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KESSELMAN LEADS TESTBED FOR NEW GRID SECURITY

AN OVERVIEW OF DISTRIBUTED GRID COMPUTING

DISTRIBUTED GRID COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS ARE ECONOMIC REALITY

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Special Features

KESSELMAN LEADS TESTBED FOR NEW GRID SECURITY

Named after the three-headed dog who guarded Hades in Greek mythology, Kerberos was originally developed at M.I.T. Among the first users of the new Grid environment will be geophysicists working with USC Professors of Earth Sciences.

ANALYSIS: LOOKING FOR MORE GRID POWER
By Stephen Lawson and Ashlee Vance

When data comes into a server or is sent out to a network, it needs to be processed, for example by being pulled out of packets or placed into packets. Traditionally, that processing has been done on the server's CPU, but as typical network interfaces have gone from 100Mbps to 1Gbps and begun heading toward 10Gbps, the bottleneck between server and network in some cases has shifted from the interface to the CPU.

INDIA TO LAUNCH NEW GRID SUPERCOMPUTER IN DECEMBER

The eventual I-Grid will jack up computing power 10 times by using advanced software as a glue for a network of machines to crunch enormous amounts of data.

DECENTRALIZATION - NEW GRID/WEB SERVICES MANTRA?
By Kevin Werbachinit

In the coming decade, decentralization will be the critical challenge for the technology, media and telecommunications industries. Each has developed with the assumption that powerful central forces will manage development.

GRID COMPUTING THE NEXT WAVE, SAYS IBM
By Alastair Otter, ITWeb - All Africa Global Media

Grid computing is going to be a huge part of the next phase of Internet computing, IBM marketing executive Dave Botha said at a presentation in Johannesburg."Grid computing is essentially about utilizing spare cycles of all the servers in the world today; basically bandwidth and performance on demand."

AN OVERVIEW OF DISTRIBUTED GRID COMPUTING
By Stephen Withers, Technology & Business magazine

Distributed Grid computing -- which harnesses the power of multiple CPUs -- grew out of scientists’ and academics’ needs for processing power, but it is rapidly developing commercial applications.

THE GRID WILL COMPLEMENT RATHER THAN REPLACE THE INTERNET
By Kevin Werbachinit

The demonstrations showed that the grid technology is maturing. And with companies such as the two dozen sponsors of iGrid, including IBM and Hewlett-Packard, pushing it, grid technology has a bright future.

Systems/Enterprise

MandrakeSoft & PARTNERS LAUNCH "CLIC" GRID CLUSTER LINUX

The goal of the CLIC project is to provide a powerful, simple and easy to install Linux Grid Clustering system by unifying the various stages of installation, interconnect layer set-up and parallel applications deployment.

WILL Akamai SOLIDIFIY GRIP ON GRID THROUGH DEAL WITH AOL?

America Online selects Akamai as a scalable extension to its Web infrastructure. The agreement includes broadening of Akamai's footprint within AOL's global network.

CAN THE SETI@home SPACE GRID SURVIVE A NEW THREAT?

The distributed computing project aiming to locate radio signals from intelligent aliens is under threat due to a lack of sponsorship. The future of SETI@home, an Internet-based distributed computing experiment to find radio signals from intelligent alien life-forms, is in serious danger as academics behind the project face a funding crisis.

OXFORD U, IBM & UK GOVT BUILDING A GRID FOR BREAST CANCER

eDiamond will be the first Grid built entirely with commercially available technology, including a first-of-its-kind software developed by Mirada Solutions to standardize new and existing digital mammogram images.

DISTRIBUTED GRID COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS ARE ECONOMIC REALITY
By Paul Krill, InfoWorld

The economic realities in today's marketplace are driving companies to more efficiently deploy their resources, realizing significant cost savings by consolidating their IT infrastructures.

