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IN THIS ISSUE [ ] 100901) THE ROI CASE FOR GRIDS [ ] 100902) LARRY SMARR ON THE SHAPE OF THE GRID IN 2003 [ ] 100900) THE GRID IS IN THE AIR: AN INTERVIEW WITH SDSC'S FRAN BERMAN [ ] 740009) InfiniBand Improves MPI Performance Greater Than 2 Times SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 100900) THE GRID IS IN THE AIR: AN INTERVIEW WITH SDSC'S FRAN BERMAN By Neil Alger, Special Correspondent, HPCwire HPCwire correspondent Neil Alger caught up with SDSC and NPACI's Fran Berman at the tail end of the show to discuss grid's role in this year's conference, and to talk about what we can all expect from the grid in the near future. [ ] 100901) THE ROI CASE FOR GRIDS By Andrew Grimshaw, CTO and Founder, Avaki Corporation As commercial grid deployments have been ramping up, there has been a shift in focus from grid technology to the grid value realized by enterprise IT. This is an important step forward because for grids to continue to gain widespread acceptance, customers need to be able to quantify the value gained from deploying a grid. [ ] 100902) LARRY SMARR ON THE SHAPE OF THE GRID IN 2003 By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief Smarr believes that the National Science Foundation (NSF) leadership will probably emerge as a key force unifying and standardizing the grid. [ ] 100903) TOWARDS THE TELECOSMIC GRID By Ian Lumb, Grid Solutions Manager, Platform Computing Isolating and manipulating discrete wavelengths of visible light across intelligent optical transport media results in the grid - a specific instance of The Telecosmic Grid. Several examples serve as beacons of possibility. [ ] 100904) WEB SERVICES GRID SUPERCOMPUTING COMING OF AGE By Neil Alger, Special Correspondent, HPCwire So everywhere you look, there are groups that need the ability to organize data, manage it, support discovery, and support access and retrieval in a grid distributed environment through the particular API that that particular community wants to use. [ ] 100905) GRID DELIVERY SOFTWARE TO ACCELERATE VOD IN ENTERPRISES With the grid server software, a company adds servers to the grid network, and offers additional control and choice for IT departments plus unlimited scalability for high-volume installations. [ ] 100906) GATEWAY & UNITED DEVICES DELIVER ON-DEMAND GRID COMPUTING Grid computing will provide improved ROI by enabling customers to reduce processing time for distributable applications, decrease or eliminate capital expenditure on high-performance computing equipment, and align internal resources to their core business. [ ] 740010) FREE History of Supercomputing Poster by IDC and Linux NetworX SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE [ ] 100907) OSCAR ANNOUNCE OPEN SOURCE GRID CLUSTER TOOLKIT The OSCAR toolkit is used to build, configure and manage grid clusters. Its primary objective is to make use of "best practices" for grid cluster high-performance computing. [ ] 100908) Platform Intelligence IS THE FIRST GRID ANALYTICS SOLUTION The first "IT Analytics" solution of its kind, Platform Intelligence provides visibility into the utilization, performance and value of grid distributed enterprise-wide IT resources. [ ] 100909) SGI & KASENNA ANNOUNCE SOLUTION FOR GRID DISTRIBUTED VOD As MSOs move toward mainstream deployment of VOD services, they now have the flexibility of open architecture solutions for large-scale grid distributed deployments. [ ] 100910) PeerDirect ANNOUNCES SUITE FOR GRID-DISTRIBUTED ENTERPRISES PeerDirect implements grid distributed application deployment while retaining centralized control over the applications and data, avoiding the significant problems and high IT support costs associated with earlier attempts to gain the benefits of distributed applications. [ ] 100911) ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE 2003 HEALTHGRID CONFERENCE Grid technology offers the opportunity to create a common working backbone for all different members of this large "health family" and will hopefully lead to an increased awareness and interoperability among disciplines. [ ] 740011) HP and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Form Grid Alliance SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS [ ] 100912) CAL-IT2 & UCSD TO RECEIVE $400,000 FOR OPTICAL GRID NETWORK The technology will support development and rollout of the "OptIPuter," a powerful grid-distributed cyberinfrastructure designed to support data- intensive scientific research and collaboration. [ ] 100913) SDSC CREATING GRID/WEB APPLICATION: PROVIDES E-MAIL ALERTS By Rich Seeley Going beyond simple Web service integration of data from silos stored in different government systems, SDSC will use its supercomputing technology for analysis that will create innovative report and alert applications. [ ] 100914) I-LIGHT HELPS PURDUE & IUPUI WITH FIRST GRID OF ITS TYPE In December of last year, Governor Frank O'Bannon symbolically launched I- Light, a fiber grid optic grid network connecting Indiana University Bloomington, IUPUI, and Purdue University's West Lafayette campus to each other, and to the national Internet2 infrastructure. [ ] 100915) Avaki INTRODUCES FIRST COMMERCIAL DATA GRID SOFTWARE Avaki's grid technology is already being deployed by customers that are realizing the return on investment through secure, wide-area access to IT resources. [ ] 100916) ADABAS & NATURAL WELL-SUITED FOR CREATING GRID APPLICATIONS The trend toward implementing mainframes as multi-operating-system platforms is growing all the time because it simplifies system maintenance and also helps to lower the total cost of operating an IT landscape. [ ] 740012) 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 BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= PLATFORMS [ ] 100917) Lucent Introduces Industry-Leading Grid Optical Access System NETWORKING [ ] 100918) SMC's Maximizing Broadband/WAN Access For MDU And Grids OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 100919) Cisco Spruces Up Products With Support For Grids GENERAL [ ] 100920) Miller To Discuss StarFabric's Impact On Grid (COTS) [ ] 740013) SGI & Kasenna Announce Solution For Grid Distributed VOD QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ]100900)"The biggest hurdle for the grid right now is that there is a lot of really hard work to do. There has been considerable underestimation of the level of difficulty of the problems that one must address in order to deploy the most sophisticated vision of the grid. For example, in order for us to deploy a grid that is ubiquitous, adaptive, and promotes application performance, there are many research problems that must be solved; problems having to do with policy, performance modeling, adaptive computing, etc." --- Fran Berman, Director, San Diego Supercomputing Center and NPACI 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 [ ] 740008) 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. 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