GRIDtoday's "Breaking News" Log onto GRIDtoday.com at the beginning and the end of your day for up to the minute news and information in the Global Grid Community. www.Gridtoday.com \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////////// GRIDtoday NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY --- Oct 04, 2004: Vol. 3, No. 40 --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This issue will reach 30,000 readers ------- Article retrieval instructions are at the end of this file. For subscription information, email gridfree@gridtoday.com All comments regarding content should be sent to: grideditor@gridtoday.com -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 740098) ALTIX(TM) FAMILY OF SERVERS AND SUPERCLUSTERS SGI Combines the Industry Leading Performance Of the Intel(TM) Itanium(TM) 2 Processor With a Production-Class Linux(TM) Solution IN THIS ISSUE: [ ] 103897) WILL FINANCIAL SERVICES DRIVE GRID ADOPTION? [ ] 103898) WORLD'S FIRST CITY SUPERCOMPUTER TAKING SHAPE [ ] 103896) PRAGMA PUTS PEOPLE AT CORE OF CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE [ ] 740104 ) Extreme Performance: Get the new Sun Fire V20z server with AMD Opteron SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 103896) PRAGMA PUTS PEOPLE AT CORE OF CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE By Derrick Harris, Editor Peter Arzberger, chair of the PRAGMA steering committee, talks with GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris about the recent PRAGMA 7 workshop (Sept. 15-17 at SDSC), what the future holds for this international assembly, and why people are the most important resource of any Grid deployment. [ ] 103897) WILL FINANCIAL SERVICES DRIVE GRID ADOPTION? By Derrick Harris, Editor On the heels of some customer wins in the financial services industry, GRIDtoday was able to speak with Peter Ffoulkes, Sun's group manager of HPTC marketing, about why he thinks financial services will be the driving force behind Grid adoption across all industries. [ ] 103898) WORLD'S FIRST CITY SUPERCOMPUTER TAKING SHAPE The incubation of the world's first virtual city supercomputer was announced with the AlmereGrid project kick-off in the city of Almere, The Netherlands. AlmereGrid aims to perform specific research on how a heterogeneous Grid can interconnect and use non-central computer resources from individual participants and companies. [ ] 103899) GRID PROJECT PART OF $12M SENATE APPROPRIATION TO NASA The following is an excerpt from the 2005 Senate Appropriations Bill in regard to funding for NASA. The Grid project will help improve data distribution as a part of the ECS/EMD Synergy Program. [ ] 103900) TEXAS TO BUILD NETWORK, GRID FOR RESEARCH, EDUCATION The state announced the approval of $9.8 million in funding to build the high-speed Lonestar Education And Research Network for Texas higher education institutions, and to construct the Texas Internet Grid for Research and Education to enable these institutions to access and share resources, collaborate on research, and facilitate online teaching and remote learning. [ ] 740117 ) HP -- Taking Distributed Computing To The Next Level SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 103901) SUN MICROSYSTEMS UPGRADES GRID, HELPS BANK ADDRESS BASLE II Equity and Derivatives, a part of BNP Paribas group, which is a Fortune 500 stocks and derivatives company, acquired more than 100 Sun Fire V20z servers. The servers, which are based on AMD Opteron processors, will be part of the compute Grid which run the firm's risk management application. [ ] 103902) TOPSPIN ROLLS OUT 'GRID-TO-GO' PROGRAM Grid-to-Go can be used with commodity servers, and includes all of the infrastructure and software required for a Grid architecture that unifies applications, servers and storage. [ ] 103903) LeCayla SYMMETRY ENABLES BILLING, METERING FOR UTILITY COMPUTING Symmetry is the first software metering and billing infrastructure that allows ISVs to provide packaged software on a pay-as-you-go basis. It allows traditional software applications that are installed at a company's site to be offered on the same commercial terms as Web-served offerings. [ ] 103904) PRIMA ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF SOFTWARE FOUNDATION FOR SOAs Version 4.0 reinforces the key features required to implement a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in