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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / MARCH 10, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 10

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WILL NEW NET PROTOCOLS AFFECT GRIDS?

SGI ENABLES VISUALIZATION ON THE GRID AT HOKKAIDO UNIV

GLOBAL GRIDS ANALYZE ON DEMAND BRAIN ACTIVITY

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Special Features

DRMAA PROPOSAL FOR GRID COMPUTING RELEASED AT GGF
Sun Microsystems announced the completion of the proposed specification for the Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA), one of the first specifications to enable the development and deployment of high performance Grid applications.

IBM MOLDS INTEGRATION SUITE TO SUPPORT E-BUSINESS STRATEGY
By William Fellows for the451.com
WebSphere Integration is the latest IBM product group to step up with a portfolio makeover and positioning designed specifically to support chairman Sam Palmisano's call for the company to enable its customers to become on demand e-businesses.

SUN PROJECT JXTA SPEEDS PEER-TO-PEER TECH
Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced in a press teleconference that more than one million developers have downloaded Project JXTA from the Sun Web site. JXTA is the only open source, standards-based, peer-to-peer technology that supports collaboration and communication on any networked device anywhere, anytime.

WILL NEW NET PROTOCOLS AFFECT GRIDS?
Wireless Internet devices, such as third-generation (3G) cell phones, that roam among different access points will create a huge need for IP addresses and ultimately could spark a fire under IPv6.

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Systems/Enterprise

A TURBOWORX INFORMATICS REVOLUTION
By Jeff Augen, PhD, President, TurboWorx
An Informatics Revolution from Within TurboWorx is integrating disparate applications and heterogeneous computing resources into an accelerated pipelining and workflow solution without forcing businesses to change the way their IT professionals do their jobs.

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Scientific Applications

GLOBAL GRIDS ANALYZE ON DEMAND BRAIN ACTIVITY
The lack of computational power within an organization for analyzing scientific data, and the distribution of knowledge (by scientists) and technologies are two major problems commonly observed in scientific disciplines. One such scientific discipline is brain science.

SGI ENABLES VISUALIZATION ON THE GRID AT HOKKAIDO UNIV
SGI announced that SGI Japan Ltd. has delivered an SGI Onyx 300 visualization system to the Hokkaido University Computing Center in Sapporo, Japan. Its intended use is in the emerging field of visualization on the grid.

PLATFORM GRID SOFTWARE POWERS PNNL'S SUPERCOMPUTER
Platform Computing Inc. announced that it's Grid computing software will be used to power the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) $24.5 million, 11.4-teraflop HP supercomputer.

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