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GRID -- NOT JUST FOR SUPERCOMPUTERS

SUN SELECTS DARTMOUTH fMRI DATA CENTER AS SUN CENTER

AN INTERVIEW WITH ENTROPIA'S ANDREW CHIEN

Special Features

GRID COMPUTING -- NOT JUST FOR SUPERCOMPUTERS
Courtesy of Tom Garritano, Project Manager, GRIDS Center

The GRIDS Center has contributed core software to the initial NSF Middleware Initiative release (NMI-R1). The Globus Toolkit, Condor-G and Network Weather Service (NWS) combine to form a suite of Grid applications that are packaged together for easy installation, configuration and use.

THE GLOBAL GRID CHALLENGE
By Christopher Lazou

In the last two articles, I focused mainly on the Earth Simulator and device technology developments for Petaflop/s computing from NEC Japan and hardware developments by vendors in the USA, which are mostly driven by requirements from the nuclear weapons Federal Laboratories under the auspices of the ASCI programme.

SUN SELECTS DARTMOUTH COLLEGE fMRI DATA CENTER AS SUN CENTER

Palo Alto, CA. -- Sun Microsystems, Inc., has selected Dartmouth College's fMRI Data Center as a Center of Excellence in Neuroscience.

AN INTERVIEW WITH ENTROPIA'S ANDREW CHIEN
By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief

Grid Today invited Dr. Andrew A. Chien, co-Founder and CTO of Entropia and member of the Global Grid Forum Steering Group and director of the Peer to Peer Area to discuss the role of PCs in enterprise grids, and the kinds of applications and markets where adoption of PC grids is happening.

Systems/Enterprise

HP EXPANDS PRODUCTS AND SOLUTIONS FOR ORACLE9i CLUSTERS

HP introduced a broad range of products and solutions for Oracle9i Real Application Clusters, further strengthening its position as a leading supplier of Oracle database solutions.

INTEL BEGINS SHIPPING ITANIUM 2 PROCESSORS

Santa Clara, CA. -- Intel Corporation announced that it has begun initial commercial shipment of Itanium 2 processors and that systems and software based on the new processors are expected to be available beginning this quarter.

NEW YORK LIFE SELECTS ON TECHNOLOGY TO MANAGE WORKSTATIONS

Waltham, MA. -- ON Technology Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure management solutions, announced that New York Life Insurance Company has chosen its proprietary ON Command CCM software to manage as many as 15,000 mission-critical workstations for employees, agents and brokers in more than 200 U.S. locations.

SCALI ANNOUNCES CLOSURE OF SECOND INVESTMENT ROUND

Scali AS announced that it has closed the second round of its Series B funding round. New investor Four Seasons Venture III led the round. Intel Capital joined as an investor and existing investors Kongsberg Gruppen and SND Invest also participated.

APPLICATION SERVERS CLUSTERING TECHNOLOGIES & TRENDS

Milpitas, CA., Strategic Focus, a market research and product evaluation firm based in Milpitas, California announced the release of a white paper on Application Servers Clustering Technologies & Trends.

INTEL-BASED SYSTEMS POWER AUDI'S HIGH-TECH CAR SAFETY TESTS

German car manufacturer AUDI AG will use Intel Corporation-based servers from Fujitsu-Siemens to optimize its car safety testing procedure.

Scientific Applications

LLNL SCIENTISTS CREATE HIGH RESOLUTION CLIMATE SIMULATION

Atmospheric scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have performed the first global climate simulations with spatial resolutions of roughly 50 km (30 miles).

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CLUSTER COMPUTING AND THE GRID

3rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2003), held in Toshi Center Hotel, Tokyo, JAPAN, calls for papers and participation.

NSF PROVIDES $3.7 MILLION FOR NCSA-BASED NLANR/DAST

Champaign, IL. -- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $3.7 million to the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) Distributed Applications Support Team (DAST) to continue providing technical support, tools development, and community education to the NSF-funded high-performance networking and applications communities.

Breaking News

Security

Study Finds Israel & Hong Kong Hotbed For Cyberattacks
WAM!NET Announces Net Hosting Service For The Feds

Platforms

NEC Released "TX7" Series Server With Intel's Latest CPU
RedSwitch And NEXCOM Announce High Performance Partnership
PMC-Sierra Ships Second Generation CMOS

Networking

A Symposium On High Performance Interconnects
StarNet Launches X-Solutions.com Interoperability Site

Storage

New Storage Architectures Drive File System Research
EMC To Offer Open, Platform-Independent Storage Services

Operating Systems & Middleware

IBM Dips Into Directory With New Server & Services
MSC.Software Releases World's 1st High Performance Linux
IBSS Announces New Synapse Productivity Product
WinINSTALL & Ad OnDemand Software Reunited

General

Intel Developer Forum Conference Dates Announced
Larry Ellison Added To Keynote Lineup At LinuxWorld
SC2002 Posters Deadline Approaching

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