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For subscription information, email Gridfree@Gridtoday.com All comments regarding content should be sent to: Grideditor@Gridtoday.com -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 740062) Intel - Peer-to-peer Computing is Good Business IN THIS ISSUE: [ ] 101845) COMMERCIAL GRID ACTIVITY UNDERWAY [ ] 101847) OSDL RELEASES Q&A ADDRESSING LEGAL ACTIONS BY SCO GROUP [ ] 101853) FREE CODE PRESENTED FOR GRID OPERATIONS [ ] 740054) Our In-House LinuxBIOS Expertise Simplifies Cluster Management SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 101844) AGTP OFFERS VERSION-SPECIFIC TUTORIALS To better support the AG community, the Access Grid Training Project has been delineating version-specific content throughout the tutorials, as well as updating some tutorials to include material about AG 2.x. [ ] 101845) COMMERCIAL GRID ACTIVITY UNDERWAY by William Fellows for the451.com Grid software company Axceleon believes a wave of commercial Grid activity is about to get under way. It now must decide whether to ramp up its operations more quickly than it had originally planned to catch this wave, or to continue its current progress toward expected breakeven in a year's time. [ ] 101846) SUN TO UNVEIL NEW BLADE PROCESSOR Sun Microsystems plans to unveil its new generation of low-power microprocessors at a symposium in Palo Alto California. [ ] 101847) OSDL RELEASES Q&A ADDRESSING LEGAL ACTIONS BY SCO GROUP The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) released a Q&A paper written by noted technology law and intellectual property expert Lawrence Rosen. The paper asks and answers key questions about SCO Group's current lawsuit against IBM and about its threatened litigation against users of Linux. [ ] 101848) TAIPEI CENTER ACTIVATES ACCESS GRID The Taipei National Center for High-performance Computing has successfully completed developing its Access Grid technology, through which remote teaching would be made available in more than 40 interactive classrooms at different locations worldwide. [ ] 740057) Sun - The Power Behind the Grid SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 101849) DIVERSE TRAFFIC MEANS NETWORK GRIDLOCK Load balancers are having to work harder, and smarter, to handle the wide range of network traffic. [ ] 101850) EDS LAUNCHES INDUSTRY'S FIRST UTILITY-BASED DESKTOP SOLUTION myCOE shifts up-front capital investment costs to smaller, incremental costs on a pay-for-use basis. EDS worked closely with strategic alliance partner Microsoft to develop this new user-centric service. [ ] 101851) INTEL TARGETS GRID COMPUTING NICHE Intel has said that high performance computing, a method that pushes the limit of available computing power, is being increasingly adopted in India as an alternative to supercomputing. [ ] 740061) HP and Grid Computing On The Road To Planetary Computing SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS ==================================================== [ ] 101852) GRID PLAYER POWERLLEL WINS FINANCIAL ISV AS OEM PARTNER by Rachel Chalmers for the451.com Axiom Software Laboratories, a vendor of risk management and enterprise data software, has chosen software from Powerllel to integrate with its RiskMonitor application. [ ] 101853) FREE CODE PRESENTED FOR GRID OPERATIONS IBM said that it has made available free code for developing Grid and autonomic tools for use in on-demand operating environments. [ ] 101854) DRUG DISCOVERY FIRM TO USE RESEARCH GRID Because of the cost and time involved in drug development, "Grid computing" is seen as a cost-saving method, according to Targacept Inc. [ ] 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 BREAKING NEWS ============================================================== SECURITY [ ] 101855) Network Engines Partners, Authenex Form Alliance [ ] 101856) New Industry Price Benchmark Set For Check Point VPN-1 [ ] 101857) ISPA Looks To Make E-Mail Official [ ] 101858) SAS Teams With e-Security To Bolster Enterprise Defenses PLATFORMS [ ] 101859) Vendors Announce Support For 64-bit AMD Opteron Processors NETWORKING [ ] 101860) Avaya Introduces New Multimode 10Gb/s Fiber Offering [ ] 101861) DataPower 2.3 Delivers Enhanced XML Web Service Security [ ] 101862) New Product Gives Business-Class Managed Switching Solution [ ] 101863) GarrettCom Deploys New Managed Ethernet Switch [ ] 101864) Innovance Networks Deploys New Photonic Network [ ] 101865) Radware Releases Web Server Director Version 8.0 [ ] 101866) ZNYX Networks Gigabit Ethernet Switches Now Shipping STORAGE [ ] 101867) Audi Implements Flexible, Available Storage Area Network OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 101868) Ascential Supports IBM's WebSphere Application Server 5 [ ] 101869) Rogue Wave Launches Product For Working With Web in C/C++ [ ] 101870) SCO Advances SCOx Initiative With Web Service Development GENERAL [ ] 101871) Novell Improves The TRW Automotive Global Network [ ] 101872) Brief Filed In Supreme Court Standard Setting Case [ ] 101873) International Internet Traffic To Grow 67 Percent In 2003 QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 101858) "Many organizations will need both monitoring and analytics elements to efficiently manage security information, and effectively detect and respond to an increasing variety of threats across a large, complex computing environment." -- Chris King, senior program director, META Group 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 ================================================= [ ] 101824) FIORINA TOUTS ENTERPRISE INITIATIVE, SLAMS DELL, IBM [ ] 101825) GRID KNOCKS ON TELCOM DOOR [ ] 101827) NEW GRID AND TOOLS DEPLOYED ACROSS NPACI [ ] 101826) RESEARCHERS CREATE FASTEST DETAILED COMPUTER SIMULATIONS [ ] 101830) SAS JOINS GRID COMPUTING FORUM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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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