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GRID BUSINESS: AN INTERVIEW WITH PREMAL KAZI

IS GRID COMPUTING ALL THAT IT IS MADE OUT TO BE?

GRID COMPUTING CONTINUES TO HAVE ITS SHARE OF OPTIMISTS

Special Features

GRID BUSINESS: AN INTERVIEW WITH PREMAL KAZI
By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief

The collective processing capacity on Gateway's computers in their network exceeds 14 teraflops ranking it among the most powerful Grid Supercomputers in the world.

GRID COMPUTING CONTINUES TO HAVE ITS SHARE OF OPTIMISTS

The Grid community is not only moving people away from the old ways of computing, there seems to be a consensus -- within this same community -- that the Grid will eventually force users to come together or be left out of the game, altogether.

IS GRID COMPUTING ALL THAT IT IS MADE OUT TO BE?

The computing community feels that there will be an uphill road ahead as the Grid gets more attention. Ian Foster is convinved that as the Grid begins to attract different industries, the nature of what we do will also begin to change.

RELEASE OF SUN'S CODE WILL MAKE GRID INTEGRATION EASIER

The open source community can now look to implement many options that were not possible prior to Sun Microsystem's decision to part with its Grid Portal technology.

Emic GRID CLUSTER ENHANCES APACHE & MYSQL RELIABILITY

EAC for Apache is a new application-Grid Clustering product, designed to provide best price/performance Lintel (Linux/Intel) -based Grid Cluster platform for horizontal scaling of Web applications.

Systems/Enterprise

NORWEST VENTURE PARTNERS INVESTS $5.8 MILLION IN COLLABNET

NVP focuses on early stage investments in enterprise software and communications technologies. The firm manages more than $1.8 billion in venture capital and has funded over 350 companies since its inception.

Mellanox PARTNERS WITH IBM TO POWER GRID APPLICATIONS

The DB2 for Linux Grid Clustering solution being demonstrated features four enterprise applications -- SAP R/3, mySAP CRM, mySAP Business Intelligence and IBM WebSphere Application Server -- running on IBM's DB2 Universal Database.

Egenera RECEIVES GRID SYSTEM ORDER FROM JP MORGAN CHASE

Compute Backbone is a cost-effective, adaptable infrastructure that makes CPU capacity available as a centralized, shared network service by pooling and isolating processing resources for compute-intensive applications.

HP INTRODUCES NEXT GENERATION GRID AlphaServer SYSTEMS

Based on the new EV7 Alpha processor, the servers represent the most technically advanced AlphaServer family to date, building on a decade of innovation and leadership in High-Performance Grid Server Systems.

SGI DEFINES FUTURE OF LINUX/GRID COMPUTING AT LinuxWorld

The SGI Altix 3000 Grid Supercluster represents a remarkable leap forward for scientists, engineers and other users of advanced, technical Grid computing systems.

PeerDirect ANNOUNCES NATIVE LINUX/GRID SUPPORT

The company's flagship product suite, PeerDirect Grid Distributed Enterprise, allows companies to centrally manage distributed applications with fully synchronized databases deployed across widely distributed locations.

Scientific Applications

Spinnaker NETWORKS DELIVERS SCALABLE GRID NAS SYSTEMS

The SpinServer 3300 System and 3300G NAS gateway consolidate the file services of any size Grid Enterprise by non-disruptively scaling a single file system from 1 terabyte to 11,000 terabytes of capacity.

Marconi ANNOUNCES GRID SUPPORT FOR U.S. DEPT OF DEFENSE

The 10 Gbps ATM interface provides commercial operators with compelling new options for managing growth in legacy Frame Relay and ATM services as well as for emerging high-bandwidth applications such as high-definition video, Grid Distributed Computing, and storage networking.

LINUX GRID CLUSTERS BOLSTER PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH

Locus Pharmaceuticals announced the initiation of a research collaboration with DuPont Crop Protection to discover and develop novel compounds for agricultural crop protection.

AUSTRALIAN SCIENTISTS USE SGI LINUX GRID CLUSTERS

The SGI Altix 3000 systems, to be installed at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, will be accessed by scientists at all member institutions for research applications that range from bioinformatics to marine ecology.

EI RELEASES COMPILER FOR GRID CLUSTER COMPUTING

The scalability of CxC allows scientists and engineers to develop, test, and execute parallel algorithms on a PC or laptop and run the same executable on hundreds of Grid clustered computers without dead-locks and synchronization problems.

RapidIO INTERCONNECT ARCHITECTURE ACCEPTED AS ECMA STANDARD

This marks the first acceptance by an international standards organization of the next-generation of open interconnect standards designed to ensure reliability and system-level compatibility in Grids, high-performance networking, communications, and embedded systems.

Breaking News

Operating Systems & Middleware

Teja Introduces Teja NP 3.0 With New C-Based Interface

Platforms

Scali Announces Integrated Grid Cluster MPI Solutions

Quote Of The Week

"In the next year, the standards efforts will continue to drive convergence and thereby greater adoption of Grid technologies. Awareness and, more importantly, customer traction is on the rise as these capabilities move into the mainstream. More applications, especially in the Product Lifecycle arena will become Grid enabled and companies will introduce unique business models to help accelerate the adoption of Grid technologies." -- Premal Kazi, Program Manager, Processing On Demand, Grid Strategy, Gateway

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