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IN THIS ISSUE: [ ] 102056) ORACLE'S PLAN TO UNLOCK THE GRID [ ] 102061) IBM'S GRID COMPUTING PUSH CONTINUES [ ] 102054) GRID COMPUTING: EMERGING 'MENTAL ELECTRICITY' [ ] 740054) Our In-House LinuxBIOS Expertise Simplifies Cluster Management SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 102049) COMMERCIAL CONSORTIUM COULD COMPLEMENT GGF In a letter, Ahmar Abbas says, "I remain convinced that the standards development role of the GGF is one that should be preserved, while the market-focused activities to promote the technology should be handled by the new Grid consortium." [ ] 102050) CERN TURNS ON MAJOR GRID Cern's Grid will initially be used to handle the terabytes of data generated by an upcoming particle accelerator called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). [ ] 102051) INDIANA UNIVERSITY, PURDUE TO JOIN SUPERCOMPUTER GRID The schools will become part of the National Science Foundation's "TeraGrid" network, officials at both schools announced Monday. The foundation awarded $3 million to enable the universities to link their campuses in Bloomington, Indianapolis and West Lafayette to a national supercomputer network. [ ] 102052) NSF ANNOUNCES AWARDS TO EXTEND REACH OF TERASCALE FACILITY The four awardees will join the five current partners in the ETF, a multi-year effort to build and deploy the world's largest, fastest, distributed computational infrastructure for general scientific research. [ ] 102053) ORACLE'S GRID CONCEPT: LESS IS MORE The new 10g Grid software due later this year will be given away to existing Oracle customers. It lets them use their computers more efficiently, so they can delay buying new ones, Executive Vice President Charles Phillips said. [ ] 102054) GRID COMPUTING: EMERGING 'MENTAL ELECTRICITY' By Richard W. Samson, Director, EraNova Institute Grid computing is "mental electricity," a new entity that, properly implemented, can power a golden age for everyone. However, if clumsily rolled out, it can shock us lethally. [ ] 102055) 'VIRTUAL SERVERS' GRID PROVIDES BUSINESS WITH NEW CHOICES Using IBM's new Virtual Server Service, customers can tap into virtual server capacity on hosted IBM eServer xSeries, pSeries and iSeries systems, paying only for the computing power and capacity they require. [ ] 102056) ORACLE'S PLAN TO UNLOCK THE GRID by Ivan Walsh, Editor, IBMStrategy.com Grid computing has moved from being a niche industry a few years back, to the "next big thing," according to IT soothsayers. For Oracle, this is a significant moment. [ ] 102057) GRID CONSIDERED NEWEST BREAKTHROUGH IN CYBERSPACE Following the invention of the Internet and the World Wide Web, the Grid is becoming the newest innovation in cyberspace, offering remote power and services not seen before. [ ] 102058) SALESFORCE TAKES ON BIG COMPANIES WITH BIG TALK, BIG RESULTS Salesforce is a bold company. While technology bigshots have touted utility software -- renting software instead of buying, and accessing via the Web in lieu of downloading onto a server -- as a definite future trend, Marc Benioff and Salesforce have centered the entire company around it. [ ] 740067) Intel - Creating A Virtual Worldwide Network Of Computing Power SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 102059) BEA CO-FOUNDER COLEMAN LAUNCHES ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE START-UP Cassatt Corporation, headed by former BEA chairman and CEO Bill Coleman, announced its entry into the autonomic computing market. The company will offer software and services to help enterprises implement agile business architectures which adapt to meet changing workplace requirements. [ ] 102060) INTEL WORKING WITH CHINA TO DEVELOP RESEARCH GRID When all is said and done, the Grid should be one of the most powerful in thw world -- capable of trillions of calculations of second, up to 15 Teraflops -- and will be used for work in life sciences, financial projects, earthquake research and the petroleum industry. [ ] 102061) IBM'S GRID COMPUTING PUSH CONTINUES By William Fellows For the451.com IBM forecasts "hypergrowth" for the sector next year, and its target of doubling its Grid revenue will set an interesting benchmark for other vendors. [ ] 102062) OPEN SOURCE ARCHITECTURE TO CREATE SCALABLE ENTERPRISE Red Hat's Open Source Architecture will provide value