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THE EDINBURGH EXPERIENCE

RESPONSE TO IAN FOSTER'S "WHAT IS THE GRID?"

BILL GATES HIGHLIGHTS ACADEMIC COLLABORATION KEY TO FUTURE

Special Features

RESPONSE TO IAN FOSTER'S "WHAT IS THE GRID?"
By Wolfgang Gentzsch, Director, Grid Computing Sun Microsystems

After two earlier definitions of Grid Computing, in 1998 and 2000, Ian Foster's new proposal of a checklist for determining whether a system is a Grid or not, is certainly a very valuable and respectable effort, especially in the light of the current "explosion" of worldwide interest in Grid which also causes some legitimate concern within the research community, and confusion elsewhere.

BILL GATES HIGHLIGHTS ACADEMIC COLLABORATION KEY TO FUTURE

At the third annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates, highlighted the technology innovation coming out of academia, and underscored the importance of Microsoft's continuing collaboration with universities and colleges.

THE EDINBURGH EXPERIENCE
By John Hurley, Editor at Large

The Edinburgh experience achieved a new level of growth in "grid" awareness and participation. The registration count of around 900 largely exceeded original expectations of approximately 450 researchers, students, and vendors.

INFINIBAND CLUSTERING & HPC: A PERFECT MATCH
By Chris Eddington, Dir Technical Marketing, Mellanox Tech

If you think the advantages of InfiniBand will not arrive for some time, you are wrong. The reality is that today you can easily assemble InfiniBand clusters with 2 GHz server blades or traditional servers, connected with low latency 10 Gb/s links that provider faster than SMP performance using Linux and other low cost industry standard components.

Systems/Enterprise

DTI ANNOUNCES INSTALLATION OF NEW IMAGING SYSTEM

DTI Integrated Business Solutions, a leading content management integrator in the Southeast, announced that it has successfully installed a new electronic document management system for the North Carolina Department of State Treasurer (DST).

BUSINESS WLAN SHIPMENTS CONTINUE TO INCREASE AS PRICES FALL

Even in the midst of the overall telecommunications industry funk, 2001 proved to be a stellar year for business Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) volume growth, with hardware shipments rising 175%, although prices fell fast and furiously.

NOW LINUX USERS GET IBM VIRTUAL HOSTING SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE

IT group IBM has launched a new service which it claims will allow corporations to tap into large-scale computing infrastructure 'on demand' over the Internet.

TAIWANESE JOINT VENTURE ADOPTS CA'S UNICENTER

Computer Associates International Inc (CA), announced that FarEasTone Telecommunications Co Ltd (FarEasTone), a joint venture between the Far Eastern Group and AT&T Wireless Services, is using CA's Unicenter AutoSys Job Management to significantly enhance the performance of its business-critical data warehouse operations and improve the timeliness of its market analysis.

Scientific Applications

THE ATEAM COMPLETES FIRST OF A SERIES OF TEST CAMPAIGNS

The ATEAM (Advanced Test Engineering and Measurement) lab consortium announced the successful completion of the first of a series of test campaigns aimed at investigating complex networking issues by deploying an advanced measurement infrastructure across a wide area.

HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS CHOOSES VIEWPOINT TECHNOLOGY

Viewpoint Corporation, a world leader in innovative graphics software, announced that Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), one of the world's fastest growing enterprise storage providers and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd, has chosen Viewpoint Experience Technology for a 3D interactive tour that showcases the newly-announced Hitachi Freedom Storage Lighting 9900 V Series.

CA'S UNICENTER AUTOSYS JOB MANAGEMENT 4.0 SETS NEW STANDARD

Computer Associates International Inc announced the general availability of Unicenter AutoSys Job Management (Unicenter AutoSys JM) 4.0, the industry's most powerful and complete solution for automating the execution of critical application processes across today's complex, heterogeneous enterprise computing environments.

Breaking News

Security

CipherOptics Qualified By CNT For Use With CNT's IP Storage
Kasten Chase Announces Launch Of Fed Channel Program
Procinct Security Launches ProSentry 2.0 Internet Security
Firewalls And Routers Not Adequate To Handle XML Content

Networking

USC And INVESCO Select F5 Networks' BIG-IP Blade Controller
Level 3 Announces Agreement With N.C. Research Center
Raidtec Launches NAS File Server SNAZ E6
Teradyne And Accelerant Deliver First 6.25 Gb/s Backplane
THUS Selects ADVA Optical Networking Platform

Storage

OpenReady Tested Status Awarded To InterSAN's PATHLINE
SNIA Sets Stage For Breakthrough Storage Management Demo
StorageTek Advances World-Class Automated Library Software
VERITAS Enables Enterprise Storage For Linux-Server

Operating Systems & Middleware

OSCAR v1.3 Cluster Software Stack Released

General

CENIC Board Selects First Chief Operations Officer

Quote Of The Week

"A Grid is a hardware and software infrastructure that provides dependable, consistent, and pervasive access to resources to enable sharing of computational resources, utility computing, autonomic computing, collaboration among virtual organizations, and distributed data processing, among others." -- Wolfgang Gentzsch, Director Grid Computing, Sun Microsystems

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