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[ ] 101160) SGI ENABLES VISUALIZATION ON THE GRID AT HOKKAIDO UNIV [ ] 101159) GLOBAL GRIDS ANALYZE ON DEMAND BRAIN ACTIVITY [ ] 740032) HP's Grid Solution - The Grid Stack SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 101154) DRMAA PROPOSAL FOR GRID COMPUTING RELEASED AT GGF Sun Microsystems announced the completion of the proposed specification for the Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA), one of the first specifications to enable the development and deployment of high performance Grid applications. [ ] 101155) IBM MOLDS INTEGRATION SUITE TO SUPPORT E-BUSINESS STRATEGY by William Fellows for the451.com WebSphere Integration is the latest IBM product group to step up with a portfolio makeover and positioning designed specifically to support chairman Sam Palmisano's call for the company to enable its customers to become on demand e-businesses. [ ] 101156) SUN PROJECT JXTA SPEEDS PEER-TO-PEER TECH Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced in a press teleconference that more than one million developers have downloaded Project JXTA from the Sun Web site. JXTA is the only open source, standards-based, peer-to-peer technology that supports collaboration and communication on any networked device anywhere, anytime. [ ] 101157) WIlL NEW NET PROTOCOLS AFFECT GRIDS? Wireless Internet devices, such as third-generation (3G) cell phones, that roam among different access points will create a huge need for IP addresses and ultimately could spark a fire under IPv6. [ ] 740033) Sun's Grid Computing Solutions Program Aims To Help Customers With All Levels of Grids SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE [ ] 101158) A TURBOWORX INFORMATICS REVOLUTION By Jeff Augen, PhD, President, TurboWorx An Informatics Revolution from Within TurboWorx is integrating disparate applications and heterogeneous computing resources into an accelerated pipelining and workflow solution without forcing businesses to change the way their IT professionals do their jobs. [ ] 740029) Intel - Business Computing Technology Trends SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS [ ] 101159) GLOBAL GRIDS ANALYZE ON DEMAND BRAIN ACTIVITY The lack of computational power within an organization for analyzing scientific data, and the distribution of knowledge (by scientists) and technologies are two major problems commonly observed in scientific disciplines. One such scientific discipline is brain science. [ ] 101160) SGI ENABLES VISUALIZATION ON THE GRID AT HOKKAIDO UNIV SGI announced that SGI Japan Ltd. has delivered an SGI Onyx 300 visualization system to the Hokkaido University Computing Center in Sapporo, Japan. Its intended use is in the emerging field of visualization on the grid. [ ] 101161) PLATFORM GRID SOFTWARE POWERS PNNL'S SUPERCOMPUTER Platform Computing Inc. announced that it's Grid computing software will be used to power the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) $24.5 million, 11.4-teraflop HP supercomputer. =========================================================================== ON THE ROAD WITH GRIDtoday... a photo gallery! 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 BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= PLATFORMS [ ] 101162) Server Blade Summit 2003 Exhibitor Profiles [ ] 101163) AIST Deploys Force10 Networks E-Series Switch/Routers NETWORKING [ ] 101164) Network Forum Releases New MPLS Benchmarking Agreement [ ] 101165) Juniper Networks Makes 17 Additional Network Deployments STORAGE [ ] 101166) Sandia Purchases Max-T's InfinARRAY Storage Solution [ ] 101167) Scale8 Unveils Advanced NAS System OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 101168) Axceleon Releases EnFuzion [ ] 101169) Cysive Releases Cymbio Interaction Server [ ] 101170) OSDL Offers First Open Source Database Test Tools GENERAL [ ] 101171) Icelandic Energy Agencies Use Linux Networx Cluster QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 101170) "Licensing and cost issues have prevented most companies and developers from conducting critical benchmark and performance testing. 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