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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: [ ] 104244) EUROPE LOOKS TO CONTINENTAL SUPERCOMPUTER [ ] 104252) WEB SERVICES RELIABILITY BECOMES OASIS STANDARD [ ] 104246) INDUSTRY-FIRST GRID COMPUTING RESOURCE GUIDE ON THE HORIZON [ ] 740120) Web Services Extend High-Performance Computing Grid Capabilities - INTEL - SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 104244) EUROPE LOOKS TO CONTINENTAL SUPERCOMPUTER Several leading European HPC centers have devised an innovative strategy to build a terascale supercomputing facility with continental scope, called Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (DEISA). The resulting system will consist of more than 4,000 processors, a huge memory space and an aggregate computing power of over 22 teraflops. [ ] 104245) WS SECURITY SPECS ADVANCE; DEUTSCHE BANK PRESENTS SECURE WS APP By Alan J. Weissberger, Contributing Editor At the Nov. 2-4 meeting of the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Organization, excellent progress was made on several WS Basic Security Profile specifications, sample applications and test tools. GGF had earlier decided that Grid security would be based on Web services security, so that makes the WS-I Security work of interest to anyone building a Grid. [ ] 104246) INDUSTRY-FIRST GRID COMPUTING RESOURCE GUIDE ON THE HORIZON Designed for IT editors and reporters, IT decision makers, and enterprise computing innovators, the guide will include complete listings of the suppliers of Grid hardware, middleware and enabling technology; information on the leading integration consultants; and descriptions of notable installations. [ ] 104247) WEST VIRGINIA'S GLOBAL GRID EXCHANGE TO BE POWERED BY HP West Virginia will procure from HP the hardware required to support this innovative venture -- from desktop PCs for customer service personnel to robust and reliable high-end servers. [ ] 104248) INDIANA UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS BRIDGE COMMUNITIES AT SC2004 New developments from the Pervasive Technologies Labs center around networking and Grid computing. The Advanced Network Management Laboratory is demonstrating, for the first time, its Porcupine wireless network monitoring system (http://porcupine.iu.edu). [ ] 104249) NCAR SELECTS PLATFORM COMPUTING GRID TECHNOLOGY Platform LSF HPC will enable NCAR to integrate its heterogeneous computing environment under a single workload management system and job scheduler, and to also evaluate, develop and deploy Grid-based computation and data management technologies. [ ] 104250) SUN, STREAMLINE BUILD 3 TERAFLOP GRID FOR UNIV. OF NOTTINGHAM The new Grid built using AMD Opteron processor- based Sun Fire V20z servers, will rank as the second largest academic computer system in Europe to date, and the eighth largest worldwide. [ ] 104251) MANY UNIVERSITIES TURN TO SUN FOR GRID SOLUTIONS The College of William and Mary, Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas, and Pennsylvania State University are using Sun Microsystems' Grid computing technologies to enhance their academic research centers and improve their return on investment. [ ] 740117 ) HP -- Taking Distributed Computing To The Next Level SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 104252) WEB SERVICES RELIABILITY BECOMES OASIS STANDARD By Alan J. Weissberger, NEC Corp voting member of OASIS WS-RM TC At its Nov. 10-11 meeting, the OASIS WS-RM (Reliable Messaging) TC voted to send the WS Reliability specification version 1.1 to OASIS for publication as a standard. All enterprise Grid builders will be interested in this WS Reliability standard, and how it is being used in the Japanese Business Grid project. [ ] 104253) EGENERA EXPANDS REACH IN EUROPE Egenera's COO cites Germany's large financial services market and the region's adoption of Linux and utility computing as reasons for expansion. [ ] 104254) IBM, FIU TO DEVELOP AUTONOMIC COMPUTING SOLUTIONS FOR HOSPITALS If you've ever waited well past your appointed time to see a doctor, then this announcement's for you. IBM and Florida International University (FIU) launched two new research projects that will use autonomic computing technologies to help solve every day challenges in the health care industry. [ ] 104255) PAREMUS UNVEILS UTILITY DATACENTER ECOSYSTEM Paremus announced the Infiniflow Utility Datacenter Ecosystem (UDE), an environment where enterprises can build business applications on a self-healing, dynamically scalable and functionally evolvable compute fabric, providing unprecedented cost, resilience and agility benefits. [ ] 740104 ) Extreme Performance: Get the new Sun Fire V20z server with AMD Opteron APPLICATIONS =============================================================== [ ] 104256) GRIDBUS PROJECT TO RELEASE GridSim TOOLKIT 3.1 The new version of GridSim has been substantially improved. It incorporates a network extension into GridSim, incorporates a background