
DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / APRIL 21, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 16
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GRID DELIVERY: A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR CONTENT IN THE ENTERPRISE

NOVELL DRIVES OPEN CROSS-PLATFORM COMPUTING

INTERVIEW: CHIEN DISCUSSES SMARR'S OptIPuter

Special Features

INTERVIEW: CHIEN DISCUSSES SMARR'S OptIPuter By Neil Alger, Principal Correspondent, GRIDtoday: In September of 2002, the OptIPuter project recieved $13.5 million dollars to be awarded over 5 years to push the distributed computing effort forward. Initially the vision of Cal-(IT)2 director Larry Smarr, the effort has drawn Grid computing visionaries from accross the field, including USC's Carl Kesselman, UIC's Tom DeFanti, UCSD's Mark Ellisman and SDSC's Phil Papadopolous. Still, for all the high-profile involvement of leaders within the Grid community, the OptIPuter seems to have flown nearly under the radar for the last year. GRIDtoday correspondent Neil Alger spoke recently with Dr. Andrew Chien, who has been called the "chief software architect" of the project, in an attempt to shed some light on the OptIPuter's progress since September of last year.
GRID DELIVERY: A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR CONTENT IN THE ENTERPRISE By Daniel Sapir, Bandwiz, Inc.: "Grid Delivery" is a new type of system for content delivery focused on the needs of the enterprise. It is a flexible system that utilizes the network and computing resources already present in the enterprise much more efficiently.
SUN GRID-READY CLUSTERS SCALE UP TO TWO TERAFLOPS: Addressing the increasing demand for the combination of high-performance and highly productive computing, Sun Microsystems announced the availability of Sun Fire Superclusters based on the Sun Fire 6800, Sun Fire 12K and Sun Fire 15K server platforms.
ENGINEERING INSTITUTE ADDS TO NATIONAL GRID: Sweden's Institute of Technology expects to triple its cluster computing capacity with additional computers from HP. In addition, the cluster will be linked into Sweden's national "grid" for scientific computing.

Systems/Enterprise

GRID POPULARITY IN EUROPE CAUSES U.S. EXPANSION: United Devices, a market leader in secure grid solutions, announced that the company has secured Sanofi-Synthelabo as a key life science customer and has also established a UK-based office in order to meet growing European demand for its Enterprise MetaProcessor platform.
NOVELL DRIVES OPEN CROSS-PLATFORM COMPUTING: Delivering on its promise of a world without information boundaries, Novell made a series of announcements at its annual customer conference around new solutions to help customers move to open, cross-platform computing quickly and cost effectively.
3COM TECHNOLOGY ADDRESSES RISING NETWORK COSTS: Companies have come to realise that the network is the core of their business. But with budget constraints on most IT departments, the focus has shifted to networks that offer reduced TCO (total cost of ownership) rather than high-performance computing.
THE SA FORUM RELEASES APPLICATION INTERFACE SPECIFICATION: The Service Availability Forum, an industry coalition of premier communications and computing companies, announced the release of the Application Interface Specification (AIS).

Scientific Applications

CACR SELECTS HP SYSTEMS FOR TERAGRID PROJECT: HP announced that the California Institute of Technology's Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR) has installed HP Itanium 2-based servers running on Linux as part of its 32-node cluster dedicated to data intensive applications on the TeraGrid project.
SUN AND SCIENCE FACTORY SHOWCASE SOLUTIONS AT RECOMB 2003: Science factory and Sun Microsystems announce the availability of uberTOOL on Solaris at a partner showcase at the RECOMB 2003. The new release of uberTOOL, Version 1.1, features an inbuild support for the distribution of computational tasks in research.
PLATFORM TECHNOLOGY PLAYS ROLE IN HUMAN GENOME PROJECT: Platform Computing's software has been crucial to the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute's continued success in the Human Genome Project.

Breaking News

Security: NSA Selects Certicom To Develop Advanced Security Technology
PostX Implements Liberty Alliance Phase 2 Specifications
New Methods Needed To Avert Potential Security Disasters
Sun Extends Security Features For The Network
WatchGuard Deploys Firebox V200 Firewall Appliance
Platforms: Stratus' ftServer 3300 Shows Post-Launch Market Traction
Networking: Actel Introduces New UTOPIA IP Cores
NEC Selects Agere Systems Network Processor
Extreme Networks Unveils Unified Access Architecture
FMA Releases SPI Level-4 I/O Macro For Networks
NetWorld+Interop Announces 2003 Technology Initiatives
Storage: InfiniCon's Next-Gen Computing Fabric Showcased At SNW
Operating Systems & Middleware: Cyanea Announces Support For IBM WebSphere Version 5
SCO Ships SCO Linux Server 4.0 For The Itanium Family
Sonic Software Releases Sonic ESB 5.0
General: Call For Papers: AMOS Technical Conference
OMG Presents "Middleware That Works" Seminar Series

Quote Of The Week

"While there are many distributed computing projects, I know of none that are as focused [as the OptIPuter] on the remarkable opportunity of dedicated end-to-end optical connections and which couple the development of middleware with driving applications to ensure we develop relevant technologies." -- Dr. Andrew Chien, UCSD/Entropia

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