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IBM, MICROSOFT SHOWCASE INTEROPERABILITY

BIG COMPANIES CATCH ON TO GRID POTENTIAL

South Korea Leads World In Net Speed

Special Features

ELLISON, OTHERS SPEAK OF GRID'S FUTURE, POTENTIAL

Oracle's Larry Ellison and CERN's Jamie Shiers, among others, speak of the potential of Grid computing at OracleWorld.

CARNEGIE MELLON RESEARCHERS LOOK TO OVERHAUL INTERNET

The project, which is spearheaded by Carnegie Mellon University entails replacing all of the nation's copper telephone wires with fiber-optic cables.

REVOLUTIONARY GRID OFFERS GLIMPSE INTO FUTURE

In the same vein as the Internet in the 1960s and the World Wide Web during the last decade, Grid computing could change users' experiences by offering unprecedented power all over the world.

BIG COMPANIES CATCH ON TO GRID POTENTIAL

Currently, less than five percent of the world's largest companies are utilizing Grid technology, but that number looks to increase drastically over the next few years.

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Systems/Enterprise

AVAKI INKS EXPANDED RELATIONSHIP AGREEMENT WITH IBM

Under the terms of the agreement, IBM and Avaki will work together to build and co-market solutions incorporating Avaki Data Grid, the first data Grid-based EII software for simplifying the provisioning, access and integration of distributed data across the extended enterprise.

SWEDEN-BASED GCE TO RUN ENTIRE OPERATIONS FROM CZECH SERVER

Although GCE's headquarters are in Malmo, Sweden, the Sprint-managed IP VPN has created a secure WAN for GCE to run its business operations remotely from its hub site in the Czech Republic.

GM REVOLUTIONIZES TRANSMISSION DESIGN USING RT-LAB AND AMEsim

RT-LAB Engineering Simulators and AMEsim modeling environment enable GM Powertrain design engineers to link mechanical system and control system CAE tools.

SUN PACKS SECOND DAY OF SunNetwork CONFERENCE WITH INNOVATION

At the SunNetwork Conference in San Francisco, the company rolled out the balance of 30 new products and services -- from desktop to data center systems -- resulting from Sun's $500 million quarterly investment in R&D innovation.

UNITED DEVICES ANNOUNCES GRID-COMPUTING AGREEMENT WITH IBM

As part of this agreement, the companies will pursue joint marketing activities and sales to customers in life sciences, oil and gas, government, industrial engineering, financial services and several other important markets.

IBM, MICROSOFT SHOWCASE INTEROPERABILITY

Rivals Microsoft and IBM have recently joined together in efforts to develop interactive software systems using Web services.

Applications

IBM ANNOUNCES GLOBAL GRID COMPUTING PROJECTS

Together with business intelligence software provider SAS and other partners, IBM introduced new Grid-based product offerings that address the unique, compute-intensive needs of the banking and financial markets industry.

NCSA COLLABORATES ON NSF REAL-TIME WEATHER PREDICTION PROJECT

The NSF Information Technology Research grant will support the Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD) project, in which the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) will collaborate with the University of Illinois and seven other institutions.

RackSaver MAKES 'WISH' COME TRUE FOR MUTABLE REALMS

RackSaver's Intel Xeon processor-based blade server cluster will enable Mutable Realms to host tens of thousands of simultaneous players in their new online role playing game, "Wish."

BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE DEPLOYS MICROMUSE'S NETCOOL

The BNF uses Netcool enterprise solutions to collect and consolidate event data from across its IT infrastructure, regardless of whether that data is network-, security-, systems- or applications-based.

Breaking News

Security

Top College Declares War on Hackers, Virus Authors
IPtimize, Converse Join Forces For Real-Time Reliability
RSA Announces Products To Deliver Identity, Access Management

Platforms

AMD Unveils Athlon 64, Seen As Head Start Vs. Intel
Microsoft to Support AMD, Intel 64-Bit Chips
Sun Presents Chip-Design Breakthrough

Networking

Citrix Selects NetQoS To Optimize Net. App. Performance
South Korea Leads World In Net Speed
SnapGear Announces Linux Support For Intel Gigabit Network
Advisory Concerning VeriSign's DNS Wildcard Service
Vitesse Completes Layer 2+ Gigabit Switch Family
ZyXEL Introduces Gigabit Ethernet Switches

Storage

Unitrends, LSI Collaborate, Deliver Data Protection Vault
Hitachi to Distribute Voltaire InfiniBand Solutions In Japan

Operating Systems & Middleware

Attunity Web Services Standardizes Legacy Integration
Mercury Delivers First DRI Standard Middleware Implementation
Open Source Architecture To Create A Scalable Enterprise
Microsoft Announces Beta Version Of Windows XP 64-Bit Edition

General

Richard Laming Vice President Of Avanex Livingston
4th International Symposium On Cluster Computing And The Grid
Cray First Member Of PRAGMA Inudustrial Affiliate Program
Glenn Edens leaves HP To Lead Sun Microsystems Laboratories
HP To Protect Customers From Linux Claims
Internet Body Wins Three-Year Extension From United States
Cast Iron Systems Welcomes Doug Reid As VP Of Worldwide Sales

Quote Of The Week

"We will provide full indemnity across the entire suite for any SCO-related action. If [customers] were to get sued by SCO, we would take over their defense and assume liability on their behalf." -- Martin Fink, Vice President of Linux, Hewlett-Packard

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