
DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JUNE 16, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 24
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2ND LARGEST SUPERCOMPUTER NOW GRID POWERED

UNLEASHING THE WEB'S HIDDEN POTENTIAL

SPACEGRID STUDY ENDS ON AN OPTIMISTIC NOTE

Special Features

GRID FOR HEALTH: CAL-(IT)2 AND UCSD TEAM UP: Cal-(IT)2 is teaming with UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering and Stroke Center to apply integrated information technologies to help evaluate stroke victims in time.
UNLEASHING THE WEB'S HIDDEN POTENTIAL by Dr. Willy W. Chiu, Director, IBM Software Group: Most of us have grown up with the notion that we use only a small fraction of our brain power, and that if we could harness our full potential, we could perform miracles. It turns out this idea correlates extremely well with the way the Web has evolved, and where it's headed in the future.
AUSTRALIA DEMOS GRID COMPUTING PROTOTYPE: Researchers from four Australian universities have created a prototype for a data Grid, an IBM media release says.
2ND LARGEST SUPERCOMPUTER NOW GRID POWERED: Platform Computing announced that Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has selected Platform LSF, the foundation of Platform's Grid solutions, to power its ASCI-Q (Advanced Simulation and Computing Initiative) supercomputer.
NEW SOFTWARE HELPS SUPERCOMPUTING POWER: A Berkeley scientist announced an easier and cheaper way to write distributed computing software.
SPACEGRID STUDY ENDS ON AN OPTIMISTIC NOTE: Almost two years have gone by since ESA set up the SpaceGrid study to see how the emerging use of the electronic Grid could increase and improve the use of space applications. The study is now complete and last week members met with representatives of industry and academia to discuss the outcome.
DEFINING A CONCEPT FOR A SMART NEIGHBORHOOD - PART III by K.S.Venkatram, computer engineer, University Of Poona: These articles introduce the reader to a concept for a smarter neighborhood and guide the user through a comparative analysis and extensibility of a sensor-controlled network against what is ordinarily presented in Grid computing.

Systems/Enterprise

CORE DEVELOPERS NETWORK LAUNCHES AS NEW CONSULTANCY: With a specific focus on the corporate Enterprise and unique, targeted expertise in the creation, execution and development of mission-critical open-source projects and infrastructure, Core Developers Network represents a significant new player in the burgeoning software services market.
JAVAONE 2003 SETS NEW GRID INDUSTRY AGENDA: Thousands of Java developers, partners and users came together on the first day of JavaOne, one of the world's largest technology events, to further the growth of the world's most popular technology platform for Network Computing: Java.
TEXAS UNIVERSITY DEPLOYS GRID SOLUTIONS: The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) and the School District of Philadelphia are deploying optical enterprise solutions from Nortel Networks that are designed to provide high-speed, high-bandwidth connections for data communications.
USi BRINGS GRID COMPUTING RESOURCES TO LEADING ISVs: USi has announced the expansion of its Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Enablement program, which allows ISVs to sell their software through an ASP delivery channel without incurring the cost or complexity of in-house application hosting and management.

Applications

NATIONAL GRID LINKS RESEARCHERS: Researchers from four Australian universities have built a prototype Grid computing system that will be used as an on-demand utility for research nationwide.
MCDONALD BRADLEY TAKES LEAD IN NEXT GENERATION OF THE WEB: McDonald Bradley, Inc. (MBI), a rapidly-growing information technology solutions provider to the government marketplace, announced that the projects the Company is working on for the Department of Defense are setting the stage for what will become the next generation of the Web.
BROCADE TO DEVELOP API FOR FABRIC-BASED APPS FOR INCITS T11: Brocade Communications Systems Inc (Brocade), a leading provider of infrastructure for Storage Area Networks (SANs), announced recently that its proposal to standardize an Application Programming Interface (API) for fabric-based applications has been accepted by the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) Technical Committee T11.
DELL CLUSTERS POWER GRID-BASED DISEASE RESEARCH: The University of Liverpool unveiled its new large-scale Dell high-performance computing cluster (HPCC), powered by Intel Pentium 4 processors, to enhance international public-interest work conducted on the University's own cross- campus Grid network (ULGRID).
NOVELL'S OPEN, STANDARDS-BASED INITIATIVES GAIN MOMENTUM: Since its launch two months ago at BrainShare 2003, Novell's user conference, the Novell Forge open source Web site is now home to about 200 projects under development by Novell's growing developer community.
OMG INTRODUCES MODEL DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE FastStart PROGRAM: The Object Management Group (OMG) announces the MDA FastStart Program, a new way to help IT organizations jumpstart their use of OMG's Model Driven Architecture.

Breaking News

Security: ISS Dynamic Threat Protection Platform Protects Agaisnt IPv6
RSA Security Extends Web Access Management Software
Platforms: IBM Debuts New Blade Server
Intel And Sun Microsystems Team For Mobile Devices
Sun Leads Linux+UNIX Server Market In Revenue, Marketshare
Networking: Caltech Team Seeks To End Net Gridlock
Foundry Wins SUPERCOMM "Most Promising Network Tech" Award
National Instruments Deliver Gigabit Ethernet To PXI Systems
Network Engines Announces Ipsum Server Appliance Solution
Nortel Networks Enhances Optical Enterprise Portfolio
Japan's NTT Develops Faster Optic-Fibre Technology
New Toolkit To Generate Realistic Internet Traffic
Patent Discloses New Passive Optical Filter Technology
Storage: Akara Enables FICON Over SONET Solution For IBM Customers
Operating Systems & Middleware: Axceleon Delivers EnFuzion To The SMB/SME Community
Cysive Releases Cysive Cymbio Interaction Server 4.0
FreeBSD Foundation Announces FreeBSD 5.1
InView Software Ships Momentum 1.0 For Linux
SAP Unleashes Cross-Enterprise Collaboration
Parasoft Releases SOAPtest 2.0
Sun Microsystems Unites Wireless Java Community
Valaran Wins $1.8M NIST Grant For Applications
General: OMG, OGC, Web3D And SISO Announce Call For Presentations
TimeSys Joins OSDL
North American Global IPv6 Summit

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"Basically the Grid is the only evolutionary path we have in front of us beyond Internet, and we had better follow it." -- Giacomo Cavallo, head of the ESA Grid Interest Group

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