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[ ] 101352) IBM EMBRACING THE BIG PICTURE [ ] 101354) NCSA CELEBRATES MOSAIC BIRTHDAY WITH EXCITING SYMPOSIUM [ ] 740041) California Institute of Technology Selects HP Itanium 2 Systems for Scientific Research on TeraGrid Project SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 101349) GRID WARS' VICTORS EMERGE Engineered Intelligence Corporation (EI) announced the winners of its "GRID WARS" Spring 2003 parallel programming challenge in which competing programs written in CxC ("C by C") fought for survival of the fittest in a Grid of processors. [ ] 101350) WILL GRID SOMEDAY TAKE ON GOOGLE? A new computing project, which harnesses individual users' spare computing power and internet bandwidth, could provide enough raw data to keep a comprehensive search engine up-to-date. [ ] 101351) UNICORE NOW THE MIDDLEWARE OF THE JAPANESE GRID-INITIATIVE by Uwe Harms, Harms Supercomputing Consulting Dr. Makoto Furunishi of MEXT, the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, announced during the Global Grid Forum in Tokyo that UNICORE will become the Grid middleware for the new National Research Grid Initiative. [ ] 740038) Intel - Image Analysis and Web Services: Making the Most of Networked Resources SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE [ ] 101352) IBM EMBRACING THE BIG PICTURE Moving away from the traditional server-centric emphasis that has driven high-performance computing, IBM announced recently that it is expanding its high-performace team to more initimately encompass storage, software, and services. [ ] 101353) KONTIKI ENHANCES ITS GRID DELIVERY TECHNOLOGY Kontiki announced enhancements to its industry-leading Grid Delivery Technology that save companies over 90% in the cost of distributing video and other digital media over their existing corporate networks and the Internet. [ ] 740027) New E2 from Linux Networx A Powerful Cluster Solution with a sub U density SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS [ ] 101354) NCSA CELEBRATES MOSAIC BIRTHDAY WITH EXCITING SYMPOSIUM On April 29, the center that helped bring the Web into so many lives will host a symposium that will reflect on the impact of Mosaic and look ahead to the technology breakthroughs that will change our lives in the next decade. [ ] 101355) SGI GAINS MOMENTUM FOR VISUAL AREA NETWORKING SGI announced recently that since it launched Visual Area Networking (VAN) last year, the number of customers has grown to more than 110 installations in research and industry. These customers are using VAN to accelerate their work processes by giving end users far greater visualization capabilities and multi-site collaboration. SGI also announced a more capable, lower-cost VAN solution that will be attractive to smaller organizations. [ ] 101356) NEW SGI SYSTEM ALLOWS EXTENSION OF COSMOLOGY GRID SGI has announced a contract to provide an SGI Altix 3000 supercluster to the U.K. COSMOS consortium led by Professor Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge as part of a long-term agreement between the two organizations. =========================================================================== 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 ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 101357) Candle Expands Security Offering For IBM WebSphere MQ PLATFORMS [ ] 101358) Aspen Systems Teams With AMD For Opteron Cluster Solutions NETWORKING [ ] 101359) Tasman Extends Flexibility of WAN Connectivity Systems STORAGE [ ] 101360) Emulex And Intel To Develop New Storage Processors OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 101361) EnFuzion Deployed By European National Grid Operators [ ] 101362) New Grid Market Offering For IBM zSeries Mainframe & Linux [ ] 101363) CA Leverages AMD's 64-Bit Processor For Linux [ ] 101364) Intel Strengthens Suite Of Software Tools [ ] 101365) OASIS Members Collaborate To Address Security Issues [ ] 101366) OMG Announces UML Certification Program [ ] 101367) OSCAR Working Group Releases Toolkit Version 2.2.1 GENERAL [ ] 101368) ACM-MMDB 2003 Call for Papers [ ] 101369) Alliance Presentations To Be Offered On Access Grid [ ] 101370) Call For Papers: Cluster 2003 [ ] 101371) OMG Hosts Workshop On Distributed Object Computing [ ] 101372) HPDC-12/GGF8 Advance Registration Is Now Open [ ] 101373) Grid Computing Symposium Announcement [ ] 101374) Linux Advocacy Organization Names New CEO [ ] 101375) European & US HPC Users Will Dialogue In May QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 101354) "Mosaic was important because it made the technology of the Web transparent and helped catalyze the build out of the Internet. 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LAST WEEK'S TOP 5 ARTICLES ================================================= [ ] 101321) Interview: CHIEN DISCUSSES SMARR'S OptIPuter [ ] 101322) DELIVERY: A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR CONTENT IN THE ENTERPRISE [ ] 101323) SUN GRID-READY CLUSTERS SCALE UP TO TWO TERAFLOPS [ ] 101329) CACR SELECTS HP SYSTEMS FOR TERAGRID PROJECT [ ] 101325) GRID POPULARITY IN EUROPE CAUSES U.S. EXPANSION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RETRIEVING ARTICLES There are 2 ways to retrieve articles: (1) Send a blank email to Gridmore@Gridtoday.com . On subject line, type number adjacent to article, no message text is necessary. or (2) Insert an x or an X (no other characters, please) within the square brackets adjacent to article(s). Return the marked copy to the address in the Reply-To: line of the GRIDtoday Table of Contents. 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