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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: [ ] 101686) EUROPEAN GRID GROWING FAST [ ] 101685) TECH GIANTS LOOK TO EUROPE E-GOVT FOR GROWTH [ ] 101691) JEFFERSON LAB DEVELOPS POWERFUL CAPABILITIES THROUGH SCIDAC [ ] 740059) HP and Grid Computing Taking Distributed Computing To The Next Level SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 101682) ñ2M EURO AID FOR GRID SUPERCOMPUTER Liverpool reserchers will soon be given ñ2m in European funding to help develop advanced Grid computing capability. [ ] 101683) HP CONTINUES TO SCOOP UP LUMINARIES David Reed, long-time Internet pioneer and industry luminary, is the most recent in a spate of high-profile hirings at industry giant Hewlett-Packard. [ ] 101684) LACK OF STATE-WIDE GRID MAY STALL UNIVERSITY PROJECT New Mexico is the only state not fully connected to a new high-speed network with massive data transmission capacity that allows professors and researchers to share data, video and other information at speeds far exceeding the capabilities of the aging Internet. [ ] 740060) GRID COMPUTING-A VERTICAL MARKET PERSPECTIVE 2003-2008 a report by Insight Research Corporation This 150+ page report is the most complete and comprehensive Grid market and industry report available. EXCLUSIVE OFFER - BUY NOW AND SAVE $200 [ ] 101685) TECH GIANTS LOOK TO EUROPE E-GOVT FOR GROWTH From e-voting in Switzerland to putting the Slovakian Treasury online: wiring Europe's notorious bureaucracy is set to be technology's new boom area and the big hitters are jostling for a slice. [ ] 101686) EUROPEAN GRID GROWING FAST Scientists in Geneva will soon begin one of the biggest developments in global communication. They will announce that 10 laboratories around the world, including one near Didcot in Oxfordshire, can now talk to each other through their computers. [ ] 740057) Sun - The Power Behind the Grid SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE [ ] 101687) "GET A GRANT" PROGRAM FOR GRID LIFE SCIENCES RESEARCHERS Engineered Intelligence Corporation (EI) has announced a new program, "Get a Grant with EI" -- whereby EI works on grant proposals and projects with researchers and scientists in Life Sciences who want to convert serial applications in Fortran, C or C++ to parallel codes, or want to develop new applications with parallel performance and harness the power of parallel computers, grids and clusters. [ ] 101688) NEW IBM SOFTWARE COMBINES WEBSPHERE + LINUX + POWER4 CHIP IBM announced it is bringing together three key technologies -- WebSphere Internet infrastructure software, the Linux open source operating system, and the advanced POWER4 microprocessor -- to help companies improve IT performance while containing costs. [ ] 101689) ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE SIG RECOMMENDS OMG MDA FOR FED DATA The Object Management Group (OMG) announces that the Industry Advisory Council's (IAC) Enterprise Architecture SIG recommended the use of the OMG's Model Driven Architecture (MDA) as a viable way to build integrated Federal Government Data Systems. SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS [ ] 101690) PFIZER SELECTS AVAKI COMPREHENSIVE GRID SOFTWARE Avaki Corporation, a leader in Grid software solutions, announced that Pfizer Inc. has selected Avaki Comprehensive Grid software to provide researchers with automated, secure, wide-area access to research data and compute power across its global research sites. [ ] 101691) JEFFERSON LAB DEVELOPS POWERFUL CAPABILITIES THROUGH SCIDAC Scientists and engineers from Jefferson Lab's Chief Information Office have created a 'cluster supercomputer' that, at peak operation, can process 250 billion calculations per second. [ ] 740058) Intel - High Performance Clusters and Grids BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 101692) WS-Federation: The Next Step Or The Next Stumble? PLATFORMS [ ] 101693) New Intel Server Processors Strengthen High-End Line-Up NETWORKING [ ] 101694) Ixia Acquires NetIQ's Chariot Product Line [ ] 101695) Telenor Selects Tellabs For High-Speed Ethernet Services STORAGE [ ] 101696) Hitachi, Others Team To Achieve Data Storage Breakthrough [ ] 101697) Sleepycat Software Launches Native XML Data Manager OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 101698) CoCreate Launches OneSpace.net [ ] 101699) Open Systems Lab Announces The Release Of LAM/MPI 7.0 GENERAL [ ] 101700) Technology Opens Up Distance Learning For Universities [ ] 101701) Eight Companies Form Linux Alliance QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 101691) "Then we can calculate reality at a fine enough resolution to extract from theory everything we think it could tell us. 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