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For subscription information, email gridfree@gridtoday.com All comments regarding content should be sent to: grideditor@gridtoday.com -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 740077 ) Sun Reduces Cost and Complexity of Grid IN THIS ISSUE: [ ] 102290) GRIDS MOVING BEYOND ACADEMIA, GETTING HOTTER [ ] 102286) U.S. TRAILS EUROPE IN GRID COMPUTING RACE [ ] 102292) GlobusWORLD WORKSHOPS COVER THE WATERFRONT IN SAN FRANCISCO SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 102285) U.K. WORKS ON NATIONAL GRID INITIATIVE The U.K. seeks to implement a national grid of computing power which would be used by academic and research industries in efforts to improve everything from global weather predictions to car engine safety. [ ] 102286) U.S. TRAILS EUROPE IN GRID COMPUTING RACE Though the U.S. may lead in technological innovation, Europe has launched ahead in the race to develop grid computing infrastructures. [ ] 102287) THE GRIDS CENTER: SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, INDUSTRY By Tom Garritano, GRIDS Center, GRIDtoday Contributing Editor Still the largest of NMI's systems-integration projects, GRIDS specializes in the design, development, testing and deployment of Grid middleware, a key enabling technology for the emerging cyberinfrastructure. [ ] 102288) INTERNET PIONEERS HONORED BY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON By Christopher Lazou University College, London (UCL) has been a European pioneer of the Internet for 30 years. As part of the 30th birthday celebration of the Internet at UCL, Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf, the USA Internet Pioneers were conferred the Honorary Fellowship of UCL by the Provost [ ] 102289) SDSC TO SHOWCASE SUN COMPUTE GRID SUPERCOMPUTER The SDSC/National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) Rocks cluster team will begin assembling the RockStar -- a 128-node Sun Fire V60x supercomputer at 7 p.m., Nov. 17, at the conference and intends to be running applications approximately two hours later. [ ] 102290) GRIDS MOVING BEYOND ACADEMIA, GETTING HOTTER According to The Tabb Group's new report, Grid is hot because it's the right technology for its time and within the next five years it will be a de facto part and parcel of virtually every major financial markets firm's infrastructure. [ ] 102291) EXPLORING COLLABORATION SCENARIOS By K.S. Venkatram This article will describe the specification that extends effectiveness in working with remote file systems. [ ] 102292) GlobusWORLD WORKSHOPS COVER THE WATERFRONT IN SAN FRANCISCO By Tom Garritano, GRIDS Center, GridToday Contributing Editor GlobusWORLD 2004 begins Jan.20 with three days full of keynotes, sessions and dialogues on Grid computing. [ ] 740076 ) HP Joins with BAE SYSTEMS, Others on Grid For Advanced Aerospace and Defense Design SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 102293) ALTAIR ENGINEERING, HP TO DELIVER HPTC SOLUTIONS The companies will continue to work together to optimize the performance of PBS Pro on HP hardware and deploy the integrated high performance technical computing solution within client computing environments. [ ] 102294) BAE GRID PROJECT LOOKS TO SPEED UP PRODUCTION In an attempt to speed up production lifecycles and increase levels of collaboration, BAE Systems is working on Grid-enabling its IT environment. The project is being supported by the e-Science program, and BAE's goal is to come up with more efficient Grid strategies. [ ] 102295) ON-DEMAND COMPUTING A SUCCESS FOR IBM IBM generated $7 billion in orders in the last year for its the "on demand" computing services, and saved another $7 billion by applying those services to its own operations. [ ] 102296) GRIDS CONTINUE MARCH INTO COMMERCIAL SECTOR Grids, which are popular in government, academia and research, are now making their into the business sector. Many large companies have complex computing problems to solve, and Grids can help them to do so. [ ] 102297) IBM AIDS GEORGIA TECH AUTONOMIC COMPUTING RESEARCH The Georgia Institute of Technology says it plans to use IBM hardware and software to advance the university's development of technology for autonomic computing, an emerging development area focused on intelligent, open systems capable of running with minimal human intervention. [ ] 102298) ORACLE SET TO PUT INDIA ON THE GRID Come December, Oracle India Private Limited (Oracle India) will launch the Oracle 10g infrastructure software for Indian enterprises. Oracle 10g enables organizations to implement utility computing, based on Grid computing technology. [ ] 102299) SUN, AMD TO OFFER NEW iForce PARTNER PROGRAM FOR AMD OPTERON The alliance intends to provide increased market opportunities for ISVs, OEMs and channel partners by offering an industrial strength, affordable platform that has been fully