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As the GRIDtoday team travels the world to the major events in grid computing, we will bring you photos of the event in our photo gallery. http://www.gridtoday.com/gallery/index.html [ ] 740025) HP's Grid Vision - Planetary Computing IN THIS ISSUE [ ] 101020) SUN WELCOMES IBM'S ENTRY INTO GRID COMPUTING [ ] 101022) AN INTERVIEW WITH JAPAN'S RENOWNED SATOSHI SEKIGUCHI [ ] 101023) TEN NEW GRID OFFERINGS FROM IBM FOR COMMERCIAL BUSINESS SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 101020) SUN WELCOMES IBM'S ENTRY INTO GRID COMPUTING Sun welcomes IBM to the Grid computing game. As a leading systems vendor in this space, Sun understands that most organizations want an evolutionary process, not one that is revolutionary. [ ] 101021) SHELL E&P USES LINUX NETWORX GRID CLUSTER TO BOOST RESEARCH Linux NetworX provided Shell Energy and Petroleum with three Grid subclusters totaling 112 processors configured with hardware to boost current research and development efforts. [ ] 101022) An INTERVIEW WITH JAPAN'S RENOWNED SATOSHI SEKIGUCHI By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief Mr. Sekiguchi is well known in the Grid Computing industry as a visionary leader and will be program co-chairman for the Global Grid Forum's March GGF7 program in Tokyo. We wanted to get his views on GTRC's role in Grid development and the importance of networking technologies on Grid applications. [ ] 101023) TEN NEW GRID OFFERINGS FROM IBM FOR COMMERCIAL BUSINESS IBM is driving the benefits of Grid computing beyond its academic and research roots and into business enterprises with the introduction of ten Grid offerings targeting key industries - aerospace, automotive, financial markets, government and life sciences. [ ] 101024) myGrid SELECTS NETWORK INFERENCE'S CEREBRA TO DRIVE PROJECT The Cerebra Inference Engine will enable the Grid to process data based on semantics, allowing the scientists to identify the available resources and services in their fields. This will provide for a dynamic environment where resources can be exchanged to maintain the integrity of the workbench as new resources become available, or existing resources become redundant. [ ] 101025) AVAKI PACKAGES NEW GRID SOFTWARE INTRODUCTION KIT With Avaki Data Grid, companies eliminate costly organizational and technical barriers to data sharing, while creating a flexible, J2EE-based access infrastructure that installs quickly and easily and scales to meet business requirements. [ ] 740023) SGI on the Grid Visual Area Networking In Grid Environments SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE [ ] 101026) Platform SIGNS GLOBAL GRID COMPUTING AGREEMENT WITH IBM This agreement represents a joint commitment to pursue the worldwide Grid computing market, which is estimated to grow from US$180 million today to US$4.1 billion by 2005, according to industry estimates Grid Computing Partners, Global Grid Computing Report, July 2002. [ ] 101027) Quadrics DELIVERS INTERCONNECTS FOR GRID CLUSTERS The new Lion-XL cluster consists of a total 176 Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers, each configured with dual Intel Xeon processors, 4 GigaBytes of memory and a 36GigaBytes Ultra3 15K rpm SCSI drive. All of the Lion-XL nodes run RedHat's Linux operating system. [ ] 101028) DELL DOUBLES DENSITY OF ITS SUPERCOMPUTING GRID CLUSTERS Customers deploying hundreds of standards-based servers in high-performance computing Grid clusters (HPCC) can now double the density of their servers and maximize floor space with Dell's server blades. [ ] 101029) UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO DEPLOYS GENOME ANALYSIS GRID HGC has deployed eight Sun Fire 15K servers and two Sun Fire 6800 servers with a total of 788 UltraSPARC III processors and approximately 1.7 TB of memory, making it one of the largest human genome analysis systems in Japan. [ ] 101030) RainStorage SIMPLIFIES STORAGE NETWORK GRID CLUSTERING RainStorage version 1.3 introduces advanced network spanning and Grid clustering capabilities that allow storage administrators to more easily manage NAS filers at any location and provide continuous availability during NAS data moves. [ ] 101031) Ximian RELEASES VER 1.2 RED CARPET GRID ENTERPRISE SOLUTION The server-based Red Carpet Grid Enterprise deploys entirely behind the firewall and enables organizations to automatically update the installed Linux software on groups of systems either on demand or according to a preset schedule. [ ] 740024) Intel - Spreading The Computing Power SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS [ ] 101032) CA EXTENDS LEADERSHIP IN GRID ENTERPRISE LINUX MARKET CA now offers more than 60 solutions to support Linux in the heterogeneous Grid enterprise. [ ] 101033) InfiniCon WINS PRODUCT OF THE YEAR WITH GRID CLUSTERING This is the second consecutive year that InfiniCon has been recognized at Server I/O Conference, held January 20-22 in Monterey, California. [ ] 101034) SGI Altix 3000 GRID SUPERCLUSTER WINS BEST OF SHOW The highly coveted IDG World Expo "Best of Show" recognition was awarded this year to SGI for extending the supercomputing capabilities of Linux with the new SGI Altix Grid superclusters. [ ] 101035) POWERLLEL & EGENERA TEAM FOR HPC LINUX GRID The companies have teamed to optimize the performance of computationally intensive applications running on the Egenera system. Powerllel's application service framework toolkit adapts sequentially coded applications to run in Grid distributed and parallel computing environments. [ ] 101036) JNI ANNOUNCES SUPPORT OF MPI/PRO ON INFINISTAR HCAS FOR GRIDS With MPI/Pro, JNI delivers up to three times the bandwidth of proprietary interconnects used in Linux-based HPC server Grid cluster environments, and up to eight times the bandwidth of gigabit Ethernet. [ ] 101037) OMG WORKSHOP ON GRID DISTRIBUTED OBJECT COMPUTING The Object Management Group (OMG) announces the Call for Presentations for its annual workshop on Grid Distributed Object Computing for Real-time and Embedded Systems. [ ] 740026) Bio-IT World Conference & Expo March 25-27, 2003 Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusettes, USA http://bioitworldexpo.com . BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= NETWORKING [ ] 101038) Marvell Announces Fast Ethernet Grid Network Support PLATFORMS [ ] 101039) Is SAP Trying To Get Into The Grid Market? [ ] 101040) Packeteer's ICX-95 Speeds Intranet, Internet & Grid Apps SECURITY [ ] 101041) Trendium Ships ConfigSENTRY & Management Application GENERAL [ ] 101042) Across Grids Conference To take Place In Spain Feb 13-14 [ ] 101043) SGI Launches User Group To Help Promote Grid Computing QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 101022) "In industrial applications such as bio-technology and nano- technology applications, high-performance computing environments are required. Grid is a promising method to provide such an HPC environment. ---Satoshi Sekiguchi, Director, GTRC, NIAIST Japan. 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