extended terascale-level grid of data, computation and visualization resources that will make possible new scientific discoveries. [ ] 100846) PHOENIX TECH LAUNCHES SERVERBIOS 3.5 GRID EDITION The solution offers ultra-fast memory testing for designing and building grid-compatible servers, and it supports the upcoming 32-and 64-bit AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Opteron processors. [ ] 100847) ENTROPIA'S PC GRID DEBUTS AT IBM'S EUROPEAN DESIGN CENTRE The Design Centre in Montpellier, France showcases the latest grid solutions in an easy, convenient, one-stop center that is designed to allow rapid evaluations via hands-on demonstrations, saving time and effort for enterprises considering grid computing solutions. [ ] 100848) PLATFORM FOCUSES ON GROWING DEMAND FOR GRID COMPUTING Tasked with solving the most complicated, "grand scale" challenges associated with computational science, economics, design and engineering, government agencies are increasingly turning to grid computing to exploit the full power of their computing infrastructures. [ ] 100849) SC2002 CONFERENCE CONCLUDES BY SMASHING ATTENDANCE RECORDS SC2002, the most successful show in the 15-year history of the annual high performance grid computing and networking conference, concluded with awards recognizing the most outstanding achievements and contributions in the field. [ ] 733391) FORCE10 NETWORKS TO DEMONSTRATE WORLD'S MOST SCALABLE CLUSTER/GRID NETWORK 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 [ ] 100850) BELGIAN HEALTH INSURANCE IMPLEMENTS HEALTHCARE GRID This is a significant organization, handling health care refunds for 16% of the population, managing transactions with a total of 250 hospitals through seven regional, independent offices that also run the 750 insurance claims offices throughout Belgium. [ ] 100851) WIDE AREA GRID MAKES EFFICIENT USE OF AVAILABLE BANDWIDTH The High-Performance Bandwidth Challenge awards announced last week at SC2002 established new records for network performance, with one winning application demonstrating a five-fold increase over the previous top-mark set last year. [ ] 100852) UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO ADDS SECOND DELL GRID CLUSTER The 300-node grid cluster recently achieved 2.004 trillion floating-point operations per second (Teraflops) of sustained performance in the LINPACK benchmark test. [ ] 100853) IBM PUSHING AUTOMATED SERVER GRID CLUSTERING The application server simplifies management through features IBM claimed are part of its nascent autonomic computing strategy for self-healing of systems. These features include the ability to detect and correct faults and automated server grid clustering. [ ] 100854) Marconi SHOWS OFF SUPERCOMPUTING GRID Marconi's demonstration modeled a global supercomputing grid that expands the bandwidth available to both legacy and next-generation packet-based networks for secure, high-speed transport of mission-critical information. [ ] 100855) PACELINE & JNI ROLL OUT 10GBPS SOLUTION FOR GRID CLUSTERS JNI believes that simple grid clustering will start taking off over the next six months, driven first by the supercomputing space, and then for commercial customers, as Oracle and other database vendors add direct support for InfiniBand protocols such as DAPL and SDP. [ ] 100856) WulfKit GRID CLUSTER TO SUPPORT AMD HAMMER TECHNOLOGY Dolphin's high-speed WulfKit grid clustering solution is currently implemented in several superclusters built on the AMD Athlon MP platform, two of which are ranked on the Top 500 supercomputer list. [ ] 100857) SwiftCluster: A GRID SOLUTION FROM DataDirect With the high-performance, cost-effective grid clustering technology enabled by SwiftCluster, processing-intensive applications such as scientific simulations, real-time modeling, and three dimensional analysis become substantially easier to perform. [ ] 100858) RackSaver EXHIBITS GRID CLUSTERED SOLUTIONS AT SC2002 RackSaver, a leading provider of high-density individual rack-mounted computer servers and supercomputer grid clusters, exhibited multiple grid clustered supercomputing solutions at SC2002. [ ] 700001) HP Labs - Globus Grid and Firewalls: Issues and Solutions in a Utility Data Center Environment SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS [ ] 100859) AUSTRALIAN GRID RESEARCHERS TAKE TOP SPOT IN US COMPETITION A team from the GRIDS (Grid Computing and Distributed Systems) Lab at Melbourne University won first place in the HPC Challenge Global Grid Competition held at the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2002 in Baltimore. [ ] 100860) Oracle TO LAUNCH GRID PRODUCT AT ORACLEWORLD Oracle's transportable table space, unified sharing architecture, distributed database technology, applications portability, scheduler and resource management make it a natural fit for grid systems. [ ] 100861) LAMBDA JOINS AWARD WINNING GRID DEMO AT SC2002 A stream of data was moved over SURFnet connecting a grid cluster of computers at SARA Computing and Networking Services in Amsterdam and a grid cluster of computers at StarLight in Chicago at over 2.8 Gb/s. [ ] 700004) While Others Talk about Visions of the Grid, SGI Enables Users to Do More Today BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 100862) Demand For Encryption ICs Increasing: But Uncertainty Rules NETWORKING [ ] 100863) Ixia Helps Wayne State With High-Speed Grid Networking PLATFORMS [ ] 100864) Scali Announces Enhanced Functionality In Grid Clusters OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 100865) Red Hat Readies Linux For Grid Workstations GENERAL [ ] 100866) The First Australian Grid Forum Workshop (OzGrid-1) [ ] 100715) InfiniBand Improves MPI Performance Greater Than 2 Times QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 100840) "From a hardware perspective a Grid is a collection of distributed resources connected by a network, possibly at different sites and in different organizations. Those resources may include terascale supercomputers, instruments such as telescopes and microscopes, computer-controlled factory floor tools, mid-level servers, desktop machines, laptops, PDA's, and even someday devices such as video cameras, cell phones, and kitchen appliances." ----Dr. Andrew S. 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