
DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / AUGUST 25, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 34
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COMMERCIAL GRID ACTIVITY UNDERWAY

OSDL RELEASES Q&A ADDRESSING LEGAL ACTIONS BY SCO GROUP

FREE CODE PRESENTED FOR GRID OPERATIONS

Special Features

AGTP OFFERS VERSION-SPECIFIC TUTORIALS: To better support the AG community, the Access Grid Training Project has been delineating version-specific content throughout the tutorials, as well as updating some tutorials to include material about AG 2.x.
COMMERCIAL GRID ACTIVITY UNDERWAY by William Fellows for the451.com: Grid software company Axceleon believes a wave of commercial Grid activity is about to get under way. It now must decide whether to ramp up its operations more quickly than it had originally planned to catch this wave, or to continue its current progress toward expected breakeven in a year's time.
SUN TO UNVEIL NEW BLADE PROCESSOR: Sun Microsystems plans to unveil its new generation of low-power microprocessors at a symposium in Palo Alto California.
OSDL RELEASES Q&A ADDRESSING LEGAL ACTIONS BY SCO GROUP: The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) released a Q&A paper written by noted technology law and intellectual property expert Lawrence Rosen. The paper asks and answers key questions about SCO Group's current lawsuit against IBM and about its threatened litigation against users of Linux.
TAIPEI CENTER ACTIVATES ACCESS GRID: The Taipei National Center for High-performance Computing has successfully completed developing its Access Grid technology, through which remote teaching would be made available in more than 40 interactive classrooms at different locations worldwide.

Systems/Enterprise

DIVERSE TRAFFIC MEANS NETWORK GRIDLOCK: Load balancers are having to work harder, and smarter, to handle the wide range of network traffic.
EDS LAUNCHES INDUSTRY'S FIRST UTILITY-BASED DESKTOP SOLUTION: myCOE shifts up-front capital investment costs to smaller, incremental costs on a pay-for-use basis. EDS worked closely with strategic alliance partner Microsoft to develop this new user-centric service.
INTEL TARGETS GRID COMPUTING NICHE: Intel has said that high performance computing, a method that pushes the limit of available computing power, is being increasingly adopted in India as an alternative to supercomputing.

Applications

GRID PLAYER POWERLLEL WINS FINANCIAL ISV AS OEM PARTNER by Rachel Chalmers for the451.com: Axiom Software Laboratories, a vendor of risk management and enterprise data software, has chosen software from Powerllel to integrate with its RiskMonitor application.
FREE CODE PRESENTED FOR GRID OPERATIONS: IBM said that it has made available free code for developing Grid and autonomic tools for use in on-demand operating environments.
DRUG DISCOVERY FIRM TO USE RESEARCH GRID: Because of the cost and time involved in drug development, "Grid computing" is seen as a cost-saving method, according to Targacept Inc.

Breaking News

Security: Network Engines Partners, Authenex Form Alliance
New Industry Price Benchmark Set For Check Point VPN-1
ISPA Looks To Make E-Mail Official
SAS Teams With e-Security To Bolster Enterprise Defenses
Platforms: Vendors Announce Support For 64-bit AMD Opteron Processors
Networking: Avaya Introduces New Multimode 10Gb/s Fiber Offering
DataPower 2.3 Delivers Enhanced XML Web Service Security
New Product Gives Business-Class Managed Switching Solution
GarrettCom Deploys New Managed Ethernet Switch
Innovance Networks Deploys New Photonic Network
Radware Releases Web Server Director Version 8.0
ZNYX Networks Gigabit Ethernet Switches Now Shipping
Storage: Audi Implements Flexible, Available Storage Area Network
Operating Systems & Middleware: Ascential Supports IBM's WebSphere Application Server 5
Rogue Wave Launches Product For Working With Web in C/C++
SCO Advances SCOx Initiative With Web Service Development
General: Novell Improves The TRW Automotive Global Network
Brief Filed In Supreme Court Standard Setting Case
International Internet Traffic To Grow 67 Percent In 2003

Quote Of The Week

"Many organizations will need both monitoring and analytics elements to efficiently manage security information, and effectively detect and respond to an increasing variety of threats across a large, complex computing environment." -- Chris King, senior program director, META Group

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