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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / MAY 26, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 21
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Special Features:
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.
"Grid computing is a significant emerging technology and we are very glad that
Ascential Software has joined with other technology visionaries to promote and
support the development, deployment, and implementation of grid computing,"
said Mary Spada, GCF's vice chairman, operations, and program manager,
strategic initiatives, for the Mathematics and Computational Sciences division
of Argonne National Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy laboratory
operated by the University of Chicago. "Ascential's enterprise integration
expertise is a valuable contribution to GCF's efforts to establish and
document specifications and best-practices for computational grids."
"Ascential's participation in the Global Grid Forum positions us to shape,
advance, and commercialize this exciting information technology in ways that
are imminently valuable to our customers and partners," said Jim Welch, vice
president of engineering, Ascential Software. "Establishing standards is a
major milestone in broad market acceptance of grid computing and the
subsequent advent of new applications that process far larger volumes of
information than is now possible."
Grid computing has the potential to lower costs and boost efficiencies of
computing networks by expanding resources, allocating processing power
wherever it is needed, anywhere in the world, increasing storage capacity, and
enhancing data exchange. Ascential will apply its expertise in parallel
computing and enterprise integration to help formulate standards that ensure
the creation of scalable, high-throughput commercial computing grids.
"The promise of grid computing brings with it greater enterprise integration
challenges as data volume, types, sources, and other demands increase.
Ascential's data profiling, quality, transformation and large-scale parallel
processing solutions help our customers address these challenges. Many are
doing so more frequently on grid computers, or are evaluating the grid
approach, and our role in the Global Grid Forum gives us the opportunity to
share our knowledge with colleagues and customers alike to our mutual
benefit," said Welch.
About the Global Grid Forum
The Global Grid Forum ("GGF") is a community-initiated forum of more than
5,000 individual researchers and practitioners working on distributed
computing, or "grid" technologies. GGF's primary objective is to promote and
support the development, deployment and implementation of Grid technologies
and applications via the creation and documentation of "best practices,"
including technical specifications, user experiences and implementation
guidelines. The next GGF meeting, GGF8, will be held in Seattle, Washington,
USA, from June 24 -- 27, 2003, and is expected to include more than 1,000
global grid leaders. More information about GGF can be found at www.ggf.org.
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