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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: [ ] 101710) WORLD RENOWNED EMEAGWALI - METAPHYSICS OF THE GRID [ ] 101703) DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ECONOMICS [ ] 101705) APPLICATION TRENDS IN VERTICAL MARKETS, PART I [ ] 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 SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 101703) DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ECONOMICS by Jim Gray, Microsoft Research Microsoft's Jim Gray talks about the changing role of computing economics and how this has implications for how one structures Internet-scale distributed computing. [ ] 101704) GRID TECHNOLOGY USED TO HIJACK PC'S? Internet users, more than a thousand, around the world have recently had their computers hijacked by hackers, who computer security experts say are using them for pornographic Web sites. [ ] 101705) APPLICATION TRENDS IN VERTICAL MARKETS, PART I by Insight Research Grid computing technology was cultivated within the research and academic communities as a way for scientists to address the rapidly increasing needs for computing power, data access across wide areas, and virtual-community collaboration. Commercial enterprises, however, are increasingly deploying Grid computing technologies in both mundane and innovative ways. [ ] 101706) THE THREE MOST COSTLY MISTAKES IN NETWORK SECURITY By Scott Palmquist, VP, Product Management, CipherOptics While millions are spent today securing intranets, running leased lines, restricting access to IT assets, and strategically concealing network cabling, relatively little is thought about or spent on what happens to network data once it leaves the network end. [ ] 101707) NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION CONTINUES TransPAC FUNDING The National Science Foundation has extended funding for TransPAC, the high-speed international Internet service connecting research and education networks in the Asia-Pacific to those in the United States. [ ] 101708) TEACHING COMPUTERS TO WORK IN UNISON By Steve Lohr, NY Times To move the concept of Grids, toward practical reality has taken years of continuous improvement in computer processing speeds, data storage and network capacity. Perhaps the biggest challenge, however, has been to design software able to juggle and link all the computing resources across far-flung sites, and deliver them on demand. [ ] 101709) DEFINING A CONCEPT FOR A SMART NEIGHBORHOOD - PART V by K.S. Venkatram, computer engineer, University Of Poona These articles introduce the reader to a concept for a smarter neighborhood and guide the user through a comparative analysis and extensibility of a sensor-controlled network against what is ordinarily presented in Grid computing. [ ] 101710) WORLD RENOWNED EMEAGWALI - METAPHYSICS OF THE GRID by Philip Emeagwali, computer scientist Transcript of a keynote address delivered by Philip Emeagwali at a conference of the Black Data Processing Association, Augusta, Georgia, April 26, 2003. [ ] 740057) Sun - The Power Behind the Grid SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE [ ] 101711) CA'S "SONAR" TECHNOLOGY TO EXTEND ON-DEMAND COMPUTING Computer Associates extended its leadership in managing on-demand computing, unveiling a revolutionary new technology to discover and manage business processes, code-named "Sonar," and four new solutions across its Unicenter, eTrust and BrightStor brands. [ ] 740058) Intel - High Performance Clusters and Grids SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS [ ] 101712) THE MIND ELECTRIC RELEASES GLUE VERSION 4.1 Two-year-old company The Mind Electric announced recently that it has updated its GLUE Java application server. [ ] 101713) MACADAMIAN ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA Macadamian Technologies Inc, a software engineering firm that focuses on emerging technologies, announced that it was chosen to help build a Grid computing infrastructure for the bioinformatics, coding, cryptology, and combinatorial algorithms lab at the University of Ottawa. [ ] 740059) HP and Grid Computing Taking Distributed Computing To The Next Level BREAKING NEWS ============================================================== SECURITY [ ] 101714) Blue Ridge Networks Collaborates On Secure VPN Solutions [ ] 101715) IBM Introduces New Language To Automate Privacy Compliance [ ] 101716) Cyber-Security Experts Warn Of Public/Private Vulnerability [ ] 101717) ISS' X-Force Releases Internet Risk Impact Summary Report PLATFORMS [ ] 101718) Q2 Intel Earnings Exceed Expectations [ ] 101719) Intel Launches New Xeon Processor NETWORKING [ ] 101720) Mozilla.org Announces Launch Of The Mozilla Foundation [ ] 101721) Procom Deploys Wireless Multi-Function Networking Appliance STORAGE [ ] 101722) Cisco Systems Selected By Euronext.liffe For Storage Network OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 101723) CA Expands AllFusion Suite For Cross-Platform Management [ ] 101724) eCube Systems Extends DCE To .NET [ ] 101725) MQSoftware Releases Updated Version Of DataFlow Studio [ ] 101726) Microsoft Releases Java Language Conversion Assistant 2.0 [ ] 101727) Unisys Introduces 1st Mainframe-Scale Windows Java Solution GENERAL [ ] 101728) CISE Reorganizes, Seeks Division Director [ ] 101729) Cracow Grid Workshop - CGW'03 [ ] 101730) SC2003 Bandwidth Challenge Deadline Approaches QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 101708) "It was the Woodstock of the grid -- everyone not sleeping for three days, running around and engaged in a kind of scientific performance art." -- Dr. Larry Smarr, Director, Cal(IT)2 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. LAST WEEK'S TOP 5 ARTICLES ================================================= [ ] 101686) EUROPEAN GRID GROWING FAST [ ] 101682) ñ2M EURO AID FOR GRID SUPERCOMPUTER [ ] 101683) HP CONTINUES TO SCOOP UP LUMINARIES [ ] 101685) TECH GIANTS LOOK TO EUROPE E-GOVT FOR GROWTH [ ] 101684) LACK OF STATE-WIDE GRID MAY STALL UNIVERSITY PROJECT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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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