
DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / NOVEMBER 18, 2002: VOL. 1 NO. 23
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FIRST GLOBUSWORLD CONFERENCE TO BE HELD
Event will be at the Hilton San Diego Resort, January 13-17, 2003

In a further sign that Grid computing is coming of age,
the inaugural GlobusWorld conference
will occur in San Diego next January. The event
will feature 2 and 1/2 days of invited talks, panels
and posters focused on the Globus Toolkit^TM,
a set of software and service that is the de facto
standard for Grids.

-- IN THIS ISSUE --

BERMAN: 21ST CENTURY CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE RESEARCH FRONTIER

GARTNER: GRIDS MAY LAY OFF MILLIONS

GRID: NEXT TECH RACE FOR VENTURE CAPITALISTS

Special Features

21ST CENTURY CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE RESEARCH FRONTIER By Fran Berman, Director SDSC and NPACI: This document will have tremendous repercussions for NSF's future directions and activities, including its Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) program. The report also is being developed as a blueprint for building a 21st century cyberinfrastructure.
CAN FUTURE GRIDS BE BASED ON SAML? By Thor Olavsrud: A specification considered a key factor in securing Web services has been ratified as a standard by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). How is this going to affect the Grid and what will be its uses to the Grid?
GRID: NEXT TECH RACE FOR VENTURE CAPITALISTS By Karen Dearne: If in 1993 a group of executives were told that the internet was going to be critical to their business they wouldn't have believed it. That's how people feel about the grid today. It's a technology to keep an eye on because it will make web services really work.
ORACLE READIES GRID ENGINE By Paul Krill and James Niccolai: Looking to leverage growing interest in grid computing, Oracle will detail its grid strategy in a bid to position its technology as a foundation for distributed applications.
ON-DEMAND GRID COMPUTING: WHAT ARE THE ODDS?: Welcome to the new era "on-demand" computing. For those of you who missed the big proclamation, newly appointed IBM Chairman Samuel J. Palmisano said last month that he is betting US $10 billion that customers will turn to Big Blue to deliver grid computing resources the way a power utility doles out electricity.
GARTNER: GRIDS MAY LAY OFF MILLIONS By Chris Jenkins, iTnews: More efficient IT use, with an emphasis on grids of shared computing resources, 'will lay off millions,' according to Gartner vice president and research director Tom Bittman.
EUROPEAN DATAGRID IS A STEP CLOSER TO REALITY: A worldwide computing came closer to reality with the latest release of middleware - the software that makes a Grid of computers work together seamlessly - which will support production quality Grid computing. This release will take the EDG project from the laboratory bench into the real world.
ABBEY NATIONAL SELECTS DataSynapse's GRID COMPUTING: Powered by the GridServerM, LiveCluster 3G enables ANTS to leverage their computing resources, increasing the speed and reliability of their key risk reporting applications. The LiveCluster solution has gone live and is deployed with risk management and reporting applications in the bank's financial products division.
DELL HAMMERS SUN, UNIX: CLAIMS GRID IS HERE By John Taschek: Dell said that computing fabrics (also known as grid computing) will play a factor in the future, but that concepts of IBM's autonomic computing may not.

Force10/Ixia 160Gbps HPC Demo SC2002 Booth #2035

Systems/Enterprise

IBM RESEARCHING DATA INTEGRATION, GRID COMPUTING By Paul Krill, InfoWorld: In some sense, grid is about reuse. The e-utility, which is currently in a conceptual stage, would create a virtual computer and enable distribution of computing power similar to the old-style time-sharing method.
INKRA STEPS INTO THE GRID ARENA BY SCORING WITH IBM: Inkra Networks looks as if it's ready to play with the big guys: The data-center switchmaker announced that it has signed a multimillion-dollar contract with IBM Global Services.
'KERBERIZED' GRID COMPUTING: An important NMI goal is the integration of Grid research environments with the campus enterprise. One example is KX.509, a client-side tool that extends the widely-used Kerberos campus authentication mechanism for use in Grids.
PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER, HP FORM GRID ALLIANCE: HP will add an HP Itanium2/Linux cluster to PSC's computing environment, and PSC will participate in HP's worldwide grid program, and join the Gelato Federation, an HP-sponsored worldwide consortium focused on enabling open source Linux-based Itanium computing solutions.
WHAT THE GRID MEANS TO COLLABORATIVE CONFERENCING By Hans Erickson VP, Information Tech, Detroit Regional Chamber: The inSORS Grid blows away traditional ISDN videoconferencing on several levels, beginning with raw bandwidth. As Granger explains, the equipment's primary restriction is the amount of bandwidth available at the location, not what the equipment can handle.

Scientific Applications

PLATFORM'S GRID SOLUTIONS CHOICE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS LABS: With a new high performance, Grid-enabled architecture, LSF 5 is the foundation of Platform's Grid computing solutions, empowering enterprises to harness the untapped processing power of globally distributed, heterogeneous computing resources.
NOTRE DAME MATH WHIZ CRACKS CERTICOM CODE CONTEST By Susan Taylor: It took the power of 10,000 computers running around the clock for 549 days, coupled with the brain power of a mathematician at Indiana's University of Notre Dame, to complete one of the world's largest single math computations.
GRID COMPUTING SOFTWARE HELPS RESEARCHERS FROM OSAKA UNIV By Chang Ai-Lien: To monitor brain activity, the Japanese team relies on a scanning machine. The technology, known as grid computing, means doctors will be able to give same-day results of brain tests, thus cutting down on the anxiety and long wait patients have to put up with now.
SGI'S GRID VISUALIZATION ADVANCES MEMBRANE PROTEIN RESEARCH: In these and other demonstrations of Visual Area Networking, we have seen geographically dispersed teams sharing computational resources, using existing desktop systems to collaborate interactively over grid-like networks with centrally generated visualizations and substantially reducing time to insight.
SCIENTISTS TO DEMONSTRATE TERAGRID AT SC2002 IN BALTIMORE: The demonstrations will showcase applications that are poised to take advantage of the computational capability of the TeraGrid, which will be deployed in 2003 as the world's largest, fastest, distributed infrastructure for open scientific research.
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SELECTS AVAKI'S GRID TECHNOLOGY: With AVAKI's software, Texas Tech is able to leverage its existing technology investments by harnessing unused CPU cycles from hundreds of lab machines 24 hours a day to provide researchers secure, wide-area access to a virtual supercomputer.

Breaking News

Security: Entegrity Offer More Security For Grid Environments
By Sumner Lemon, CompanynewsGroupe
MagiQ Technologies Offers A Different Kind Of Grid Security
Storage: World's First NAS Array Infrastructure To Help The Grid
Platforms: Promicro Continues To Champion Linux Grid Clustering
New Denser SGI Origin Adds Grid Power To Racks
By Tom Krazit
Networking: New Switch Helps Build Grid & HPC Clusters
NetApp FAS900 Grid Clustered Failover Solution
Operating Systems & Middleware: Red Hat To Use Oracle's Grid Cluster Software
By Ashlee Vance
Platform Computing Builds 'True Grid' At Supercomputing 2002
General: Axceleon Delivers Grid Clustering Solution
Workshop On Scientific Apps Of Cluster Grid Computing

Quote Of The Week

"We don’t have conventional program development and execution tools for the Grid -- compilers, debuggers, performance monitors, libraries, etc. As we develop new and adaptive application paradigms that leverage the potential of the Grid, we will need to be able to develop, deploy, and evaluate Grid-enabled applications." -- Fran Berman, Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center and the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure

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