
DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JULY 7, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 27
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GGF SCHOOL -- TRAINING A GRID WORKFORCE

GRIDS - A VERTICAL MARKET PERSPECTIVE PT. 2

GLOBUS TOOLKIT 3.0 RELEASED FOR GRID SERVICES ARCHITECTURE

Special Features

GGF SCHOOL -- TRAINING A GRID WORKFORCE by J.S. Hurley, Editor-at-Large: The growing interest in Grids as viable compute resource brokers is largely responsible for their acceptance beyond the traditional high performance computing (HPC) research community. As applications become more grid-enabled, the business community is expected to significantly increase its investments in Grid Computing over the next decade. This increasing demand for Grids coupled with continued advancements in middleware and networking technologies have begun to raise concerns about the availability of a qualified workforce to address Grid-related issues.
THE GRIDBUS PROJECT TO RELEASE GRIDSIM 2.1 TOOLKIT: The "Open Source" Gridbus Project led by the Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia, is pleased to release the next-version of Grid simulation software, the GridSim 2.1 toolkit.
GRID COMPUTING FINDS CANCER GROWTH INHIBITORS: Find-a-Drug announced that the preliminary results of its Cancer Internet project have exceeded all expectations.
GLOBUS TOOLKIT 3.0 RELEASED FOR GRID SERVICES ARCHITECTURE: The official release of the Globus Toolkit 3.0 (GT3) is a milestone in the evolution of Grid computing, which lets people share computing power, databases, and other tools securely online across corporate, institutional, and geographic boundaries without sacrificing local autonomy.
A VERTICAL MARKET PERSPECTIVE PT. 2: Grids can be examined by the type of organization in which they are deployed. From this perspective, the relationship between Grids and networks is more than analogous. Grids by type of organization are defined in this article.
INTEGRATE 2003 COMES TO BOSTON: The Object Management Group (OMG) announces its third event in a new series -- Integrate 2003 -- taking place September 9 10, 2003 in Boston.
IPv6: THE CORNERSTONE OF A GLOBAL WIRED WORLD by Neil Alger, Co-Editor, GRIDtoday: The North American IPv6 Global Summit convened in San Diego recently at San Diego State University, bringing pioneers and visionaries of a future Internet together. Aimed at speeding the implementation of the next level protocol for global networking, summit speakers focused on the pressing needs for a quick yet complete changeover from the aging Ipv4 to an IPv6-enabled world.
GRID COMPRESSES 611 YEARS OF COMPUTING INTO 132 DAYS: Japan's NTT Data Corp said that it has successfully linked thousands of computers on the Internet to finish a task in 132 days that would take a single computer 611 years.
NEXT GENERATION INTERNET PROTOCOL MARKS SHATTERED: An international team set new Internet2 Land Speed Records using next generation Internet Protocols (IPv6) by achieving 983 megabits-per-second with a single IPv6 stream for more than an hour across a distance of 7,067 kilometers (more than 4,000 miles) from Geneva, Switzerland to Chicago, Ill.
DEFINING A CONCEPT FOR A SMART NEIGHBORHOOD, PART IV 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

IBM FLIPS THE SWITCH ON DEEP COMPUTING ON DEMAND: IBM ushers in the era of deep computing on demand with the start up of its first facility designed to deliver supercomputing power to customers over the Internet, helping to free them from the fixed costs and management responsibility of owning a supercomputer.

Applications

FIND-A-DRUG ATTACKS AIDS WITH GRID TECHNOLOGY: Find-a-Drug is pleased to announce the start of its HIV project. The success of this project depends on members of the public volunteering their computer's free time. By harnessing the power of thousands of home PCs connected to the Internet, distributed computing software has the potential to significantly accelerate drug research.
FIGHT AGAINST SARS TO BE AIDED BY TELESCIENCE TECHNOLOGIES: Taiwan's National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC), a participant in the Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly, is integrating hardware and software to aide physicians in Taiwan in the fight against SARS.

Breaking News

Security: Internet Security Systems Introduces The X-Force Index
Marconi Demos Fastest IP And ATM Data Encryption Speed
Internet2 Releases Privacy-Preserving Web Software
Platforms: Dell Deploys New PowerEdge 3250 Server
HP Systems Deliver Breakthrough Performance
IBM Reaches Power5 Milestone
New Intel Server Processors Strengthen High-End Line-Up
AMD Expands Options For Enterprise Computing
ProServer 2264 Delivers High Performance Enterprise Computing
Unisys Introduces ES7000/400 Series
Networking: Argonne National Laboratory Deploys CIENA's ONLINE Metro
Foundry Provides 10 Gbit Ethernet Infrastructure For N+I
Federal Agencies Expand Their NetScout Solutions
Spirent Leverages Xilinx To Introduce New Ethernet System
Xilinx Provides New Solution For Ethernet Applications
Storage: Microsoft Delivers iSCSI Support For Windows
Operating Systems & Middleware: OpenLink Software Announces Virtuoso 3.1
OSDL And Linux Kernel Maintainer Join Forces
PlateSpin Deploys New Server Conversion Solution
PolyServe Unveils Symmetric Cluster File System On Linux
VMware Introduces Groundbreaking Utility Computing Product
General: Grid Economics: 10 Lessons from Finance
Winners Of Clustering Technology Excellence Awards Announced
OMG's INTEGRATE.2003 Boston Conference
SDSC Announces Summer Grid Computing Institute

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"We hope this will be remembered as the day Grid computing began to come of age." -- Ian Foster, associate division director, Argonne National Labs

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