traffic functionality based on a probabilistic distribution, incorporates a functionality that reads workload traces taken from supercomputers, and adds ant build file to compile GridSim source files. [ ] 104257) SUN, TOPSPIN DELIVER GRID SOLUTIONS FOR SOLARIS 10 Under terms of the agreement, Sun and Topspin will offer integrated utility computing solutions that include Topspin's intelligent fabric products and Sun's AMD Opteron-based systems. The solution links servers together into high performance Grids, virtualizes network and storage connectivity, and provisions applications on demand. [ ] 104258) UNITED DEVICES ANNOUNCES GRID MP 4.2 WITH MAC OS SUPPORT In addition to Mac OS, United Devices Grid MP supports a range of operating systems including Windows, Solaris, AIX and Linux. With the new release come additional management features as well, like integration with existing identity management systems for simpler Grid interaction and expansion. [ ] 104259) WOLFRAM RESEARCH ANNOUNCES gridMathematica 2 gridMathematica is optimized for virtually all Top500 supercomputers, heterogeneous Grids and workstations. With gridMathematica, scientists and engineers can easily develop parallel applications using the uniquely productive and interactive Mathematica environment and deploy them seamlessly on any supercomputer. [ ] 104260) THE MathWorks UNVEILS DISTRIBUTED TOOLBOX FOR MATLAB, SIMULINK The Distributed Computing Toolbox lets users divide this sample MATLAB application, plotting the performance of five equalizers, into several tasks, each of which performs the same calculation for different signal-to-noise ratios and is executed on a remote worker. [ ] 740115 ) Who's Boosting Opteron Performance at AMD, IBM and Sun? That would be us. Who's Ready for a FREE Trial? That would be you. Try our PathScale EKO Compiler FREE for 30 days. BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 104261) Research Reveals False Sense Of Security Among Network IT Mgrs [ ] 104262) BigFix Unveils Unified Security, Configuration, Mgmt Solution [ ] 104263) BladeFusion Creates Multi-Bladed Security Solution For Telcos [ ] 104264) Jibe Networks Starts Public Beta Cycle For New SX XML Product [ ] 104265) Competing Security Vendors Create Initiative To Make Web Safer [ ] 104266) Reactivity Gateway Sets Records For XML Web Services Security [ ] 104267) RSA Security, Juniper Networks Extend Strategic Partnership PLATFORMS [ ] 104268) Appro Unveils AMD Opteron-Powered XtremeBlade Solution [ ] 104269) IBM, Topspin Unveil New InfiniBand Solution For IBM BladeCenter [ ] 104270) The MathWorks Delivers 64-Bit Support For MATLAB On Linux [ ] 104271) NEC Ships First Itanium 2 Processor-based Blade Server [ ] 104272) RLX Technologies Intros Sixth-Generation Blade Server [ ] 104273) Verari Launches Octet 8-Way Opteron Processor-Based SMP Server NETWORKING [ ] 104274) Fujitsu Donates 10 GbE Switch For Next-Gen Networks At UCSD [ ] 104275) Ethernet Speed Record Shattered With Chelsio 10GbE Adapters [ ] 104276) Enterasys Intros Matrix X-Series Next-Gen Secure Core Routers [ ] 104277) Foundry Introduces Modular 10 GbE WAN PHY Optical Receiver [ ] 104278) SURFnet, Internet2 Deploy Optical Solutions From Nortel [ ] 104279) Marconi Intros High-Speed Media, Protocol Gateway [ ] 104280) BroadWare Network Video Chosen For NEESgrid [ ] 104281) PSC Demonstrates 40 Gigabit Bandwidth Distributed Application [ ] 104282) Voltaire Intros 96 Port InfiniBand Switch For Enterprise Grids [ ] 104283) Chelsio Brings Copper To 10 Gigabit Ethernet STORAGE [ ] 104284) FBI Chooses Visual Analytics To Support Info Sharing Initiative [ ] 104285) Linux Networx Releases New Clustered Storage System [ ] 104286) Think Computer Products Demonstrates ThinkTank Q-Cluster TG OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 104287) Java Studio Enterprise 7 Unites Global Development Teams [ ] 104288) Universal Business Language, UBL, Ratified As OASIS Standard [ ] 104289) Texas Industries Develops Customized Portal Using Oracle 10g [ ] 104290) OSDL, Service Availability Forum Support OpenAIS Development [ ] 104291) UC4 Software Announces New Version Of Job Scheduling Software GENERAL [ ] 104292) Azul Systems Announces Sun HPTC Vet Shahin Khan As VP, CMO [ ] 104293) SimDesk Puts Utility Computing To Work On Massive Scale [ ] 740106 ) HELP DEFINE THE FUTURE OF GRID Take a 5 Minute Survey and Get a Free Market Overview A $250 VALUE Summary Results Will Be Published in GRIDtoday QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 104244)"The concept of the distributed supercomputing infrastructure is based on the educated guess that network bandwidth will become, by the ends of this decade, a commodity very much like raw computing power became a commodity in the early 90s." -- Victor Alessandrini, Director, DEISA JOB BANK =================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] 710) 3DGeo Development Inc, Akamai, D.E. 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