
DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / SEPTEMBER 22, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 38
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ORACLE CONSORTIUM: ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE

WHO WILL CONTROL THE INTERNET?

BLACKOUT LESSONS AND GRID COMPUTING

Special Features

ORACLE CONSORTIUM: ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE By Ahmar Abbas, Grid Technology Partners: The following article is another perspective in the debate over Oracle's announcement that it plans to organize another Grid consortium. The views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of GRIDtoday.
GGF CHAIR RESPONDS TO ORACLE: Following is a response by the chair of the Global Grid Forum to the recent announcement by Oracle that it intends to set up its own consortium to define Grid-computing standards, a move that could create tension with the Global Grid Forum, of which Oracle is already a member.
BLACKOUT LESSONS AND GRID COMPUTING By Dmitri Tcherevik, VP, Computer Associates Intl: Can a computing Grid succeed where other grids such as electrical, tranportation and telephony, have experienced problems? Lessons learned from the recent blackout might help answer that question.
THE NEW HUMANITIES GRID: INTERVIEW WITH UCHRI'S THEO GOLDBERG By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief: As part on an ongoing series of interviews with charter members of HASTAC, GRIDtoday talked with David Theo Goldberg, director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute.
COMMERCIAL GRID DEMONSTRATED BY IBM AND T-SYSTEMS By Uwe Harms, Harms-Supercomputing-Consulting: They used an IBM eServer BladeCenter with a Grid middleware to automatically add and replace blades, to react immediately in cases of disaster and recover the situation. The operating system was Linux, the management blades ran a combination of Tivoli and Globus.
NEW CLASS OF GRID INFRASTRUCTURE LAUNCHED TO SUPPORT RESEARCH: In the spirit of these great success stories, National LambdaRail Inc strives to again stimulate and support innovative network research to go above and beyond the current incremental evolution of the Internet.
PlanetLab SCREENS NEXT GENERATION OF WWW APPS: Researchers have created a clone of the Internet and called it PlanetLab: it is designed to function as a virtual test bed for the next generation of Web-based applications.
ORACLE JOURNEYS TO THE CENTER OF THE GRID: Heralding the shift from Internet to Grid computing, Oracle's Chuck Rozwat, who oversees the development of its flagship technology products, took OracleWorld attendees on a "Journey to the Center of the Grid."
SUN'S MCNEALY TAKES JABS AT DELL, ENSURES ORACLE INTEGRATION: Kindness was put aside at OracleWorld as Sun Chief Scott McNealy took a few stabs at Dell, while ensuring his own company would be integrated with the Oracle 10g database within the next year-and-a-half.

Systems/Enterprise

ACS, SUN DELIVER INNOVATIVE UTILITY COMPUTING SOLUTIONS: Under the agreement, Sun will provide flexible network computing resources on a pay-for-use basis to ACS. In turn, ACS will offer outsourced information technology (IT) services to clients with utility-based pricing.
FABRIC NETWORKS CLOSES By John Abbott For the451.com: The merger of two InfiniBand companies earlier this year to form Fabric Networks has unraveled already. The combination of the original two companies, InfiniSwitch and Lane 15, was not enough to gain the momentum that investors were hoping to see.
FIORINA ADDRESSES GRID CHALLENGES, HPs ROLE IN GRID COMMUNITY: Although many years from accomplishing its goals, Fiorina said that HP hopes for Grid computing to be as revolutionary for IT infrastructure as the Web was for documents.
InsynQ ANNOUNCES UTILITY COMPUTING FOR BROADBAND/ISP MARKET: For its subscribers, Always-On offers immediate access to a variety of software titles, with no installation required.
WHO WILL CONTROL THE INTERNET?: A fight over the role of governments in managing the Internet is brewing as policymakers prepare for a United Nations-backed summit on the network's future.

Applications

HUGE CLIMATE EXPERIMENT UNDERWAY -- ALL WELCOME: A climate prediction experiment which is expected to involve two million people around the world and produce a probable forecast for the 21st century will be launched on Sept. 12. Anyone with a personal computer can join the project.
IBM SUPERCOMPUTER POWERS TESTING OF MELANOMA DIAGNOSIS TOOLS: IBM announced that Electro-Optical Sciences will be using IBM's deep computing on demand facility to access supercomputing power over the Internet, helping to free them from the fixed costs and management responsibility of owning and operating a supercomputer.
SUN LAUNCHES JAVA STUDIO ENTERPRISE: Sun Microsystems Inc announced Java Studio Enterprise, a comprehensive, cost-effective, unified development system that integrates development tools, services and support for building and testing world-class applications for the Java Enterprise System.
TurboWorx DELIVERS END-TO-END SOLUTION FOR MANAGING WORKFLOWS: TurboWorx is addressing high-performance computing challenges by providing software that enables users to maximize productivity by creating, managing, and processing complex applications, workflows and data in heterogeneous computing infrastructures.

Breaking News

Security: New AFCOM Data Center Industry Survey Shows Blackout Effects
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Carnegie Mellon Partner
Network Instruments Observer 9.0 Expands View Of Monitoring
SonicWALL Announces High Performance PRO Series Platform
Platforms: Intel To Tout Secure, Low-Power Chips At Show
RackSaver Delivers Best Price/Performance Server In TPC Tests
IDC Expects Return To Growth In The U.S. Server Market
SuperMicro Unveils 1U Itanium 2 Server Solutions At Fall IDF
Networking: Coyote Point Adds Dual Gb Ethernet Interface To Equalizer 7.0
New Platform Turns Chaos Of Disparate Systems Into Order
NextHop's GateD Available On Wind River PLATFORM NE
Procera Networks Announces Patent Claims, Key Hires
4Wave Awarded $2 Million from NIST To Develop Optical Filter
Storage: VERITAS, Intel Form Relationship
Operating Systems & Middleware: Microsoft Selects .NET Products For Use In Technology Centers
GridSystems Releases InnerGrid Nitya
NSF Awards Extend Middleware Development Efforts
OMG Hosts Another Successful Technical Meeting Week
Sun First To Market With Platform For WS-I Web Services
General: 'State of the Art' Series Delves Into 'Intelligent Network'
GGF9 Less Than Three Weeks Away
GridSystems Features Financial Market Solutions in IBM Forum
Noted Linux Industry Analyst Stacey Quandt Joins OSDL
Sun Microsystems To Join Trusted Computing Group
Utility Computing: IT Buzz Or New Beginning?

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