GRIDtoday's "Breaking News" Log onto GRIDtoday.com at the beginning and the end of your day for up to the minute news and information in the Global Grid Community. www.gridtoday.com \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////////// GRIDtoday NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY --- Mar 31, 2003: Vol. 2, No. 13 --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 740036) Intel - Spreading the Computing Power IN THIS ISSUE: [ ] 101227) WILL SERVICE-CENTRIC COMPUTING CREATE GRID OPPORTUNITIES? [ ] 101235) NSF STEPS TOWARD A GRID-LIKE CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE [ ] 101230) FSC SEES NO COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNITY FOR GRID COMPUTING 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. Come see photos live from GGF7 held in Tokyo March 2003 http://www.Gridtoday.com/gallery/index.html SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 101227) WILL SERVICE-CENTRIC COMPUTING CREATE GRID OPPORTUNITIES? According to a new study presented at IDC's Directions 2003 conference, service-centric computing is poised to reshape corporate infrastructure by reorganizing the data center and recalibrating productivity. [ ] 101228) SUSE LINUX SHIPS ENTERPRISE SERVER FOR TERAGRID SYSTEM SuSE Linux announced the general availability of the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for the Intel Itanium Processor Family, also noting that it has been chosen to drive parts of the "TeraGrid," a scientific computing system accessible to researchers across the United States. [ ] 740027) New E2 from Linux NetworX A Powerful Cluster Solution with a sub U density SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE [ ] 101229) AES INTRODUCES ACTIONPOINT SYSTEM FOR GRID COMPUTING Aladdin Enterprise Solutions (AES) announced the availability of the AES ActionPoint System, a platform-independent policy-based computing environment designed to align business objectives with IT infrastructure and resources. [ ] 101230) FSC SEES NO COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNITY FOR GRID COMPUTING by William Fellows for the451.com Fujitsu Siemens Computers doesn't see any commercial opportunity for getting into grid computing at this time. While grid structures for scientific uses make sense, a host of technology needs to be layered on top of underlying resource allocation mechanisms for commercial systems, the company says. [ ] 101231) NEW LINUX SERVER TO USE LARGE GRID STORAGE TECHNIQUES Penguin Computing Inc., a leader in world-class Linux hardware, software, and service, released the Relion 430 Linux server -- its largest Intel Xeon based storage product. [ ] 101232) SUN GRID HELPS ANIMATION COMPANY FIND RESOURCES The Sun ONE Grid Engine software has freed up significant amounts of time for animators at Axyz Animation, Inc., and lets them now focus on what they do best -- animate. [ ] 101233) SUN AND TOPSPIN WORK ON NEXT-GEN INFINIBAND SERVERS by John Abbott for the 451.com InfiniBand infrastructure company Topspin gained its first significant partner earlier this month when it announced that Sun Microsystems would use its fiber channel and Gigabit Ethernet input/output modules for its next generation of InfiniBand-based blade servers. [ ] 740035) HP and Grid Computing Taking Distributed Computing To the Next Level SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS [ ] 101234) DOE'S ESNET UPGRADES BACKBONE TO 10 GBPS The Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), the high-performance network funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, has completed an upgrade to 2.5gigabits (billions of bits or Gbps) per second and 10Gbps in the highest speed portion of the network. [ ] 101235) NSF STEPS TOWARD A GRID-LIKE CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE The National Science Foundation (NSF) announces the first steps it is taking to develop a cyberinfrastructure likely to revolutionize the conduct of science and engineering research and education. These steps leverage the agency's recent investments in the Extensible Terascale Facility. [ ] 101236) GRID PROTOTYPE PRODUCES SURPRISE BROWN DWARF DISCOVERY A new approach to finding undiscovered objects buried in immense astronomical databases has produced an early and unexpected payoff: a new instance of a hard-to-find type of star known as a brown dwarf. [ ] 740034) The Grid Engine project: Now powering open source Grid Computing BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 101237) Global Hauri Ships ViRobot Security Software PLATFORMS [ ] 101238) OSE System's RTOS Tool To Support Motorola Processors NETWORKING [ ] 101239) Aelis Photonics Unveils Processing Solution For Networks [ ] 101240) APCON Unveils New Blade For Network Architects [ ] 101241) Avanex Showcases Superior OADM Solutions During OFC 2003 [ ] 101242) EMCORE Corporation Introduces New Optical Transceiver [ ] 101243) Tasman Networks Unveils First Multi-Scalable T1 Router STORAGE [ ] 101244) Cyberkey Teams Up With Iomega OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 101245) VMware Announces Next-Gen Virtualization Software GENERAL [ ] 101246) International Symposium On The Grid Announcement [ ] 101247) ClusterWorld To Serve Customers In GRID Markets [ ] 101248) New Book On Grid Computing Published [ ] 101249) SAIC Wins Global Information Grid Contract [ ] 101250) SC2003 Issues Call For Participation QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 101227) "While it is still unclear exactly how the market will unfold, IDC expects the total available market for service-centric computing to be somewhere in the range of $3-4 billion dollars by 2006." -- John Humphreys, senior research analyst, IDC 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 GRIDtoday INFORMATION ====================================================== [ ] 701) Subscriptions & Removals [ ] 702) About GRIDtoday [ ] 703) Index of Back Issues [ ] 706) FAQ / Contact Information [ ] 707) Submitting Letters and Articles _____________________________________________________________________ | | | Full background information on all sponsoring companies | | Firms marked with an * have updated their info in the last 30 days | | | | | | [ ] 921) SGI [ ] 934) Hewlett-Packard | | [ ] 527) Intel [ ] 942) Sun Microsystems | | [ ] 909) Fujitsu [ ] 943) Linux Networx | | | | | | | | For sponsorship information contact: Gridads@Gridtoday.com | |_____________________________________________________________________| GRIDtoday welcomes bylined comments for publication. 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