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THE EVOLUTION OF GRID STANDARDS

CHIPS TO CREATE UNIVERSAL GRID, SAYS NATIONAL SEMI CEO

GridSystems' SOLUTION NOW AT IBM DESIGN CENTER

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THE EVOLUTION OF GRID STANDARDS
Andrew Grimshaw, CTO and Founder, Avaki Corporation

In this series of articles, Dr. Grimshaw will discuss the state of the art in grid computing, including the definition and benefits of grid computing, how grid software provides a return on investment, and this issue's topic: standards efforts in grid technology.

CHIPS TO CREATE UNIVERSAL GRID, SAYS NATIONAL SEMI CEO

The concept of building a radio chip into all devices and making all the devices interconnect is the way the chip industry is going.

Wolfram RESEARCH ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF gridMathematica

With the release of gridMathematica, Wolfram Research offers a complete parallel computing solution for dedicated grid clusters.

Entropia DCGrid 5.1 SETS NEW STANDARD FOR PC GRID COMPUTING

DCGrid 5.1 further optimizes application performance, providing advanced resource sharing, automation and enhanced grid management capabilities to take maximum advantage of grid resources.

GridSystems' SOLUTION NOW AT IBM DESIGN CENTER

InnerGrid unleashes the dormant power of all your computational resources (computers, data, applications) in one or more of your organisational networks, providing guaranteed, pervasive, and easily manageable solutions to solve the most complex research and business problems.

GRID-BASED WEB SERVICES: DON'T INVEST TOO QUICKLY

Web services needs surrounding infrastructure, such as charging models and the development of grid computing. Strong parallel technologies are still developing.

Systems/Enterprise

SUN IS GOING TO START PUSHING GRID COMPUTING

The grid computing solutions program will target vertical markets where Sun sees potential, such as life sciences, financial services and electronic design automation.

ViPr USHERS IN REAL-TIME, GRID DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL VIDEO

ViPr dramatically improves network-centric decision-making through remote visual collaboration and by integrating content that includes real-time, high-definition video streams, grid distributed super-computer processing and storage area networking.

Level 3 BOOSTS Caltech BANDWIDTH WITH A GRID SOLUTION

For Caltech, the Level 3 deal will help it participate in the CENIC program and other initiatives that seek to marry communications and networking to facilitate video-streaming, distance learning, grid distributed storage and remote imaging.

InfiniBand HELPS LOS ALAMOS BUILD A LARGE GRID CLUSTER

LANL is building a 128-processor grid cluster comprised of RLX blade servers running on Intel's Xeon chips and the Linux operating system.

SciDAC PROJECT SEES GAINS WITH TOOLKIT'S GRID SOFTWARE

Project leaders hope the popular toolkit's grid software and services will let them collaborate better -- and in different ways -- with partners across the U.S. and overseas.

GRID TECHNOLOGY: HOW CAN YOUR ORGANISATION BENEFIT?

The Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York invite you to a conference sponsored by the Regional Development Agency Yorkshire, Department of Trade and Industry and Esteem on GRID TECHNOLOGY. How Can Your Organisation Benefit? A One Day Conference on the benefits of Grid Technology to be held on 29th January 2003 at the Thorpe Park Hotel, Leeds.

Algorithmics & DataSynapse NOW SUPPORT Linux GRID CLUSTERS

The initiative will enable current Sun customers to take advantage of the grid distributed computing capabilities by easily adding additional Sun computers.

Scientific Applications

ASPEN OFFERS BROWSER-BASED BEOWULF GRID CLUSTER SOFTWARE

Its ability to perform mission critical, non-critical and support functions across a Beowulf grid cluster empowers an administrator of such a grid cluster with the ability to install nodes, upgrade operating system components in addition to end-user applications.

LANE15 OFFERS A 10 GB GRID COMPUTING SOLUTION

The 10Gb solution showcased is comprised of an 8-node grid cluster of Appro1224X enterprise class servers (powered by Intel^TM Xeon Processors), the Lane15 Fabric Manager, the InfiniCon InfinIO 7000 Shared I/O, grid clustering system, and the InfiniCon InfiniServ 7000 10Gb/sec Host Channel Adapter.

Linux NetworX UNVEILS GRID CLUSTER EVOLOCITY II

The grid cluster is more reliable because it runs cooler, uses high-speed interconnects and can hold up to 100 Intel Xeon 2.4Ghz processors.

NATIONAL VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY LOOKING AT GRIDS FOR ANSWERS

The NVO will both depend on grid computing and demonstrate its usefulness, astronomy being an uncommonly good test case, because of its large yet manageable universe of free, publicly available data.

Breaking News

Networking

Remote Data Processing Makes tele-immersion A Networked Grid

Storage

TeraGrid Project Pushes Grid Storage Scalability

Platforms

Marconi Demonstrates Broadband Global Grid Applications

Operating Systems & Middleware

Intel Introduces Chipsets For Grid Servers & Workstations

General

Ximian Extends Grid Server-Based Management To SuSE Linux

Quote Of The Week

"In grid computing there is a strong need for a widely agreed upon, well-designed and well thought-out architecture to tie the grid together. Without a common architecture and interoperability protocol, different vendor solutions will not talk to each other, and will form disjoint islands of grids." -- Dr. Andrew S. Grimshaw, Professor of Computer Science, University of Virginia, Founder and CTO of Avaki

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