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For subscription information, email gridfree@gridtoday.com All comments regarding content should be sent to: grideditor@gridtoday.com -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 740061) HP and Grid Computing On The Road To Planetary Computing IN THIS ISSUE: [ ] 101874) GRIDS MOVE TOWARD MATURITY [ ] 101876) GRID COMPUTING AND ITS FUTURE IMPACT ON TECHNOLOGY [ ] 101882) NEESgrid A SEISMIC SHIFT FOR EARTHQUAKE RESEARCH [ ] 740063) INTEL TARGETS GRID COMPUTING NICHE SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 101874) GRIDS MOVE TOWARD MATURITY by Rachel Chalmers for the451.com Grid technology has moved from technical arcana to full-fledged buzzword status. [ ] 101875) LETTER FROM GRIDtoday's EDITOR-AT-LARGE JOHN HURLEY Recent advances in hardware, middleware, and networking are largely responsible for the ongoing interest in Grid computing. [ ] 101876) GRID COMPUTING AND ITS FUTURE IMPACT ON TECHNOLOGY According to some industry experts, Grid computing is the next evolution of enterprise technology architectures, and will furthermore revolutionize how businesses think about and manage their computing resources. [ ] 740054) Our In-House LinuxBIOS Expertise Simplifies Cluster Management SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 101877) BEA PARTNERS WITH ALTOVA New partnership integrates development products to further expand broad developer base. [ ] 101878) CA'S KUMAR SEES UTILITY COMPUTING AS KEY TO BIZ SUCCESS Computer Associates International, Inc. Chairman and CEO Sanjay Kumar told shareholders that while customers continue to be conservative in their technology spending, they will make purchases if they see a concrete return on investment. [ ] 101879) SUN GEARS UP FOR SEPTEMBER'S PROJECT ORION LAUNCH by Nick Patience for the451.com Sun Microsystems has provided us with a little more clarification on Project Orion, the new infrastructure software initiative the company is due to launch next month. [ ] 101880) SAS JOINS ECLIPSE CONSORTIUM By joining the Eclipse consortium, SAS will assist in the community effort to create and enhance an open, enterprise-class development environment for the Java and J2EE platforms. [ ] 740057) Sun - The Power Behind the Grid SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS ==================================================== [ ] 101881) GRID COMPUTING GETS A SPEED BOOST FROM MATHEMATICA 5 Originally unveiled at the Supercomputing 2002 conference, gridMathematica is a complete parallel computing solution for dedicated grids or clusters. [ ] 101882) NEESgrid A SEISMIC SHIFT FOR EARTHQUAKE RESEARCH The field of earthquake research is undergoing a seismic shift of its own as the developing NEESgrid changes the very idea of what constitutes a laboratory. [ ] 101883) PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTER LINKS TO CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE Researchers have linked a supercomputer in Pittsburgh to others in Illinois and California, which will soon make it possible to perform 20 trillion calculations a second and enable academic researchers to harness that power no matter where they're located. [ ] 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 [ ] 101884) 'Denial Of Service' Attack Leaves SCO Web Site Inaccessible PLATFORMS [ ] 101885) Redline Processor Speeds Access To MS Partner Portal NETWORKING [ ] 101886) Adaptec Introduces New Network Acceleration Solution [ ] 101887) Tech Data And Radware Sign Distribution Agreement [ ] 101888) New Report Predicts RapidIO To Lead Bus Architecture Wars [ ] 101889) PMC-Sierra Further Extends SERDES Product Family STORAGE [ ] 101890) Radiant Receives Patent For Distributed File Consistency OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 101891) New Product Provides End-User Access To Enterprise Content [ ] 101892) Cyanea Announces Support For BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 [ ] 101893) Group 1 Introduces New Web Services Architecture [ ] 101894) Motive Transforms Desktop Support Into On-Demand Model GENERAL [ ] 101895) W3C Seeks More Implementations Of Web Ontology Language [ ] 101896) Turbolinux Joins OSDL [ ] 101897) UML Certification Program Underway QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 101884) "I had been hoping, and actually expecting, that the attacker would turn out to be some adolescent cracker with no real connection to the open-source community. 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