XML GLOBAL & METASERVER OFFER A COMBINED GRID SOLUTION

The combined efforts will allow customers to more efficiently meet integration challenges within and across the enterprise.

SUN SHIELDS GRID FROM ATTACK, DISASTER

The Sunnyvale, CA.-based server manufacturer unveiled its Enterprise Continuity program, a collection of services and technology designed to prevent network failure by physically separating computers that work together in a unified cluster.

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Scientific Applications

HP BUILDS VISUALIZATION GRID CLUSTER FOR THE DOE'S NNSA

The ASCI PathForward committee in cooperation with ASCI's Visual Interactive Environment for Weapon Simulation (VIEWS) committee has awarded a three-year contract to HP to develop advanced high-performance visualization technology based on scalable visualization grid clusters.

UNIV OF TEXAS TO JOIN ITALIAN RESEARCH PROJECT ON GRID

As a part of the project, an innovative, very high-speed photonic demonstrator, named Metro-Core, will be built in Pisa. Metro-Core "will be at the forefront of the European research, allowing experiments not only on grid computing, but also on several other high-speed interactive services for the E-society."

COMPUTERS IN GRID BIOTECHNOLOGY

As for grid computers, these are distributed widely geographically and can encompass different types of computers. The problem is that grid computers have a slow network so it is nearly impossible to have all computers work on a single problem simultaneously.

ENTROPIA & CCDC LAUNCH GRID COMPUTING PARTENERSHIP

The DCGrid platform is a cost-effective alternative to acquiring new hardware or to compromising research. DCGrid harvests the idle processing cycles of desktop PCs in an enterprise network for processing large jobs from many applications.

MODVIZ MAKES REAL-TIME 3-D GRID VISUALIZATION A REALITY

Affordable, high-quality, computer-based 3-D visualization of complex models and processes in real-time -- a technological "Holy Grail" for industries of every type -- is being made possible by ModViz Inc, a new Silicon Valley startup whose software turns grid clusters of ordinary personal computers into super graphics engines.

IS THE GRID SPAWNING NEW IDEAS IN DIGITAL COMPUTING?
By Byron Spice, Post-Gazette Science Editor

Visible Woman, like her Visible Human male counterpart, is a digital reconstruction of a cadaver that was thoroughly X-rayed, scanned with CT and MRI machines and then sliced into thin sections and photographed. The result is a giant computerized database that provides detailed views of all of her organs, bones and other body parts.

Extreme AIDS HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH WITH A GRID SOLUTION

Each stage in our quest to bring benefit from the publicly available genome sequences is a huge challenge to us -- to bring benefit to humankind from the sequence of our genome, of our shared Book of Life, we have to deploy scalable and flexible systems as rapidly and as seamlessly as possible.

ZEROSOFT OFERS A WIRELESS SOLUTION FOR THE GRID

This software platform enables a new generation of on-demand mobile servers to run, deploy, and manage enterprise Grid applications over networks of handheld devices.

Breaking News

Security

L-3 Announces Encryptor Contract For U.S. Govt Grid
Clearswift Supplies CS e-Sweeper For The London Grid

Networking

Scientists Plan To Shake Hands Via The Grid

Storage

Zambeel Deploys Grid Storage At DOE's NERSC

Platforms

Intel Hyperthreads Fastest P4 To Support The Grid

Operating Systems & Middleware

Opal-RT Unveils RT-LAB 6.1 For Grid Computing

General

Platform Takes Center Stage At Grid Computing Conference
Conference On Programming The Grid With Java COG Nov 4-8

Quote Of The Week

"Grid computing technology allows you to coordinate and manage multiple distributed resources, and clustering supports a collection of resources under a single administrative domain. For grid computing to move forward, clustering needs to become more sophisticated, so that you can start to externally manage it to do this dynamic provisioning." -- Dr. Ian Foster, Associate Division Director and Senior Scientist, Head of Distributed Systems Lab, Argonne National Labratories, Professor of Computer Science, University of Chicago

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