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APPLE STORMS MARKET WITH XGrid

LARGEST PUBLIC RESEARCH GRID SURPASSES 2.5 MILLION MARK

MAJOR SHIFT TO AFFECT ALL ASPECTS OF ENTERPRISE IT

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

Special Features

APPLE STORMS MARKET WITH XGrid: XGrid brings Apple's legendary ease-of-use to computational clustering by providing the easiest way to run compute intensive applications, such as the popular gene-sequencing application BLAST, on multiple Macs using Apple's Rendezvous networking technology.
GRID COMPUTING COMES TO MALAYSIA: The hyperbole surrounding Grid computing in Malaysia seems to be reaching a feverish pitch as major industry players begin to showcase their offerings and solutions for the enterprise market.
U.S., CHINA, RUSSIA UNITE ON EDUCATIONAL/SCIENTIFIC GRID: When completed, bandwidth between the United States and China will be increased, and the first fiber network connection across the China-Russia border will be in place.
UTILITY COMPUTING SEARCHING FOR IDENTITY: Utitlity computing definitely was a buzz word in 2003, drawing attention from major companies. In 2004, it is looking to become more well-defined, and more appealing to customers.
VIRTUALIZATION BECOMES FOCUS OF COMPUTER BUSINESS INDUSTRY: IBM is spearheading a campaign to adopt virtualization techniques, an idea that could revolutionize the way IT business is done today.
MAJOR SHIFT TO AFFECT ALL ASPECTS OF ENTERPRISE IT: As companies move toward Service-Oriented Architectures, a broad range of individual IT markets will coalesce into a single market for "SOA implementation frameworks" that provide all the capabilities companies need to build, run, manage and secure SOAs.

Systems/Enterprise

HITACHI TO DISTRIBUTE VOLTAIRE InfiniBand FOR 10g IN JAPAN: Voltaire's partners, Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (Hitachi-HT) and Hitachi Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hitachi-IT) will distribute the solution which is designed for emerging enterprise Grid computing.
Database SERVER VIRTUALIZATION ELIMINATES GRID LOCK: Savantis Systems Inc, a leading provider of adaptive database infrastructure solutions, unveiled its plan for broader support in the data center, enabling companies to expand their utility computing initiatives.
VERITAS ACQUIRES EJASENT INC; EXTENDS UTILITY COMPUTING PLAN: Ejasent's application virtualization technology provides VERITAS with another key building block to enable utility computing. The company's core software, UpScale, offers the ability to move an application from one server to another without disrupting or terminating the application.

Applications

LARGEST PUBLIC RESEARCH GRID SURPASSES 2.5 MILLION MARK: These servers, workstations, desktops and notebooks join together from more than 200 countries and territories to help speed grand-scale cancer and smallpox research.
IBM BUILDS GRID FOR BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS, SCREENING: IBM and the University of Pennsylvania announced a powerful computing Grid that aims to bring advanced methods of breast cancer diagnosis and screening to patients across the nation, while reducing costs.
NSF, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE RELEASE NEW GRID SOFTWARE: Last month, NSF released version 4 of its Middleware Initiative, an open-source package of Grid tools, and the University of Melbourne in Australia recently released Grid resource monitoring software called Gridscape.
SUN GIVES EQUIPMENT TO SETI'S GRID COMPUTING PROJECT: By donating equipment and cash to the Berkeley, Calif-based SETI@Home project, which harnesses the power of nearly 600,000 PCs to crunch data from space-based radio signals, Sun Microsystems Inc is prepping its distributed (or Grid) computing technology for more grounded uses.

Breaking News

Security: NetScreen Leads In Security Appliance Market Share Growth
Platforms: New Ultra-Slim IBM Blade Is Smallest 4-Way Server Ever
Networking: EMEA Data Networking Market To Model Worldwide Performance
Huawei Technologies Licenses NextHop's GateD Routing Software
IP Infusion Boosts Its ZebOS Advanced Routing Suite Offering
MCNC Demonstrates Next Generation Optical Networking Protocol
Netilla Announces Dist. Agreement With Alternative Technology
Parama Chip To Reinvigorate Telecommunications Networks
Storage: CNT Adds IBM XRC FICON Support To UltraNet Storage Director
Operating Systems & Middleware: Web Services Analyst Spotlights Ascential Software Leadership
Casio Selects BEA WebLogic Integration 8.1 As SCM Foundation
New 2.6 Linux Kernel Endorsed By OSDL Members
General: Former PeopleSoft Exec Joins Confluent As VP Of Marketing
UNC, Others Team To Form Institute For Renaissance Computing

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

"Grid computing is something that will gain traction over the coming years, but at this point in time, in almost all countries in Asia-Pacific (including Malaysia), it is non-existent." -- Phil Sargeant, Research Director, Gartner Australia

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