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For subscription information, email Gridfree@Gridtoday.com All comments regarding content should be sent to: Grideditor@Gridtoday.com -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 740054) Our In-House LinuxBIOS Expertise Simplifies Cluster Management IN THIS ISSUE: [ ] 101609) GGF8: OTHER COMMUNITIES COMING TO GRID [ ] 101610) HASTAC: THE HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF EMERGING SCIENCE AND TECH [ ] 101623) GRID COMPUTING HAS A NEW ROLE WITH GENETIC RESEARCH [ ] 740056) Intel Software Technologies: Peer-to-Peer SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 101609) GGF8: OTHER COMMUNITIES COMING TO GRID by J.S. Hurley, Editor-at-Large The Global Grid Forum (GGF) held its eighth conference this week in Seattle. Many discussions took place concerning how the concept of the Grid has changed since its early inception. [ ] 101610) HASTAC: THE HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF EMERGING SCIENCE AND TECH HASTAC (pronounced "Haystack"), the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory, announces the launch of its consortium, a strategic alliance of scientists, humanists, artists, social theorists, legal specialists, and information technology specialists. HASTAC is founded on the belief that the future of cyberinfrastructure must be driven by creative discovery across disciplinary divides because of the profound impact of new technologies on individuals and society. [ ] 101611) GRIDXPERT OFFERS GRID "PEOPLE RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT" by William Fellows for the451.com French startup GridXpert has begun shipping Syngery, a Grid software application geared toward managing the needs and requirements of users accessing a Grid (consumers, service providers, administrators and project managers) rather than the underlying resources. [ ] 101612) ORION GRID POSITIONS SHARCNET AMONG WORLD'S FASTEST An agreement announced recently with the Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION) helped the Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network (SHARCNET) position itself among the world's fastest supercomputers, by combining the power of SHARCNET's geographically distributed sites to produce a computational infrastructure equivalent to those of the top 50 computer installations in the world. [ ] 101613) RESEARCHERS CREATE INTERNET GRID TO TEST NEW TECHNOLOGIES In an effort to lower the cost and risk of introducing services on the Internet, researchers are building a testbed for new technologies on top of the global network. [ ] 101614) NEW SOFTWARE FOR GLOBUS TOOLKIT RELEASED FOR GRIDS Platform Computing and the Globus Project announced that Platform's new "Community Scheduler Framework" (CSF) will be contributed for inclusion in future releases of the Globus Toolkit, a set of software and services that is central to Grid computing. The target for inclusion is Fall 2003. [ ] 101615) PURDUE IT DIVISION EMPLOYS GRID COMPUTING United Devices, a market leader in secure Grid solutions, announced that it is in the process of linking 2,300 computers at Purdue University to create a computational Grid to perform research that previously was performed using supercomputers. [ ] 101616) TACC ESTABLISHES GRID RELATIONSHIP WITH SUN The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin has established a relationship with Sun Microsystems to extend the process of scientific discovery through advanced visualization and Grid technologies. [ ] 740053) HP Utility Data Center Puts You In Control SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE [ ] 101617) FUJITSU AND 3PAR TEAM TO DELIVER UTILITY STORAGE SOLUTIONS 3PAR, a leading provider of Utility Storage, announced recently that Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER servers have been tested and jointly approved for use in conjunction with 3PAR InServ Storage Servers. [ ] 101618) ETHERNET PHYs GETTING GigE WITH IT Declines in the per port ASP for Gigabit Ethernet (GE) transceivers will drive the overall Ethernet PHY market's port shipment and revenue growth from 2002 to 2007, according to In-Stat/MDR. [ ] 101619) IBM LAUNCHES ON DEMAND ENVIRONMENT TO VERIFY CHIP DESIGNS IBM announced a ground-breaking service for chip designers and verification engineers to improve productivity and quality -- providing services and tools on demand for chip design and formal verification. [ ] 101620) THE MIND ELECTRIC CEMENTS WEB SERVICES The Mind Electric (TME) released version 4.1 of TME GLUE. TME GLUE is a fast, comprehensive, easy-to-use Web services platform for Java developers creating, deploying, and managing applications with Web services, JSPs, and servlets. [ ] 101621) TOPSPIN DEBUTS INTELLIGENT BACKPLANE FOR ON DEMAND COMPUTING Topspin Communications announced a significant technology enhancement to its Switched Computing System. Topspin has added a hardware abstraction layer and programmable APIs to its switches which provide the first server, storage, and software agnostic programmable interconnect for creating flexible Grid computing architectures. [ ] 101622) VISION SOLUTIONS ANNOUNCES ORION SOLUTIONS LAB Vision Solutions, a leading managed availability solutions provider announced the ORION Solutions Lab which allows partners and customers hands-on testing and training on ORION with the engineers and technologists who developed the multi-platform solution. SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS [ ] 101623) GRID COMPUTING HAS A NEW ROLE WITH GENETIC RESEARCH Researchers are using Grid computing to speed up investigations into new ways of tackling disease. [ ] 101624) KDDI LABS PILOTS IPV6 GRID BETWEEN JAPAN AND THE U.S. KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., KDDI Labs USA, Inc., and KDDI Corporation announced the deployment of an IPv6 trial network between KDDI Laboratories Japan and U.S. locations, in cooperation with the WIDE Project managed by Prof. Jun Murai. [ ] 740055) Sun Microsystems Case Study Shifting Productivity Into High Gear BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 101625) Norman Virus Control 5.6 Now Available In North America [ ] 101626) College Offers Bachelor's Degree In Systems Security PLATFORMS [ ] 101627) Dell Introduces 64-Bit Server For HPC Market [ ] 101628) Intel Introduces Faster Pentium 4 Processor [ ] 101629) Sun Fire 15K Server Sets Record On SPEC Benchmark NETWORKING [ ] 101630) DNS Celebrates Its 20th Birthday [ ] 101631) Ixia And Extreme Networks Demonstrate At Nets For Business [ ] 101632) Morgan Kaufmann And OPNET Team Up For Network Manual [ ] 101633) Strix Introduces Complete Wire-Free Enterprise Network [ ] 101634) TeraChip Introduces TeraFlex Switch Fabric Interface [ ] 101635) University Deploys Ethernet Switching From Extreme Networks STORAGE [ ] 101636) Voltaire Takes iSCSI To The High-End OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 101637) DataSynapse Releases Grid Solution To Power Web Services [ ] 101638) OpenLink Software Announces Virtuoso 3.2 [ ] 101639) Dell Selects Scali Manage For Major Supercomputing Cluster [ ] 101640) SDSC Releases New Storage Resource Broker Middleware [ ] 101641) VERITAS Advances Utility Computing Model [ ] 101642) WebMethods Endorses SOAP 1.2 GENERAL [ ] 101643) Call For Papers: Special Issue On Interaction With Grids QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 101613) "It's so successful and so many people depend on it, it's become impossible to go to the core of the Internet today and make radical changes to introduce the kind of new services we see people wanting to deploy." -- Larry Peterson, Computer Scientist, Purdue University 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 [ ] 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. 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