to the customer through a completely standards-based open source infrastructure with a focus on management and broad applications support across multiple hardware environments. [ ] 102063) SchlumbergerSema, SUN TO OFFER UTILITY SOLUTIONS WORLDWIDE The agreement enables SchlumbergerSema, a member of the Sun iForce community, to deploy Sun's utility computing architecture so that customers in these sectors [energy, finance, telecommuncations and public sector] can dynamically match IT sourcing to business needs. [ ] 102064) IBM ANNOUNCES NEW PARTNERSHIPS AND GRID PRODUCTS In addition to their new grid computing applications for banking and financial institutions, IBM touted ongoing grid projects with commercial customers like Morgan Stanley and Hewitt Associates as well. [ ] 740066) HP Advances Grid Strategy for the Adaptive Enterprise SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS ==================================================== [ ] 102065) GridScape CREATES DYNAMIC GRID TESTBED WEB PORTALS Gridscape primarily aims to provide a solution for those users who need to be able to create a Grid testbed portal but do not necessarily have the time or resources to build a system of their own from scratch. [ ] 102066) NOVARTIS POWERS-UP R&D WITH NEW INTEL-BASED PC COMPUTING GRID Novartis has adopted an Intel Pentium 4 processor powered PC Grid platform as a strategic part of its 5-year plan for extending R&D capabilities. The PC refresh program forms part of enhancements to the organization's IT strategy. [ ] 102067) GRAND-SCALE SMALLPOX RESEARCH COMPLETE Volunteers from more than 190 countries donated their spare CPU power at http://www.grid.org and contributed over 39,000 years of computing time in less than six months. [ ] 102068) UMASS UNVEILS NEW WEATHER CENTER Funded in part by the National Science Foundation, the Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) is expected to increase the warning time for tornadoes, flash floods and other severe weather disturbances with far greater accuracy than existing systems. [ ] 740069 ) CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION 4th International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2004: IEEE support pending final approval) 19-22 April, Chicago, Illinois, USA http://www.mcs.anl.gov/ccgrid2004 BREAKING NEWS ============================================================== SECURITY [ ] 102069) Motorola Launches PowerQUICC Processor Families PLATFORMS [ ] 102070) Layer 7 Enforces Policy With Securespan Bundle By Rachel Chalmers For the451.com NETWORKING [ ] 102071) 3Com, Huawei Align, Develop New, Inexpensive Routers [ ] 102072) Marconi Sells More BXR-48000s To Federal Government [ ] 102073) Commercial 3G Rivals Fastest Wireline Connections [ ] 102074) NPF Adds Four Software Implementation Agreements [ ] 102075) PSC To Help Bring High-Speed Networking Home [ ] 102076) Stealth Selects Procket Networks For IP/MPLS Backbone [ ] 102077) City Of Tulsa Deploys Foundry Networks' Routing Solution STORAGE [ ] 102078) Availl: Data Exists Simultaneously In N Locations OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 102079) ParaSoft SOAPtest Checks Conformance To Basic Profile 1.0 [ ] 102080) SDSC Releases Matrix 2.0 Middleware For Web Interoperability [ ] 102081) SpiritSoft Entering Grid Computing Market [ ] 102082) SUSE LINUX Releases Latest Advances In Linux Technology [ ] 102083) XSP Summit 2003 Showcases Innovative Technologies GENERAL [ ] 102084) GlobusWORLD Conference Being Held Jan. 20-23 [ ] 102085) NEON Systems Engineers Real-Time, Event-Driven Enterprise [ ] 102086) Neoteris Named SSL VPN Market Leader By Industry Analyst Firm [ ] 102087) OMG Hosts MDA Implementers' Workshop On West Coast [ ] 102088) SC2003 Advance Registration Deadline: Friday, Oct. 10 [ ] 102089) UT Gets Grant To Join Supercomputer QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 102067) "All of our members can take great satisfaction that they stepped up and took real action in the war against terror." -- Ed Hubbard, CEO, United Devices 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 [ ] 710) Grid Career Opportunities [ ] 711) GRIDtoday Job Bank Rates and Guidelines _____________________________________________________________________ | | | 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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