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GRID SUPERCOMPUTER UNEARTHS LARGEST PRIME SO FAR

TAKING CUES FROM MOTHER NATURE TO FOIL CYBER ATTACKS

SCIENTISTS SEEK TO CREATE THEIR OWN SUPERHIGHWAY

Special Features

BANDWIDTH CHALLENGE TEAMS PUSH PERFORMANCE ENVELOPE AT SC2003: Once the data were moved and the performance tracked, a team representing the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Caltech and Los Alamos National Laboratory had achieved a new record from sustained throughput -- 23.21 gigabits per second, surpassing last year's record by about 5 Gbits.
OMG TO STANDARDIZE ASSET ANALYSIS, DISCOVERY, MANAGEMENT: Members of the Object Management Group (OMG) met in London from Nov. 17-21 at a meeting sponsored by Compuware Corp, klocwork, Thales and AMS. The gathering combined standards work, five information days and conferences, an educational series of six tutorials and vendor software demonstrations.
TAKING CUES FROM MOTHER NATURE TO FOIL CYBER ATTACKS: Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of New Mexico are collaborating on a National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported project to study "cyber diversity" for computer systems as a way to fend off malicious viruses, worms and other cyber attacks.
EXPLORING COLLABORATION SCENARIOS By K.S.Venkatram: This article will describe the specification that extends effectiveness in working with remote file systems. We will look at basic interfaces and platforms known to enable file systems across various mappings and connection points.
GRIDS OFFER POWER, POTENTIAL SAVINGS FOR ENTERPRISES: The main reasons that companies will look at Grid computing are power and cost-efficiency. Grids are capable of running large-scale applications, as well as lowering management costs.

Systems/Enterprise

GRID2003 FEATURES UB SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER: Grid2003, an enormous display of thousands of processors running numerous applications internationally, included the Center for Computational Research (CCR) as a major participant.
SUN PICKS KERALA, INDIA FOR GRID LEARNING CENTER: The first regional COE selected in India, IIITM-K becomes one of the four universities in the world to be recognized by Sun and the academic community as leading edge researchers in e-learning technologies.
SMARTS, BladeLogic ESTABLISH GLOBAL ALLIANCE: Through the agreement, which includes product integration and sales collaboration, customers can quickly implement industry-leading capabilities for efficiently managing complex and distributed application infrastructure.
CUSTOMERS CHOOSE SUN FOR SCALING OUT NETWORK COMPUTER: DaimlerChrysler Consult Graz; Petroleo Brasileiro, S.A. (Petrobras) and United Utilities have used customised Sun Managed Services engagements to help them achieve measured improvements in IT operations and reductions in risks, costs and complexities.

Applications

SCIENTISTS SEEK TO CREATE THEIR OWN SUPERHIGHWAY: Many researchers and scientists, desperate to conduct serious research, are frustrated by the Internet's enormous popularity and congested traffic. They have subsequently begun to plan a new superhighway solely for themselves.
PLUMTREE EXTENDS RADICAL OPENNESS W/ .NET WEB CONTROLS ADD-ON: Hundreds of .NET Web Controls created by Microsoft and the .NET development community can now be used without any coding to create portlets within the Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite.
GRID SUPERCOMPUTER UNEARTHS LARGEST PRIME SO FAR: The new largest prime number, identified by Michael Shafer, contains 6,320,430 digits, and would take someone the best part of five weeks to write out longhand.
UMASS RECEIVES IBM TECHNOLOGY GRANT: The University of Massachusetts-Amherst has been awarded a highly competitive IBM Shared University Research (SUR) award to study how Grid computing technology can help reduce the risk of power outages and weather emergencies, and improve homeland security.

CALL FOR SPEAKERS

GRID TODAY 2004 (Gt04) -- the first major conference and exhibition
to focus on the emerging market for commercial business
applications of Grid computing, has issued a Call for Speakers

We are looking for high-level speakers from
commercial organizations to speak on
applications and implementation of Grid computing

Breaking News

Security: Information Security Forum Launches Standard Of Good Practice
NSF Announces $30 Million Program In "Cyber Trust"
Parasoft Offers Solution For Web Services Security
Platforms: Intel Unveils Next Generation Chip
Sun Attacks Computing Cost, Complexity With New x86 Blade
Networking: EMCORE, Mysticom Extend VSR 10GbE To 500m On Multimode Fiber
Foundry Leads High Performance 10GbE Marketshare
EMCORE Introduces SmartLink 10 Gbps Fiber Interconnect
Leading Chinese Universities Deploy Force10 Networks E-Series
Foundry Provides Network Backbone For Record HPC Demos
META Group Report Covers HAN TCO Strategies, Best Practices
ORNL To Design High-Speed, Experimental 'UltraNet' Network
UTStarcom Introduces Multiservice Optical Products
Storage: IOGEAR Launches Small And Home Office Networking Kit
NetApp Takes Scalability, Performance To New Heights
Operating Systems & Middleware: Chasseral Deploys Real-Time System On Versant Technology
Etnus CodeRoad 2.0 Seamlessly Debugs C/C++, Java Applications
ILOG Launches New CPLEX 9.0 With Support For .NET
OSDL Launches Linux Kernel Awareness Initiative
Autonomic Computing Goes Mainstream With RTSM
Sun Announces Vast Performance Improvements
General: Library Of Chinese Academy Of Sciences Chooses Autonomy Corp
MultiGen Validates Feasibility Of Sharing Visual Databases

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
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

Quote Of The Week

"We are looking at computers the way a physician would look at genetically-related patients, each susceptible to the same disorder. In a more diverse population, one member may fall victim to a pathogen or disorder, while another might not have the same vulnerability." -- Mike Reiter, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

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