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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / AUGUST 18, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 33

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GRID KNOCKS ON TELCOM DOOR

FIORINA TOUTS ENTERPRISE INITIATIVE, SLAMS DELL, IBM

RESEARCH CENTER DISCOVERS GENETIC LINKS WITH IBM TECHNOLOGY

Sun Microsystems

Special Features

FIORINA TOUTS ENTERPRISE INITIATIVE, SLAMS DELL, IBM
Fiorina touted the Adaptive Enterprise intiative as a shining example of HP's commitment to offering technology that will help company's do business more effectively.

GRID KNOCKS ON TELCOM DOOR
To the extent that existing corporate and public networks can or cannot support the additional Grid traffic and increased bandwidth demands, telecommunications suppliers will be tapped for new services and solutions.

RESEARCHERS CREATE FASTEST DETAILED COMPUTER SIMULATIONS
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created the fastest detailed computer simulations of computer networks ever constructed -- simulating networks containing more than 5 million network elements.

NEW GRID AND TOOLS DEPLOYED ACROSS NPACI PARTNERSHIP
NPACI-Grid and NPACKage software enable higher levels of scientific research and boost global Grid infrastructure.

WS-I ANNOUNCES GENERAL AVAILABILITY OF THE BASIC PROFILE 1.0
WS-I member community delivers guidelines to ensure interoperability, reduce cost and lower complexity of implementing web services solutions.

Intel

Systems/Enterprise

ALLEGIS ANNOUNCES ALLEGIS 7.0 EBUSINESS SUITE AVAILABLE
7.0 pushes forward into two critical areas of channel performance that impact revenue -- channel forecasting and enhanced sales data.

SAS JOINS GRID COMPUTING FORUM
SAS announced that it has become the first enterprise business intelligence vendor to join the Global Grid Forum - an industry association formed to advance Grid computing.

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Applications

RESEARCH CENTER DISCOVERS GENETIC LINKS WITH IBM TECHNOLOGY
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center announced that its researchers are using IBM technology to help discover why some people are more susceptible than others to infectious and autoimmune diseases, such as leukemia and AIDS.

COMPUTER LINKS TO ENHANCE TARGACEPT
News last week that drug discovery firm Targacept Inc. will use thousands of school computers across Forsyth County to conduct drug research in the middle of the night means an economic boon for the company.

Grid Computing

Breaking News

Security
ISS' Detection System Achieves High Marks
ManagedStorage International Critical Data With NetScreen

Platforms
Tarari Signs Racor To Sell Reconfigurable Processor

Networking
EMC, IBM, Others Join HyperTransport Technology Consortium

Storage
DataDirect S2A Provides Wide Range Of Storage Needs
SNIA Launches SMI-Lab3 For Storage Management

Operating Systems & Middleware
IBM Adding Eclipse, Grid, Autonomic Tools To AlphaWorks
iAnywhere Solutions and SuSE Linux Unveil Alliance
Opsware Announces New Opsware Web Service APIs

General
Altiris Offers Native-Linux OS Deployment Configuration
Singapore University, SGI Unveil New Reality Theater

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