
DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JANUARY 6, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 1
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FRAUD DETECTION FITS GRID TECHNOLOGY

SGI EMBRACES THE GRID

Platform SIMPLIFIES GRID CLUSTER MANAGEMENT

Special Features

SGI EMBRACES THE GRID By John Hurley, Editor-at-Large: GRIDtoday's Editor-at-Large John Hurley and Mike Bernhardt, Contributing Editor, interviewed Walter Stewart, Director, Business Development-Canada Global Co-ordinator, SGI Grid Strategy; Addison Snell, High-End Server Marketing Manager Advanced Systems Modeling; and John Watson, PR Programs Manager, Sciences & Energy, to obtain a meaningful perspective.
Platform SIMPLIFIES GRID CLUSTER MANAGEMENT: Typically, smaller departments or workgroups that need to leverage grid technologies are left with little alternative to commercially unsupported packages or homegrown scripts to manage their small grid clusters, said Paul Hill, vice president, Marketing and Business Development, Platform.
Avaki SUPPORTS COMMERCIAL GRID TERRITORY WITH JAVA MAKEOVER By William Fellows, the451.com: To create a greater opportunity for its software in the commercial sector, grid specialist Avaki has made over its Data Grid product with Java 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) in release 3.0.
FRAUD DETECTION FITS GRID TECHNOLOGY By Kico Borrás Palmer, GridSystems: The challenge is that to discover fraud in so much information is like looking for a needle in a haystack. This is not a good excuse to face such an important problem and besides, the companies already have enough CPU power to prevent these attacks, though only those that are already using grid technology are efficient in this aspect.
StatSoft ANNOUNCES A GRID FOR HOSPITALS IN SWEDEN: This ultimate enterprise system is able to run all STATISTICA applications interactively or in batch from a Web browser on any computer and offload time consuming tasks to the servers -- using super-computer-like grid-distributed processing.
NTT HAS United Devices BRING GRID COMPUTING TO JAPAN: United Devices patent-pending MetaProcessor platform enables organizations to dramatically enhance the performance of their compute-intensive applications by aggregating compute resources across grid clusters, servers, workstations, and PCs.

Systems/Enterprise

TACC SELECTS United Devices TO DEVELOP MASSIVE CAMPUS GRID: This campus grid will enable applications that were previously relegated to dedicated computer systems to run much faster on hundreds, and eventually thousands, of computers in various departments and campus computer labs.
Microway & Platform TO DELIVER CLUSTERING & GRID SOLUTIONS: Platform Computing products provide a logical extension of Microway offering for those customers needing the support and services of a robust, full featured load balancing and management applications.
RON LACHMAN JOINS ALTNET AS CHIEF SCIENTIST: Distributed grid computing and peer-to-peer networking are the future of the Internet since they remove the bottlenecks inherent to the client/server environment, Lachman said.
ORANO & BELL CANADA BUILD OPTICAL GRID NETWORK: The network will offer optical wavelength capacities at 10 Gbps, scalable to 320 Gbps, using technology incorporating Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) transmission capabilities and Layer 3 routing architecture to support real-time and high-bandwidth applications such as IP multipoint videoconferencing and grid computing.
ORGANIZATIONS TO USE TOOLS EXTERNALIZING LEGACY & GRID APPS: We expect host access products to continue playing an important role for large organizations externalizing legacy and grid applications, said Mark Vanston, program director with META Group's Enterprise Data Center Strategies Service.
NATO C3 JOINS OMG TO ALIGN GOALS WITH CRISIS MANAGEMENT: As NATO relies more and more on commercial-off-the-shelf software products. This is of key importance to influence as much as possible the initial specifications and standards that these products are based on.

Scientific Applications

WEB-SERVICE BASED GRID MARKET DIRECTORY SOFTWARE RELEASE: The University of Melbourne, Australia, has released the first version of Grid service publication directory, called the Grid Market Directory (GMD).
DataSynapse's GRID SOLUTION DEBUTS AT IBM'S DESIGN CENTRE: LiveCluster advances grid computing through a number of proprietary technology innovations that enable distributed data caching, high- throughput/low-latency calculations, and guaranteed execution of services.
Sandia OFFERS A GRID VISUALIZATION SOLUTION FOR DOCTORS: Interactive grid remote-visualization hardware allows doctors to view and manipulate images based on very large data sets as though standing in the same room, although the data is thousands of miles away.
WARP INTRODUCES GRID APPLICATIONS SOLUTION: WARP 2063 is the lead component of the company's GTEN (Global Transaction Enabled Network) architecture, which will provide a framework for grid distributed application acceleration solutions.
Oridus PAVING THE WAY FOR GRIDS IN MANUFACTURING: Now, UMC customers can independently view and browse their MEBES database of an integrated circuit (IC), or join teams of engineers for collaboration via grid/Web conferencing in a highly secure, online mask data environment.

Breaking News

Platforms: Server Blade Summit 2003: New Rules For Grid Server Farms
Security: Wireless Grid Network Access Limited Only By The Imagination
Operating Systems & Middleware: IBM Announces World's Smallest Working Silicon Transistor
General: The Mind Electric Names Michael Broderick President And CEO

Quote Of The Week

"When we get to the point that we can release CXFS across WANs, it would then be possible to have multiple hospitals across the continent sharing the same data. This establishes the potential to have a variety of different "grids" associated with different departments, for example: radiology grids where radiology depts of key hospitals are collaborating to further some dimension of research that is separate from cardiovascular grids." -- Walter Stewart, Director, Business Development-Canada, Global Co-ordinator-Grid Strategy, SGI

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