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THE ROI ON COTS: INDUSTRY'S STUDY REVEALS SCALE OF SAVINGS

HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING: P2P'S POWERFUL PROMISE

IBM SOFTWARE EMPIRE GROWING AMID SLUMP

Special Features

HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING: P2P'S POWERFUL PROMISE
By Salvatore Salamone, Bio-ITWorld

The computer industry has taken notice and is trying to cater to the trend, primarily through the work of a couple of grid initiatives. Just as Platform Computing was introducing its new commercial LSF product, the National Science Foundation (NSF) was launching NMI Release 1.0, a software and tools kit to help scientists implement distributed computing via the Internet.

KOKUYO AND NTT JOINT TESTS TARGET UBIQUITOUS SERVICES

An important element of ubiquitous services is that services must overcome the limitations of space, and must be accessible from any location. NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories (NTT Labs) have been promoting R&D in Shared PC systems, one of the methods of making these services a reality.

THE ROI ON COTS: INDUSTRY'S STUDY REVEALS SCALE OF SAVINGS

Until now, the return on investment (ROI) value of COTS Components has been elusive to purchasers. Using established industry metrics based on lines of source code, the study for the first time shows how investing in an expert-built COTS component or Web service may offset the development costs of applications to the tune of millions of dollars.

IBM SOFTWARE EMPIRE GROWING AMID SLUMP
By J. Bonasia, Investor's Business Daily

The Internet's rise in the 1990s spurred IBM to change strategic course. Now it's focused more on lucrative high-tech services. Such services include designing, building, running and maintaining computer systems for corporate clients.

Systems/Enterprise

SERVERS QUADRUPLE INSTITUTE'S COMPUTING POWER

SGI Japan has announced that a 384-CPU SGI Origin 3800 server system installed at Japan's National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED) has begun operation, following installation last May.

HP UNVEILS FIRST MULTI-PROCESSOR BLADE SERVER ARCHITECTURE

First to market with the concept of blade servers in 2001, HP now delivers the next wave of the HP ProLiant BL line of industry-standard server blades and further expands the industry's most comprehensive and strongest portfolio of blade products and management software for enterprise data centers and service providers.

SOLID OFFER BEST FLEET AUTOMATION SYSTEMS AVAILABLE TODAY

Solid FlowEngine provides a robust transactional data platform that manages intelligence throughout the distributed Nexus business environment, making it easy to move data between vehicles and enterprise systems and enabling ICS to offer the best fleet automation systems available today.

SUN'S StorEdge SOFTWARE USES WEB-BASED ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT

The new platform ties together existing management applications under a single view. StorEdge Enterprise Storage Manager software uses Common Information Model (CIM) and Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM), the two primary elements of the Storage Networking Industry Association's draft storage management specification, formerly known as Bluefin.

DELL ANNOUNCES HIGH-PERFORMANCE SYSTEM FOR CORPORATE CUSTOMERS

Dell's strategy of delivering enterprise technology at low prices removes significant barriers for small-and medium-sized businesses to take advantage of server technologies, and is a major reason why Dell is the leading supplier of server hardware to SMB customers in the U.S.

Scientific Applications

CREATING THE VIRTUAL PATIENT
By Susan Aschoff, Times Publishing Company

The project was conceived almost 15 years ago and today includes researchers from the University of South Florida, dozens of medical schools and more than 40 countries. The goal is to take a standardized male and female anatomy, digitized for the computer and accessible by Internet, and make it more than pretty pictures.

HIGHEST DATA CAPACITY IN TWO DIMENSIONAL CODE

The VSCode symbol provides the world's highest density printable 2D code. The VSCode can store 4.45 Kbytes (approximately one page of printed text) in a 3/4 inch by 3/4 inch space.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION CONNECTS TO Internet2 BACKBONE

Using Abilene enables applications such as uncompressed high-definition television quality video; remote control of scientific instruments such as mountaintop telescopes and electron microscopes; collaboration using immersive virtual reality; and grid computing.

THINK COMPUTER PRODUCTS RELEASES LATEST ThinkTank 'Q' SERVER

The unit was initially designed for NASA and used as a node within a linux based cluster configuration. Server Management support includes IPMI/IPMB, SDR, SEL, FRU and I2C.

Breaking News

Security

CNT Extends FAStT Mirroring Far Beyond Native Fibre Channel
Symantec's Norton Ghost 2003 Provides Enhanced Ease-Of-Use
Athena Releases TeraFire Security Coprocessors

Networking

Cisco Mounts Storage Offensive
Internet2 Links Educators & Students From Wa To Va
Tolly Verifies Line-Rate Performance Of 10 Gigabit Ethernet
WLAN Equipment Volumes Continue To Shine In 2Q02

Storage

Intelligent eMail Management An Enterprise Challenge
EMC Offers Hardware To Challenge HP & SUN
By Ross Kerber, Boston Globe
Imation Storage Professional Services Expands Portfolio
Network Appliance Joins InfiniBand Trade Association

Platforms

Pentium 4 Processor Sets New Standards For High-Performance
Lexra Announces Highest Performance 32-bit RISC Processor
STMicro, Motorola and Philips Unveil New Chip Platform
Virtex-II Pro Offering From Xilinx Performs 40% Faster

Operating Systems & Middleware

Gateway Launches All-New Line Of Servers
Lane15 Delivers InfiniBand Fabric Management Software
Scali ClusterEdge Now available For Intel Itanium 2
Smartronix Designs Tool For Evaluating LAN Equipment

General

Conference on Cluster Computing - September 24-26, 2002
First In-Depth User Conference Presented By Sun

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"Convergence of peer-to-peer and grid computing is a natural outcome of recent distributed systems thinking." -- Colin Evans, Director of Distributed Systems, Intel Labs

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