an insurance organization available in version 3.1 and delivers an extended set of functionalities improving its effectiveness and usability. [ ] 103905) SERVICE INTEGRITY ANNOUNCES SOAdvantage The collaborative, cross-industry panel was created to help executives share best practices for implementing Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). [ ] 103906) KEY ENTERPRISE BUYERS READYING LARGE INVESTMENTS IN SOAs According to a Yankee Group study of 437 enterprises across the United States, senior enterprise buyers within manufacturing, financial services, health care and wireless sectors are preparing to invest in service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure development. [ ] 740116 ) Distributed Computing - The Poor Man's Supercomputer APPLICATIONS =============================================================== [ ] 103907) NCSA, PARTNERS TO DEVELOP COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY GRID The National Science Foundation Middleware Initiative has granted nearly $3 million to a partnership of institutions, including the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, to deploy tools to help computational chemists take advantage of multiple computational resources. [ ] 103908) IBM THAILAND GRID PROJECT TO HELP STUDY SHRIMP DNA Currently, Thailand must import breeder shrimp from other countries. IBM plans to encourage local researchers to utilize Grid infrastructure to study shrimp DNA so they can develop good shrimp breeders that suit the country's environment, which in turn would reduce imports. [ ] 103909) UNITED DEVICES UNVEILS GRID-READY LINUX CLUSTER SOLUTION WITH HP Grid MP Cluster provides several advantages to the Linux cluster community, including seamless virtualization and provisioning of resources, centralized data and application management, high levels of security and a leading application framework. GRIDtoday PHOTO GALLERY Visit the Photo Gallery to see Images from this year's Pacific Rim Application and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA) September 15-17, 2004 http://www.gridtoday.com/gallery/index.html BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 103910) McNealy Addresses COVITS 2004 On 'Trusted Network Computing' [ ] 103911) Integrien Announces Fourth Generation Integrity Mgmt System [ ] 103912) nCircle Launches IDS nTellect To ID, Prioritize Network Attacks [ ] 103913) Dept. Of State Deploys netForensics Security Info Mgmt Platform [ ] 103914) Oklahoma Schools Win $3M Grant For Cyber Security Education PLATFORMS [ ] 103915) BladeLogic Awarded For Best Network Infrastructure Application [ ] 103916) Crescendo Solution Powers InTouch Blade Computing Environment [ ] 103917) Sun Achieves Leading Application Server Benchmark Results NETWORKING [ ] 103918) Ammasso Announces 20 Percent Improvement With Ammasso 1100 [ ] 103919) AT&T Expands Global Networking Capabilities [ ] 103920) Network Physics Introduces NetSensory Enterprise Architecture STORAGE [ ] 103921) SWsoft, Acronis Announce Server Virtualization Partnership OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 103922) Azul Introduces First Network Attached Processing Solution [ ] 103923) Borland Enhances VisiBroker With CORBA Services For Web Services [ ] 103924) FileNet Announces Support For Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 [ ] 103925) Intergraph Demos Interoperable Geospatial Intelligence Solutions [ ] 103926) Sapient Helps Navy Improve Performance With Web Logistics System [ ] 103927) MMA Assists Customers Looking To Move Off The Mainframe [ ] 103928) Microsoft Positioned In Leader Quadrant In Web Services [ ] 103929) New Report Addresses Web Services Within Financial Services [ ] 103930) VeriSign Developers Program To Accelerate Utility Of EPCglobal [ ] 103931) webMethods Announces OEM Agreement With OAT GENERAL [ ] 103932) IDC Calls Base One Grid Tech 'Pragmatic, Scalable, Extensible' [ ] 103933) DataSynapse Wins Award For Best Technology [ ] 103934) Poster Submissions Sought For GlobusWorld [ ] 103935) Grid, Utility Computing Among Topics At SoftSummit 2004 [ ] 103936) TSA Teams With TWD, Akamai For Airport Wait-Time Service [ ] 103937) Computer Associates Announces Restructuring Plan [ ] 740115 ) Who's Boosting Opteron Performance at AMD, IBM and Sun? 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