optimized and tuned for the 64-bit AMD Opteron processor. [ ] 740054) Our In-House LinuxBIOS Expertise Simplifies Cluster Management SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS ==================================================== [ ] 102300) INFRAGISTICS OFFERS .NET DEVELOPERS FIRST AVALON UIElement Written by Infragistics, at the request of Microsoft, UltraGrid for Avalon was showcased at the PDC. The technology demonstration is a world-class example of what could be done in a very short period of time by leveraging the Avalon framework. [ ] 102301) PLATFORM EXTENDS GRID LEADERSHIP WITH POWERFUL NEW PRODUCTS Platform Computing has significantly enhanced its best-of-breed Platform LSF and LSF HPC Grid-enabling products with several key features and performance upgrades, and has extended their market-leading capabilities by fully integrating complementary Platform products. [ ] 102302) INTERNATIONAL GRID EFFORT LAUNCHED TO FIGHT MALARIA Computational efforts focused on making medicines to prevent leading cause of death and morbidity in the developing world. [ ] 740073 ) CALL FOR SPEAKERS GRID TODAY 2004 (Gt04) -- the first major conference and exhibition to focus on the emerging market for commercial business applications of Grid computing, has issued a Call for Speakers We are looking for high-level speakers from commercial organizations to speak on applications and implementation of Grid computing http://www.gridtoday.com BREAKING NEWS ============================================================== SECURITY [ ] 102303) Odimo Optimizes Network With Network Associates Sniffer [ ] 102304) Bart Preneel Joins Cloakware Technical Advisory Council [ ] 102305) ServGate Introduces Gigabit Integrated Security Appliance [ ] 102306) Sourcefire, IBM To Release Net Monitoring Systems [ ] 102307) High-Tech Security Officers Form Think Tank PLATFORMS [ ] 102308) Apple Introduces New Dual Processor 1.8 GHz Power Mac G5 [ ] 102310) Certeon Announces Optimization Of Distribution Platform [ ] 102311) IBM POWER Architecture On Blades For High-Volume Market [ ] 102312) Intel's Montecito Chip To Run Multiple Applications [ ] 102313) Sun Cranks Up Volume, Cuts Price On Tech. Computing Products [ ] 102314) RackSaver Unveils First Intel Itanium 2 Based Server Blade [ ] 102315) Sun To Use AMD Processors In High-End Servers NETWORKING [ ] 102316) Global Carrier Selects Siemens Optical Transport Solution [ ] 102317) Foundry Expands Edge Iron Family Of Edge Switches [ ] 102318) InfiniCon Systems Announces 30 Gb/s InfiniBand Switches [ ] 102319) Sirocom Alters Perception Of Network Service Provider Role [ ] 102320) Voltaire Introduces High Performance InfiniBand Switches [ ] 102321) Zarlink Unveils Single-Chip Processor For "Pseudo-Wire" STORAGE [ ] 102322) Panasas Shatters Storage Bandwidth Records OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 102323) Altair Releases PBS Pro v5.4 For Dist. Computing Environments [ ] 102324) Together Teamlosungen: Enhydra Server Becomes Free Software [ ] 102325) Meiosys MetaCluster HPC Now Integrated With Platform LSF [ ] 102326) NMI Creates Cyberinfrastructure for Science, Engineering By Tom Garritano, GRIDS Center, GridToday contributing editor [ ] 102327) OMG, UTI Announce Dates Of UML Certification Testing GENERAL [ ] 102328) BEA, Sun To Deliver BEA WebLogic Platform On Solaris OS x86 [ ] 102329) Eclipse Expands Conference Program For EclipseCon 2004 [ ] 102330) JBoss Group, IONA Announce Strategic Alliance [ ] 102331) OSDL Will Pay Legal Costs Of Linux Creator Linus Torvalds [ ] 102332) UB's Supercomputing Center Makes Its Mark On Grid2003 [ ] 102333) UNM-Developed Tribal Consortium Featured At SC2003 [ ] 102334) Microsoft To Release Virtual PC [ ] 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 QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 102290) "We see [Grid software and services] spending quickly rising over the next five years at a compound annual rate exceeding 60 percent and growing to approximately $680 million." -- Larry Tabb, Founder, The Tabb Group JOB BANK =================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] 710) Avaki, CCLRC e-Science Centre, First Option, General Dynamics Decision Systems, HP, Indiana University, Institute for Scientific Research, MCNC, Platform, Red Hat, United Devices (2), University of Southern California (2) [ ] 711) Job Bank Rates and Regulations CONFERENCE CALENDAR ======================================================== GRIDtoday is proud to be affiliated with the following organizations: [ ] 740071) globusWORLD The premier GRID conference featuring the Globus Toolkit January 20-23, 2004 - San Francisco, CA www.globusworld.org Global Grid Forum The Leading Edge of Grid Computing for Researchers Worldwide http://www.Gridforum.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. 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