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TWENTY-FIVE COMPANIES JOIN HANDS FOR GRID TECH

THE 451 GROUP: NEXT 18 MONTHS CRITICAL FOR GRID MARKET

JUNIPER OUTLINES VISION FOR NEW PUBLIC NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE

Special Features

INTERVIEW WITH SDSC'S FRAN BERMAN By Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief, GRIDtoday: GRIDtoday's Alan Beck interviews Fran Berman, director professor at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and high performance computing endowed chair at the University of Cailfornia-San Diego.
TWENTY-FIVE COMPANIES JOIN HANDS FOR GRID TECH: Key technology leaders announced a new standards effort, Data Center Markup Language (DCML), providing the foundation to enable utility computing -- a rapidly emerging approach to simplify enterprise computing.
THE 451 GROUP: NEXT 18 MONTHS CRITICAL FOR GRID MARKET: The 451 Group believes there is substantial data pointing to acceleration in the Grid computing market, with commercialization heading toward an inflection point.
IBM, CHINA'S MINISTRY OF EDUCATION LAUNCH 'CHINA GRID': The China Education and Research Grid -- the most ambitious Grid project by a government to date -- is being launched this month with six universities, and will link more than 200,000 students and faculty members at nearly a hundred universities across China when the project is completed.
TACC WINS LARGE GRANT FOR GRID PORTAL DEVELOPMENT: The National Science Foundation has announced a grant to a team of leading research institutions including the Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) at The University of Texas for developing its interoperable Grid portal technologies as part of the NSF National Middleware Initiative (NMI).

Systems/Enterprise

IBM TO ACQUIRE CrossAccess TECHNOLOGY: The acquisition further strengthens IBM's enterprise information integration capabilities, a key strategic priority for its Data Management efforts and the company's on demand computing initiatives.
WAVESET ENVISIONS IDENTITY GRID: The Identity Grid depends on the concept of "virtualization," in which disparate Grid resources appear and function as a single entity.
JUNIPER OUTLINES VISION FOR NEW PUBLIC NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE: In a recent document, Juniper Networks Inc outlined its vision for a new approach to public network infrastructure that addresses the problems inherent in today's Internet.
GRID DELIVERY ENABLES FULL-SCREEN VIDEO ON DEMAND W/O UPGRADE: Kontiki announced the global deployment of its business video on demand solution at Ernst & Young, one of the world's largest professional services firms.

Applications

CERN GOES LIVE WITH HUGE GRIS PROJECT, SEEKS AID FROM VENDORS: Due to be complete by 2007, the LHC Grid will need power equal to 70,000 PCs to analyze the output of the LHC, which will collide protons at high energy to probe the nature of matter.
GRID TECHNOLOGY HELPS ASTRONOMERS KEEP PACE WITH THE UNIVERSE: "Intelligent Agent" computer programs are roaming the Internet and watching the skies. It may sound like science fiction, but these programs, using Grid computing technology, will help astronomers detect some of the most dramatic events in the universe, such as massive supernova explosions.
PLUMTREE SOFTWARE TO LAUNCH J2EE VERSION OF PORTAL SOFTWARE: Enterprise Web leader Plumtree Software unveiled plans to offer a Java Platform, 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) version of its portal software by the middle of 2004, designed to run within a broad range of Java application servers hosted on UNIX, and later, Linux operating systems
DIST. SOFTWARE SOLUTION FOR DERIVATIVES OFFERS REAL TIME QoS: SciComp's solutions for rapidly developing and implementing derivatives pricing models will now include TAF's PARAGON-enabled product to rapidly accelerate the speed of calculations.
VERITAS ENABLES UTILITY COMPUTING IN SQL SERVER ENVIRONMENTS: VERITAS Software Corp announced products to enable utility computing in Microsoft SQL Server environments, including the immediate availability of VERITAS i3 for SQL Server, the latest version of VERITAS' application performance management software acquired from Precise Software Solutions.
COMPANY LAUNCHES NEW APPROACH TO EMPOWER ENTERPRISE CUSTOMERS: Built entirely upon an Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture (ESOA), webMethods Fabric bridges the worlds of J2EE, .NET, Web services and legacy systems enabling customers to run any service, anywhere, anytime.

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4th International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
(CCGrid 2004: IEEE support pending final approval)
19-22 April, Chicago, Illinois, USA
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/ccgrid2004

Breaking News

Security: BEA Partners With Industry-Leading Security Vendors
BSA Task Force Unveils Info. Security Governance Framework
House Votes To Tighten Computer Security
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IBM Announces New Features For Top Of Line Mainframe
RLX Delivers Next Generation IT Infrastructure
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OSDL Announces Requirements Definition For Next-Gen. CGL
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Spirent SmartBits Chosen To Analyze 40-Gigabit TeraGrid
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New IP Sets Milestone For Trans-Atlantic Data Transport
MSU Selects Voltaire For InfiniBand Connectivity
Metalink To Showcase Breakthrough WLANPlus MIMO Technology
Intel XScale Tech. Gives Rise To Higher Server Performance
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Operating Systems & Middleware: New Release Of NetSolve/GridSolve Version 2.0 Now Available
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