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A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON THE QUESTION OF WHAT IS A GRID?

GRID COMPUTING -- TODAY AND TOMORROW: ANOTHER VIEW

IBM OFFERS COMMERCIAL SUPPORT OF REVOLUTIONARY GRID SOFTWARE

Special Features

A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON THE QUESTION OF WHAT IS A GRID?
William E. Johnston, Senior Scientist, LBNL

For a significant segment of the Grid community, most of whom are represented at the Global Grid Forum, the primary significance of Grids is that they will provide a persistent and uniform infrastructure for solving complex science and eCommerce problems based on a dynamic and distributed set of resources.

FAILURE TO RECOGNIZE STRATEGIC VALUE OF IT CHOKES SPENDING
By William Fellows, the451.com

"I have wanted computing on demand for more than two years now and haven't been able to buy it," says Pat Leach, CIO of pharmaceutical company Inpharmatica. Leach's incumbent supplier is Sun Microsystems, and he has over 500 servers and 25TB of storage.

GRID COMPUTING AIMS TO HARNESS CLUSTERS

This emerging type of computing format lets companies tap into more computing power at a low cost by sharing resources among a company's many departments, or even among companies. Grid computing uses clusters of personal computers, servers or other machines.

NSF SIGNS THREE YEAR AGREEMENT WITH NLANR & MNA GROUPS

The National Science Foundation (NSF) will provide $3.28 million to the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) Measurement and Network Analysis (MNA) group for work to be conducted over the next three years.

GRID COMPUTING -- TODAY AND TOMORROW: ANOTHER VIEW

A comprehensive grid is a dynamic network of computing resources that work together as a single, uniform operating environment. It can span locations and administrative domains, and can flexibly support dynamically changing organizations and computing requirements.

Systems/Enterprise

Linuxcare UNLOCKS SAVINGS OF ENTERPRISE SERVER CONSOLIDATION

Linuxcare Inc, a provider of software products to simplify server consolidation, unveiled software to provision, configure and update large-scale Linux deployments on mainframe systems.

DataDirect DELIVERS APPLIANCE USED WITH LINUX SUPERCOMPUTER

DataDirect Networks,a leading provider of the world's highest performance storage networking appliances, has announced that Linux NetworX will be using a Silicon Storage Appliance as part of their new Linux-based supercomputer to be deployed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

BRAZIL'S TOP ELECTRIC UTILITY USES CA'S ADVANTAGE EBDC

Computer Associates International Inc (CA) announced that Furnas Centrais Eletricas S.A which supplies 66% of Brazil's electrical energy, is using CA's Advantage EDBC to enable access of its legacy data by web and client/server applications.

CTC JOINS FORCES WITH DELL, INTEL AND MICROSOFT

Cornell Theory Center (CTC) announced an agreement with Dell, Intel and Microsoft to develop and deliver CTC High-Performance Solutions, a suite of industry standards-based high-performance computing (HPC) solutions and services for business, government and academic clients.

Scientific Applications

VERITAS FOCUSES ON LOCAL CLUSTERING MARKET

STORAGE and data protection software provider Veritas Software Corp is still bullish about opportunities for the local clustering market. According to its Asia South regional director Eric Hoh, there is tremendous potential in the areas of electronic business, online banking, airlines and hotel online reservations.

Net Optics CONTRIBUTES 10 GIGABIT TECHNOLOGY TO CalNGI

Net Optics, a global leader in passive monitoring access technology, has contributed a range of innovative Taps and Analyzer Switches to the CalNGI Network Performance Reference Laboratory (NPRL) at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC).

IBM OFFERS COMMERCIAL SUPPORT OF REVOLUTIONARY GRID SOFTWARE

In a move designed to speed the adoption of Grid technologies by businesses and institutions, IBM announced that it is the first major IT vendor to provide commercial support and distribution of the Globus Toolkit, the prevalent set of software that enables businesses and institutions of any size to deploy Grid applications and services.

VERIDIAN RELEASED LATEST EDITION OF PBS PRO 5.2

PBS is a supercomputer workload management solution, an enabling technology for Grid computing, and a Linux clustering and desktop computing tool. Building on nine years of PBS technology, PBS Pro 5.2 provides new features and enhanced stability, reliability and fault tolerance, Veridian said.

TULARIK USES LINUX NETWORX CLUSTER SUPERCOMPUTER

Linux NetworX announced that San Francisco-based Tularik Inc is using a Linux NetworX Evolocity cluster supercomputer to boost datamining performance by 75x for drug development.

Breaking News

Security

SSH IPSEC Chosen By CipherOptics For Security Gateway

Networking

Digital Networks Introduces Two New Networking Products
Intersil Appoints Lahri And Titus To Lead World Operations
Teradyne & Accelerant Deliver First 6.25 Gb/s Backplane
Is The Wireless Cloud Just a Pie-In-The-Sky' Technology?
By Marsha Walton, CNN Sci-Tech

Storage

StoreAge Networking Partners With BakBone Software
Overland Tape Libraries Qualified By EMC As E-Lab Tested
SanDisk Appoints Hisao Kushiyama President
VERITAS Delivers First Cluster File System For Oracle9i

Operating Systems & Middleware

Dell Extends High Performance Computing Capabilities
Platform CEO Presents Enterprise And eBusiness Conference
The Grids Around Us Today

General

IDC To Address New Era Of Service-Centric Computing
JDS Sells Optic Unit At Rock-Bottom Price
DataMirror Extends The Value Of IBM GreenStreak
Intel Goes To Hollywood For A New Generation Of Filmmaking
Lulu Tech -- An Interactive Three-Day Tech Circus

Quote Of The Week

"A Grid is an environment that provides access and management for the whole range of computing resources needed to solve complex computing and data handling problems. A Grid is not batch schedulers, cluster managers or storage systems that happen to be connected to the Internet. Rather, a Grid is a well understood and standardized set of services that provide uniform access to a large number of diverse and distributed resources, together with several critical auxiliary services for resource discovery and secure communication based on authenticated, global identity." -- William E. Johnston, Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

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