
DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / MAY 26, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 21
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ASCENTIAL SOFTWARE TAKES LEADERSHIP IN DEFINING THE GRID: Ascential Software Corporation, an enterprise integration leader, announced that it is the first enterprise integration software provider to join the Global Grid Forum ("GGF"), an industry association formed to advance Grid computing.
THE COST OF COMPLEXITY AND THE USE OF GRIDS By Mark Tolliver, chief strategy officer for Sun Microsystems: Mark Tolliver, chief strategy officer for Sun Microsystems, talks about the cost of technology complexity and what we're doing about it.
GRIDS: NOT A CHEAP DATE: Most businesses agree that computing on demand, Grid computing and utility computing provide much excitement for the new millennium, and most believe it provides a sound value proposition, though it's not an easy or inexpensive one to achieve.
THOUGHTWORKS, MS DEVELOP ARCHITECTURAL PATTERNS FOR .NET: ThoughtWorks, Inc.'s contributions in the development of architectural patterns for Microsoft Corp.'s .NET Framework have been published in a new book entitled, "Enterprise Solution Patterns Using Microsoft .NET."

CISCO EXTENDS LEADERSHIP IN INTEGRATED NETWORK SECURITY: Cisco Systems, Inc. announced 14 security solutions and services that will help customers of all sizes to make their networked business-critical resources more resilient and operationally efficient.
IBM ACQUIRES THINK DYNAMICS: IBM recently announced that it has acquired Think Dynamics, a privately held company headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
GRIDIRON HARNESSES THE GRID TO POWER MPEG-4 ENCODING APPS: GridIron Software Inc announced that it has successfully encoded MPEG-4 video using multiple computers with its GridIron XLR8 software solution for distributed computing.

NPACI ROCKS MARKS MILESTONES By Mike Gannis, SDSC Senior Science Writer: Researchers with the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) at SDSC marked significant milestones for the NPACI Rocks toolkit, which enables users to more easily set up and manage powerful yet inexpensive cluster computers.
BC AND ALBERTA LAUNCH $44 MILLION E-RESEARCH INVESTMENT APPS: Three major computer companies have been selected to build the $44 million research infrastructure of WestGrid (Western Canada Research Grid), project leaders announced as part of the official WestGrid launch, held simultaneously in Edmonton and Vancouver.

Security: CipherOptics Secures $9.6M Series B Financing
Massive DDoS Attack Foiled By Webscreen Anti-DDoS Appliance
Platforms: Fujitsu Debuts Powerful Entry-Level Servers
Sun To Release New Compute Grid Rack Systems
Sun And Oracle Expand Support For Solaris SPARC Systems
Unisys Unveils New Mainframes Built for Web Services
Networking: Broadcom Applauds IEEE Technical Group For Progress
Cisco To Take Next Step In Ethernet Speeds
D-Link Deploys Next-Generation DGS-3224SR Switch
Extreme Networks Enhances Alpine Switching Platform
Network Associates Launches Sniffer s6040
UWB Set To Make Commercial Debut
Storage: iReady Introduces World'S Most Integrated iSCSI Controller
Operating Systems & Middleware: Novell exteNd Is Now "Java Verified" For Portability
Striva And IBM Partner To Extend DB2 Information Integrator
General: Gateway Discloses U.S. Criminal Probe
First Annual Lustre User Group Meeting
Stratacache Continues To Build A Strong Global Base
IEEE TFCC Newsletter Special Issue On Grid Computing

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