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GRID COMPUTING FOR YOU AND ME
ENG DIRECTOR REVEALS STATE OF THE TERAGRID
ExperTelligence ANNOUNCES ANTI-TERRORIST GRID APPLICATIONS
Special Features
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GRID COMPUTING FOR YOU AND ME
By Ahmar Abbas, Managing Director, Grid Technology Partners
- Will the rise in home digital entertainment drive Grid technology to the
next level?
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CAN GRID-BASED WEBCAMS CONTRIBUTE TO HOMELAND SECURITY?
- Jay Walker jump-started an online shopping craze by inventing
Priceline.com, the Web site that lets people bid on airplane tickets and
hotel rooms. Now Walker is hoping his newest brainchild revolutionizes a
completely different field: national security.
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GRID COMPUTING SET TO GAIN CONSIDERABLE MOMENTUM
- Adoption of grid computing technologies will gain considerable momentum
next year, when major independent software vendors (ISVs) begin releasing
their grid-enabled business-process applications.
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ENG DIRECTOR REVEALS STATE OF THE TERAGRID
By Alan Beck, Editor in Chief, GRIDtoday
- GRIDtoday's editor in chief Alan Beck catches up Pete Beckman, the
director of engineering for the TeraGrid project, to discuss the current
state of the Grid.
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SMART NEIGHBORHOODS -- NEXT STEP IN GRID SERVICES? PART I
by K.S.Venkatram
- This article is the first in a series about "Defining a concept for a
Smart Neighborhood". The article is not a published solution. The article
introduces the reader to a concept for a smarter neighborhood and guides
the user through a comparative analysis and extensibility of a sensor-controlled
network against what is presented in Grid computing.
Systems/Enterprise
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CA UNVEILS ITS STRATEGY FOR LINUX IN GREATER CHINA
- Computer Associates International Inchas reported the key messages given
by Mr. Sam Greenblatt, the senior vice president and Chief Architect of
Linux Technology Group, CA at the Linux media briefing via video conference
taken place between China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan recently.
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INDIA CAN USE GRID EDGE IN MANAGING IT INFRASTRUCTURE
- While India has built up significant expertise in the areas of IT
application building and maintenance and most recently in the BPO sector, a
sizeable opportunity also exists in the area of IT infrastructure
management, according to GK Prasanna, vice president, Wipro Technologies.
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SCO/LINUX DEBATE TAKES CENTER STAGE AT USENIX CONFERENCE
- The 2003 USENIX Annual Technical Conference provides the first public
forum for the debate on infringement claims by SCO against Linux.
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PLATFORM COMPUTING SIGNS GLOBAL GRID AGREEMENT WITH NEC
- Platform Computing announced that they have signed a comprehensive OEM
agreement with NEC Corporation (NEC), in which NEC will offer Platform
Computing's software on its IA Server Express5800 Series.
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XMLA COUNCIL GAINS MOMENTUM AND ADDED INDUSTRY SUPPORT
- The XML for Analysis (XMLA) Council has announced the success of the
first public XMLA Interoperability Event.
Applications
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SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND ENTROPIA AIM GRID AT AIDS
- Entropia Inc and the Olson Laboratory at The Scripps Research Institute
have announced successful completion of the initial phase of the
FightAIDS@Home research project. FAAH accelerates AIDS research by
generating and testing candidate drug compounds against detailed models of
evolving AIDS viruses.
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PLAYING THE SUPERCOMPUTER GAME
- When Sony released its PlayStation 2 (PS2) game console in 2000, demand
far outstripped supply, with eager gamers and desperate parents bidding up
to $1,000 on eBay for scarce units. When Sony later released the Linux Kit
for the PS2, interest in the machines spread beyond the gaming community to
a seemingly unlikely place: the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications.
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ExperTelligence ANNOUNCES ANTI-TERRORIST GRID APPLICATIONS
- ExperTelligence Inc announced recently that it has developed software
technology for an anti-terrorist computer network capable of linking local,
state, and federal law enforcement databases to better identify potential
terrorists living or traveling in the United States.
Breaking News
- Security
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RSA Security Outperforms The Competition
- Platforms
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Atipa Launches AMD Opteron Processor-Based 64-Bit Cluster
IBM Introduces First Pre-Packaged Blade Superclusters
- Networking
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Marconi Announces The BXR-5000 Edge Router
- Storage
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Gateway's Tiny USB Flash Drive Fits In A Purse Or Pocket
- Operating Systems & Middleware
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ON Technology Releases Java Application Developers Kit
Parasoft Introduces New Automated Unit Testing Tool
WARP Solutions Targets Mid-Mkt Enterprises with SpiderCache
- General
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Amsterdam Grid Computing Symposium
JCentric Introduces Affordable VPS Hosting For Java
W3C Notes Web Patents Policy
Quote Of The Week
"This is literally a hand-made supercomputer assembled by a creative group of researchers who are constantly pushing the limits of our field." -- Dan Reed, Director, NCSA
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