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For subscription information, email gridfree@gridtoday.com All comments regarding content should be sent to: grideditor@gridtoday.com -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 740042) Intel Processor-Based Platforms Drive Grid and Clusters into Mainstream IN THIS ISSUE: [ ] 101406) GRID MAY FUEL NEXT IT BOOM [ ] 101403) MICROSOFT AND HP DEVELOP DYNAMIC DATA CENTER PROTOTYPE [ ] 101404) IBM PUSHES NEW PRODUCTS, PROGRAMS FOR ON-DEMAND E-BUSINESS [ ] 740043) Sun -- Building a Global Compute Grid SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 101402) SHAKING THINGS UP WITH NEESgrid By Tom Garritano One of the GRIDS Center's target communities is NEES, the George Brown, Jr., Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), NEES is a distributed virtual laboratory for earthquake experimentation and modeling. Its users are researchers who seek to design buildings and other structures that are more resistant to seismic events and disasters in general. [ ] 101403) MICROSOFT AND HP DEVELOP DYNAMIC DATA CENTER PROTOTYPE In his keynote address at the 12th annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect at Microsoft Corp., will showcase a concept of a Dynamic Data Center (DDC) jointly developed with HP. [ ] 101404) IBM PUSHES NEW PRODUCTS, PROGRAMS FOR ON-DEMAND E-BUSINESS By William Fellows for the451.com IBM has staked its future on the ability to create on-demand e-businesses that are cheaper to run and maintain, better utilized and able to more quickly adapt to changing business requirements. [ ] 101405) GRID MARKETS ADOPT SUN'S JINI TECHNOLOGY Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced that Jini technology is being successfully applied to help solve the dynamic networking problems of customers in a wide range of emerging and evolving markets. [ ] 101406) GRID MAY FUEL NEXT IT BOOM Computer Associates International, Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Sanjay Kumar predicted that new "macro technologies" such as on-demand computing along with upgrade and system replacements will drive future customer capital spending. [ ] 740027) New E2 from Linux Networx A Powerful Cluster Solution with a sub U density SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE [ ] 101407) IBM UNVEILS NEW ON DEMAND OFFERINGS IBM has unveiled a new set of offerings as part of its on demand operating environment designed to link customer business objectives and computing resources. [ ] 101408) SUN TO DEPLOY UPGRADED INTEGRATION SERVER Sun Micro is set to deploy a revamped Sun ONE Integration Server by the fourth quarter. Full product availability is expected by early 2004. [ ] 101409) CA UNVEILS NEW AND ENHANCED UNICENTER MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) announced the local launch of Unicenter's new vision -- "Managing On-demand Computing" in Hong Kong with support of the new and enhanced Unicenter management solutions designed to manage complex and heterogeneous infrastructure. [ ] 101410) VERITAS SOFTWARE TURNS UTILITY COMPUTING VISION INTO REALITY VERITAS Software Corporation Chairman, president and CEO Gary Bloom outlined plans at the company's annual user conference to enable utility computing through its market-leading heterogeneous software. SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS [ ] 101411) BROADCOM TO DELIVER TCP/IP OFFLOAD TECHNOLOGY Broadcom Corporation announced that the company is working extensively with Microsoft Corporation to develop new networking technologies designed to dramatically improve the performance of enterprise servers equipped with next-generation high-speed Ethernet adapters. [ ] 101412) CENIC ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF ITS GIGABIT AWARDS On May 7, 2003, CENIC will recognize the winners of its On the Road to a Gigabit Awards at an awards luncheon to be held at at the Fess Parker's Doubletree Resort in Santa Barbara, California. [ ] 740035) HP and Grid Computing Taking Distributed Computing To the Next Level BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 101413) ALLnet Uses Finjan's SurfinGate Security Platform [ ] 101414) Gates Quells Fears Over Security PLATFORMS [ ] 101415) IBM Introduces New High-End eSERVER Systems [ ] 101416) HP To Ship 1st Itanium 2 Boxes Running 64-bit Windows XP NETWORKING [ ] 101417) BoostWorks Unveils BoostEdge BE200A Accelerator [ ] 101418) Dell Confirms Commitment To Networking Business [ ] 101419) Infineon Remains Committed To Framer/RPR Technology [ ] 101420) Radware And Allasso Partner For Switching Solutions [ ] 101421) The Tolly Group Announces IT Product Certification Program STORAGE [ ] 101422) VERITAS/Cisco Offer 1St Look At New Sto Networking Solution OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 101423) FileMaker Wins Award For Best Numeric/Database Software [ ] 101424) New IBM Software Lowers Costs While Increasing Peformance [ ] 101425) OMG's 4th Annual Workshop On UML For Enterprise Applications [ ] 101426) Oracle And Red Flag Form Linux Alliance In China GENERAL [ ] 101427) HP Hosts Grid Computing Symposium In Amsterdam [ ] 101428) First HPC User Forum Meetings In Europe [ ] 101429) Mobile Systems Verification Receives NIST Funding [ ] 101430) Object Management Group To Meet In Paris [ ] 101431) Former Sun VP Joins Silicon Bandwidth Board Of Directors [ ] 101432) ClusterWorld Conf & Expo Announces New Industry Awards QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 101405) "The question isn't whether on-demand computing is a good idea. The question is how to make on-demand computing a reality." -- Sanjay Kumar, Chairman/CEO, Computer Associates 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 [ ] 740044) Grid Computing Symposium CUO/Interex/DECUS European Users Conference & Expo May 20, 2003 The RAI Conference Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands http://www.hp-interex.org/conference2003/ [ ] 740039) ClusterWorld Conference & Expo June 23 - 26, 2003 San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California, USA www.clusterworldexpo.com GRIDtoday INFORMATION ====================================================== [ ] 701) Subscriptions & Removals [ ] 702) About GRIDtoday [ ] 703) Index of Back Issues [ ] 706) FAQ / Contact Information [ ] 707) Submitting Letters and Articles [ ] 709) Advertising Opportunities _____________________________________________________________________ | | | 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. LAST WEEK'S TOP 5 ARTICLES ================================================= [ ] 101387) NSF FINE-TUNES THE GRID [ ] 101379) IBM RACES TO FORM NEW GRID ECOSYSTEM [ ] 101378) WHAT INFLUENCE COULD GRIDS HAVE ON NETWORKS? [ ] 101377) APRIL 2003 GLOBUS TOOLKIT RELEASE STATUS UPDATE [ ] 101384) IBM'S NEW DEEP COMPUTING INITIATIVE TAKES NEW APPROACHES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. RETRIEVAL EXAMPLE, METHOD (1): To: Gridmore@Gridtoday.com Subject: 100001 100005 100009 For help, send an email message to Gridhelp@Gridtoday.com and state problem. 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