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INTERNET DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING IS VIABLE
NOW
AVAKI 2.5 DELIVERS WAN ACCESS WITH LAN
PERFORMANCE
SANDIA SELECTS GLOBUS IN FIRST COMMERCIAL
ADOPTION
Special Features
- SUN MICROSYSTEMS INVESTING IN OPEN
COMPUTING
By Gretchen Hyman, the internet.com
- The sky might appear to be falling
in the tech sector, but Sun Microsystems thinks the future is looking rosy as
it continues to invest in technology -- minded educational and research
institutions.
- ICES VENDORS KEEP THE ICE
FLOWING
- According to IDC The integrated
collaborative environments (ICEs) market for corporate messaging and
collaboration is expected to hit $1.57 billion in revenue by 2002, a slight
decline from the prior year.
- SANDIA SELECTS GLOBUS IN FIRST COMMERICAL
ADOPTION
- Platform Computing, a leader in
distributed and Grid computing software solutions, announced that Sandia
National Laboratories has selected Platform Globus 2.0 in the industry's first
commercial end-user adoption of the Globus Toolkit.
Systems/Enterprise
- SIDE EFFECTS & SUN ACHIEVED RENDERING ACROSS A
COMPUTE FARM
- Side Effects Software, developer
of the award-winning Houdini family of 3D software, and Sun Microsystems
announced that Axyz Animation Inc has successfully achieved distributed
rendering across a Linux-based compute farm using Sun Grid Engine software
with the Houdini 3D solution.
- NEW CENIC INITIATIVE -- ONE GIGABIT OR
BUST
- Delivering robust end-to-end
broadband Internet capabilities to every education institution, business and
home is the focus of California's Next Generation Internet (NGI) Roundtable
and Centers initiative.
- HP BOARD FORMS TECH POLICY COMMITTEE
By Dawn Kawamoto -- Staff Writer, CNET News.com
- Hewlett-Packard's board of
directors has formed a technology committee to study such key issues as the
company's transition to Itanium processors. The committee will oversee some of
HP's most pressing technology issues, which includes greater use of direct
sales and ensuring its research work is firmly aligned with corporate
strategy, a source close to the company said.
- SUN RETURNS TO PROFIT & STILL SEES ANOTHER
LOSS
- Computer maker Sun Microsystems
Inc reported its first quarterly profit in a year but forecast another loss as
it fights for deals in the midst of the technology
downturn.
- SECURE.DATA NOW AVAILABLE FOR ORACLE DATABASE
TECHNOLOGY
- Protegrity Inc announces the
introduction of Secure.Data for Oracle9i Database on IBM AIX and Microsoft
Windows Server 2000 -- an "out-of-the-box" automated database
encryption solution with protected key-management software for selectively
encrypting and securing enterprise relational database information at the
data-item level.
- COMMVAULT DETAILS VIRTUALIZATION PROMISES &
CHALLENGES
- Transcending the SAN and Including
All Attached Storage Devices are Keys to Maximized Hardware Utilization and
Simplified Enterprise Management Addressing what is rapidly becoming known in
the storage management industry as "the V-
word."
- NEED FOR SPEED SPURS RPI, IBM
PARTNERSHIP
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
and IBM Corp. are partnering on a $ 33 million research center in Troy to
develop infrastructure for the next generation of high-speed, broadband data
pipelines and computer networks that will be 1,000 times faster than
today's.
Scientific Applications
- HP-PNNL SUPERCOMPUTER -- LARGEST COMPUTING RESOURCE
ON THE GRID
- HP announced at the Global Grid
Forum that the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory (PNNL) will connect a 9.2-teraflop HP supercomputer to the DOE
Science Grid.
- NVIDIA QUADRO4 POWERS OHIO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
GRAPHICS
- NVIDIA, a worldwide leader in
visual processing solutions, announced that the Ohio Supercomputer Center
(OSC) has purchased and deployed over 50 NVIDIA Quadro 4 900 XGL workstation
graphics boards for an integrated visualization cluster used to research large
scale (Terascale) visualizations.
Breaking News
- Platforms
-
Entropia Announces DCGrid 5.0 For PC Grid
Computing
Computer Facility Locating In Upstate New
York
- Networking
-
Spinnaker Networks Appoints Industry
Veteran
Industry Leaders Join Forces To Establish Web3D
Standard
- Storage
-
JNI FCX2-6562 Dual-Port PCI HBA Qualified By
EMC
BASF IT Implements High Availability McDATA SAN
Solution
Confluence Networks Continues To Strengthen
Team
- Operating Systems &
Middleware
-
MPI Announced License Agreement With MPI/Pro
& Veritas
AVAKI 2.5 Delivers WAN Access With LAN
Performance
CollabNet Provides Sourcecast For The Helix
Community
- General
-
Akamai Reports Second Quarter EBITDA Loss Of
$8.3 Million
Leading Graphics Companies To Provide Technology
Update
Quote Of The Week
"No matter which way you slice it, the
business case for grid computing is quite clear. The challenge lies in making
the grid-enablement process at enterprises seamless," -- Ahmar Abbas,
Managing Director, Grid Technology Partners
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