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IAN FOSTER = GRID COMPUTING

COMMISSION FUNDS GRID IN FIGHT AGAINST BREAST CANCER

IDC REPORT ON GRIDS - NO SIGNIFICANT NEW REVENUE!

Special Features

BUSINESS READY TO EXPLOIT GRID COMPUTING
By Zack Medicoff, The Globe

Once grid computing becomes widespread, companies will be able to pay for supercomputing power by the hour rather than investing in highly expensive mainframes that sit idle much of the time.

IDC REPORT ON GRIDS - NO SIGNIFICANT NEW REVENUE!

Advantages of the grid approach to distributed computing include increased utilization of computing resources, access to specialized computer systems, cost sharing, and improved management.

IAN FOSTER = GRID COMPUTING
By Om Malik

Unlike the Internet, which primarily is a network for communications, grids are networks for computation -- they are thinking, number-crunching entities.

WILL THE GRID COMMUNITY AID CYBERPARASITES?
By Bennett Daviss Reed, Business Information UK

The idea of harnessing computers across the Net to create one huge number-cruncher has already proved its worth in more legitimate circumstances.

ARE SERVERS THE ANSWER TO THE THE GRID LOAD BALANCE?
By Brian Fonseca and Ed Scannell

As dominant hardware providers forge separate visions of an automated datacenter utopia, smaller vendors are stepping into the grid void with technologies that optimize resource utilization and reduce operating costs.

SMART CARDS: WILL THE STANDARDS MAKE IT PART OF THE GRID?

The smart card is in fact part of a "distributed system" of computing power that also requires card-accepting devices and host computers to track the information on the card and respond to it as appropriate.

CAN SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT INTEGRATE WITH GRID NEEDS?

Systems management will likely be the final area where a major XML web services standard is published, with specifications expected from vendors and standards bodies early next year.

Systems/Enterprise

CAPE CLEAR SOFTWARE HEADING FOR A GRID SOLUTION

Although Cohesions product is designed to support a wide range of distributed computing mechanisms in and between typical multi-platform enterprises, Web Services has the potential to create a more unified and ubiquitous distribution architecture.

GRID TEAM COLLABORATES TO SOLVE SECRET-KEY CHALLENGE

RSA Laboratories, the research center of RSA Security Inc, the most trusted name in e-security, announces that a coordinated team of computer programmers and enthusiasts, known as distributed.net, has solved the RC5-64 Secret-Key Challenge.

IBM IS OFFERING INTERNSHIP THAT SUPPORTS GRID COMPUTING

Doing a sandwich year in industry as part of a university degree can expose you to some useful experiences. Ideally, you want to be doing something other than running the software testing scripts that no one else can be bothered with or doing coffee runs.

GEORGE MASON U: GMU GRID CAPS COSTS, NOT SERVICE

George Mason University is deploying a new highly scalable optical network that will enable the university to connect local area networks at each of its three campuses to create one virtual multi-campus Grid.

Metis LAUNCHES PATHWAYS TO SUPPORT THE GRID

Pathways is built on top of Metis MCP 5, the next-generation Peer to Peer solution that goes beyond traditional EAI, integrating all technologies, business logic and processes for Web services, composite applications, and grid computing.

Silicon Genetics ANNOUNCES UPDATE TO GRID SOLUTION

Answering the needs of IT professionals and researchers in high-throughput gene expression laboratories, Silicon Genetics has streamlined data handling and added new features to their Enterprise Solution for expression informatics.

ANOTHER SUN GRID CLUSTERING BLADE SERVER?

The word on the street is that Sun Microsystems Inc is getting ready to make a whole slew of server announcements in November, possibly including the Sun Fire V1280 12-way server, Sun's first entries into the blade server market, its WildCat"system clustering technology, and maybe even a refreshed Linux server line, Timothy Prickett Morgan writes.

SGI'S VISUAL AREA NETWORKING SOLUTION ADDS PUNCH TO THE GRID

Visual Area Networking leapfrogs over earlier technology barriers to transform business-proven visualization infrastructure into international collaborative decision-making hubs for geographically distributed team members who are involved in every phase of the energy enterprise.

Scientific Applications

SCIENTISTS LAUNCHING A TRANSPARENT" VIRTUAL GRID COMMUNITY

Creating a grid-enabled version of SnB puts UB Team in a position to really tackle larger structures and at the same time create collaborative environments between users of programs who can benefit from each other's expertise without working together in a traditional sense," said Miller.

DELL ACKNOWLEDGE EXCEPTIONAL USE OF COMPUTING GRID CLUSTERS

The award is part of an initiative by Dell to acknowledge exceptional use of the company's high-performance computing grid clusters for groundbreaking commercial research and projects that can benefit society. These grid clusters link large numbers of standards-based servers and storage systems together to act as a single resource to solve complex computational problems.

AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES TO BE CONNECTED BY A SUPER-FAST GRID
By Jane Richardson, The Australian

GrangeNet would let Australian educators and scientists engage with the builders of Internet 2. GrangeNet is a quantum leap in communications infrastructure. Other applications will include the promotion of co-operation between industry and research organisations and the facilitation of business development based on advanced communications products and services.

COMMISSION FUNDS GRID IN FIGHT AGAINST BREAST CANCER

This is the purpose of MammoGrid, a new seven partner research project funded under the Information Society Technologies (IST) section of the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme.

HAS THE MILITARY REALIZED THE POWER OF GRID COMPUTING?

Retired Vice Adm. Arthur Cebrowski, a leading exponent of transformation, wrote several years ago that the transition to grid-centric warfare "will prove to be the most important revolution in military affairs in the past 200 years."

OptIPuter BOOTS UP HIGH-CAPACITY OPTICAL GRID
By Karen Heyman

Similar distributed computing projects provide access to supercomputing power and storage, but OptIPuter developers say their network will also offer next-generation bandwith provisioning, which will allow long-distance collaborators to work together in real time, for example, on a massive image file.

NEW RECORD SET AT IGRID2002 FOR MOVING INFORMATION

By combining SABUL with the DSTP protocol for remote data analysis and distributed data mining and layering them over Photonic Path Services, it is now possible to analyze Gigabyte size data sets anywhere in the world.

Breaking News

Storage

LightSand Provides More Grid Distributed Storage Support
Spinnaker Offers Another Grid Distributed Solution

Platforms

parvus Helps Sandia Develop A Portable Linux Grid Cluster

Networking

Tsunami Protocol Will Speed Data Transfer Over The Grid
Quadrics Delivers Interconnects For Grid Clusters

Operating Systems & Middleware

STMicro & AMD Collabarate On Grid Cluster Technology
Egenera Announces Two-Way Grid Processing Blade

General

Platform Extends Value Of Grid Computing Solutions
Grid Computing Advocates To Meet In Chicago

Quote Of The Week

"Once grid computing becomes widespread, companies will be able to pay for supercomputing power by the hour rather than investing in highly expensive mainframes that sit idle much of the time." -- Robert Gordon, CEO, Markham, Ont.-based, Platform Computing

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