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GRID COMPUTING -- THE TRUTH BEHIND THE HYPE

GLOBUS ALLIANCE ESTABLISHED

INTEL JOINS PALLAS TO STRENGTHEN GRIP ON GRID ARENA

Special Features
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GRID COMPUTING USING INDUSTRY-STANDARD WEB SERVICES
- Cornell University professors have successfully demonstrated a
geographically- distributed simulation system, based on industry-standard
Web Services, for solving coupled fluid/thermal/mechanical fracture
problems.
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GLOBUS ALLIANCE ESTABLISHED
- Like the original Globus Project, the Globus Alliance is a tightly
integrated consortium dedicated to collaborative design, development,
testing and support of the open source Globus Toolkit, the de facto standard
Grid software.
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GRIDS FOR THE HUMANITIES: WHAT'S ON THE HORIZON?
By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief, and John Hurley, Editor-at-Large
- GRIDtoday conducted an interview with HASTAC charter member Cathy
Davidson, vice provost for interdisciplinary studies, and Ruth F. DeVarney,
professor of English at Duke University.
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INTERNATIONAL DATA GRID PLANNED
- Scientists at two Chicago-area national laboratories are working to build
a supercomputer system that eventually would make accessible massive amounts
of information currently off limits to the average computer user.
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NSF FUNDS EXPERIMENTAL GRID INFRASTRUCTURE ON UCSD CAMPUS
- The Computer Science and Engineering building now under construction on
the campus of the University of California, San Diego will be equipped with
one of the most advanced computer and telecommunications networks anywhere.
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GRID COMPUTING -- THE TRUTH BEHIND THE HYPE
By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief
- GRIDtoday talks with Tho Nguyen, SAS manager of data integration strategy,
about Grid computing - what it means to the industry, to SAS and to its
customers.

Systems/Enterprise
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CALIENT NETWORKS LAUNCHES PX SWITCHING SUBSYSTEM
- Calient Networks has launched its new PX photonic switching subsystem for
use in software reconfigurable patch panels, automated system testing,
automated manufacturing testing, grid computing and pre-deployment network
staging.
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CARDIFF'S 10-GIGABIT NETWORK BUILT ON FOUNDRY SYSTEMS
- Cardiff University, in partnership with the University of Wales College of
Medicine, has chosen Foundry Networks Inc to supply intelligent switching
and routing systems for its new combined network, one of the largest and
most advanced IT infrastructure projects in the UK today.
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INTEL JOINS PALLAS TO STRENGTHEN GRIP ON GRID ARENA
- Intel has recently made efforts to acquire Pallas, a German software
maker, in hopes that the venture will strengthen its grip on the grid arena.

Applications
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ACTIFY'S KIT ALLOWS DEVELOPERS TO INCORPORATE VISUALIZATION
- Actify Inc announced the Actify SDK, a new software developers kit which
gives developers and systems integrators the ability to customize the view,
measure, markup and share functionality of CAD visualization.
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CITRIX GARNERS METAFRAME ACCESS SUITE CUSTOMERS IN EUROPE
- Citrix Systems Inc said it is continuing its investment in and has seen
strong adoption of its MetaFrame Access Suite in the European Union
enlargement area and in Russia.
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IBM DELIVERS NEW SERVER-PROVISIONING TECHNOLOGY
- In efforts to build interest in the utility computing market, IBM unveiled
the first piece of Project Symphony, the Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator.

Breaking News
- Security
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Enterasys Positioned In The Visionary Quadrant By Gartner
IBM Certifies NetDetector As 'Ready For Tivoli Software'
- Platforms
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IBM And UT At Austin To Work On Single-Chip Supercomputer
- Networking
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UNH-IOL Validated 10 Gigabit Ethernet MAC IP Core Announced
NEC Announces 64-Bit MIPS-Based Microprocessor
Scintera Networks Takes The Wraps Off First 10Gb/s EDCE
White Rock Adds Tunable ITU-Grid Optics To VLX2020 SONET
- Storage
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Applied Micro Circuits Corporation To Acquire JNI Corporation
Renesas Technology Unveils 18- And 36-Megabit QDRII SRAMs
- Operating Systems & Middleware
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Idea Integration Develops New GIS Web Application
- General
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BEA Provides 69 Percent Cost Advantage Over WebSphere
William A. Halter Elected To webMethods' Board Of Directors
Quote Of The Week
"I don't have all the answers, but I do know that the Globus Project has a toolkit that includes security measures that could potentially help control terrorist involvement." -- Tho Nyugen, Manager of Data Integration Strategy, SAS
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