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IBM RETAILS THE GRID

AVAKI AND GLOBUS ADVANCE GRID STANDARDS AND INTEROPERABILITY

NCSA EXPLAINS THE GRID

Special Features

AVAKI AND GLOBUS ADVANCE GRID STANDARDS AND INTEROPERABILITY

Avaki Corporation and the Globus Project announced an agreement to collaborate on the development of OGSI-conformant grid software components for integration into Avaki Data Grid software.

EI ANNOUNCES PRIZES AND SPONSORSHIP FOR GRID WARS

In GRID WARS, developers write battle programs using EI's language CxC for parallel programming and upload them into the on-line GRID WARS battlefield, where they compete for prizes and industry recognition.

HP TO DEMONSTRATE UDC-GRID CONNECTION AT GLOBUSWORLD

The demonstration is designed to show how Grid users could potentially use the HP UDC to run commercial applications simply and easily. Traditionally, the worldwide network that uses the Internet to build distributed computing infrastructures has been employed mainly for technical and scientific applications.

IBM RETAILS THE GRID

IBM's new supercomputing e-Business on Demand service will help customers transform their businesses into organizations that more closely resemble the transparent, yet highly-responsive ecosystem of the Internet.

GRID-BASED SUPERCOMPUTING: INTERVIEW WITH IBM'S DAVID JURSIK
By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief

IBM sees the usage and adoption of Grid computing technologies spreading rapidly, and expectations exist that variations of usages will be many over time.

NCSA EXPLAINS THE GRID

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) plays a critical role in the evolution of Grids. The National Science Foundation's TeraGrid project, led by NCSA and four other institutions, will take Grids to a new level, providing the world's largest Grid distributed infrastructure for open scientific research.

Systems/Enterprise

GRID & SUPERCOMPUTER PROVIDES ARMY WITH ONLINE GAMES

Super Computer Inc (SCI), the world's fastest growing game hosting solution, announced it is working with the U.S. Army to provide it with grid super computers and high-end gaming services.

SUN ONE SERVER: INDUSTRY'S 1ST OPEN-STANDARDS GRID SOLUTION

Delivering on its commitment to customers and the Liberty Alliance organization, Sun Microsystems Inc announced the general availability of the Sun ONE Identity Server 6.0, the industry's first open-standards based Grid solution.

NBT GAINS FUNDING, PROMISES BROADER GRID WAN FILE-SHARING
By John Abbott, the451.com

One more company is preparing to join the set of startups trying to speed up client/server interactions across wide area networks. NBT Technologies, based in San Francisco, has just snagged $6.6m in a series A funding round led by Accel Partners, with LightSpeed Venture Partners as the second investor.

FOUNDRY GROWS JAPAN'S NETWORKS WITH GRID SUPPORT

WIDE (Widely Integrated Grid Distributed Environments), a project operating Japan's major Internet exchanges, has deployed Foundry's 10-Gigabit Ethernet solution using Foundry's BigIron 15000 Layer 3 Backbone Switch.

ALCATEL IP ROUTER CHOSEN FOR GRID NETWORK IN POLAND

PSNC is responsible for the management of a country-wide Polish National Research and Educational Network, POL-34/622, and the Poznañ Metropolitan Area Network, POZMAN. PSNC provides users within the MANs and national networks with high-performance computing and plays an active role in many national and European R&D projects in the fields of Next Generation Networks, Grids and portals.

Scientific Applications

FatPipe GETS PATENT FOR ROUTER GRID CLUSTERING TECHNOLOGY

FatPipe Networks, the inventor of router Grid clustering devices for reliable, redundant and fast Internet/WAN connections, announces that it has successfully secured a third patent for its router Grid clustering technology.

LINUX GRID CLUSTERS INSTITUTE WORKSHOP SET FOR ILLINOIS

The Linux Clusters Institute is offering its seventh workshop at NCSA on the campus of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, from March 24-28, 2003.

WEB & GRID RELIABILITY SPECIFICATION PUBLISHED BY IT VENDORS

By providing a fundamentally more reliable transport infrastructure, WS- Reliability will help accelerate adoption of Web services, making them relevant for an even wider range of enterprise, Grid application and integration challenges. WS-Reliability is a specification for open, reliable Web services messaging -- including guaranteed delivery, duplicate message elimination and message ordering -- enabling reliable communication between Web services.

DigiTerra HELPS HP WITH HIGH-SPEED CONNECTION TO THE GRID

As part of an agreement, DigiTerra's BroadbandCompass tool will be available on HP Pavilion desktop PCs enabling customers to qualify for and order broadband services. Among other channels, customers will have access to the tool through a new high-speed desktop icon.

Dilithium COLLABORATES WITH TI FOR CONNECTING GRID NETWORKS

Dilithium Networks announced that it is collaborating with Texas Instruments to jointly provide advanced transcoding solutions to enable seamless, real-time multimedia communications between circuit, packet Grid and wireless networks.

Axceleon OPENS NORTHEAST FIELD OFFICE

Axceleon, the leader in high-performance clustering and Grid computing, announced that they have opened a field office to address east coast sales growth.

PRISM GT WLAN MOVES DATA FASTER OVER THE GRID

Intersil Corporation announced that D-Link Systems has selected Intersil's PRISM GT Wireless Local Area Networking (WLAN) chip set to provide 802.11g connectivity for D-Link's new AirPlus Xtreme G DI-624 Wireless Router with 4-Port Switch and the AirPlus Xtreme G DWL-G650 Wireless CardBus Adapter.

Breaking News

Networking

Rogue (LEIF) Connects Grid & Disparate Applications

Operating Systems & Middleware

Grids Expands Through Massana And NIC Switch Reference Design

General

SGI Hosts Conference And Press Activities At LinuxWorld

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