
DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JUNE 30, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 26
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GGF8: OTHER COMMUNITIES COMING TO GRID

HASTAC: THE HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF EMERGING SCIENCE AND TECH

GRID COMPUTING HAS A NEW ROLE WITH GENETIC RESEARCH

Special Features

GGF8: OTHER COMMUNITIES COMING TO GRID by J.S. Hurley, Editor-at-Large: The Global Grid Forum (GGF) held its eighth conference this week in Seattle. Many discussions took place concerning how the concept of the Grid has changed since its early inception.
HASTAC: THE HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF EMERGING SCIENCE AND TECH: HASTAC (pronounced "Haystack"), the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory, announces the launch of its consortium, a strategic alliance of scientists, humanists, artists, social theorists, legal specialists, and information technology specialists. HASTAC is founded on the belief that the future of cyberinfrastructure must be driven by creative discovery across disciplinary divides because of the profound impact of new technologies on individuals and society.
GRIDXPERT OFFERS GRID "PEOPLE RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT" by William Fellows for the451.com: French startup GridXpert has begun shipping Syngery, a Grid software application geared toward managing the needs and requirements of users accessing a Grid (consumers, service providers, administrators and project managers) rather than the underlying resources.
ORION GRID POSITIONS SHARCNET AMONG WORLD'S FASTEST: An agreement announced recently with the Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION) helped the Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network (SHARCNET) position itself among the world's fastest supercomputers, by combining the power of SHARCNET's geographically distributed sites to produce a computational infrastructure equivalent to those of the top 50 computer installations in the world.
RESEARCHERS CREATE INTERNET GRID TO TEST NEW TECHNOLOGIES: In an effort to lower the cost and risk of introducing services on the Internet, researchers are building a testbed for new technologies on top of the global network.
NEW SOFTWARE FOR GLOBUS TOOLKIT RELEASED FOR GRIDS: Platform Computing and the Globus Project announced that Platform's new "Community Scheduler Framework" (CSF) will be contributed for inclusion in future releases of the Globus Toolkit, a set of software and services that is central to Grid computing. The target for inclusion is Fall 2003.
PURDUE IT DIVISION EMPLOYS GRID COMPUTING: United Devices, a market leader in secure Grid solutions, announced that it is in the process of linking 2,300 computers at Purdue University to create a computational Grid to perform research that previously was performed using supercomputers.
TACC ESTABLISHES GRID RELATIONSHIP WITH SUN: The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin has established a relationship with Sun Microsystems to extend the process of scientific discovery through advanced visualization and Grid technologies.

Systems/Enterprise

FUJITSU AND 3PAR TEAM TO DELIVER UTILITY STORAGE SOLUTIONS: 3PAR, a leading provider of Utility Storage, announced recently that Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER servers have been tested and jointly approved for use in conjunction with 3PAR InServ Storage Servers.
ETHERNET PHYs GETTING GigE WITH IT: Declines in the per port ASP for Gigabit Ethernet (GE) transceivers will drive the overall Ethernet PHY market's port shipment and revenue growth from 2002 to 2007, according to In-Stat/MDR.
IBM LAUNCHES ON DEMAND ENVIRONMENT TO VERIFY CHIP DESIGNS: IBM announced a ground-breaking service for chip designers and verification engineers to improve productivity and quality -- providing services and tools on demand for chip design and formal verification.
THE MIND ELECTRIC CEMENTS WEB SERVICES: The Mind Electric (TME) released version 4.1 of TME GLUE. TME GLUE is a fast, comprehensive, easy-to-use Web services platform for Java developers creating, deploying, and managing applications with Web services, JSPs, and servlets.
TOPSPIN DEBUTS INTELLIGENT BACKPLANE FOR ON DEMAND COMPUTING: Topspin Communications announced a significant technology enhancement to its Switched Computing System. Topspin has added a hardware abstraction layer and programmable APIs to its switches which provide the first server, storage, and software agnostic programmable interconnect for creating flexible Grid computing architectures.
VISION SOLUTIONS ANNOUNCES ORION SOLUTIONS LAB: Vision Solutions, a leading managed availability solutions provider announced the ORION Solutions Lab which allows partners and customers hands-on testing and training on ORION with the engineers and technologists who developed the multi-platform solution.

Applications

GRID COMPUTING HAS A NEW ROLE WITH GENETIC RESEARCH: Researchers are using Grid computing to speed up investigations into new ways of tackling disease.
KDDI LABS PILOTS IPV6 GRID BETWEEN JAPAN AND THE U.S.: KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., KDDI Labs USA, Inc., and KDDI Corporation announced the deployment of an IPv6 trial network between KDDI Laboratories Japan and U.S. locations, in cooperation with the WIDE Project managed by Prof. Jun Murai.

Breaking News

Security: Norman Virus Control 5.6 Now Available In North America
College Offers Bachelor's Degree In Systems Security
Platforms: Dell Introduces 64-Bit Server For HPC Market
Intel Introduces Faster Pentium 4 Processor
Sun Fire 15K Server Sets Record On SPEC Benchmark
Networking: DNS Celebrates Its 20th Birthday
Ixia And Extreme Networks Demonstrate At Nets For Business
Morgan Kaufmann And OPNET Team Up For Network Manual
Strix Introduces Complete Wire-Free Enterprise Network
TeraChip Introduces TeraFlex Switch Fabric Interface
University Deploys Ethernet Switching From Extreme Networks
Storage: Voltaire Takes iSCSI To The High-End
Operating Systems & Middleware: DataSynapse Releases Grid Solution To Power Web Services
OpenLink Software Announces Virtuoso 3.2
Dell Selects Scali Manage For Major Supercomputing Cluster
SDSC Releases New Storage Resource Broker Middleware
VERITAS Advances Utility Computing Model
WebMethods Endorses SOAP 1.2
General: Call For Papers: Special Issue On Interaction With Grids

Quote Of The Week

"It's so successful and so many people depend on it, it's become impossible to go to the core of the Internet today and make radical changes to introduce the kind of new services we see people wanting to deploy." -- Larry Peterson, Computer Scientist, Purdue University

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